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Hidden gem rpgs

>> No.10055824

Quest 64

>> No.10055826

>>10055817
Are they fighting a KKK member?

>> No.10055828
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>>10055817

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>>10055870
I wish this was good, but it's just a bad and VERY slow and clunky Pokemon clone.

>> No.10055879

>>10055817
>345screenshot2.png
Thanks OP. Guess I'll never get to try this "hidden gem".

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>> No.10055903

I remember being weirdly hyped for this piece of shit

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>>10055903
am retard

>> No.10055906

>>10055890
I heard this game was incredibly bad.

>> No.10055907
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/v/ convinced me to play this game. Was alright from what I remember.

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>> No.10055994

>>10055879
Dual Orb 2 by the way. Fuck you OP for making me reverse image search it.

>> No.10056001

>>10055994
how new

>> No.10056003
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Legend of Legaia had a pretty fun combat system

Although once you level up enough to have a long enough command bar and figured out the combination to do a Miracle Art it was mostly pointless to use anything else

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10056015

Why the fuck did I think this was just an "obscure RPGs" thread instead of a hidden gems thread.
>>10055904
I guess am retard indeed.

As penance I'll provide you an actually decent hidden gem. I remember the combat being rough but the game world was interesting enough to make me keep going.

>> No.10056027
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I would consider this a hidden gem. You won't hear people talking about this often. Not bad.

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>>10056015
Have another one. Can be a bit of a drag at times but the game's got some real nice atmosphere and "soul"

>> No.10056036

>>10055906
I got to the final planet when it came out. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. I remember the music sucking and missing some sort of ultimate weapon permanently. It had fun art and a decent ensemble cast.

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>>10056027
I am pretty sure that many people, including me, are aware of that game due to the picrel meme image that has been floating around for years.

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>> No.10056238
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Hear me out...

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I just learned that the gameboy SaGa games (Final Fantasy Legend) have English patches. I would recommend them.

>> No.10056242

>>10056240
Sorry, the DS ports of the gameboy games.
>>10056029
Most everyone knows that's one of the greatest RPGs ever made.

>> No.10056256

>>10056238
>Hear me out...

>"Beyond the B-"
No

>> No.10056472

>>10055852
Iremember playing the demo over and over when i was a kid. Never played the full version of Shadow Flare, was it any good?

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I know it's very well known in EU so not technically on topic, but I just want to urge NA bros to give it a playthrough. You're missing out on one of the all-time classic RPGs, right up there with the likes of Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.

>> No.10056556

>>10055824
Lol stop it

>> No.10056712

>>10055986
What's this?

>> No.10056716

>>10056494
It's a solid RPG but very overrated at this point in time

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>> No.10056842

>>10056027
It's kinda bad as a game, but also kinda good, and the strong (and genuinely funny) writing carries it. So yeah I agree, it's a hidden gem.

>>10056048
Never saw it. Never heard of your favorite YouTuber either. The world is a big place.

>> No.10056873

>>10056494

it's shit lol looks like you're just seeing it through nostalgia glasses

>> No.10057087

>>10056712
Unreal World, a Finnish roguelike.

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>> No.10057101
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Secret best RPG on the NES. It's easy to mistake for a super dry Koei simulation game but it's actually a very breezy and fun RPG with great music. Unlike most 8-bit RPGs it's very fast. Your characters buzz around the world map and battles are quick. You can also recruit enemy generals in random battles which is a fun touch. Keeping all the Chinese character and tactics (basically, magic) names straight can be a bit of a pain but once you get past that it's very enjoyable.

>> No.10057143

>>10057101
>battles are quick
Are they though? I didn't play much of it but even when you pick the auto fight option it was still rather tedious

>> No.10057169
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Nice timing based blocking system and chill town life

>> No.10057195

>>10057101
>>10057143
They're really not quick... they're quite a drag in fact

>> No.10057209

>>10055984
I hate this game so much it's unreal. So much promise and potential, but I think there are more than a few good reasons for it to have been forgotten.

>> No.10057308

>>10056242
>Most everyone knows that's one of the greatest RPGs ever made
You're thinking of bloodlines this one is all medieval and shit

>> No.10057336

>>10057143
>>10057195

I always thought the auto-battle feature was pretty fast as it just completely cuts out all the text. What dialogue there is in battles scrolls pretty fast. I think it's much better than the DQ's and FF's on the NES in that regard.

>> No.10057343

>>10055829
never gets the appreciation it deserves.
>>10057209
didn't it come out at the end of the 64 life cycle?- basically pushed out since they were worried any further delays and no one would buy it once the gamecube was around. i also hate it. found it in a bargain bin in like 2005 and thought it would be a hidden gem. mistake.

>> No.10057345

>>10057087
Is it comparable to RimWorld?

>> No.10057349

>>10056764
Looks genuinely neat, too bad I'll never play it lol

>> No.10057353

>>10057343
Yeah, 2001 if I'm not mistaken. Super promising game with a huge open world, relatively decent story, lots of revolutionary design choices and even permadeath for party members, but fuck me every single inch of gameplay is so tedious and unenjoyable. Every time I get in the mood to give it another shot and I think of that immediately attractive feeling of going on an adventure in those early RPG's, I put the cartridge in and make it a whopping 30 minutes before it's time to turn the fucking thing off again.

