What's a good modern JRPG that's available on PS4? Pic is my favorite JRPG but it doesn't need to be similar

What's a good modern JRPG that's available on PS4? Pic is my favorite JRPG but it doesn't need to be similar.

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Persona 5 is the obvious answer. Have you played that?

Disgaea 5 and Tales of Berseria are good.

I have NOT played Persona, but I need to. Can you compare it to anything else I might know, gameplay-wise?

I've never played any Disgaea or Tales, either. I thought Disgaea was supposed to suck. As you can see I'm not very up to date on this genre, but I have the itch for one lately.

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>I have NOT played Persona, but I need to. Can you compare it to anything else I might know, gameplay-wise?
Ahhh, they're like a modernized version of the classic JRPG formula. (dungeons, party/turn based combat, heavy story)
There is pretty much no way you won't like it.
>I've never played any Disgaea or Tales, either. I thought Disgaea was supposed to suck.
I like it. Pretty to look at and the combat is fun.
>As you can see I'm not very up to date on this genre, but I have the itch for one lately.
Just play Persona 5. It is the best.

It's core is pretty standard JRPG combat: you have a protagonist character and three party members and each has a unique kit of abilities geared towards dealing damage, applying buffs or healing. In addition to a standard attack, each party member had a Persona which uses powerful abilities that consume Mana or Health.

The main thing is that enemies have resistances and weaknesses to different elements. If you hit an enemy with an element that they're weak to, they'll be knocked down and you'll get another turn. If you get all the enemies knocked down, you can deal an All Out Attack that deals a massive amount of damage to all enemies.

Also, the protagonist character can wield multiple Personas whereas all the party members are locked into a single one for the entire game

Play xenoblade 2

Xenoblade 2's pretty similar. You'd need a nintendo to play it though

Thanks dudes! Headed to Gamestop

Xenogears is my favorite game as well, and Persona is nothing like it. Stay the fuck away from it.

The whole point of Xenogears is that the game is serious the entire time. There characters are calm, focused and rational, and actions have realistic consequences.

Compare that to "generic highschool hijinks anime" the game.

Other than being in the same genre, P5 and Xenogears are polar opposites as far as atmosphere and storytelling go.

Emulate the older Personas
Anything from 1-3 has a tone similar to Xenogears.
FF Tactics is something you should take a look at too.
FFXII is an option but has very different gameplay from the traditional jrpg.
Also the story is more down-scaled compared to Xenogears'

These are horrible suggestions, the tone of XBC2 is completely different from nearly everything presented in gears.
It's riddled with Light novel adaption-tier "Comedy"

What did you like about it?

How the fuck is Xenoblade 2 anything like Xenogears? You people are dumb as fuck.

Disgaea definitely doesn't suck, but it's also definitely not for everyone. There was a demo for Disgaea 5 on PS4 that's probably still available, and I'd suggest you check it out. It's a tactical RPG in the same vein as Final Fantasy Tactics, but over-the-top team attacks and the ability to throw units around for mobility, among other things. Its main draw is how ludicrously in-depth the mechanics are. You could play the game for 100 hours and still be discovering new tricks and exploits to skyrocket your stats into the tens of millions.

Like I said, not for everyone, but what it does, it does very well.

Tactics is my shit, nigga. Best FF game

FFXIII receives a lot of hate, but the scale of the project was similar to Xenogears.
Also the depth of the world and the journey the characters take is very similar to Gears.
The gamepaly is alright though, it can be kinda fun when you mess around with stuff but I don't know how long that'll last.

It's also super linear, but Gears is also like that until a certain point.

That actually sounds right up my alley. Will look into it. Thanks.

>Can you compare it to anything else
It's like Persona 4 Golden.

>Xenotrash

Get Romancing SaGa 2 on PS4. Other than that JRPGS are shit now and haven't been worth playing since PS1 era and a few PS2 games.

You talk as though Xenogears has no sense of humor.
One of the party members is a giant pink rodent for fuck's sake.
And having Lucca from Chrono Trigger telling you about save points before stealing money from you.
And the stupid well puns.
It gets grimmer later on, sure, but Xenogears has plenty of silly moments.

