Fuck it, let's get a nice jrpg thread going

Fuck it, let's get a nice jrpg thread going.

>what are your favorites
>play anything recently
>what are you looking forward to

Favorites: Persona 3, MOTHER 3
Recent: Fire Emblem Echoes
Looking Forward to: FE Switch, Strange Journey Redux

>what are your favorites
FF9, FFT, Xenogears
>play anything recently
Playing DQ5
>what are you looking forward to
Xenoblade 2

>Favs
CC,BK:O,P5,DQV
>Played anything recently ?
Berseria
>What am I looking forward to ?
Nothing really, KH3 and FF7R are never coming out and aside from that maybe 13 sentinels, Trails of cold steel 3 ...

Favs:
Xenoblade X, Final Fantasy XII, and Persona 5

>Favorites
Final Fantasy IX, Persona 5, Nocturne and Dragon Quest VIII
>Play anything recently
Digital Devil Saga
I'd also like to get into the SaGa series sometime soon.
>Looking forward to
Xenoblade 2 and Strange Journey Redux

>Threads of Fate
That right there is my all time favorite game. Would kill for a decent sequel with the same artstyle and composer.

Great taste senpai

Taking a small break from Xenoblade to play some other games, but I'll get back to it soon.

Thanks for making a good JRPG thread, OP. It's hard to get a good discussion going because threads often get ruined by bait in the OP.

Here are some games I like. I'm currently in the middle of another FE5 playthrough. I'm not aware of anything coming out soon but I have plenty of older games left to play.

Looking for a comfy jrpg that I can start playing tonight. One that my shit computer can emulate (gamecube/ps2 or below). Anyone have an idea?

Man... I bought my games physically from stores. Seeing these retro collections always breaks my heart because finding Tactics Ogre, back then, was almost impossible in my area.

That's not a lot of information, what games do you like and what sort of game are you looking for? What makes a game 'comfy' for one person can be very different from another person's idea of 'comfy'. What sort of battle system, artstyle, difficulty, story focus / minimal story, random battles, etc. are all factors.

No problem. Hopefully something cool gets announced with e3. Honestly I'm just hoping for DQXI being confirmed for the US. If it gets announced for the switch I probably will pick it up for that alone.
Maybe try legend of the river king, a gameboy color rpg about fishing. I also enjoy earthbound a ton as a nice feel good jrpg.

>Green label FFVII

How does Devil Survivor 2 differ from the first one? Never played either but
>Composer: Kenji Ito
Has got be somewhat interested.

>[incomplete]
What is incomplete with the list?

The game was either out of stock at the time, or ridiculously overpriced. By the time Square was able to make enough copies, that was the only option.

>Brave Fencer Musashi
Criminally ignored, comfy game.
>lack of FF9
Where is it? How do you have 8 but not 9?

I guess.. one with more cheery themes and colors. And I heavily prefer turn-based. I'' try to look through some Sup Forums lists.

Isn't brave fencer musashi a action game? Never played it.
I think my suggestions in would be for you.

Nothing wrong with green label 7. I got mine brand new from a local electronics store before it went under in 2011, only paid 8 dollars for it. It's still has the new plastic smell, no a single dog ear on the manual.

someone here talk with me about vanguard bandits (which should have been called gundam emblem). it's cheap on the psn store, you guys should try it out if you haven't already

I just recent goit King's Field 1 to finish off my Soulsborne collection. Got the Longbox with the prepaid calling card included. I already had Shadow Tower, King's Field 2 and King's Field 4 the Ancient City.

The only Ogre games I have are the PSP Tactics Ogre and the n64 Ogre Battle game.

>legend of the river king
Hell yeah i love gameboy color games. Thank you.

It's an action rpg.

>what are your favorites
Thousand Arms, Persona 2-3, Final fantasy tactics.
>play anything recently
I just started the ps1 version of FF1 because I've been meaning to play through the whole series. It's pretty fucking grindy.
Also just started Trails in the sky and it's pretty comfy. Ive got it set on hard but I think I might have to turn it down because enemys do most of my health in one hit.
>what are you looking forward to
FF12HD on pc

Devil Survivor 1 is more story-focused while Devil Survivor 2 is more character-focused. In Devil Survivor 1 the characters are basically just props to support the story by representing certain ideologies and whatnot, while in Devil Survivor 2 the characters seem to come first, they each have their own little arc that gets explored while the actual plot is really half-assed (note: the characters are still pretty simple tropes in 2). I appreciate the atmosphere of Devil Survivor 1, but more importantly I found the gameplay in both games to be quite fun. They're made by remnants of the same team behind Langrisser and Growlanser so you can naturally expect a SRPG with a unique battle system and varied level design. I also like the SMT main series so it's a really cool blend of things. I'd say Devil Survivor 2 has slightly improved gameplay mechanics, there's a lot more demons and skills and the skill learning system is better than the first.
It's a SRPG so the music is mainly map themes. I think it was pretty good but I don't remember enough to comment on specifics. I'd still recommend you to play the first one first.

