#but I actually like really rpgs

[ellenent]

@katana-no-neko okay let me rant for a bit on Octopath Traveler lol

It is not that I totally dislike it, or else I guess I wouldn't have played for 90 hours or so...but I really like JRPGS, so maybe I just don't know when to quit lol But there are a lot of things I didn't like about it. The story, for example: the idea of 8 characters with different stories that would meet and go on adventuring together was really promising, but I don't think it worked well. I expected them to connect with each other or at least have an influence, but no, they just would make some random commentary on each other's story that felt really hollow. Some part of the story also didn't make sense for 8 people being together lol like when they throw someone at a hole, I was like there is no way 8 people (or 4 because of the party) are in there at the same time. The story totally ignores the other characters are there. I was like, is there really a reason for those 8 people to travel together? I don't think so.

Also, not all the stories are good. Some are boring, some are good, some are awful (I'm looking at you Tressa). I think just two felt great, the others were just...there. Several times I questioned myself if the story of the game was just that, since I saw that we had some things unanswered. Some of the side quests were pretty weird too, it was hard to find them and some were like "oh you want me to beat the shit off this person? sure!" because the ability of Olberic was that lol so yeah weird solutions for some problems

The gameplay itself, I had mixed feelings. I like turn based RPGs, but I don't like random encounters. At some point, I was so tired of battling every time I needed just to go somewhere. I think I used an item or something that avoided the monsters, but I don't remember that well anymore, they don't come at the beginning of the game (or at least I didn't find a way to avoid them) The bosses were great, I remember finding them the right amount of difficulty, they were challenging and not that easy. Even if I couldn't beat them, I could grind to level up, and after playing TriStrat, I feel it works best just making the player come up with a good strategy? It feels more rewarding than making a battle so hard you need to level up 5 levels above the recommending level. But the battle system is great, I liked the classes, the abilities, and all.

I tried for 100% of this game and oh boy it was a mistake lol I finished all the eight stories and needed to go after the side quests I missed, so I used a guide to find them. And I was actually surprised to find out the true ending of the game was locked behind a side quest? lol And it felt so...out of nowhere. It was not just one side quest that needed to be done, and they didn't feel like it was important? Anyway, when I got to the Gate of Finis part I was like "I'm sure we can leave this place if needed, right?" Wrong lol I know the game let you know of this, but I had no idea how bad things were there. So if you regret it, there is no way you can leave to buy better equipment or grind more levels You have to fight a harder version of all the bosses you already fought, and it was fun for me (I like boss rushes too). And finally things were connecting! But not what I was expecting to connect, so It was at least surprising. Anyway, each battle took a long time to finish, like 30 minutes for each fight, and that felt kinda bad because I was already tired of this game lol and you couldn't save between battles or anything, so that sucks. You can't close the game, so you must play that part for hours and hours (at least I played the Switch version and you can turn off without closing the game, but still sucks if you want to play something else)

But Galdera was the worst ✨it was so ridiculous hard, it never ended, I was so tired...when I thought I had won the battle (after like 4 hours of trying) they go "oh actually that was phase 1!! Now we're going to phase 2 :)" I had to look it up how to defeat this bitch, but even the guides said "you know maybe this is not worth it". Since I couldn't buy stuff for the characters no more, It felt so frustrating!! I was really close to the true ending but Squre Enix said haha nope it's going to be so hard for nothing yay I know people can beat those bosses in less time, but that would require me to go and grind more and at that part I was just so tired So these were the stuff that didn't work out for me. It's not the worst RPG I played, but sure it's not even close to what I felt like playing TriStrat. When the story of Octopath failed me, Triangle Strategy did excellently; when the battle system tired me on Octopath, in Triangle actually felt great! I don't want to compare more the two since they are pretty different lol

Now, I know Octopath Traveler 2 is a thing. I might give it a chance if they manage to fix the mistakes from the first one, but right now I feel well-fed with Triangle Strategy c:

#also I have some friends that really liked Octopath so I was kinda like “maybe I'm picky lol” #but I actually like really rpgs #even so they are repetitive and boring at some parts #that's just my opinion btw #I'm so glad people enjoyed it more than me #and I still want to play more from Square Enix so yeah #Triangle Strategy was amazing so I still want to play their games #if you ask my opinion on a game I will deliver an essay sorry lol

[spelldealer]

they really like putting these guys ⬇️ into situations

#i really love how this series feels like a game of dnd #in almost every aspect #the fight scenes feel turn based almost #and the encounters the main party faces really feels like stuff out of a long running campaign #it’s goes way beyond just the fantasy rpg aesthetic and actually incorporates ttrpg ideas into like #every facet of itself #dungeon meshi

[askblueandviolet]

Mayor, have you considered getting Genshin Impact? Might help.

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#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk mayor #monkie kid mayor #idk if any of you even remember but Aigou is canonically a gamer #if this dude didn't work in City Hall then he would be at his PC playing overwatch and stuff like that #either way Mayor would very much prefer to spend their time playing Mario Kart if they really had to play a video game #a better coping mechanism would be going on a hunt #thats their opinion at least #they have no intrest in playing an open world RPG gacha game #is Genshin Impact actually a open world game? I have no idea #I don't play it #blue and violet

[dooxliss]

Geno 1c? -🌕 (moonknightproductions)

ask meme

what coming down from star road does to a ♡♪!? mf

#lakimusings #gari answers #hehe mario #gari draws #art meme #ask meme #geno #nintendo #super mario #super mario bros #super mario rpg #♡♪!? #i severely doubt that’s a tag people look for geno in #mutual chatter #ty for sending moon 🩵 #ive never actually drawn geno before but he’s cool so i was looking forward to it! #do people ship in anything besides genario? #thats really the only thing i’ve seen but who knows #also like ik theres no pupils in the expression but it looked weird without any so #but geno is so cool i cant wait to play smrpg

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Question about Frank! What is his fighting style? I know you mentioned he does hand on hand, but does he do any specific form of martial arts?? Or is it just kind of the basic, punching, kicking, ect. Also, does he have some form of magic, or is he basically like Howdy? (I'm just imagining they all play like.. actual table top DnD and Frank is getting irritated because his rolls are garbage-)

i'm not nearly well versed enough in martial arts to name styles or blend them - though i feel a "i need to know everything i can about this" fixation creeping up... so i might be able to provide a better answer later!

but for now lets just say he's adapted his own stylized form, blended from his childhood training, what he learns on the streets, and what he picks up on his travels / figures out himself. i imagine it would be an efficient, ruthless, and elegant personal style of combat

Frank has no magic! if he rolled for it he'd somehow get a 0! he and Howdy are the only magicless maidens of the group

#& man. i really want to make it a dnd au #but i simply dont know enough about dnd to be able to Accurately do that! #and also: i dont like restrictions and rules #but it's so funny to imagine the neighborhood gathered in front of home with sally dm-ing #or home is the dm. how would that work #wally helps i suppose... resets the dice so home can roll it with their front door #but unfortunately my knowledge and understanding is Limited #it would be in the style of the dnd movie - where its seamless & theyre not actually rolling or anything #but i dont know the spells! i dont know the lore! the monsters! #ok unless i do Another sit-down-and-crunch-learn-everything-dnd #....thats doable. if i just learn the creatures the monsters the lore #then homebrew the world and fuck with stuff to make it have wh vibes.... #it could be Loosely dnd. loosely tabletop. #then i could tag it with 'wh tabletop au' instead of fantasy au to differentiate it... #no no that still doesnt work. cause if it has secondary lore of 'its literally the neighborhood playing their own version of dnd' #i cant see any of the wally-centered drama happening. theyd all be like 'aw its ok that youre a warlock wally <3' & move on #but i still want to name it something Different! just to keep it separated! rpg? no... its still not a game... and its not dnd enough... #questing au? 'cause they're always on quests? mythical au? adventuring au? #place your votes now folks! the ballots are rolling in!

