I really want to play a Final Fantasy game at some point, but always seem to find something else play. Same thing goes for Dragon Quest games. I could ask everyone here which game from each series you recommend, but would I actually play it? Probably not. 😔
As for a single game I own, I will probably never play Disgaea 5. It’s been so long since I bought it.
I’ve been staring sideways at Divinity II for over two years now.
I got it because my friend suggested we play multiplayer online while it was on sale, but then he was never actually wanted to play once I installed it.
I liked isometrics 20 years ago, because they felt like they were pushing what you could do in a video game setting. Now, they seem like the go-to budget solution for developers. Which is fine. But, like, you’re not getting an FF7Remake or a DQ11.
Its just a lot of very small text. I tend to play on my living room television, so everything is very small and far away. Back when my face was shoved up against a CRT screen, I got to appreciate the fine details. You get a lot of granular choices that don’t always have a meaningful impact on the direction of the game. The games are loooong. Easily 60-100 hours, if you’re a reflexive completionist like me.
It just feels like an enormous time commitment when free time is in short supply. Back in school, when I felt like I had hours to kill every day and days to kill every break, I chewed through shit like this.
Maybe I’ll get back into CRPGs when I retire.
I got it at launch, and it had a bug that corrupted your save after TWENTY TO THIRTY HOURS.
I played the first act TWICE before i realized that it was a irreparable and inevitable glitch.
Any time I boot it up and make a character I remember that I’ve gotta fight bugs for an hour, and then break out of prison for like 10 hours and…
I just shut the game down. Absolutely my answer as well. Its a shame. I adored the combat.
Final Fantasy 7- One of my earliest memories of the PS1 was watching a friend play FF7. I’ve always wanted to play it and I finally got it about a year ago after dragging my feet for a while. I started playing it, but it’s been on my backlog for a while now. Funny thing is that I played and completed the spinoff/prequel Crisis Core.
Hollow Knight- Another game that I started playing, but keeps going into the backlog. I like the visuals, but for whatever reason I’m just not hooked enough to continue and finish it. Been in my collection for 3-4 years now.
Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series- Take your pick of any game in the series and it’s probably one stuck in my backlog. I actually got deep into SMT [1] and 4, but kind of just got tired of the grind. I played up until the just after the first boss in SMT 5 and I got P5 Royal only to play up until the first cutscene. Not really sure why I keep trying to get into the series at this point:doomer:
Hollow Knight- Another game that I started playing, but keeps going into the backlog. I like the visuals, but for whatever reason I’m just not hooked enough to continue and finish it.
Mid game gets to be a lot of running from one end of the map to the other to complete a quest. Or getting lost trying to solve a puzzle.
I enjoyed it in the moment, but it definitely dragged
I actually got deep into SMT [1] and 4
SMT I actually gets really easy at a certain point of the game. Even if you run away from every encounter you should have little difficulty at beating the final bosses of the fuckhuge final dungeon. SMT I and II are both excellent games, but they have a heavy bias towards physical damage as well.
SMT if is based on the premise that you liked SMT 1 and 2, but also wish to get frustrated while playing a game like that.
Nocturne rightfully gets the reputation of being difficult, but I love the challenge of that game (and it eases off with the difficulty after Ikebukuro)
Strange Journey’s gameplay is kinda mid, but the story and characters are amazing. That’s what kept me going through that great game.
You’ve already played IV and V - I haven’t.
The Megami Tensei games for the NES… MT1 is ass, but 2 is surprisingly really good. The music is great and seems better balanced than SMT 1 or 2 (I haven’t finished it yet). It’s kinda grindy at times though.
I heard Majin Tensei 1 is bad, but Majin Tensei 2 is a quite fun strategy-RPG in the style of say Super Robot Wars or (I believe) Fire Emblem. Great music too.
The Last Bible series is closer to generic fantasy slop than a megaten game - I guess play it if you’re a completionist.
Soul Hackers is quite charming and silly, but otherwise fairly average.
Persona 1 is IMO great, but that is a minority opinion - people complain about it dislike the combat and high encounter rate. Also, the PS1 version has way better music (but the english localization is horrible) - thankfully a patch for the PSP port exists.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin has a fantastic story, but ass gameplay (on the PSP. Apparently the PS1 version is fine) - Eternal Punishment fixes all the issues, but is, well… a sequel.
Persona 3 has a great story, but is quite slow in the beginning.
Persona 4 is mostly known for its atmosphere and characters, as well as a great villain. It is however the most weeb-brained of the entire series.
Persona 5 has good, fun gameplay (if arguably too easy), but the story only gets interesting in the final third of the game. It is however
P5 premise spoiler
what I call a 1970s new left group simulator.
there’s even more games but I won’t talk about them, because I either haven’t finished them or don’t have much to say about them.
Play Final Fantasy 7 and limit yourself to 20 minutes a day.
FF7 is still the greatest jrpg narrative yet
I feel like you need to just part it out, when i watched king of the hill in its entirety, i just did it one episode a day. I don’t really like to watch tv shows and this is how I was able to get through it.
That’s a good idea. I’m assuming I should just play the original and not follow the remakes?
Beyond Good & Evil and literally every RTS/4X game that I didn’t play when I was a teenager.
I love Beyond Good & Evil. It’s a pretty short game and I found the world was quite immersive / engaging. If you ever do find the motivation, I highly recommend it!
Valkyria Chronicles, I always start it then bail because the mechanics are so clunky.