I guess 'incomplete' isn't the right word but there's a few games I might switch out, it's a very tentative list.

How normalfag friendly are they? I am interested in a first person action rpg but I imagine these are pretty grindy and difficult.

Deciding favorites will take forver so I will mention games I feel are underrated: Wild Arms 3, Bahamut Lagoon, Destiny of an Emperor

Recently played: Juggling between Devil Survivor 2, Persona 5, Tactics Ogre and Shadow Hearts 2

Not looking forward to anything much.

Consider the following:
Super Mario RPG
Dragon Quest VIII
Skies of Arcadia
Grandia

> FF1
> Grindy
Really? My idea of grinding in that game was kill everything that gets in your way.

I got into the Trails series 3 months ago and I absolutely loved the experience. Got Persona 5 and Stella Glow too and they were pretty fun.

Out of recommendation and out of sheer curiosity with it, I got Neptunia VII

Currently Trails in the Sky 3rd was an absolute blast so I think that counts as my favorite for now. I'm very much looking forward to Trails of Cold Steel 3 even I'm keeping myself cautious about it.

Fights take forever and I practically can't hit anything. I think I'll have to grind even more so I can properly hit shit. Its been taking me awhile to get good equipment from the shops and spells. My comp is a Warrior, red, white and black mage.

They're like dark souls except in first person view with no rolling.

Get a map because the dungeons have things like well disguised bottomless pits, dead ends filled with traps and traps that spawn bottomless pits filled with traps.

There's always the peninsula of power leveling if you feel like abusing a loophole.

You only have to grind in FF1 at the start. Once you get going, it's smooth sailing.

>what are you looking forward to
toys, mostly

Looking at these made me realize that I missed out on a lot.

What are must plays that I should have on my bucket list?

Some people define 'grinding' differently. There's running in circles to fight enemies and farm gold, like the first five minutes of several old JRPGs and everyone accepts that as grinding. But then the rest of the game consists of going place to place and fighting simple, repetitive, weak, boring battles that require no strategy. A lot of people would consider the latter to also be 'grindy' even though you don't need to go out of your way to fight battles. Either way, I consider it boring and would not recommend it.

Picture related to my favorites.
>play anything recently
Mostly SMT IV. Though I have been a bit erratic.
>what are you looking forward to
Mostly Romancing SaGa 2 Vita version. Otherwise nothing much else catches my eye.

Is Frontier a good place to get into the SaGa series?

What's your opinion on the SaGa remakes for DS? Should I play those over the originals?

And what makes Meruru your favoure Atelier game?

>what are your favorites
Xenoblade, Xenoblade X, FFV, Dragon Quest V, Mother 2 and 3, Terranigma, Kiseki series
>play anything recently
Playing Zero no Kiseki (in Japanese, TL patch is too spotty for me) and starting Tales of Vesperia
>what are you looking forward to
Xenoblade 2, Sen no Kiseki III

It can be a good place to start. Just that since it came after the Gameboy games be prepared to have some instances in where you are lost and not knowing where you need to go. It is a common occurrence within the more open world ones. Some people like it, others not so much.
>What's your opinion on the SaGa remakes for DS?
Can't really tell you since I didn't play them. I really like the Gameboy games and seeing how a lot of the SaGa remakes seem to be great it can be worth playing through since they often polish up some of the mechanics and in certain games also add additional mechanics.
>And what makes Meruru your favoure Atelier game?
I haven't played many Atelier games, but I really enjoyed doing quests, creating materials, and developing a kingdom and continually expanding the kingdom and watching it grow. I got really into it compared to something like Ayesha.

Here's my psx rpg's that aren't Final Fantasy.

My favorite ever is Tales of Vesperia. It's the perfect JRPG.

I'm currently playing Trails in the Sky FC and I fucking hate how there's a million enemies that only give two XP and none of them will just fuck off. I'm not even trying to fight everything and I feel over leveled already. Still at the beginning though, so hopefully this will be less painful once I have four party members to work with.

Looking forward to anything, really. I play everything from Neptunia to Radiant Historia, shit don't matter I just like JRPGs.

>how there's a million enemies that only give two XP and none of them will just fuck off.
If they start giving you shit EXP, that just means you're overleveled.

The whole bucket.

