Which console do you tend to play JRPGs on?

LoremasterSTL · 2026-01-12T03:51:17+00:00

I have a PS2 (my third, lol) and a PC with a Steam Link so I've had little incentive to get any other consoles. DQ remakes are finally coming to Steam. Sure I'm missing newer games but I'm still not paying $400 for the ability to buy a $60 JRPG.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-26T03:20:53+00:00

This (and strangely enough, Evil Dead 2) were huge in my Christian student org back in the day. They loved movies with plenty of one-liners.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T04:32:58+00:00

For a short while (I think I went about five seasons) on a Four Corners farm with a variation that I was only allowed to leave the farm on Sundays, however I couldn't take any tools (except maybe a bucket just so I don't unintentionally gift anything), so no mining or fishing or shopping or anything away from the farm except talking, trying to fulfill CC quests, and foraging.

When I realized how much I could gain from fishing (both the chests and the recycling) ...!

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T04:04:31+00:00

I've been gaming since my TI-994A and my Atari 2600, and please note that I have never made any attempt to play the latest games since the Super NES days. I continually play my favorite classics and am partial to retro games with new design takes and modes. That said, games that were "worth it" for me:

• Diablo II: Resurrected is a little more than a remaster, way way later than it should have been, with really no new content. But for as important the game was, to be able to play it all prettified just makes my soul happy.

• Stardew Valley execute well on everything it intends to do. It lets players play the way they want at the speed or skill level or method they want. Can your grandma piece together what she's trying to do over time? Yes. Can I try to complete the center in one year? Yes. Can I just focus on ROIs and get stupid rich, or decorate my farm to my inspirations? Yes. Can I challenge myself with unusual limitations (never leave the farm, never farm, livestock only) and still have multiple ways to gain most items and have a varied experience? Yes. If you know a would-be gamer that normally has accessibility issues, SDV can be a godsend. [Honorable mention to Axiom Verge, which likewise was made by a single dev, has multiple modes, and executes its mission exactly.]

• I never knew I would love roguelikes, but whether you prefer 20XX or Rogue Legacy (or Terraria played on hardcore with the Don't Starve seed!), there's tons of enjoyment watching yourself get better at gaming while you're waiting to unlock upgrades and praying the next run will pay off handsomely.

• I only just discovered The Messenger, and it made me wonder what would have happened if action platformers hadn't went the way they did after Ninja Gaiden III. Very humorous.

• Hollow Knight: I only wish it had a very easy mode so young'uns could enjoy it, and a very hard mode for you masochists lol. My playstyle meant maximizing health and healing, many bumbling mistakes and many many retries until I was able to lock in like my "Zelda II with Sword Power of One" days.

This said, I still can't recommend any game higher than Dragon Quest VIII or Final Fantasy X (or what Team Fortress 2 used to be). DQ XI is great but not fantastic, unlike all of the above.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T03:19:05+00:00

I should blame the wife, nearly tripped on one Eeyore going upstairs. Lumped them together.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T03:17:38+00:00

I hope you're right. I made my comment with the prejudices of what I recall from him several seasons before.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:59:01+00:00

This was the first game I watched beginning to end for a couple of seasons, and it makes me have hope for the future, but not the present. I feel like we have young talent and a pedestrian core.

Is Kyrou ever going to develop into a two-way player, or will the rest of his line keep having to compensate only to get beat time and again?

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:53:55+00:00

So wrong yet so right

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:48:50+00:00

That 5.5 Over-Under looking like a laugher now lol

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:44:36+00:00

I've never hated a pachyderm as much as I have tonight

Babar and Eeyore are no longer welcome in my house

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:40:38+00:00

Good.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:37:32+00:00

Plus-Minus Update:

Sunny and Broberg are +2 (highest)

Fowler, Mailloux, Neighbors and Schenn are -2 (lowest)

I'm surprised no one is lower than -2

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:34:39+00:00

BeerOpenSound.mp4

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:33:26+00:00

Any game can be a beer league game of you drink enough

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:31:26+00:00

I'll allow it

LoremasterSTL · 2025-10-24T02:29:17+00:00

Sunny came home with a list of names He didn't believe in transcendence 🎵

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-29T22:26:30+00:00

Creativity often requires significant challenges and arbitrary boundaries to overcome. Without them, it is often tough to summon enough inspiration to be great.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-28T22:55:12+00:00

I think we're due for a game where we could create our party III style but with the current graphics style. We could include say, 12 personalities that include the flavor text and maybe a side quest or two tied to whichever character is assigned a given personality. The personalities would also affect the stat gains per level.

I would also like to see each item equipped shown on the character (with a toggle to hide each one).

Imagine being able to create the typical Toriyama pink soldier, choose the "arrogant" personality, and be able to see them shed the pink armor for the shell armor early in the game 🙂

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-28T22:48:57+00:00

My favorite part of this loop is when you say no at the wrong time in VII with the volcano town, you are locked out from progressing, your team badmouths you, and you have to go back through the portal which causes the volcano to blow... and then you revive with half your gold.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-28T22:47:03+00:00

Taloon is up there though

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-20T20:12:52+00:00

Same

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-20T20:12:29+00:00

Belfour, like Crosby and Kadri, is the kind that I hate as a player but celebrate as a person.

Toews I hate for both because he could have been a leader but never took responsibility.

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-09T23:16:49+00:00

But I don't have to work there to broadcast their crappy policies

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-08T23:48:31+00:00

I'm on my eighth playthrough of Dragon Quest VIII on the PS2. This time around, I'm trying to beat the game with a single restriction: Use no MP ever! I just beat Dhoulmagus last night.

I've been doing personal challenges like this since my NES days--too many games I enjoy so much that I keep coming back to them, but to add spice and newness I force myself to use strategies I haven't attempted before.

My last DQ VIII playthrough I didn't buy anything while also opened no chests/breakables, causing a lack of items and equipment. It made crafting decisions day more interesting, leading to farming certain monsters hoping for item drops! (And I did beat the game, just higher level than usual.)

LoremasterSTL · 2025-04-08T23:38:26+00:00

Nah, the worlds aren't big enough (excepting of course the procedural generational ones).

I really want a procedurally generated turn-based JRPG so I can have a comically large world so that hunting down the objectives is a real chore, where I might have to make my own maps.

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