[antiqua-lugar]

fun fact, during my first fully blind playthrought of bg3 I honestly thought gale was the writers' favourite if nothing else because of how much varied dialogue he had. like I never reallly had a conversation with astarion that wasn't about his trauma, his vampirism or how boring I am for not wanting to take over a cult but I knew all of gale's hobbies, two or three childhood's anecdotes and the whole history of tara, who he was making plans to introduce to me later.

#like i was honestly feeling sorry that astarion wasn't allowed even a single conversation about idk the fucking weather #i think because subconscously I was also comparing it to da2 which was careful to try to give characters more than just their trauma so #so I was like poor astarion he's just the trauma character #and then i found out HE was god's specialest princess #despite the fact that the official specialest princess still got conversatons about things that aren't her trauma DESPITE HAVING AMNESIA #bg3 #i don't even know where I am going about this it's just something that really stuck out to me about the writing #anyway thank god larian immediately set me straight and let me know my beloved wizard is actually the writers punching bag #god forbid I break my strike of not being wild over the more popular character in an rpg I guess #oh and they let me know i was supposed to be annoyed rather than going oh man I am glad I am learning so much about gale #like I understood why lae'zel had less content and expected her to have more in act 3 which she didn't but whatever #she should have #i mean now having played with everyone in the party for the whole game they all need more content but still #like astarion has more content than anyone else but also somehow I know less about him than anyone and like why

[turbo-tsundere]

Kokichi's kokiching, part 1 out of 2.

I'm not even gonna post this one into DDDA's main tags, since it's a very silly, very indulgent thing, that only people who've played V3 might appreciate; not everything here is outright funny, AND I coudn't help myself with cheesy editing, like adding sprites here and there (the voice acting just begged for this imo), so there's that, too. :P

But honestly though, Ouma was such a joy to have around XD. I wasn't counting on accuracy when it comes to reflecting his character, even with the few personality-tweaking options that the game provides, but to my surprise... many times it wasn't so bad! And definitely was very fun - he was such a fierce, dramatic, snarky little menace... as he should be. <3

He also had a strange vendetta against carts, dunno why tbh, definitely did not learn it from Gonta. He'd ignore boxes and crates for the most part, destroyed barrels only when I desperately needed one (granted, 8 out 10 times I used them to perform barrel glitch, so fair, I guess, but he did made me stuck inside a Dusk Moon Tower's chest room with no liftstones to teleport myself out of it, leaving reloading my save as the only option...it's like he KNEW)... but carts? None shall remain.

#gonta gokuhara #kokichi ouma #the isekaied entomologist #cw blood #cw spiders #turbo-tsun plays #turbo-tsun plays ddda #gonta run #thanksOuma #ougoku... if you will #there were some moments that can be seen as 'ship-fuel' XD #it really doesn't help that battle couple is like THE trope to which I am weakest to adsgdjash #also he was very helpful but i actually loved more when he was sabotaging stuff it was AMAZING lmao #ngl imma keep remaking Gonta in whatever game let's me do it but playing action rpgs or soulbornes is gonna feel lonely after dd #sorry for random Aldia ref it's just that he solos and I think of him every time i remember 'lies cool cuz 1000s lies vs 1 truth' spiel lol

[delightfuldevin]

Been seein some rather cold takes about Daisy lately…

I’ve seen some people say that she has no personality outside of fanon, but that’s just not true. There is a very very common misconception among the fandom (at least that I’ve noticed) that if a character doesn’t appear in a “mainline” game, then they have no personality. But I’d argue that the spinoffs actually offer waaaaay more in terms of looking into character personalities. And no, I’m not talking about the RPGs ala M&L and Paper Mario as those are obviously full of personality (and Daisy isn’t in those). I’m talking about the Party, Kart, Tennis, and other sports games.