Running away in Trails in the Sky is like a 100% success rate, so it's not too big an issue

Favorites: Kingdom Hearts 2 FM, Persona 3 FES, Tales of the Abyss, Etrian Odyssey 3
Recent: Radiant Historia, Final Fantasy IV, was supposed to be playing through Halo tonight but for whatever reason felt the need to restart Final Fantasy X instead
Looking forward to: Etrian Odyssey V, Dragon Quest XI, Xenoblade 2, the next Tales game which allegedly is on the Switch

Then don't fight them.

The only battles I fight in TitS were the forced story encounters and monster-in-a-box fights (of which there were quite a few). The fights were all very easy, though I felt like my strategy was made overly basic because I couldn't afford much materia to change up my setups.
Should I play on hard mode in SC? Is it harder strategically or does it just force you to fight random enemies?

Is SMT Devil Survivor Overclocked any good? Been looking for more SMT for my 3ds (already have IV and Apocalypse)

Go for Soul Hackers instead.

It's one of my favourites. However it's a SRPG so if you're just looking for more of the same you might want to try something else. I'd recommend Strange Journey but I guess that's getting a remake soon?

Thread is on life support, just like JRPG's.

It's actually because nobody on Sup Forums actually plays JRPGs. They're inherently an uninteresting genre to most people.

Looking forward to replaying EOV when it releases over here, as well as trying out all the other titles coming to 3ds and vita soon.

Man I wish more games had a similar structure to legend of mana. Placing new worlds on a map yourself, each with their own episodic stories that tie into eachother depending on their placement was amazing, and that's not including the major story arcs. I feel like a DRPG could really benefit from this structure as long as it stays fairly open ended with new routes you can take after going through specific events.

>what are your favorites
Dragon Quest III, IV, V and VIII
Suikoden I-III
Chrono Trigger/Cross
Seiken Densetsu III

>play anything recently
I'm replaying FFVI. I'm kind of losing motion to keep going after the Opera.

>what are you looking forward to
Dragon Quest XI And X, Monsters, Theathrythm, Mori Mori 3 and all the other games we will never get.

>tfw really love SMT but it's a huge meme on Sup Forums

I don't think JRPGs are on life support. Plenty of notable titles have been released in the past couple years.

Anyway, if you guys want to talk about something how about this: write a review for a JRPG you like, in hopes of convincing someone to play it.

People are aggressive in pushing SMT on Sup Forums.

>Released 7 years ago
>Still feel buyer's remorse to the max

There hasn't been a good FF game since 12. FFXV sucked ass too.

I need Dragon Quest XI to save me bruh

I said just FF not all JRPGs. many current JRPGs are great. FF is just dead at this point.

You mean since X.

playing the version without deborah
faggot

Fuck you, buddy. 12 was objectively alright.

PS1 was the golden era. PS2 was still pretty fucking great. PS3 had Vesperia, Nier, Ni no Kuni and a few others, but it really lacked numbers. PS4 looks to be pretty fucking good though. For Nintendo I never really liked much outside of Crono Trigger, the old FF games, and Xenoblade (the first one, fuck that open world garbage with a Sawano OST).

Personal favorite is Wild Arms 2. That game is a fucking masterpiece. a remake with better graphics and proper voice acting would be amazing. The story, characters, skills in combat and dungeons were just fucking phenomenal. For looking forward to, I'm excited to play the Digimon World game on PS4. I know it's out already, but I was busy with Automata until now.

that's an understatement

People sure do care a lot about her. I picked the version that Japanese people recommended, she doesn't matter to me.

are there any other JRPGs that have a system close to legend of dragoon additions?

I really loved the first two Ar Tonelico games on the PS2. I am replaying them, and I want to try out the PS3 AT game.

How does it compare to the previous games?

Only thing that comes close enough that I've played is Vagrant Story, but you don't do the button presses to complete a skill rather you do it to chain one skill after another.

X and XII were ok, XIII was complete fucking shit, XV was somewhere between the aforementioned, but it was a huge letdown. The series hasn't been great since IX. If you look at when the series started and when IX came out, the series has been bad longer than it was good. That's depressing.

>PS3 AT game
You don't wanna play that.

XII was an unfinished and dumbed down single player of XI, I seriously don't understand how people like it at all.

Why? I just want to dive into the heads of batshit crazy girls while listening to comfy music and climbing towers.

The level designs were fun to run around in, and the attempt at classes (I head the international version did it better) was a nice effort, I guess? Honestly I found XII and X to just barely be playable. I think I used to dislike them more, but then XIII came out and by comparison I find them not to be the worst thing ever.

I don't think particularly highly of the FF series in general but I thought FFX was pretty good. I liked the turn based battle system a lot more than the awful ATB that the previous games used and the sphere grid was an interesting way to build characters. The narrative was pretty good for a JRPG, the music was excellent, the presentation was nice. The temple puzzles were kinda cool and there were even some mini games and side quests available. I know FFX gets a lot of criticism and I don't really understand why.

