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It's been two years (two years!) since we had a new one of these, so let's do it.

2015 was a pretty good year for RPGs! Fallout 4 came out, and so did Xenoblade Chronicles X, Pillars of Eternity, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC, Undertale, and a handful of other quality games.

2016's looking to be pretty good so far, too. Maybe some more Kickstarted games will finally come out (looking at you Barkley 2 and Cosmic Star Heroine). Maybe Final Fantasy XV will finally come out, too. There's also the next Tales, the next Bravely, the next XCOM, that Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi crossover, and the long-awaited 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII.

But, let's not kid ourselves. We'll halt our progress on any and all of these games once this lands:

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In the meantime, I'll be over here working on my backlog :razz:
 
Happy New Year, everyone!
 
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I really hope P5 comes out this year and doesn't disappoint. The other big RPG I'm really looking forward to is SMTxFE. I've watched a few videos of the Japanese version and it kinda has that Persona vibe to it.

I have a pretty sizable backlog of RPGs I want to get thru in 2015 already, not including the stuff that's not even out yet. I just bought Suikoden 3 on the PSN sale the other day, I've barely scratched the surface of Xenoblade Chronicles X, and a buddy of mine wouldn't stop pestering me until I purchased the first LoH: Trails in the Sky FC and start that series. I guess I'll just have to quit my job so I can finish everything.

 
I just don't get some of the vitriolic hatred I've seen online for the SMTxFE game, especially since it released in Japan a week ago and sales weren't equal to a Fallout or GTA game. I thought it sold relatively well for a Wii U-exclusive niche game, ~24k. I get it that they are butt-hurt because its not traditional fantasy with Marth and Roy summoning demons, but it looks to me like its a pretty solid RPG. I hope Nintendo and Atlus give it a better title when it releases in the west, because SMTxFE is weak (and somewhat misleading) and its Japanese title Genei Ibun Roku #FE roughly translates to Illusionary Revelations #FE and is equally bad.

 
I'm waiting on Dragon's Dogma this month. Bravely Second I might have to pass. On a 20 hour save of the first game and I'm still not feeling it. Even this far in and Ringabel is still a broken record womanizer, Tiz remains your insertable 'nice guy,' Agnes's VA is horrific, and Edea has given the same self-righteous speech about 6 or so times now. Villains might as well be straight from a power rangers episode, and cutscenes are literally just chibi models standing in a row.

The speed and difficulty configurations do help scratch any itch to grind, but that's essentially just a more efficient way to be boring. Then even fans of the game tell me the latter half is a copy/pasted and grind heavy rendition of the first half, which is the opposite of motivating.

 
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panzerfaust said:
I'm waiting on Dragon's Dogma this month. Bravely Second I might have to pass. On a 20 hour save of the first game and I'm still not feeling it. Even this far in and Ringabel is still a broken record womanizer, Tiz remains your insertable 'nice guy,' Agnes's VA is horrific, and Edea has given the same self-righteous speech about 6 or so times now. Villains might as well be straight from a power rangers episode, and cutscenes are literally just chibi models standing in a row.

The speed and difficulty configurations do help scratch any itch to grind, but that's essentially just a more efficient way to be boring. Then even fans of the game tell me the latter half is a copy/pasted and grind heavy rendition of the first half, which is the opposite of motivating.
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I though futzing around with job combinations was the best part of BD, everything else was secondary*.

*except the soundtrack, which was the extra-best part

 
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Aye it should of just been a pure dungeon crawler or something without all the extra nonsense.

Maybe I should look to Etrian Odyssey for that sort of thing.

 
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Torment:Tides of Numenera will crush all RPGs this year.
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One can hope. I briefly played the alpha systems test and movement bugged the hell out of me. With the beta coming up in a couple weeks, I guess I'll see how it's improved.

Why the hell are there so many games releasing within a week or two of each other still? Damnit, I don't have enough time for this shit. Didn't even realize that XCOM 2 was releasing so soon.

 
some hours into dragons dogma, finishing up the Granas area quests before advancing the main story. 

this game has great feel more than anything else. no dodge roll (at least for Fighter class) or targeting system, yet it plays well. weapon swing animations are both fast and heavy and special moves are mean looking. besides that it plays like a more linear skyrim and i am enjoying it.

 
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For real though Dragon's Dogma is pretty fun but I'm having a hard time getting a good flow because I alt-tab out every 15 minutes to complain to Indignate about the UI, the map, the journal, the save system...

 
Menus and inventory management are pretty bad, yeah. I'm also constantly over encumbered and I routinely dump everything at Inn storage so it's sort of ridiculous how I can't get through one quest without weight issues. 

Traversing the world is really cool but also a huge pain. I don't feel encouraged to explore off paths because I know there's a quest somewhere that will send me that way eventually anyway. Since there's no fast travel I'd rather not have to walk somewhere twice. 

I'm facing the griffin and the distance this quest has you travel is absurd. There are two halves of the fight. You wound it and then it starts to fly away, and the city guard you're fighting with starts shouting that "we need to chase it!" to some tower. So I'm sprinting with this platoon of guards (half of which are bugging out and attacking rock formations), and instead of taking me to the tower, they lead me all the way to City and just disappear into the doorway. I enter in behind them and they're gone. I check the map and the marker is some place way off. I thought I broke the quest or something.

