what jrpg are you playing right now ?

Playing Xilia but it's rather boring. I enjoyed the battle system at first but I got bored with it rather quickly. Plus the characters are rather boring. For some reason I get a strange tint when I'm playing but it's probably my tv. Hopefully it imptoves.
 
Grandia on Vita + FFXIII on PS3.

Like both games so far in different ways.

Main gripes with FFXIII are level design and Hope, but combat system is great and i love the fact that even early encounters can kill you if you play them badly. Quite refreshing after most JRPGs being walk in the park just for participating in the story.
 
Xillia could be so much more. Its like an HD version of one of the first ps2 games or something.
The production values are just flat out low-quality as you can get. Its at the very center of what a C-rate developer could call a passable game.

The typical anime stuff that's happening every 5 seconds is ok for the characters to an extent, but when it also effects the story the way it does it just ruins most of whats going on. Anyone can literally; accurately guess every important moment in this game without having to spend hours with the characters or even playing a quarter of the game. takes typical/cliche to the next level.

This is my first Tales game so I'm going to complete it since a lot of people recommended this series to me. This game is insanely easy too. I have only died once and that's when I tried to take on the giant cat boss with the wand growing from out from its tail too soon.
 
im currently playing Xillia and I'm bored with the music, the characters and the environments. This might just be nostalgia kicking in but I'm missing the more vibrant style of old Tales like the ones in Destiny and Eternia.
 
I loved the first ten hours of Pokemon X.

Now I'm settling into that familiar grind again and I want the game to end. :( Managed to find a copy of Chrono Trigger DS and I really want to get back into that once-every-2-years playthrough I do.

Other than that, also managed to land a copy of Lunar 2 that's sitting on the shelf, waiting to be played. But doing so close to finishing Lunar 1 feels like I might burn out on that fantastic universe.
 
I just finished pokemon Y a couple of days ago. I was going backwards and forwards about whether I could be bothered trying to get into breeding and eventually competitive battles...but it was just too tedious.

Currently Halfway into Fire Emblem: Awakening, if we're including S-RPG's in the umbrella of JRPG's.
 
I still haven't finished my law path playthrough of Strange Journey that I started in March.
I'm in the last part of the game now and I had a feeling that the outcomes wouldn't look too good, but damn! I didn't think it would be that depressing.

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I'm playing through Dragon Quest IV DS and loving it!

Torneko's randomness is great. "Torneko trips and falls. . . CRITICAL HIT!" I'm a couple hours into Chapter 5 right now.

I'm LTTP with the DS Dragon Quests, having only played 1 and 8, and I'd consider 8 one of my favorite games ever. I recently bought copies of 4,5,6, and 9 DS. So I'm looking at a lot of adventuring.
 
Bururian said:
Shin Megami Tensei 4. I am stuck on a boss, and it's starting to piss me off.
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Which one are you stuck on?

I'm currently playing through it too. Hard as heck, but loving the tense (and drawn-out) story. ...Though I'm getting worried they won't answer all the questions I have.
 
Have a Nice Day said:
I still haven't finished my law path playthrough of Strange Journey that I started in March.
I'm in the last part of the game now and I had a feeling that the outcomes wouldn't look too good, but damn! I didn't think it would be that depressing.

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same as you. im at the fornalca dungeon

eojoko said:
I'm playing through Dragon Quest IV DS and loving it!

Torneko's randomness is great. "Torneko trips and falls. . . CRITICAL HIT!" I'm a couple hours into Chapter 5 right now.

I'm LTTP with the DS Dragon Quests, having only played 1 and 8, and I'd consider 8 one of my favorite games ever. I recently bought copies of 4,5,6, and 9 DS. So I'm looking at a lot of adventuring.
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i beat 4 and 5 in one month 3 years ago, but i'm still in limbo with 6 at the mirror tower !
 
imadinosaur said:
Which one are you stuck on?

I'm currently playing through it too. Hard as heck, but loving the tense (and drawn-out) story. ...Though I'm getting worried they won't answer all the questions I have.
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I'm really early on, at Medusa. according to the guide that came with the game, I'm just above her in level, but I don't have any force attacks to help in the fight with her, and she keeps taking me down about halfway through her health.
 
