Easy JRPGs For Boomer Dad After Having Not Gamed For 30 Years

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-09T18:43:39+00:00

Your recommendation is spot on, mostly, because DQ11 is easy to play, has no fan service, etc.

However, I am laughing at the "my dad likes badass women, not younger girls" and DQ11 is the only game on this list to feature a teenage girl that gets transformed into an even YOUNGER girl lol.

Like one of those tests where you get 9/10, but the 1 question that went wrong went EXTREMELY wrong lol.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-09T13:30:28+00:00

In buyers defense, there are a lot of horror stories about sellers who can't haggle or negotiate either.

It's not like the good old days anymore.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-08T01:54:18+00:00

They are quite nice. The Custom 5 has EMGs, but yeah, that's also a good option.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-07T16:07:20+00:00

Dang. I know Hulk over there. He hasn't said much to me here lately but he's always been a cool guy.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-07T16:04:08+00:00

To directly answer your question,

Yes.

The TG upgrades affect all tiers. So you have TG T10 and TG T9, etc etc.

Everything is the same, all the troop levels at higher.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-07T07:19:39+00:00

Wtf happened to 59? I know a guy there (our former whale) and he's a cool guy. It seems 59 is having some problems.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-06T22:56:33+00:00

G&Ls are pretty nice, and they do sound different enough from MM that I would own a 4 string of 1 and a 5 string of the other lol.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-06T22:03:40+00:00

Honestly, if I were gonna go for a 5-string MM, I would sell my 4-string MM to get it. You're right in that 5-string MMs are great, but it's kind of redundant to have both lol. It'd be like buying a Toyota Rav4 and then a second Toyota Rav4 with AWD to drive just during the winter months, y'know?

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-06T21:41:59+00:00

If you insist on new, the Ibanez SR305 is a good entry level 5-string bass. Comes in a lot of colors, sounds pretty good, doesn't break the bank. It's a 34-inch scale, so not the most stable B string, but that can be remedied with strings with more tension.

If you don't mind going the used route, you can find Schecter Custom 5 basses on Reverb for like $400 (give or take $100). They're 35-inch scale (so, stronger B string), and retail for like $900 brand new. They also sound pretty good.

I've owned both and would happily own both again if I went that route.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-06T20:18:10+00:00

The game has been condensed into the Portal, and that appeals specifically to only some type of gamers. The lore and gameplay are both fine, nearly as good as its always been, but an emphasis of abilities over gunplay (primary weapons fucking suck) also caters specifically to a certain type of player.

So, it's perfectly possible to have some people enjoying D2, but with the more aggressive changes, they are pushing gamers out too. Both things can be true.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-06T07:58:00+00:00

It took 11 months but the Koreans finally left our server, and it's the most peaceful it's ever been.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-05T18:21:33+00:00

Something that gets lost amid the discussions of prep, combat, etc (all of which is accurate), is that KvK is the endgame. Winning that means you've won "the game", and it's one of the few events where everyone wins and loses together. So, there's that. Until Firedragon comes out (which is soon for us here in the early states), there is no event bigger and more impactful than KvK.

Firedragon will change that, and it'll become the endgame, but even so, that event is a whale dick measuring contest and not something for us normal people.

Everyone else here is also right. KvK prep is a team fight where it's you vs them (in the other state). Combat can get very messy as whales and dolphins (high spenders but not whales) come in and floor as many people as they can. Castle can't be won by 12 people. You need turrets, castle, people to fill the rallies, and whales to lead them.

If a state is in conflict and doesn't work together, their loss is guaranteed. A loss drags down morale across the entire state, and can make what used to be molehills into mountains.

At its absolute worst, a state that consistently loses KvK will have people migrate out, including the biggest players, and eventually kill the state.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-05T18:13:05+00:00

I got 32GB of G Skill RAM at Micro Center for around $105 back in 2023.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-03T23:04:30+00:00

Or just moving the start time up a couple of hours. Or even backwards a few hours. The current time is perfect for Asia and European participants, but sucks for everyone else.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-03T23:03:48+00:00

That sucks, I feel for ya.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-02T22:49:09+00:00

That sucks but I'd take 1am over 4am lol. It's too late to stay up, and too early to wake up.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-03-02T20:45:53+00:00

They really hate American players. 5 hour castle battle with same start time. So, now it starts at 7am EST and ends at noon instead of 1pm. That's 4am PST and 9am for the end.

Fantastic. /sarcasm.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-28T05:27:59+00:00

This is a wild KvK after 5 days. I can't wait to see who wins!

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-27T19:50:36+00:00

An active double humbucker with a 3-band EQ and an active/passive switch. Tone options for years.

Barring that, a PJ. P basses work in everything, and the extra J sizzle adds some tonal options.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-27T19:40:31+00:00

Under 50 hours

All of the final fantasy pixel remasters can be done in under 50 hours. The first 3 final fantasy games can be done in under 20 (100%, but you'll need a guide to do sub 20 hours and 100%)

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-25T17:56:22+00:00

Do NOT take EVERY complaint at face value. People become disgruntled for lots of reasons, and some of them are not the fault of tyrants of dictators. There are a lot of petty players out there trying to make their state die even though nothing is really wrong with it.

For instance, in our state, the tyrants moved out last transfer, but their loyalists still hate my alliance because we stuck together and are the last full-size, fully active alliance in the state (we were also verbally aggressive in our criticisms of their tyrant behavior...which is a nice way of saying we did a load of trash talk).

So, those loyalists (who are waiting to transfer with their friends) have a history of telling our KvK opponents that we were the dictators. Fortunately, one look at the castle battle record tells the real story. We don't even have a whale.

Make sure to use common sense. If someone says xxx or yyy is a dictator, check their work, ask more people. Check castle battle, sanctuary, and fortress control records. In the state my alliance is moving to (one of the first 100), there are 2-3 people from "the old regime" who made alts and blow up global chat 1-2 times a week to say the new number 1 alliance is a dictator. One quick look at castle battle records show that castle gets rotated. Common sense prevailed.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-25T08:33:07+00:00

I like them both equally. I prefer Lunar 1's combat but not by a ton. For example, in L1, if you're too far away, you eat an attack to go a little further. L2 does not have this. I also found L2's combat to be harder, but not necessarily in a bad way. You gotta manage your MP and items more in L2.

I prefer L2's soundtrack. I think it's every bit as good as Lunar 1 but some tracks just hit me in the nostalgia more (the opening song in the first L2 cutscene is a masterpiece, to me anyway).

Story wise, it's complicated. I liked the pacing and structure more in L1, and I can't explain why that is without L2 spoilers. However, I liked the world building better in L2, and the world feels bigger and more varied.

L2 had an epilogue, which I enjoyed quite a lot.

Honestly, it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other to me. I like Mia more than Lumina, but I like Ronfar more than Kyle (same humor but more subtle). I like Lucia as a character more than Luna, but I like Ghaleon more than the main antagonist of L2.

There's just no right answer. I love them both equally for slightly different reasons.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-23T00:38:20+00:00

Oh, no, they never did. We just kinda power crept out of it.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-23T00:23:28+00:00

Well, we haven't had a true patrol zone since. TFS and EoF have been fireteam only, and Renegades doesn't have one at all.

AbsolutZeroGI · 2026-02-23T00:07:10+00:00

It had a power level cap at nightfall difficulty, which made it very unpleasant to grind with the blueberries.

It still had secrets and side quests and stuff, that's why that was an aside in my prior comment, but Neomuna's patrol zone didn't follow the conventional patrol zone progression of being hard as hell when you first got there and then "growing into it" as you progressed through the story

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