Let's talk about the real best RPG
It's time
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The dark souls of jrpgs.
More important, where are the tits?
Vagrant Story? Good but obscure as hell TC. Also the graphics have... not aged well.
I seriously thought it was more popular. Remember seeing it a lot in gaming magazines back in the day. Also, yeah they're showing their age but I don't think they're too bad. The faces are crisp and the environments look good thanks to the contrasting colours and lighting.
It holds up very well, what's wrong with you? Great art design, great architecture, textures and lightning.
The sound design is still the best. These door opening noises sound like sex.
Is that Edward Elric?
this,especially for a ps1 game,it just lacks some polycount
Whats with the combat in this game?
I spam the circle and attack these bats before they attack me
Help
plot feels so butchered... and character progress
?, explain better next time
What exactly felt butchered?
Keep playing. Sounds like you are still in what's basically the tutorial. Combat opens up a lot a bit later.
mate the texture suck ass.
>muh grafix
Fuck off.
combat is pseudo action based
press the button to bring up a circle range.
if the enemies are withing range, choose a body part to attack
later on you can chain techniques by assinging them to different buttons. if you're good you can theoretically do it forever
>upscaled
Notice something?
The only thing I want to know is why does the MC have assless chaps??
it's even worse at lower resolution obviously
character designer has a bdsm fetish
not even joking, one of the characters is in a maskless gimp suit
rosecranzt fght and death was so forced same goes with all of the tiger and niesa weight on the plot and the church role in the game.... rosecrantz bitch was literally a place holder or but a very well definition of how to make a foolz idol like vatican does all the time with the saints, the game had so much hidden potential.... like in the end tieger dying fighting is brother??,
Sydney is such a bro.
He helped Ashley more than anyone out there.
I thought he had an amputee fetish.
Dunno man, Rosencrantz felt completed to me.
user....that's a man
My weapons do NO FUCKING DAMAGE.
i mean guildernstern girl weight on the game was very bad,magic is only usefull for buffs and heal and most break arts are useless,teleporting using mp was a bad lplay too, the game was so butchered...damm square enix
>rosecranzt fght and death was so forced
It was obvious that he was an utter asshole pursuing his own selfish goal since the moment he was introduced.
A dog deserved a dog's death, the way Sydney BTFOs him was spectacular.
>tiger and niesa weight
Indeed, those two needed more exposition but they still ended up being a nice pair of side characters.
>church role in the game
Church is just one of a major political powers, the real struggle goes between Guildenstern and Sydney while Ashley pumps himself with Lea Monde's power and restores his own shattered self.
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Please send help. I'm in ng+ and have more blades than I can store, but forging them doesn't really do anything useful.
OP here sorry guys I posted the wrong game.
>Also the graphics have... not aged well.
get the fuck out of here
>i mean guildernstern girl weight on the game was very bad
?????????
She's literally his little whore who gets what she deserves.
>magic is only usefull for buffs
No, it's not. You can play full caster, you just need to dedicate yourself for that. Staff break arts are also awesome if you decide to go that route.
what was the reason of people following blindly this lanky idiot.... what is the role of the opening girl on the game..... why is this man messing with ashley.... he is not a bro, fucking cuck pawn of the fat rich obisp glad guildernster raped this idiot ,yeah he is the only good character of the game but the fight with him was so easy
oh boy. damage is complicated in this game.
basically the more you use a weapon against a certain type of enemy, the more effective it becomes. certain weapons are naturally better against certain types too.
there's also training dummies of several types scattered about where you can grind your weapons until they're perfect against a specific enemy type. i recommend checking out guides if you want more in-depth explanations about this but yeah, keep "training" your weapons against certain enemies and it'll become more effective against that enemy
why dont we
>Vangrant story
>Obscure
>Muh graffix
C'mon man
>what was the reason of people following blindly this lanky idiot
Game thoroughly explains that. He has incredible magic powers, can read people like open books and has enough charisma to lead people.
On top of that he's funded by his own daddy.
real OP here
get out of here stalker
xenogears, vagrant story, and wayfarer are best jrps.
>chrono trigger was ok i guess
samantha is my wife
She's just a greedy, stupid woman who wanted eternal life. Glad the game showed her how much she was worth.
from the late 90s /early 00s?
star ocean 2 and grandia 1 were amongst the best jrpgs then.
Is anyone going to play his mobileshit game? It seems to talk about Revolution, people rising up, etc: youtube.com
a shame it's a mobile game though
what happened to her?
i got the impression she was more a tragic fool that truly believed she was in love/was loved by someone who was only using her
Tried this a couple months ago, the intro alone had better directing than most jrpgs of the last 10 years.
Did put it aside at some point because of reasons but it was a nice game. A bit clunky to play and very unusual battle system but the plot and characters looked very promising.