I played a 3 hour session of SMT IV tonight after a long couple month break.

But I'm glad I started playing again, I really love this game. I'm about 30 hours in.

I'm at the part after you talk to Black Samurai and she requests you to go under the Roppongi to see true evil. I'm pretty excited to see what happens.
Give me your insights GAF
 
Bururian said:
I'm really early on, at Medusa. according to the guide that came with the game, I'm just above her in level, but I don't have any force attacks to help in the fight with her, and she keeps taking me down about halfway through her health.
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Medusa was such a bitch, I had to go catch a demon with a force attack and level them up and teach it to my samurai. It's a very difficult but rewarding boss battle.
 
Im playing one of the gems that I missed during its era, Suikoden 2. Somehow missed on the series, prob due to the better promoted SE games.
 
Bururian said:
I'm really early on, at Medusa. according to the guide that came with the game, I'm just above her in level, but I don't have any force attacks to help in the fight with her, and she keeps taking me down about halfway through her health.
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Oh yeah. I remember her. I got the Limited Edition over the summer, and got frustrated with it. About three weeks ago I picked it back up and rapidly progressed through the game somehow. What I did was do about 5 hours of pure grinding. Things got way more accessible after leveling up my characters significantly.

All I can suggest is keep trying. Sometimes a match will just go horribly because the boss happens to do the same supereffective attacks multiple times in a row, completely decimating your party. Eventually, though, you should get lucky and the boss will screw up, leaving you with an opening. At this point you boost your attack and then wail on the boss... feel free to use up all your items and MP... you'll get more later.
 
Playing SMT IV. It's a great game with very interesting dialogue, but it's so freaking hard! I have the tendency to spend a lot of time communicating with and coercing demons and it usually puts me back at square one when I fail(is there a guide for this?), so I have to backtrack and rest up so that I can overcome an areas later challenges. I also die quite a bit. I like it a lot, but I don't expect to be done with it for quite awhile simple due to the challenge. I refuse to set it to easy or use the pay-to-win dlc.

Also, Playing Final Fantasy Tactics A2. I've been playing this game for a good year now, and while I enjoy it, i wish there was more meat to plot. I also wish working class skills was easier, as I can do several battles without learning as much as a single skill on a character. There's no way I'm going to be able to max out this game-- so my goal is just completion at this point. I'm about 20 hours in.

Lastly, I'm playing Mother 3. I'm a huge rpg fan, but there's something about the Earthbound series that leaves me completely detached. There's a lot of charm to the locales and the dialogue is hilarious, if I do say so myself, but the games attempts to pull at my heartstrings often leave me feeling blank. It comes off as a bit too forced?,-- there's still a lot of time for the game to win me over.
I'm on chapter 4, at the part where i have to look for part time work in the factory
. I do wish that the combat was more involving.

Once i'm finished with SMT IV, I'm probably going to start up Etrian Odyssey Untold.
 
Ryker said:
Playing SMT IV. It's a great game with very interesting dialogue, but it's so freaking hard! I have the tendency to spend a lot of time communicating with and coercing demons and it usually puts me back at square one when I fail(is there a guide for this?), so I have to backtrack and rest up so that I can overcome an areas later challenges. I also die quite a bit. I like it a lot, but I don't expect to be done with it for quite awhile simple due to the challenge. I refuse to set it to easy or use the pay-to-win dlc.
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The Limited Edition came with a minitiare-sized guidebook/concept art book that has helped me out on the few times I needed it (mainly at the beginning of the game when I wasn't sure what I was doing).

My advice? Save after every couple of battles. Seriously. I have saved hundreds of times in this game, and it wasn't nearly enough. The world you explore in the later parts of the game is so vast, and the enemy encounters so frequent, that not saving every five to ten minutes can be detrimental to progress.
 
imadinosaur said:
Oh yeah. I remember her. I got the Limited Edition over the summer, and got frustrated with it. About three weeks ago I picked it back up and rapidly progressed through the game somehow. What I did was do about 5 hours of pure grinding. Things got way more accessible after leveling up my characters significantly.

