This would have been a classic if it weren't released on Xbox.
Sad
>>332664705
Shut the fuck up you retarded consolewar child
Sad
>>332664705
You're right.
>>332666319
>generic JRP that had good writing only specifically for the dream sequences that have no direct part of the actual game
Yeah. Sure
>>332664705
Fact. It was a great game. Too bad xboners can't appreciate it.
>>332666951
You're a fat nigger
>>332666884
Great story, good writing, enjoyable characters touching on a topic that games rarely cover. Combined with deceptively simple LoD-style combat.
Another victim of the plague that is exclusivity.
>>332667128
Yeah, you're giving it way too much credit. Decent attempt though
>>332667368
Y-yeah, you tell em!
>>332667797
Stay neo/v/ that overpraises something just because you're sour grapes. You literal underaged faggot
>>332664705
I liked it. Until the momentthree-sixty died while I was on the last disc.I'm still mad.
>>332664705
I actually think it kind has its status because it's on 360. It's the immediate go-to "I wish it was ported to X" game whenever someone mentions JRPGs on 360.
>>332666951
I hope it gets backwards compatibility one day.
Vesperia, too.
>>332664705
The last good jrpg
I stopped playing it around the part where you meet the kids and learn the truth or was it the part where the sea boss fight happens?
I can't fucking remember anymore, but I need to finish it one of these days.
>>332667947
>/v/eoGAF doesn't know what sour grapes means
>>332664705
In what way is it not a classic?
Because it is a classic.
360 emulation when?
No it would be like neir
Good Everything but shit gameplay so it's ignored
Let's hope that if Microsoft are transferring most of the 360 stuff to the bone, and most of the bone stuff to the 360, that they will also cross-port 360 backward compatiblity to Windows 10 as well, with this game included.
(Or the BC cracked like it was on the 360 a bit to include games that aren't on a whitelist of sorts)
Or, hope one day that 360 emulator gets up to scratch and is able to play this game. Blue Dragon too hopefully.
Maybe.
I mean, I love the music in this game, and the battle system is just barely alright (biggest complaint is that individual animations take too fucking long, bogging down each encounter), but it was so boring past the second disc, and the immortal thing was a dumb gimmick that had barely any impact on combat.
Takehiko Inoue's art is so good and recognizable.
>>332664705
Best JRPG of last gen imo, the true FFXIII.
Saying that there wasn't much competition last gen in general really.
>>332669116
>that had barely any impact on combat.
Endgame you can absorb every single element, can double-cast absolutely everything for 0 MP in the same turn, and there was a bunch of other stuff you could do like steal Tolten's strongest weapon for Kaim or Seth. Mortals could only do one small aspect of just one thing that an Immortal could do and it required an accessory to do it.
>>332664705
Maybe, but I'm glad it was on the box. At the time I was loving the 360 because of games like this and Infinite Undiscovery.
>>332664705
Not a fan of how they presented most of the story in writing only. Even though the writing was good it could have stood to be presented in a more flashy way. It was also a good representation of why brown and bloom is bad.
>>332669997
Yeah, the big RPGs are pretty dead now.
They hit the peak at the end of the 00s, and then cover shooters became the "in-thing", (especially since they could just copy paste a system, and then work on the graphical fidelity) and JRPGs got pushed to the side in the west, barring FF, Tales, Star Ocean, and niche Waifu RPGs.
They just don't pull in the big numbers anymore. In the PS1 days you had tons of RPGs because they could get away with making "good enough" graphics.
Mobile gaming in Japan changed so much there. We will never get a golden age from there ever again, since they don't want to try making RPGs anymore really.
Not when they can license IPs out to some shitty mobile developer, and port old shit, overpriced, and rake in that easy profit.
We only hope that mobile gaming becomes more sophisticated after a crash caused by people getting pissed off over shit quality and gimmicks. (which probably won't happen sadly).
Might bring them back to handhelds. Probably might make them wet their feet some more in the PC environment, and do something more indie.