Yes, Daisy hasn’t appeared in any mainline game since her debut, but she’s been in nearly every sports game and her traits, stats, abilities, victory/loss animations, and various other tiny details add up to her personality. The fact that she’s nearly always yelling or just speaking really loud in general (noticeably more than any other character), the fact that she constantly feels a need to say her name and make herself known, how she loves flowers and considers even a small patch of flowers worth protecting, how she’s easily bored by tasks that don’t excite her and isn’t so reliable for them. She tends to jump around a lot, and spin and dance around when she’s excited! She’s apparently a rather fast runner and that is considered her specialty! These are all traits that are displayed in the spinoffs, and there’s probably soooo many more that I just can’t remember right now.

Now, I do think her tomboyish nature is probably fanon, as I don’t really remember seeing anything to show that she acts that way in the games. I think people probably think she’s tomboyish due to how loud and energetic she is. But hey, there’s plenty of fanon for just about any character from any fandom out there. And what’s so wrong with that? Isn’t the whole point of making fanworks to expand on the framework already provided by canon? If we want to stick to what’s actually “canon” then nearly everything the fandom has created would have to be tossed, because there really isn’t much to work with. Fanworks and fandoms thrive on what fans can create based on the canon work, not just sticking to it perfectly.

It’s fine if you think the “fanon” Daisy outshines the “canon” Daisy and you dislike that. But to say that she has no personality aside from fanon interpretations just tells me that you have a very narrow idea of what counts as “canon” in an already rather simplistic world. The Mario games are very simple and straightforward without much consistent lore that actually makes sense cohesively, but the characters are what keep everything tied together despite that. The characters are nearly always consistent, and that includes Daisy. Even when the setting is completely different and some random new villain shows up with some random new power source to steal or species to torment, our same well-known lovable characters will be the center of the story and that’s what makes it fun!

#devin speaks #super mario bros #princess daisy #i mightve gotten a bit too personal with my views of canon vs fanon but i still think it needs to be said #people who argue over what is considered canon in a video game series are so funny to me #especially a series like mario that has expanded soooo far from its original premise #its different than a show or movie since most shows will finish their main story before delving into spinoffs #most of the mainline games are literally just bowser kidnapped the princess and mario has to save her #very few of them offer any insight to personality of anyone #that isn’t to say theres none at all but i still think the party kart and sports games offer waaay more #of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions and if you dislike daisy or think shes boring then whatever you do you #i am simply sharing my opinion as well :) #sorry time to be salty real quick #literally the entirety of waluigis personality comes from the spin offs but no one talks about him??? #he is literally in the same boat as daisy but i never see anyone saying they dislike him for his ‘fanon personality’ #really makes you think #people rag on peach for ‘having no personality’ too but hers shines through the spinoffs as well #and even the rpgs!! shes actually in those and has multiple voicelines and cutscenes and people *still* say she has no personality! #i know this is about daisy but gosh mario ladies in general are treated rather poorly unless theyre eye candy #im glad rosie debuted in a mainline game with a clearly given backstory spoon fed to the player so she doesnt get this treatment lol

[penguinsblues]

What's it's gonna be this time?

#fanart #fear and hunger #enki #dark priest #fear&hunger #f&h #rpg maker #the sudden urge to draw enki all of a sudden #I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that i intensely dislike 99% of my drawings and no amount of polish can really make them “better” #(usually only worse) #and the only way to improve is actually to make MORE drawings #not sitting around mushing like 3 “i can fix u” so-so drawings #so yeh this sucks but it's kinda therapeutic to me so

[rezeptkapziv]

Gambit attacks!

