jarpeegees you beat

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What I finished.

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (it’s a japanese vidcon)
Breath Of Fire 1, 2
Castlevania SotN, AoS, DoS, LotI, HoD
Chrono Trigger (why did I finished this game and dropped better ones)
Devil Survivor 2
Digital Devil Saga 1, 2
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Illusion Of Gaia
Live-A-Live
Megaman Battle Network 1
Mother 1, 2 (the ending made me cry), 3
One Way Heroic
Pokemon Diamond (only finished Jotho, thank you haunter), FireRed, Black
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorer of Time
Persona 1, 2 (just IS), 3PES, 4
Radiata Stories
Rance 1
Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
Soul Blazer
Super Robot Taisen: Original, J
Sweet Home (saw ending on the webs I forgot the dead baby and saved the state on the last boss)
The World Ends With You
Terranigma
Wild Arms 2 (I don’t rebember shit, too easy)
Ys 1, 2, Felghana, Dawn Of Ys, 6

What I dropped. (not becuse they are bad but becuse I’m a slacker)

Breath Of Fire 3 (for now)
Castlevania PoR, OoE, CotM.
Devil Survivor 1
Dragn Quest 8 (change the damn world music for fuck’s sake)
Front Mission 3, 5
Medabot Metabee Ver.
Megaman Battle Network 2, 3
Nekketsu Tairiku Burning Heroes (heavy armor loli mage ftw)
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment (I’m an idiot)
Pokemon B2, Emerald, Platinum (grinding for the Elite 4 is boring)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (fucking Articuno)
Riviera
Rudra No Hihou
Shining Force
Super Robot Taisen Alpha Gaiden
Tales Of Phantasia
Ys 4 Mask Of The Sun (it’s pretty bland), 5

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Better RPGs than CT? Such as?

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At one point in my life about 10 years ago I had nothing to do and nothing to hope for, and just wanted to live like a hermit. I did nothing but play RPGs for two years and never stopped. Like all the time. All of these AGTP translation patches.

I reget nothing. It was nice. I have become a regular person since then, but with a lot of respect for total deviancy.

Anyway I’ve beaten like 200 RPGs. Not even kidding. I cannot possibly list them all. I know way too much about RPGs. I have… Seen things. I have even finished Magna Carta Tears of Blood, the nadir of the genre.

I could be a Barkley NPC.

I don’t really see RPGs as shallow comfort food? There is something very enjoyable about rushing through them with lower numbers than expected, finding the flaws to exploit through experimentation.

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that’s a not-insignificant part of why I will always love saga frontier (apart from general kawazu weirdness); that each of the seven characters campaigns is like ~4 hours long is really quite pleasant

also the entire game feels like it barely hangs together through a series of checkpoints and broken dialogs

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JRPGs are probably my favorite genre, though usually moreso from what I can put in to them than for what they intentionally bring me. If that makes sense. Lots of feelings about pacing, moment-to-moment decisions and events, pleasing UI design, and how the time it takes to beat a boss is sometimes necessarily long, since it serves as a sort of metaphor for character struggle, even if it’s not especially difficult.

Last time I played Earthbound I thought a lot about how the first “boss” is handled by Buzz Buzz because Ness is too weak, and then the next boss fight is actually Ness taking on two bosses in a row, one being a tank.

Numbers can tell an interesting story.

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Most of this is just going to be me battling with my memory.