Have an emulator paused in the middle of the Alkanshel fight. Billy just shot his dad like a fucking bullet to break Alkanshel's defense. I'm honestly finding it a bit tough to find the will to keep going though. Is this shit about to veer out of control and take me on a wild ride? Basically, could anyone reinvigorate me? I enjoy the game, but it's just been going for a long time, and there are now so many characters and plot points that it's getting a bit tough to tell what I should know but forgot and what is actually supposed to still be a mystery to me. I had to take a break from it because of some shit, and I feel like it killed my momentum.

Xenogears has a sense of humor and while outdated and sometimes unfunny it's not the oversaturated "MC wakes up with heronie in bed and gets slapped" stuff that's been happening in anime for the last 20+ years.

Don't take disc 1 for granted. Disc 2 is mostly a novel with the occasional dungeon.
Cool shit happens but unfortunately the game tells more than it shows.

chapter 8-10

>The whole point of Xenogears is that the game is serious the entire time. There characters are calm, focused and rational, and actions have realistic consequences.

Romancing SaGa 2 since it is the first time it ever came out to the west. You manage your empire, help out territories and eventually they join your empire against the seven heroes. It starts off small, but eventually you will be globe trotting to build your party. You pass down your skills and stats from one emperor to the next as emperors die or as the passage of time goes forth. You learn your weapon skills during battles so you can spark a new skill against a boss and use it then and there at a clutch moment. There are many formations with their own strengths and weaknesses, especially against certain enemy attacks. It is your choice when you want to tackle the quests and in what order you want to defeat the seven heroes. It also has some great music.

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he literally says that is doesn't have to be like Xenogears you retard

Persona 5
Tales of Berseria
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

I'm sorry, are you asking OP what he liked about Xenogears? I mean, it's obvious he liked the
>yasunori mitsuda soundtrack
>evangelion rip-off story
>anime art design
>combat system with the strong, medium, and weak attacks
>switching between humans and mechs

The tone of Xenoblade 2 is similar to Xenogears. You're thinking of Xenoblade 1 which is serious all the time and nothing like any of the other xeno games.

>Persona 5
>Tales of Berseria
>Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

I SWEAR IF I SEE ANOTHER XENOBLA.. oh...we're good.

>xenoblade uno
>serious all the time
>The game that has Reyn
>The game that has nopon
>The game that features comedic moments between characters after nearly every battle
>The game with the shounen plot
>serious all the time

>>evangelion rip-off story
Xenogears had been in development before Eva was even a thing, some of its story was taken from prototype concepts of FFVII which had been in-development since the 4th gen.
The similarities to Evangelion were either coincidental or results of last minute changes and I doubt the latter since they barely had the ability to finish the game.

OP here. They were out of Persona and Disgaea so I got Tales of Berseria. Thanks for the input and I'm still reading the thread.

that game sucks dick, you got played. If you wanted Tales should have played/emulated symphonia/abyss/vesperia

Yeah, apart from joking around post battle everyone is always brooding throughout the game. There's no quirky sidestories or goofy 70s/80s robot anime homages. Even the Nopon in that game stay in the background, Riki is beloved for being the most grounded member of the main party.

Meh it was $20. If it sucks it sucks.

xenoblade 2 might as well be a retelling of xenogears because the entire fucking story is identical down to Deus, Kadomony and Zohar, it's pretty much 1:1 but with fat trimmed and without the bullshit filler like that dumb dinosaur fight or the visual novel second part

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>the visual novel second part
That whole thing is a huge part of what made gears memorable imo.
They had a really expansive story and went to extreme lengths to present all of it (except not really because of the whole episode V thing at the end)
I'm not saying it was better than actually getting those dungeons but it leaves the game with a certain sense of heart.

why are you so mad?

You definitely fight a dumb T-Rex in Xenoblade 2 too

gd i never got to finish this game... i just remember getting stuck someplace early on and then my cd got wrecked. Just ended up drawing fanart of characters... ha..ha..

