RPG Thread IX is a steaming pile of pointless monologue. Just Youtube the ending!

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[quote name='Ryuukishi'].

I know I use my Wii more for the Virtual Console than for actual Wii games.[/QUOTE]

Yeah so do I. Going to bust it out for some Ogre Battle 64 at some point.
 
[quote name='Cheska19']So out of curiosity, how long does it take you guys on average to finish an RPG? Do you guys finish a ~40 hour RPG in a week/month/more etc?

Seems like some of you just blaze through them all at an incredible speed.[/QUOTE]
For me, it's usually over the 50 hour mark for JRPGs, but usually under 20 hours for WRPGs (but I think Dragon Age: Origins has taken me over 20 hours to beat)
 
So got the Lunar Whale in FFIV so I'm on the moon. I forgot how hard the moon monsters are. I'm level 41 or so and each fight is almost like a freaking boss.
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']So got the Lunar Whale in FFIV so I'm on the moon. I forgot how hard the moon monsters are. I'm level 41 or so and each fight is almost like a freaking boss.[/QUOTE]

lol, that's why every time I've played the game I stop at there, lol. Have yet to finish the damned game. I'm adamant that once I pick up the PSP port I'll finish it this time!
 
[quote name='Cheska19']So out of curiosity, how long does it take you guys on average to finish an RPG? Do you guys finish a ~40 hour RPG in a week/month/more etc?

Seems like some of you just blaze through them all at an incredible speed.[/QUOTE]
Answering now because I didn't before.

The average for me is one month, but I've beaten some (considerably short) RPGs in under a week and others (Pokemon Platinum) over the course of nine months.

Got another question for people: When playing RPGs, how often do you like to break things up with a game in another genre? What genres do they tend to be?

I usually like to be playing something other than an RPG, but that doesn't always happen. I want to add more non-RPGs to my backlog now since there's so few of them; got Kirby's Epic Yarn recently and want to pick up some more platformers and action games.

Also, I try to avoid playing a story-heavy RPG alongside a story-heavy graphical text adventure/point-and-click/visual novel.
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']So got the Lunar Whale in FFIV so I'm on the moon. I forgot how hard the moon monsters are. I'm level 41 or so and each fight is almost like a freaking boss.[/QUOTE]

Don't admit that this version is too hard for us! That's just what the Japanese want! :D
 
I usually play something shorter, with the intention of going back to the RPG. Typically, it's a game like God of War, or Deathspank... Both of which do have a bit of roleplaying, I suppose.
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']So got the Lunar Whale in FFIV so I'm on the moon. I forgot how hard the moon monsters are. I'm level 41 or so and each fight is almost like a freaking boss.[/QUOTE]
which FFIV?
 
I break up my RPG playing with some fighting and some shooting.

My shooter of choice is usually one of the Gears or Call of Dutys. I do it more for the social aspect. My brothers and friends only play shooters. Sprinkle in liberal doses of whatever fighting game I'm playing at the time and those are my gaming habits.
 
Hey I was wondering, is Arc Rise Fantasa any good? I have been wanting to try out a RPG on my Wii, which is never used
 
I'm at the final dungeon of Dragon Quest IX and I could almost care less about finishing the game at this point, let alone the post-game content.
 
[quote name='Seifer']Hey I was wondering, is Arc Rise Fantasa any good? I have been wanting to try out a RPG on my Wii, which is never used[/QUOTE]

I enjoyed it a lot, but it takes about 15 hours before it picks up, which is pretty steep, even for an RPG.
 
Got another question for people: When playing RPGs, how often do you like to break things up with a game in another genre? What genres do they tend to be?
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Action games, Rock Band 3, 2d Shooters, Puzzle games

My RPG playing rules are like the law of the sith. Only one at a time, no more, no less. If I play more than one RPG, I tend to quit the old one for a new one.
 
[quote name='2DMention']My RPG playing rules are like the law of the sith. Only one at a time, no more, no less. If I play more than one RPG, I tend to quit the old one for a new one.[/QUOTE]

So the new RPG even overthrows and takes over the position of the old RPG, nice.
 
[quote name='blueshinra']Got another question for people: When playing RPGs, how often do you like to break things up with a game in another genre? What genres do they tend to be?[/QUOTE]
Mostly first and third person shooters and music games (though I need a new singing game now that I've finished the achievements in Lips :cool:). I like fighting games and would play them a lot more if I didn't tend to completely suck at them.
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']So got the Lunar Whale in FFIV so I'm on the moon. I forgot how hard the moon monsters are. I'm level 41 or so and each fight is almost like a freaking boss.[/QUOTE]
just wait for the end boss level grind.:D
 
well, iirc the moon was designed for your party with fusoya, so if you haven't gotten him yet then yea every battle is hard.

also fusoya kinda sucks so when you come back with kain it's either.

that guy has a cool name

kain
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']Yeah so do I. Going to bust it out for some Ogre Battle 64 at some point.[/QUOTE]

man I love that game
 
[quote name='mebegod']man I love that game[/QUOTE]

Does Ogre Battle 64 pick up eventually? I remember really liking it back on the 64, but I remember it being really slow and waiting forever for troops to march across the maps. Prolly just didn't know what I was doing as I bought it used so it didn't have a manual.
 
[quote name='Zmonkay']Does Ogre Battle 64 pick up eventually? I remember really liking it back on the 64, but I remember it being really slow and waiting forever for troops to march across the maps. Prolly just didn't know what I was doing as I bought it used so it didn't have a manual.[/QUOTE]


LOL beats me. I had no clue what I was doing for the few horus I played it back on my N64.
 