Go wishlist @iodine-x64 's Pillory on steam ya'll

#pillory rpg #gambit pillory #made this as a celebration for iodine reaching 500 followers #cant wait for the game to be recognized when it comes out... #it was kinda hard making this! i usually paint all of the shading directly onto the color #but it felt wrong doing that to a media like pillory.. #zeph draws #watch out for her... #actually really like how it turned out #monochrome art #monochrome

[solradguy]

Tbh Dirge of Cerberus' actual gameplay isn't as bad as I was expecting it to be, like I'm almost 4 missions in and I still haven't died, but the gameplay getting interrupted every 5 minutes by some kind of micro cutscene is driving me up the wall. Did they really have to stop the action just to show a common model NPC walking out of scene. Was that 100% necessary

#textpost #The villain names are cracking me tf up #Blue the Blue. Red the Red. There's a guy named White so I'm sure he's White the White too #I saw that there's a Transparent the Transparent later lol #This game is really corny but in a like fun Shadow the Hedgehog B movie way so I'm diggin it haha #It's really not that bad. I don't think it deserves the super super low rankings it got #It's like a 6.5 or a 7 out of 10 so far tbh #One of my buddies said that it was one of those games where the hype made people expect too much #So people thought it was worse than it actually is #It's about as good as GG2 Overture and Overture got 7s and even a few 8 out of 10 rankings back at release #Though tbf FF7 basically changed the RPG genre forever and no one in the west knew wtf a Guilty Gear was when Overture dropped #Overture definitely had an advantage there. Dirge of Cerberus was NEVER going to live up to Final Fantasy 7's hype #Doomed right outta the gate. I hope the devs weren't too beat up about it

[horizoncollective]

NHP who uses the abacus emoji instead of a thinking/stumped emoji

#lancer rpg #nhp #I'm not actually sure how many people know how to use them but as precursors to calculators and computers I feel like they're #a decent symbol for thinking slow? #even though you can do math really fast with them

[makeitlookdecent]

aaaand this is the mural because im proud

#puyo puyo #puyo sig #puyo amitie #im srry every ami fan #i really didnt wanna go hat for her ;^; *didnt wanna draw a hat* #also (not to rant about my own au in the tags) unlike ms 'goddess' that im drawin for my au thing #ms sorceress actually uses the staff as a magic staff and not a lance #like i commonly draw ms 'goddess' usin #(i mean i guess just like; twice? for you guys seeing but my work doodles are filled of her stabby stab with lance) #anyway back to ms ami sorceress she came out very rpg princess which wasnt my intention (not a bad thing tho) #which is why i cut the front dress open and added shorts+boots combo #to help a bit with the image i guess #and mr demon #uh #lmao *starts ranting by accident* #i always have trouble making a design for the old demon from that castle #because its like #they are (im guessin) a mix of what we know of strange and also sig look wise a #but what we know of strange (look wise) is just what he looks like possessing klug #so when 'we all' (i say loosely) see him we commonly think of possessed klug and we think “they must have looked like that” and we think of #this form as his body and since its been so long this has like;;;; *wildly gestures hands* stuck!! you know?? #what im trying to say is. i think of possesed klug and use that as a base for designs alot. which is incorrect i think. but like. #sig(s ancestor technically) is an incomplete half. so its missing stuff!! #(omg...re-reading this. im crazy. i suck at explainin my reasons. im srry tag browsers. )

[kayzero]

in the spaces between not working on zwg and not finishing brother’s burden, i’ve been, uh…

thinking about something new.

#kay original #game development #kay rambles in the tags #Peccatum #Peccatum: Small Town Heroes #name is a work in progress. as most things are. #you can ask me about this project and the ocs i’ve half-imagined if you want to know more about them #but i’m not at the ‘‘ask me about my setting so i can figure stuff out’’ stage yet. #i do know that it’s an rpg. a LONG one too. and it’ll be mission-based kiiinda like FE3H? but not really? #9 party members. each of them have different elemental alignments and each represent a different Game Stat. #everyone has 1 Best stat—2 Great Stats—3 Good Stats—and 2 Poor Stats—and then the ninth stat is a fixed value #i know that two party members are trans. another two members—including the Box Art Protagonist—are disabled #along with the machine party member there is a Dragon who spends most of their time in bipedal form #there is a Fae who spends a large majority of the story hiding the fact that they are in truth a Fae #one of the party members was experimented on as a child and is now part Monster but they repressed the memory so they have no idea #i came up with a shared MP system that has actual story reasons for existing—and it’s gonna be a pain in the ass to code… #i want a relationship system a la Persona except EVERY party member gets a relationship and not just The Protagonist #every party member will have a relationship gauge with every other party member (i guess this is Fire Emblem?) #and then everyone will have a relationship with an NPC that’s unique and exclusive to them #and then they get four relationships with members of the town that you see frequently as you wander around #but it’s a Small Town remember. so the party has to share. there are four categories with three townspeople each so three party members will #have a relationship with each townsperson. but the relationships will be different because the characters aren’t carbon copies of each other #not. not romantic relationships. like friendships and rivalries and sex buddies and apprenticeships and. possibly also romance? mm. #i have to. learn how to code. idk if RPGMaker has a relationship system so i’ll have to figure something else out. maybe RP as a currency...

