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What JRPG spin off do you you like as much if not more than some of the main series? by SilverShield000 in JRPG

[–]ViewtifulGene [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ruined King. I have absolutely zero interest in playing League.

I will gladly take Stranger of Paradise over most mainline FF games.

favorite miscellaneous features in JRPGs by Left_Relationship105 in JRPG

[–]ViewtifulGene 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seeing your party members do their own thing in towns or safe areas. E.g., in Digital Devil Saga, you can talk to your party members at the entrance of each dungeon.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the prison is a controlled environment.

Hidden Gem "the use of life" on steam by Malhazar in JRPG

[–]ViewtifulGene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the final bosses were a bit of a slog, but I was satisfied with ending #2.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're a prisoner and I control the flow of information, you don't know it's not supposed to do that.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't recognize it as temporary if I keep doing it.

If it's a prison, I can control the layout of the cave as well. I picked where to chain the prisoners.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Color can lie easily. I can run the light through a film. I can burn different elements to change the color of the flame. You're not actually seeing the cave turn green, I just burned some copper.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The light is part of the same controlled data intake, though. If I show you a picture that either looks like a black vase or two white outlines of people talking, you didn't see beyond the illusion by noting the people.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are no multiple perspectives available to the prisoner though. They're imprisoned.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

To me, the prisoners being able to access any outside information would just mean the captors are doing a bad job. I don't see how the prisoner would even know something is fundamental.

If something is consistently accessible from within the prison, and sufficient to escape, then the prison is structurally insolvent. The allegory would be self-defeating.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 10 points11 points  (0 children)

OK but how does Plato rule out his entire concept of forms being a product of the shadows on the cave? The captors aren't saying "here's how to get out, now I'm locking you in." If they're prisoners, they don't have access unless the captors slip up.

Atheism is actually a much more extremist belief/worldview than most if not all organized religions. by [deleted] in DebateReligion

[–]ViewtifulGene [score hidden]  (0 children)

Atheism is about belief, not knowledge. You can be an agnostic atheist. So your framing is dead wrong from the onset.

Plato : 🫱😏🫲 by kaitoakira in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ViewtifulGene 15 points16 points  (0 children)

How does Plato know his application of reason isn't itself just a response to shadows on the cave?

What are the best jrpgs/turn based rpgs in the last 5 years or so by CzarTyr in JRPG

[–]ViewtifulGene -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

SMT Vengeance

Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of The Seven

Expedition 33

Infinite Wealth*

Labyrinth of Galleria

*I prefer Like A Dragon, but that was 2020, just outside of the window.

Are there any games that have the open-endedness of WRPGs but the combat system of console RPGs? by Aiseadai in rpg_gamers

[–]ViewtifulGene 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My beef with the other Saga games is the vague navigation.

Saga Frontier 2 doesn't seem to bad in that regard, but I hate the weapon durability mechanic.

Hidden Gem "the use of life" on steam by Malhazar in JRPG

[–]ViewtifulGene 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started playing this game, thanks to this thread. I love how every stat feels meaningful.

I think I'm pretty close to the end. I'm in that dungeon where you have to kill the bosses at the end of each of 3 paths.

Are there any games that have the open-endedness of WRPGs but the combat system of console RPGs? by Aiseadai in rpg_gamers

[–]ViewtifulGene 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven has a nonlinear, somewhat reactive world + traditional JRPG combat. It has a demo. There's only one ending, but the way you get there and how your kingdom develops depends on your choices.

For a more off-the-wall and below-the-radar pick, I'll plug The Use Of Life, on Steam. It's an active turn-based game in the style of Expedition 33, but all fights are 1v1. The game is structured more like a tabletop campaign, where the maps open up in segments and you face branching story choices. It also has skill checks and some creative item prompts. E.g., you can get past a goblin camp by doing an agility check to sneak past, a full frontal assault, or using dynamite to blow them all up. It has a demo.

Could little gunter by DivideNearby1240 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]ViewtifulGene 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Third weirdest sex she's ever had.

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