But it really is that far away. Took me over 30 minutes to walk there, listening to my pawns constantly say "not far from here!" Janky fucking game.

 
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There is actually way too much fast travel in this game now that it's kind of broken.

Like, you don't have to worry about shit it's just like "nighttime? I'll fast travel home no big deal lolz" or "hey an escort? let me go first, put down a port crystal cuz they give you 26 of these now, and I'll just fast travel the escort here cuz i'm crotch lolz"

 
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I feel like half my Steam buddies are playing the new Dragon's Dogma right now, including some of you all :razz:

Meanwhile, I'm getting near the end of SMT: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers. A certain boss' second form keeps kicking my ass, but I think I've figured out a strategy now. Hoping to have it beaten sometime today. Can't say it's the best handheld MegaTen I've played (that's Strange Journey), but it's all right for a port of a 15+ year old Saturn game.

Also played through Gurumin and beat it about a week ago. It was decent.

 
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Nope, sorry; it just doesn't look like my kind of thing :razz:

Boss still kicking my ass. Went to grind for a bit, so hopefully I'm in better shape now. Will try again tomorrow.

 
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Yeah, janky as hell. Was a fun time waster though. Ended the story as a Warrior and just trucked through everything.

The story almost became interesting but wow man that dialogue. 

 
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Been here for years and never ventured out of the deals or trades forums. Nice to see a good rpg thread. I have been an Xbox guy since the original xbox and finally bought a Ps3 a while back and recently a Wii u as well, so I could catch all the great Rpgs I have missed out on. Now I need some help figuring out which to play 1st. I recently finished Alchemist of Arland Escah and Logy and am currently finishing Valkryie Chronicles but after that I cant decide. Right now I have both the new Final Fantasy X-2 and Kingdom Hearts remasters as well Tales of Graces f, Tales of Xillia 1 and 2, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles and the last Arland of the Dusk Sea trilogy. Then on the Wii u I have Zelda Skyward Sword and probably the one Im leaning towards most Xenoblade Chronicles x. Its just an overload I have too many good games I have never played so give me a nudge please lol. Thanks for any advice.

 
Xenoblade CX is a huge time-sink so be prepared for that, but it is a fun time-sink. I found Tales of Graces f better than the two Xillia games, but Symphonia 1 is probably my favorite of the 'Tales of' series of games.  Personally, I've gotten kinda burned out by the series and haven't even touched the new one (Zesteria).  I would recommend you spacing these games out a bit and not trying to do similar ones all back-to-back to avoid getting burned out yourself.

Keep an eye out for Resonance of Fate (PS3). One of my favorite RPGs on the console.

I spent a lot of my snow day getting near the end of P4G (December). Having trouble catching the Sea Guardian, ugh...

 
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Xenoblade CX is a huge time-sink so be prepared for that, but it is a fun time-sink. I found Tales of Graces f better than the two Xillia games, but Symphonia 1 is probably my favorite of the 'Tales of' series of games. Personally, I've gotten kinda burned out by the series and haven't even touched the new one (Zesteria). I would recommend you spacing these games out a bit and not trying to do similar ones all back-to-back to avoid getting burned out yourself.

Keep an eye out for Resonance of Fate (PS3). One of my favorite RPGs on the console.

I spent a lot of my snow day getting near the end of P4G (December). Having trouble catching the Sea Guardian, ugh...
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Actually played that for awhile then Witcher 3 came out and i never went back to it. I do need to revisit that and that would just leave Eternal Sonata as the only ones I havent played on 360.

 
in hindsight, the fact i gave up on Witcher 3 after several months and then beat Dragon's Dogma within a week worries me. my tastes have taken a dark turn.

 
Beat Soul Hackers last week-- turned out the boss who gave me trouble was the last one. Gotta love MegaTen and its ridiculous final bosses...

...and I finally started playing Bravely Default yesterday :razz: It's decent so far; reminds me a lot of old school Final Fantasy, which I guess is the point. I do wish all the StreetPass/online stuff was more in the background, though, more like TWEWY.
 
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So glad that pawn dialogue can be completely disabled on the PC version. Also disappointed that Crotch's pawn still isn't on my pawn list and I'm stuck with 2 terribly built mages and a decent sorcerer. I'd still like to find a game similar to this that has a good magic system as that's usually my bread and butter. The spells felt good and powerful, but I'm not much of a fan of the skill and cast system.

Played a little Torment a few days ago. The first area is exactly the same un-optimized mess and the movement still bugs the hell out of me. After that first room, it's decent and it definitely has plenty of dialogue as well as skill checks. Didn't really play much, nor do I plan to until it releases. I think it's going up for non-backer Early Access on Steam today.

 
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Kinda sad the last expansion for Witcher is coming out late first half of the year now. Since I took a break from Witcher my plan was to go back and play the game through with all the expansions installed. Guess I got to wait now. Not that I don't have enough to play, it's just been wanting to get back into Witcher.

 
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