[baolinagasy]

been in a lisa mood lately and decided to play the fangame lisa the undone

god

i just love it

the updated graphics and sprites, the extra animations, the characters writing... it's incredible. for a free fangame!

still hasn't really gotten around the new mechanics (especially the sort of back and forth between masked/unmasked and armed/unarmed) but it's so original, i'm impressed they managed to make that in rpg maker

definitely would recommend to any lisa fans

if you didn't like joyful you should like it. or, if you're like me and you really like joyful, you should enjoy it too, because it`s so interesting to see how the fangame kinda expends on the story

#i'm in the minority of people who was actually satisfied with joyful so i didn't go in to see a 'fixed' version #but as an alternative version it is really well-done. also yay extra content! #also i really missed Buddy and Rando :') i'm just so glad to spend time with them again :') #i'm playing a more peaceful buddy rn to see what it would be like #but i'm definitely doing a 2nd playthrough with a ruthless and closer-to-canon buddy #lisa the undone #lisa the game #lisa rpg #personal #lisa is one of my favorite games of all time #played the first back when it was new and 'just' a yume nikki inspired game #followed the painful since its kickstarter #and i'm just so so glad there is still lisa content in 2024 #this game means so much to me #it fills me with joy to see that new fangames with this level of care are still being made

[hiddenbeks]

carth watching in increasing despair as this random soldier he escaped the endar spire with and who agreed to keeping a "low profile" makes an enemy of tarisian nobility and the local crime lord, loses all their credits in pazaak games, enters a dueling ring with the excuse of regaining the credits but really just wants to blow off some steam, goes to a sith party with the excuse of searching for leads on bastila's whereabouts but really just wants to see how fun the sith are to party with,

#the 'prodigal knight' and 'dreaded sith lord' is also the wildest party-goer in the galaxy babyyyy #the sith are not fun to party with btw. cant hold their liquor and the music choices are mid #this is what ultimately sets liah on the light side path (not really but thats what she tells everyone. half-jokingly.) #also i havent actually lost any credits in pazaak yet. i beat that one guy in the cantina who claims to be the best player around. ha #but like Canonically liah is so bad at pazaak. or maybe its just bad luck. either way she keeps losing but cant stop playing #she simply cannot say no to a challenge. be it card games or duels. i love her #ch: liah #el plays kotor #im having a blast w this game but i cant stop thinking abt what it could be if it werent so old n limited by the technology of its time #the quests could have more layers n paths n outcomes...... #like what if the sith party was bigger what if you could get absolutely shitfaced n fail to find anything that could help in ur search. lol #instead of just. u walk in to apartment. u briefly talk to guy who invited u. screen fades to black. #everyone except for u is passed out on the floor bc they had too much to drink. u didnt even get a chance to drink. #quest proceeds. loot sith armor for disguise and be on ur merry way. no partying for u. #sigh. kotor remake....... you remain in my dreams........ #also disclaimer theres nothing wrong with a game being more linear!!! #not every game has to have the complexities n permutations of modern rpgs!!! sometimes simplicity is better!!! #but im just saying. it would be fun and its fun to think about. #also btw some of the dialogue in this game sounds like its written by a child. its a bit painful at times. but anyway