All I can suggest is keep trying. Sometimes a match will just go horribly because the boss happens to do the same supereffective attacks multiple times in a row, completely decimating your party. Eventually, though, you should get lucky and the boss will screw up, leaving you with an opening. At this point you boost your attack and then wail on the boss... feel free to use up all your items and MP... you'll get more later.
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I just want to get to the terminal I know will pop up after I finish this boss, I keep running back after grinding for a bit to the other terminal.
 
imadinosaur said:
The Limited Edition came with a minitiare-sized guidebook/concept art book that has helped me out on the few times I needed it (mainly at the beginning of the game when I wasn't sure what I was doing).

My advice? Save after every couple of battles. Seriously. I have saved hundreds of times in this game, and it wasn't nearly enough. The world you explore in the later parts of the game is so vast, and the enemy encounters so frequent, that not saving every five to ten minutes can be detrimental to progress.
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Absolutely. Good advice. I learned that early on after losing quite a bit of progress.

Can't get cocky in this game. :X
 
Got back into a JRPG kick the last month after a hiatus.

Grandia
FFVIII
FF Tactics Advance

Grandia I started last year and got about 30 hours in but then I put it down for months and I'm currently in an area that I just can't find my way out of. It's a jungle type place with these really huge plants, I spent a few hours trying with the help of FAQS but couldn't figure and gave up. Will eventually figure out how to get going again because the game is fantastic.

FFXIII I also started last year and am about 10 hours in. Started playing again this week and am ready to give it a full go after finals.

Tactics I started playing last month and am about 30 hours in. Unbelievable fun game and really looking forward to getting back into it come winter break.

Needless to say I have a short attention span with RPGs and I bounce around a lot/take forever to beat them.
 
Ryker said:
Playing SMT IV. It's a great game with very interesting dialogue, but it's so freaking hard! I have the tendency to spend a lot of time communicating with and coercing demons and it usually puts me back at square one when I fail(is there a guide for this?), so I have to backtrack and rest up so that I can overcome an areas later challenges. I also die quite a bit. I like it a lot, but I don't expect to be done with it for quite awhile simple due to the challenge. I refuse to set it to easy or use the pay-to-win dlc.
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Hey, that's what I'm playing too!

Anywho, here's some tips for demon negotiation early on.

-Don't give demons Macca! Just refuse. Macca's really hard to get early on.
-Cheat; If you get the option and it's on an item (or whatever) you really don't want to give up, may as well attempt it.
Just assume it only works once though. Of course if it fails, expect an attack.
-End Talks; If you choose this, usually it'll get the demon to join you with pretty good success. (It's certainly not guaranteed, but a decent chance nonetheless.)

Also, as mentioned, save often!
It often doesn't take much for things to go wrong quickly.
 
Ultratech said:
Hey, that's what I'm playing too!

Anywho, here's some tips for demon negotiation early on.

-Don't give demons Macca! Just refuse. Macca's really hard to get early on.
-Cheat; If you get the option and it's on an item (or whatever) you really don't want to give up, may as well attempt it.
Just assume it only works once though. Of course if it fails, expect an attack.
-End Talks; If you choose this, usually it'll get the demon to join you with pretty good success. (It's certainly not guaranteed, but a decent chance nonetheless.)

Also, as mentioned, save often!
It often doesn't take much for things to go wrong quickly.
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So my give them everything they want except macca strategy is a failing one. no wonder they kept leaving after I gave them stuff.
 
Bururian said:
I just want to get to the terminal I know will pop up after I finish this boss, I keep running back after grinding for a bit to the other terminal.
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Yeah. Rinse and repeat. Good luck, man. Took me a while, as well.

Just so you know, without revealing anything, once you beat her, you're about to delve into the meat of the game, and trust me: the difficulty curve is about to ramp up even more. But this is also the part of the game where the story finally picks up and keeps you interested, so it's worth it.
 
imadinosaur said:
Yeah. Rinse and repeat. Good luck, man. Took me a while, as well.