Been playing FF4. I'm to the last boss basically, but the last few floors of the final dungeon are terrible. Every battle is basically a boss fight and you can't run from them.
 
Lunar set me up. I've been playing without any grinding at all and have had no problems. I get to the Grindery and the first battle just beat me down. At first, I thought it was one of those unwinnable battles that you just need to fight the good fight. That Game Over screen was a huge disappointment. I went back a second time and it still kicked me in the rear.

I've got to find a place to grind but it throws a huge monkey wrench in the story.
 
[quote name='kainzero']i thought you could run from them, it just takes a long time.[/QUOTE]
Maybe. I didn't try for more than a few seconds since any other battle in the game, you're able to instantly run from once someone's gauge fills.

Doesn't really matter though, since I went back through the area just now and only ran into two battles. Both of them were a single red dragon which are pretty easy. And, I was able to beat the final boss somewhat easily. I think I'll wait awhile before going on to the After Years or anything though.
 
Resonance of Fate has to have the most generic, lifeless world I've ever witnesses in an RPG. The enemies don't even make sense.

It's worse than Oblivion.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']Resonance of Fate has to have the most generic, lifeless world I've ever witnesses in an RPG. The enemies don't even make sense.

It's worse than Oblivion.[/QUOTE]

This post started out making a ton of sense and then took a hard left turn into "huh?"
 
Oblivion felt like some tech demo for an unfinished MMO.

I have no qualms with the game itself, I just found the world incredibly depressing.
 
I just completed the normal ending in Ar Tonelico Qoga for
Saki
. I'm loving the game so much, I want to continue playing again trying to get the true ending. Rarely does a game do that to me.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']Oblivion felt like some tech demo for an unfinished MMO.

I have no qualms with the game itself, I just found the world incredibly depressing.[/QUOTE]

At the time it came out I thought it was the most beautiful game world ever done. Now that was 5 years ago and it's been surpassed since, but I still really like the game world. Granted it's pretty generic as fantasy settings goes, but I thought it fit the game well.
 
[quote name='bvharris']At the time it came out I thought it was the most beautiful game world ever done. Now that was 5 years ago and it's been surpassed since, but I still really like the game world. Granted it's pretty generic as fantasy settings goes, but I thought it fit the game well.[/QUOTE]

I played it for a bit after FFXI and WoW, so I never thought the world was up to par.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']WoW is gorgeous for a game of its age. Art direction ftw.[/QUOTE]

Most of my WoW buddies went from FFXI to WoW, and it was pretty much unanimous that FFXI looked better, and it's a 9 year old game.
 
lol, WoW does have good art direction, but holy hell does it look like shit. I guess that's what lets it run any pretty much any computer you can find though.
 
[quote name='ChibiJosh']Been playing FF4. I'm to the last boss basically, but the last few floors of the final dungeon are terrible. Every battle is basically a boss fight and you can't run from them.[/QUOTE]

What level are you? I was normally in the 60's at that point and was all doable.
 
Still trucking away with Grandia. About 70 hours in. Most people would've beaten it in that amount of time. I'm way over leveled
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']What level are you? I was normally in the 60's at that point and was all doable.[/QUOTE]
Low to mid-50s. The only things that really gave me problems were the one enemy that casts reflect on everything and whenever I ran into more than one enemy at a time.
 
I stopped playing Dragon Quest IX and started playing Advance Wars : days of ruin again. Which I haven't played since the December 30th flight home from Anchorage.
 
[quote name='Rodimus']Still trucking away with Grandia. About 70 hours in. Most people would've beaten it in that amount of time. I'm way over leveled[/QUOTE]

With that much time you definately are. The last boss isn't even that hard.
 
I'm early in Disc 2 in Magna Carta 2 and I died at a boss, now I have to redo at least 30 minutes of playing (dungeon, first boss, cutscene, second boss who killed me) because there was no save point before it. I hate that crap, there's just no reason not to place a save point right before a boss.
 
[quote name='Hell Monkey']Which boss is that?[/QUOTE]
Crazy Juto.
Total bullshit difficulty spike too, not only because he's way harder than the boss immediately before that, but the game sidelined two of the characters I was using in my main party, forcing me to use other characters that didn't have upgraded armor or weapons. He cut down my party before I even had my bearings.
 
I had problems with that one as well. He also has a toooon of health. I pretty much had to make sure my other party members stayed away from him, and just laid into him then ran away. Stay on top of your health. He is beatable it just takes a long time, and he is easily the hardest boss in the game.
 
Well that's nice to know that I don't just suck or something. :) And that it will be downhill from there. He laid into my party so quickly and thoroughly that I actually thought it might be one of those story battles that's impossible to win. That game over screen stung.

That was what I had to do with the fire spirit boss in Oldfox canyon, he killed everyone but Rue, but I was able to win the fight by just running up, hitting him a couple of times, and then running away again before he could hit back.

Do you have any idea if it makes him any weaker if I unequip all of Juto's stuff before the fight? I'm planning on taking off all of Juto and Zephie's stuff anyway and gearing up Rue, Crocell, and Celestine instead, so they can go in ready.
 
I don't think it does. I suggest Argo, Celestine and whomever you want.

Make sure to armor break him with Argo it will make it go a lot faster. You'll also want to make sure you are healed when you hit below 70% health, and any items to help reduce kan cost on Celes are a good idea.
 
Almost finished playing through FF6 again. Forgot how much I loved this game, easily my favorite FF game. I wish the newer games could draw me in like the older games in the series managed to do.
 
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