It would happily remain forgotten in the back of my mind except that every single time someone mentions hidden gems, n64 games or RPGs, it somehow manages to have SOMEONE recommending it and I can only explain it away with possibly nostalgia. Otherwise, there's nothing here.

>> No.10057380

>>10055906
Not bad, not great, just decent.

>> No.10057503

>>10056225
love it and the first game.

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Relative to their quality, the first four Phantasy Star games remain incredibly under-played and under-appeciated.

>> No.10057513

>>10055826
The robes are pink, so it's forces of the Gay Gay Group. Splinter of the KKK that went local.

>> No.10057515

>>10055859
FUCK. YEAH.

>> No.10057539

>>10056238
I'll cut your dick off.

>> No.10057613

>>10056238
I liked this game but it had an encounter rate that was just plain discouraging .

>> No.10057619

>>10056494
Easily one of my favorites and Id agree with the compariosons, just makes me wish itd had a NA release so id have a copy on the shelf next to Chrono Trigger.

>> No.10057650

>>10056015
The sequel for this is just amazing, Ive been playing it a lot recently.

>> No.10057656

>>10057510
I wish the first one wasn't so grindy. It's got a neat atmosphere and music. However it was worse than DQI and DQII with the grinding (maybe even worse than FFII). Never played the other three, but they look interesting.

>> No.10057668

>>10057349
If you're hardcore enough you could try with Retroarch's AI translation tool (press a button to translate text on screen) if you're patient enough for it (takes a second every time), it doesn't always work well (or at all) but it works well enough to make it playable + there is a guide on Gamefaqs which lists item names which is really helpful.

>> No.10057707

>>10057656
The Switch port has a bunch of quality of life stuff included, including a new mode that decreases the frequency of random battles and has them award 4x XP, so it's much less grindy. It also has auto-mapping, faster character movement speed, a fast-forward button and some other stuff.

>> No.10057727

>>10057707
So it has cheats and easymode? Sounds stupid.

>> No.10057740

>>10057707
The game of Phantasy Star 2 is fighting random encounters and mapping out dungeons. Having a mode that does both for you isn't "quality of life", it is skipping the game.

>> No.10057753

>>10057727
Didn't ask.

>>10057740
Nobody mentioned Phantasy Star 2. Take your meds.

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I'm a big fan of this game, it's a shame so few people have heard of it. One day I should try playing it.

>> No.10057770

>>10057707
Sounds nice, but can I turn off auto-mapping and such? I like to play older games autistically by hand-made maps and such. But it would be much better if monsters gave you enough gold. That was my biggest problem with the game IIRC. I was trying to get some of the basic equipment and I was already around level 10 and felt overpowered by that point. That should balance the game out a little bit.

>> No.10057802

>>10057770
Yes, it has a classic mode too. At its heart it's just emulation, so if you want a 1:1 original experience it's there. There are even some (pretty terrible) CRT shaders included.

>> No.10057819

>>10057802
Nice! I'll check into it then. Thanks!

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>>10055817

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>>10055817
Legend of Legaia

The game is unique and interesting. Very fun.

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>>10056027
Absolutely horrible game. I tried it and your progress so slow and the battles are such tacked together shit trying to copy JRPGs. Shit sux, badly.

>> No.10058037

>>10055907
>/v/ convinced me to play this game
Same. I've had it in my library for 13+ years and only ever played maybe 30 minutes the day I got it. I just remember making a dwarf with candles on his helmet, the visual that admittedly has stuck with me.

>> No.10058042

>>10055817
rpgs are not real games
kinda like movie games

>> No.10058068

>>10057096
this was hidden until the 3DS Virtual Console release

>> No.10058447

>>10055817
SNIPER RIFLES AND MONSTER TRUCKS

>> No.10060397

>>10056720
EVO is fun but holy shit it gets tedious. Great concept at least.

>> No.10060418

>>10057169
Oooo cool looking

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>>10057169
>blue CD...

>> No.10060827

>>10057513
LGBK

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>> No.10060953

>>10060623
clean your lens

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>>10060953
Oh it reads it just fine, but if the disc is spinning at 32x it has an effect. Raises the blood pressure.

>> No.10060998

>>10060987
Don't worry, the thin plastic protective shell of the PS2 is going to guard you from the disc spinning at 16000 RPMs

>> No.10061020 [DELETED] 

>>10060998
It's just why some people don't like the hardware, it will feel like it's crunching to load San Andreas or spinning out to Ford Racing.

>> No.10061031

>>10060397

It's not especially long or grindy. It's just that the levels are overly simple and the enemies are also usually simple. So you have to find fun in messing around with your body's constantly changing combat abilities and movement styles.

>> No.10061039

>>10061020
I use a hard drive but I repair PS2s for money so I have a deep appreciation for how it all works. It's a really well put together console.

>> No.10061165

>>10061031
I remember spending a lot of time grinding to get upgrades in the early game but it's also been close to 15 years since I've played it. The grind may not've been as bad as I remember.

>> No.10061369

>>10057349
there's a translated ds version of 2 and 3

>> No.10061503

>>10056494
terranigma balls

>> No.10062047

>>10055817
Bump