Just so you know, without revealing anything, once you beat her, you're about to delve into the meat of the game, and trust me: the difficulty curve is about to ramp up even more. But this is also the part of the game where the story finally picks up and keeps you interested, so it's worth it.
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That's good, because I have off and on tried to beat her today, and I'm starting to lose motivation, but that'll keep me going now.
 
After I finish SMT IV, I'm gonna start playing Fire Emblem: Awakening. I'm quite excited to start that one. I've heard some great things about it.

I'm gonna try to hunt down a copy of Persona 4 for the ps2 eventually. I will definitely be getting Bravely Default when it comes out in America in February.


I kind of also want to play some of the great SNES jrpgs that I missed out on.

I've played FFIV. But I think I should go back and play chrono trigger.

What else do you guys recommend?
 
Bel_Air_Jeff said:
After I finish SMT IV, I'm gonna start playing Fire Emblem: Awakening. I'm quite excited to start that one. I've heard some great things about it.

I'm gonna try to hunt down a copy of Persona 4 for the ps2 eventually. I will definitely be getting Bravely Default when it comes out in America in February.


I kind of also want to play some of the great SNES jrpgs that I missed out on.

I've played FFIV. But I think I should go back and play chrono trigger.

What else do you guys recommend?
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Definitely get other SMT games. Besides P4 I'd highly recommend Nocturne, Raidou 2, Persona 3 FES and the DDS games on PS2 (though I like the DDS games the least out of those). Also Devil Survivor Overclocked for 3DS.

You can also get Strange Journey and Soul Hackers but after you play the others. I'd also highly recommend Devil Survivor 2 but just wait for the 3DS version.
 
Soriku said:
Definitely get other SMT games. Besides P4 I'd highly recommend Nocturne, Raidou 2, Persona 3 FES and the DDS games on PS2 (though I like the DDS games the least out of those). Also Devil Survivor Overclocked for 3DS.

You can also get Strange Journey and Soul Hackers but after you play the others. I'd also highly recommend Devil Survivor 2 but just wait for the 3DS version.
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I think i may get burned out if I tried to play them one after another. I definitely want to try out the other games, but I'll try them out of the course of the next 10 years or something.
 
Bel_Air_Jeff said:
I think i may get burned out if I tried to play them one after another. I definitely want to try out the other games, but I'll try them out of the course of the next 10 years or something.
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Yeah I'd definitely space them out. Though I think Raidou 2 would be a good game to try any time since it's an action RPG in a sea of other turn based Megaten games.
 
Littlebigbenny said:
Persona 4 Golden on Vita.

It's the first Persona for me to play and to be perfectly honest, after 3 hours I don't know yet if I like it or not.
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After 3 hours you'd have been barely playing the game :x The game opens up after around the 3 hours mark so you should definitely stick with it.
 
I'm going to try my damndest to finish Persona 3 Portable during winter break, so I can finally move onto 4 and Arena. I need to know how they put those characters together. Although I'll probably take a break after finishing 3.
 
Trying to wrap up two before xmas:

Earthbound - Just rescued Paula and fixed the UFO, grinding a bit in the cave near Stonehenge since the enemies give quite a bit of EXP.

FFXIII - Followed the tips to get an early growth egg, then arrived back at Cocoon.

I had originally planned to finish FFXIII-2 before xmas too, but I think that has gone out the window - I didn't account for how much I would enjoy grinding in FFXIII.
 
Just started Valkyria Chronicles.

I don't know yet if i should play it with ENG or JAP voices because ENG dub is pretty decent.
 
I've been playing Persona 4 Golden.

While the the first several hours are a bit slow and too directed it really opens up after that. I'm about ~12 hours in at this point and I'm really enjoying it. The pacing has been spot on so far; I've been very impressed.
 
Does Pokemon still count? Hatching eggs is my new time waster.

I'm waiting for P4G to hit $20 again digitally. I saw it on sale on Amazon but I refuse to buy carts for Vita.
 
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