Final Fantasy I (emulated), II (emulated), III (emulated), IV, V (emulated), VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, X-2, XII (emulated), Mystic Quest
Final Fantasy Tactics
Chrono Trigger
Breath of Fire I, II, III, IV, Dragon Quarter (emulated)
Persona I, Persona II Innocent Sin (emulated), Persona II Eternal Punishment, Persona 3, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 3 FES, Persona 4
Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne
Radiant Historia
Vagrant Story
The Legend of Dragoon
Front Mission III
Lufia I, Lufia II
Shining Force I, II, III (chapters emulated), Sword of Hayja
Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold
Warsong, Langrisser II (emulated), Der Langrisser (emulated), Langrisser III - V (all emulated)
Terranigma (emulated)
Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia (even beat the secret boss)
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, Tactics Ogre, Ogre Battle 64
Earthbound, Earthbound 0 (emulated), Mother 3 (emulated)
Yggdra Union (emulated)
Valkyrie Profile I, Valkyrie Profile II (emulated)
Dragon Force I, Dragon Force II (emulated)
Princess Crown (emulated)
Rudra no Hihou (emulated)
Tales of Phantasia, Eternia (Destiny 2 on PSX), Tales of Symphonia
Dragon Warrior I, II
Beaten a few of the yS games but genuinely can’t remember which ones.
Lunar Silver Star Story, Lunar Eternal Blue
Riviera The Promised Land
Wild Arms I, II
The World Ends With You
Dragon’s Dogma, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen
Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls I, Dark Souls I PtDE, Dark Souls II, Dark Souls II SotFS, Bloodborne
Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Harmony of Dissonance
Live-A-Live
Romancing SaGa I-III (all emulated, many of which were incomplete translations at the time)
Xenogears
Super Mario RPG
SaGa Frontier I, II
Skies of Arcadia
Secret of Mana II (aka Secret of Mana SNES), III (emulated), Legend of Mana
Parasite Eve I, II
Star Ocean II, Star Ocean (emulated)
Grandia I, II
Robotrek
Shiren The Wanderer (never actually beat but I’m going to say I put in enough time)
Phantasy Star Online, Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst
EVO Search for Eden
Nier
Magna Carta (technically kRPG)
Barkley (counts I guess?)
Fire Emblem Sacred Stones

Stuff I haven’t finished (and probably won’t)
FFXIII, FFXIII-2, FFXIII Lightning Returns (these are just bad)
Suikoden 1-5 (never got into them, tried really hard, just always found myself getting bored)
Chrono Cross (got to the end of it, left at some point and never came back)
Bravely Default (meh)
Dragon Quest VIII (emulated - also meh)
Disgaea (emulated - was mildly amusing but battles took so long)
Makai Kingdom (see Disgaea)
Phantom Brave (see Disgaea)
.hack series (played almost every game in this series but never made it very far - didn’t grab me)
Xenosaga (played every game in this series and boy oh boy is it boring)
Quest 64 (rented once, didn’t care much for it)
Phantasy Star series (most of it was not visually appealing enough, even when I was playing them in their era)
Magna Carta II, Magna Carta remixes (most of these were just really, really bad)
Golden Sun series (meh)
Brave Fencer Musashi (meh)
Fire Emblem series (feel like I’ve played at least some portion of these and rarely if ever came back to any of them)
Luminous Arc (meh)
Valkyria Chronicles (not feeling it)
Tales of Zestiria (anime-est of games I’ve played in a long time)

I think the only traditional jRPG I played last year was Zestiria (for a total of 53 minutes). Welp, this list is long. I played most of these as a kid. Part of the reason I completed so many I think is because a good 90% of these came from Blockbuster, and thus I felt I just had to blaze through them, believing that I might not get another chance to play them (which in many cases, was true, at least when I was a kid).

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Persona 2 Eternal Punishment, Megaman Battle Network 2, SRW Alpha Gaiden, maybe Rudra no Hihou and Shin Megami Tensei 2 that i forgot to add.
But CT isn’t bad, it’s just not my style, aestheticaly I didn’t find it attractive. The game is pretty fluid that’s why it was easy to finish, breath of fire 3 would be a great deal better if it didn’t have the damn fetch quest cutting the history.

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I think Gamesharking through FFIX over couple days during a highschool summer is the best time I have ever had with one of these videogames.

I think the built-in overleveling functions of the recent FF7 ports are an enlightened step in the right direction. Take it a step further and allow disabling all random battles. Give full player agency over the slider from Menu Trudge <-> Asset Dispenser.

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You mean Bravely Default?

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Still have to deal with the consequences of exp in that. If they wanted to Get Real, should have auto-leveled in the background once you fliped the switch.

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I approve of this approach for remasters of old school games. It would be nice if they applied something similar to, say the old Wizardries (I know i’ll never have the patience to play them otherwise) but for new games, they should design them with good pacing to begin with.