Didn't mean to judge and this is my personal input about the game......the game is too basic and plain, so, I wouldn't consider this game "good" whatsoever. And like so many rpg games on ps1 that came with more than one disc, it was a big trash. Almost literally made to fill the disc space and stupid way to make the game feels "longer". This game is definitely one of those rubbish "more than one disc" ps1 games where the game is basically done after disc 1.
Anyway....as far as I know, jrpg pretty much doesn't exist anymore on PS4 especially for North America and Europe. Most rpg on PS4 are just action hack-and-slash westernised rpg.

I remember losing my shit on my brother because he got the save file corrupted. I was at the part where you get the white Xenogears.

Dodged a bullet, Persona 5 sucks. Enjoy your game.

That seems to be a pretty unpopular opinion but what were your complaints?

DAMN, that's a good deal. Shit, man, I think I'll go buy it too.

>Alkanshel
I remember this boss being kind of tough. But anyway, to answer your question, is starting over completely out of the question? Xenogears is one I've played multiple times. It's been a long time though so I don't remember the exact order of events.

I can tell you my complaints, from someone that likes Persona 2: IS, 3, and 4. My biggest complaint is all the fluff dialogue. Every character feels like he or she has to give input, and the dialogue goes on and on whenever they meet in person. Even when you go back from such an exhausting and long-winded discussion regarding simple topics, they message you over your phone. Thus, you have to put up with even more redundant dialogue!

My other issue is that even Persona 3 and 4 had more "space" than Persona 5. In 5, you always feel tense. Morgana and your friends are always asking if you're ready to return to the current palace, and you just don't have as much time to relax or improve social links. Also, in 4, when you go to the field trips, there is a lot more funny dialogue and just a sociable environment whereas the field trips in 5 felt skimp and not as memorable (Golden also added more).

Furthermore, the dungeons in 5, especially near the end, felt like they reached Nocturne level in terms of difficulty. I think that was a bad design choice, especially since 3 and 4 were easier and more straight-forward with their dungeons.

Now don't get me wrong, I liked some of the social links in 5, but man, did the game feel tedious.

Bad writing, which is hard to go into without spoilers, and gameplay that is very simplistic and repetitive with bad balancing. The story starts strong, but loses all momentum and ends up having very poor motivation for your characters and a weak, predictable villain. Then there's a plot twist that doesn't make sense and makes everything less interesting.

The game's too easy, the combat is the same throughout, the level design gets incredibly bad with endless ugly hallways and braindead puzzles that your resident annoying party member solves for you without being asked, and an agonizingly bad mandatory random dungeon with some of the worst music ever. The social life aspect is also poorly balanced. It's too easy and gives you too much time so the game becomes a huge slog.

Hmm... Having not played any of the series, I don't know what to make of all that but I do get more frustrated with tedium than I did when I was young.

Why the fuck are you acting like gears isnt an anime product of its time too? Seems like you have some crazy bias about nothing.

>The similarities to Evangelion were either coincidental or results of last minute changes and I doubt the latter since they barely had the ability to finish the game.
You're fucking retarded if you believe this shit. I mean that legitimately. I feel sorry for your employer. Evangelion left a huge mark in Japan and created an era of copycats over the next 5-10 years. They all have
-meaning religious iconography
-heavy lore minimally explained, in order to great the illusion of depth and mystery
-focus on psychobabble, particularly loneliness, neediness, and selfishness
-edgy flashbacks of edgy things that happened in the past, particularly in some medical lab
-mechas that look more human than gundam-style mecha, with HURR MYSTERIOUS SECRETS behind them, like having a soul or something

There's a 0.000000000% chance Xenogears "coincidentally" ripped off Evangelion; it was 100% intentional, and this is can't be argued against.

>employer

Why are you so angry?

>in order to great the illusion
lol

user maybe you read "xeno" and got excited but...

Xenogears is based off initial FFVII concept ideas and FFVII had begun development in 1994 a whole year before Evangelion even aired.

The xenogears and deus are the only organic looking mecha in the whole game, the rest just look like ordinary 90s mecha which were human like before evangelion as eva isn't the first show to grasp at organic mecha.

Half the stuff you mentioned wasn't even made popular by eva, you're just coming off as an evafag that thinks everything before and after was inspired by it.

So what am I in for with Berseria anyway? I bought it blind.

OK gameplay, good story, one of the best casts in a JRPG.