Got stabbed by Guildenstern and launched from the top of Grand Cathedral.
Should knew better than to become a bicycle for a shady as fuck cardinal.
used as a sacrifice by the man she loved, who saw her as nothing more than that
the pantom pain...nobody not even on the fucking game has clue of what the heck is happening with the world or why they follow blindly persons with power, its about people following blindly the cult of personality and how ashley was above all of this, the sins of the father, the self replicating patterns of life on every level possible and damm ashley was like what buddah cucks should be like like wotan or joseph, the wandeder
Matsuno is cute.
I agree
Where?
you see I noticed that Vagrant Story was a great game, it had stunning visuals and appealing storytelling, but I was missing the magic from those two games in it, so I never got around finishing it.
OP here, meant to post this, sorry for the confusion
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>that battle theme for the second
>the whole track
>3:00
I don't get this meme. It's nothing like Dark Souls, it's too dramatic. It's more like the second witcher game, but no modern game has the same gameplay.
It basically just tosses you into a dungeon and says "have fun fucko"
No it doesn't. It has a linear and very dramatic plotline and the dungeon just happens to branch out
I know gamers. Most of them won't last five minutes with this game. Why is everyone on this site so goddamn autistic? Do you people never come in contact with normalfags?
There are some games that would really benefit from a remaster like the Crash remaster. This and Front Mission 3 need it.
Why make a thread on Sup Forums acting like you're talking to normalfags?
Vagrant story is a cult classic
I really tried to like it, I just cannot get into the writing, its fucking awful. I think Ive become intolerant of anime plots.
PS1 3D is SHIT. Objectively.
Games like Suikoden hold up well. This does not.
>gamers
First thing I thought too.
>he never played soul reaver for the PS1
this game was way 2deep4me.
>no ashley you are the demons
the combat was kind of frustrating too. I remember some fight against a dragon where its weak point was the tail, but it would keep instantly turning to face you so it was almost impossible to actually hit it.
>obscure
>t. 12 years old
Why do they all look like that?
The direction of the intro is still better than 99% of games today and how they made light work without having actual realtime lighting is amazing
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I'd like to imagine he's being a meme himself. Because Dark Souls technically is still made in Japan, just because it's not turn based doesn't mean it isn't a JRPG.
Also, this game convinced me if I had a son one day I'd name him Ashley with no fucks given.
>graphics
Nigger, the graphics are beautiful, one of the best looking PS1 games. Most modern games don't even have 10% of the atmosphere VS has.
Woah, Dark Souls is made in Japan?
It feels entirely like a WRPG.
probably cause you played wotl the ps1 translation is fine
VS is one of my favorite JRPGs of all time
this game need a remake, what fix that chain atacks mechanic because thats make the game very easy and need more extra content like the FFtactic remake on psp
>beat the dragon and get outside
>game tries shoving some convoluted story down my throat with characters I don't recognize or care about
>drop the game
Should I give it another chance?
Graphics can't age.
this only games like SF II & Metal Slug come close
that's pretty brutal lads
No graphics age. Stories are forever.
I played this game a few years back for the story but everything else was very PlayStation One.
It still impresses me that Vagrant Story's NG+ easily adds like 25% more to the size of game, and even adds to the lore when it could have just been more challenging bosses or something.
That and the rudimentary achievement system makes game seem really ahead of its time. It might have taken a while but it was damn satisfying to finally pull a 30-hit chain and get that "knight of brilliance" title in your status screen
Why is everyone dressed in the gayest way possible?
what other games are in this 3-D pseudo style?
test
you mean isometric view...? game's 3d there's nothing pseudo about it
Oh yeah Vagrant Story was a cultural phenomenon. It sold millions and people still talk about it daily. If there's a remake announcement at E3 Kyle Bossman would break down in tears unable to speak for hours.
I agree with this fag but the face textures did not age well.
It's a shame since they are one of the most important things.
It's still a great game.
the face textures are super clear compared to other ps1 games though
like you can actually tell these are faces. compare that to MGS or Silent Hill
>Age before internet in rural Finland
>Try all different weapon forging combinations
>Mark them down with pen on paper
>Learn the system's secrets
>Scheme and plan your ultimate sets during school
Such wonderful memories
Red pill me on this game, how has it aged?
I did something like this only with Legend of Mana
The graphics have held better than almost any other game from that era. I can't even think of a single PS1 game without sprites that looks better today.
All chaps are assless. That's what they're supposed to be.
like fine wine
I have no idea if you'll like it though since the gameplay's pretty unique
I agree I was blown away by this game when I first played it. I thought MGS integrated cinematic elements well especially considering it was still the 90s but VS took it to another level.
I played this just last year and, apart form all the wobble which isn't the game's fault, thought the visuals held up pretty damn well.