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Pretty sure 9s next release let’s you turn off battles.

I wish these guys respected my time more…

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pokemon gold in 1999/2000
pokemon ruby in 2003
barkley: shut up and jam gaiden in 20XX
space funeral in 2016

…yea
pokemon is the only JRPG series that has ever managed to hold my attention. it’s a combination of childhood hooks and a certain kind of innocent charm. it doesn’t ever pretend to be more than it is. unfortunately i suspect that removed from the curved-plastic-and-color-screen context of my childhood, the games would fail to hook me nowadays. but who knows! actually holding the game in your hand like an honest-to-goodness toy was a large part of the experience.

for other JRPGs they’re the sort of games that I mentally pass over every time I see their names mentioned. I just know, 'this game is -that type of game- and it won’t be for me.'
i played like 20 minutes of earthbound, 2 hours of undertale, 10 minutes of ff4, a couple hours of chrono trigger, etc.
i feel like including bioware games etc is against the spirit of the thing. recently i’ve been playing a lot of pervy games written in RPG Maker but i don’t think that counts either.

I think that for me, trying to push through tough enemies while underleveled and refusing to grind would be the entire draw.

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Coming of age. Going on a journey. Finding comrades. Gaining experience. Growing. The idea that, with enough time and patience, any obstacle can be overcome. You can be the hero.

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I finished Mother/EB0 but never saw what all the fuss was about and just stopped right there. Mother 3 is definitely on my “to ROM” list though.

Here is my soul:

Final Fantasy 7/8/10 (so many times jesus)
Phantasy Star Online
Mother/Earthbound 0 (emulated)
Shin Megami Tensei (emulated)
Final Fantasy 3 DS
Kingdom Hearts (oh god)

Probably don’t count:

Harvest Moon 64
Demons Souls
Monster Hunter Tri
Shiren

I tend to replay the same games when I know the mechanics well enough to exploit them. This is where all my jarpeegee enjoyment comes from.

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i mean, outside of a handful of cool things (the final boss, the forgotten man, the music) it’s pretty easily the least interesting game in the series.

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I forgot about the forgotten man! This game now has new levels of profundity.

Seeing the screenshot of the Duncan Factory posted in the Mother 3 thread did bring back some good memories. I seem to get a kick out of perversely complex dungeons.

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I was looking for threads about SaGa games…instead this one activated a degenerate list itch. And now it is a lich.

~fin-ed~

7th Saga
The first 3 .hacks I think
Alundra
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (thanks SquareEnixGoya!)
Brave Fencer Musashi
Breath Of Fire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Castlevania SotN, AoS, DoS, LoI
Chrono Trigger, Cross
Crystalis
Dragon Warrior 1, 3, 8, 9
Faria: A World of Danger and Mystery
FF 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, Tactics
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
FF Legend (I think 1 and 3)
Grandia 1, 2 (3 if it hadn’t felt so so so generic)
Illusion Of Gaia
Kingdom Hearts 1, 2
Legend of Dragoon
Legend of Mana
Lufia 1
Lunar 1, 2, Sega CD + PSX
The Magic of Scheherazade
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Mother 1, 2, 3
Nier
Parasite Eve 1, 2
Pokemon Blue
Persona 3, FES, 4
Secret of Evermore
Secret of Mana
Secret of the Stars
Shadow Hearts 1, 2, 3
Skies of Arcadia
SMRPG: Yadda Yadda Stars
SMT: Nocturne
SMT: Strange Journey
Spike McFang
Star Ocean: The 2nd Story
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Suikoden
Sweet Home
Tales of Destiny
Vagrant Story
Wild Arms 1, 3
Willow
Xenoblade: Chronicles
Xenosaga 1, 2, 3
Ys III (SNES)
Zenogais

Forgetting a handful or few, maybe another 15-20 unfinished. Italicized some that have been fairly replayed.

Now trying to estimate the hours from all that…nope :astonished:

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guys is lost odyssey still worth playing???

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Eh, play the first ten minutes and then look up the short fiction on the internet?

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