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Jr

#1 August 15, 2009, 07:38:34 am

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Recently I'v been getting alot of free time I have no school for like at least a month and all I have to do is go to work for like 7 hours four times a week.In this time Ive beaten many JRPG's and am having a hard decision on wich I should play next.Could somone recommend me one with atleast decent game play and a good story/likable characters.I have access to practically everything except for a 360,DS and Wii.

These are some of the games I beat on the holiday so don't recommend them:
Star Ocean second evolution (Ive beaten First Departure to by the way)
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VIII
whole compilation of Final Fantasy VII(thats right I have no life aside from basketball and hanging out with my friends I'm playing video games)
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy IV

I tried Chrono Cross and finished like a whole 5 hours without saving so I'm gonna come back to that later to pissed off to play it now.

thats it please recommend me some JRPG's and maybe give me some where you actually need to use strategy.Don't recommend me any Western RPG's can't stand those.

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Pipcaptor Hatsuya

#2 August 15, 2009, 07:58:45 am

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Persona 3 & 4! Though with some touches of a dating sim / epic dungeon crawling parts, and of course with memorable modern-sounding music.

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Jr

#3 August 15, 2009, 08:03:14 am

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Not A huge fan of dark stories but I really like Shin Megami Tensei DDS might check them out after I finish 1 and 2.

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#4 August 15, 2009, 08:10:57 am

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So you're more on a cliche, shallowly-grim-to-rainbow happy stories eh? Go for Dark Cloud games, and/or even on GBA Summon Night titles.

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Jr

#5 August 15, 2009, 08:17:40 am

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I only meant stories that have futuristic or modern day settings.I prefer the fantasy style more.

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Verne

#6 August 15, 2009, 01:03:52 pm

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The Last Remnant perhaps? It's new and available for PC so... you know... ;)

It's also rather hard than your average JRPG (you will get game overs frequently) and there's shittons of customization from fighting styles to weapons and strategy is through the roof with different sizes of "unions" (party members consist of 1 to 5 individual units) and formations, not to mention you have to keep stuff like flanking and back-attacking or even morale in the mind if you wish to succeed!

The story is ok, nothing amazing and the story telling is rather odd at times but it's there and works well. You also got lots of side quests to do if you want to take break from the main quest.

Last Edit: August 15, 2009, 01:07:14 pm by Verne

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#7 August 15, 2009, 01:04:55 pm

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I suggest FFXII, I played a bunch of that in the last month or so. Didn't think I'd like it but it is about 50 thousand zillion % better than any other FF game.

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#8 August 15, 2009, 03:27:58 pm

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Final Fantasy 5
Dragon Quest 5
Romancing SaGa

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Хорошая работа для для того чтобы потерять ваше время путем перенести этот никудышный блок текста в английском.

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DDay

#9 August 15, 2009, 06:07:49 pm

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I think you played all the Disgaea Games (or most games by nippon ichi) Judging by your Avy. But let me Recommend one of the best game they made witch is Makai Kingdom.

Last Edit: August 15, 2009, 06:53:36 pm by DDay

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#10 August 15, 2009, 06:37:29 pm

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Lunar: Silver Star Story is about as J-RPG as it gets. You've got every single trope right there, plus anime cutscenes and hilarious voice acting. Really fun game.

keep posting...

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#11 August 15, 2009, 07:32:40 pm

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Xenogears, Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3, Terranigma, Vagrant Story, ActRaiser, Final Fantasy X, Breath of Fire II III and IV, Earthbound, Tales of Phantasia, Suikoden and Alundra. Have fun.

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Jr

#12 August 15, 2009, 10:00:07 pm

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YEAH! I own Makai Kingdom and it's far from the best they made it's pretty much the worst.I have played nearly all of nippon ichi's games except Disgaea 3 (which in my opinion look's like the worst one)Yeah I have played his two other games 'La Pucelle tactics and Phantom Brave' La Pucelles boring as hell

and I got pretty far in Phantom Brave and accidentally deleted my loaded game.Yeah last remnant look's really good but everything in my system requirements are high enough except for then ram.

DAMMIT!

EDIT:Getting the benchmark test now to see how it will run on my PC there's still hope!

Last Edit: August 15, 2009, 10:08:55 pm by Jr

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#13 August 15, 2009, 10:30:28 pm

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Quote from: Jr on August 15, 2009, 10:00:07 pm

YEAH! I own Makai Kingdom and it's far from the best they made it's pretty much the worst.I have played nearly all of nippon ichi's games except Disgaea 3 (which in my opinion look's like the worst one)Yeah I have played his two other games 'La Pucelle tactics and Phantom Brave' La Pucelles boring as hell and I got pretty far in Phantom Brave and accidentally deleted my loaded game.Yeah last remnant look's really good but everything in my system requirements are high enough except for then ram. DAMMIT!

It was one of the better one to me. since it has so many things you can customize, it had Vehicles, buildings. and I like that they used radius circles to move around. Also the fact that the summoning spot was mobile was also a cool twist to the game play and compared to the last 2 Disgaea's the story wasn’t too bad either. I pray that they make sequel.

As for Disgaea 3 story wise yes it's just as bad as 2 but theres more customizing and littie bit more refined. so I still enjoyed it.

Phantom Brave was tolerable.

'La Pucelle tactics (was boring and some how I mange to stick it out to beat it.)

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Jr

#14 August 16, 2009, 01:05:20 am

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Got the Benchmark test but it just freezes every time I try it. I have 1gb ram would that give me at least decent speed if I play on really low resolution.Also is Last Remnant turn based or action RPG, because I love the turn based.Are any of the 'tales of' games good.Abyss looks really good as does Tales of Destiny the only one that I have beaten is Phantasia.

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#15 August 16, 2009, 01:12:52 am

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Quote from: Jr on August 16, 2009, 01:05:20 am

Got the Benchmark test but it just freezes every time I try it. I have 1gb ram would that give me at least decent speed if I play on really low resolution.Also is Last Remnant turn based or action RPG, because I love the turn based.Are any of the 'tales of' games good.Abyss looks really good as does Tales of Destiny the only one that I have beaten is Phantasia.

I suppose 1 GB would work with low quality textures. It's not really a huge power hog and actually knows how to use multi-core processors. And yes, it is turn-based.