While I hated the first game in the series, Lightning Returns was one of my top two games from the year it was released.

It managed to open world better than XV, wish more games would have a time system like that and Majora's Mask too.

>I know FFX gets a lot of criticism and I don't really understand why.
Try playing more than 10 rpgs and maybe you'll figure it out.

>what are your favorites
Dark Cloud 2, Dragon Quest 8, SMT 3 Nocturne. I have a lot of JRPGs that i love. Vanillaware's stuff is excellent too.

>Playing anything recently.

FE Echoes and the post game of the 3DS port of DQ8

>what are you looking forward to

In the immediate future there's just mostly FFXII the zodiac age, Etrian Odyssey 5, and 13 Sentinels The remaster of Radiant Historia and Strange journey don't impress me honestly.

Much further than that though is stuff like Octopath Traveler and Re Fantasy

FFX has good world design and better than average (but not great) combat. But then the story and characters are really dumb if you stop to think about it. It's not unlike FFIV.

>Favorites
FFVIII, Persona 4, Grandia 2, Pokemon Yellow, Atelier Ayesha, Ar Nosurge, Phantasy Star Online and the Nier games if they count
>Recent
Finished Final Fantasy XV, Automata, and Persona 5; replaying Persona 3
>Looking forward to
The next Atelier, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Blue Reflection, SMT Switch

Shit taste.
Good taste.

Adding some Gust games got me the upgrade? I can't believe I forgot them the first time.

>But then the story and characters are really dumb if you stop to think about it. It's not unlike FFIV.
IV's story and characters were way better. Rydia alone is better than anything from X. IV's only flaw was that the random encounter rate was fucking retarded.

>IV's only flaw was that the random encounter rate was fucking retarded.
Are we just going to forget that that game has Cecil as a protagonist?

Are we pretending Cecil is bad now?

>what are your favorites
Dragon Quest VIII, Dragon Quest IV, Tales of Vesperia, and Persona 3
>play anything recently
>Tales of Zestiria
The battle system is so fucking bad that I couldn't play it. It was only $20 and I feel cheated. How can they go from TOX2 which was decent. To this garbage?
>Persona 5
It's Persona, nothing much to say. It's good
>Breath of Fire IV
Just started it up, and it's really good. If it keeps up, it may become one of my favorites.
>what are you looking forward to
Dragon Quest XI. So excited that I may just import it. Wouldn't understand a damn thing happening, but I want to play it so bad.

>pretending

>FFX gets a lot of criticism and I don't really understand why
The entire series is predicated on having new entries be varying degrees of completely different games. Hence why the fanbase is so splintered and volatile. When you have people who heavily love/endorse/identify with a specific game, then down the line a new entry throws a ton of that out the window and does something different, it's going to upset people. That's the main reason. Not to deny that there aren't others, but a great many can be traced back to this concept.

>IV's story and characters were way better
This is contrarianism to an insane degree. 4's characters are cardboard cutouts that act as the plot needs them to act in order to get them in and out of the party at the right times.

>This is contrarianism to an insane degree.
Is this really surprising on Sup Forums? VII and X are the two most popular entries of course people will rally as hard as they can against those two while saying that VIII is some sort of misunderstood gem.

>tfw when I enjoyed them all
Well except for 2. I wasn't feeling that one.

At least II paved way for the SaGa series so it wasn't all bad.

>what are your favorites
zenobureido not X
>play anything recently
working on TitS the 3rd now
>what are you looking forward to
well that KH3 trailer looked pretty cool but personally I'm more excited about Xenoblade 2

>what are your favorites
Any of my 3DS ones, Shining Force, EO3
>play anything recently
Was going to start playing DQIX, but I'm still enjoying Legend of Legacy a lot. Third run after a while of leaving it on Liber, started Meurs. Always bring Bianca so I had to ditch Garnet for Eloise. Have a nice selection of hard-won and lucky postgame items to play around with now.
>what are you looking forward to
The Alliance Alive, DSJ/SJR, EOV, RHC, USUM, Ever Oasis.

VIII is far better than most people give it credit for. People bitch about the plot because they're too stupid to understand a simple time loop or missed the multiple times the amnesia twist was foreshadowed. Junctioning made the game too easy but every single Final Fantasy is too easy so that's a moot point.

>favorites

saga frontier 2, breath of fire 3 & chrono cross

>play anything recently

Persona 5, pretty wild ride story wise, bit of a disappointment gameplay wise

>what are you looking forward to

I have no idea man, I can't get into the falcom games and I don't see anything else on the horizon