It's too hard to tell what the fuck is going on in honesty. In the east and the west.
Let's hope its the DLCmageddon.
>>332669997
The last gen was a barren wasteland for JRPGs.
>classic
It was a boring, uninspired clone of FF.
>>332672303
in what way?
>>332672903
Combat is extremely repetitive, even for a turn-based game. Every fight in an area has to repeated the exact same way. World and characters are bland as can be, story is uninteresting. Music is good though.
>>332673275
i see, never played it but I kind of expected that since jrpg's have that issue
>>332673405
Games like DQ and BD don't have repetitive as fuck combat, and they're turn-based.
>>332673579
BD for me is very repetitive once you find the perfect setup, it's when you experiment with jobs at certain bosses where it's less repetitive
DQ, I dont know man I found it very repetitive with battles and bosses and no job system makes it even worse
>>332673579
couldn't stand playing any DQ for more than 3 hours.
>>332664705
It would've been a classic if it weren't for the fact at the exact time Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon was released - western game journalists decided that japanese RPGs had become stale and they wanted more mature games for mature gamers
>>332670907
I kinda hate those visual novel parts because they don't actually contribute anything to the story. Not even anything to Kaims personality. It's just fluff.
Nice fluff, but fluff.
>>332675248
Or maybe it just isn't as good as you think it is
There were better jrpgs last gen
>>332675494
It got mixed reviews. The complaints were that it was Final Fantasy. The praises were that it was Final Fantasy.
I love it because it pretty much is a Final Fantasy-game
>>332675494
like?
you better not fucking say Ni no Kuni
that game was shit
>>332675721
It's more FF than FFXIII. That's for sure.
>>332675494
also, those better JRPGs got blasted by game journos as well. I personally think Tales of Vesperia is a 9/10 or 10/10 - in reviews it got like 6/10 max
>>332675721
It had pacing issues and the combat was a chore
Rest was amazing to fantastic
>>332675797
Resonance of Fate
>>332675845
Actually FFXIII actually innovates and does new things in full FF style instead of being derivative and old-fashioned
>>332675865
Tales of Vesperia was my GOTY 2008
Absolutely a 10/10
Judy best girl, Troy Baker is a god
>>332675865
hell no, vesperia is pretty average
the tales are failures of action rpgs
>>332676245
>Resonance of Fate
dude, that game seemed complicated as hell until I played the coliseum or whatever it was then it was repetitive as fuck and wasnt fun
story was SoL a bit which was cool tho
>>332676259
>vesperia is pretty average
nigga
>>332676540
hold up fool
that combat felt very clumsy and end game is still felt clumsy even with many artes at the end of the game
Yuri is cool and all but I wouldnt call the game amazing and if this is the best of the series, then i cant imagine how bad symphonia's gameplay is
>>332664705
It's a classic in spite of being on xbox
>>332676796
symphonia's gameplay is very rubbish like holy shit it sucks
only Kratos and Lloyd were fun to play as and i miss free run
>>332676440
I loved it
Resonance is awesome with the running around like crazy, all that positioning and Leanne being a cute girl shooting everything
Nolan North is also pretty fucking awesome
https://youtu.be/KNxQbd-iFpw
>>332664705
The hell? That's some of takehiko inoue's art, isn't it? Is that why he put Vagabond on indefinite hiatus?
>>332664705
Jansen was great, pity his VA didn't much else in vidya
>>332677556
>>332677556
look all that gameplay
>>332667128
The characters were actually horrible except for Jensen.
I've tried to play this multiple times and give up after a few hours.
The only good writing is the short story dream sequence things and for a lengthy party based RPG, this is important.
>>332676928
The other characters get more fun to play and have longer combos with the right exsphere skills.
>>332664705
Fantastic game on the magic staff in disc 4, I should force myself to finish it. Roar of the departed souls is pretty fucking awesome.
>>332678946
It's called plot
>>332664864
The truth is the truth, has nothing to do with console wars
Sad