Wee Barry

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:54 pm

i have been trying, once again, to get into japanese rpgs, and strategy rpgs

So far i have tried the Megami Tensai series, starting with the Digital Devil Story book. The early games seem to be more my thing, without the social shit from the Persona games, but also really hard. Also mostly japanese apart from some fan translations. Old games on nes, snes, gameboy and gamegear seem amazing.

The Fire Emblem games, particularly the 3DS ones. I quite liked the Awakening demo but is too expensive to buy, so got Shadows of Valentia Echoes, which is quite a nice remake of a japan only snes game. Only just got it and started it

I have discovered the Super Robot Taisen/Wars series. About 60 odd games going back to gameboy, msx and wonderswan. Again pretty much all japanese apart from some fan translations. Great turn-based strategy stuff with cool battle animation scenes. Again the older ones seem to be more my thing. Particuarly on gameboy, colour, and gba

There is also a gameboy colour game called Super Robot Pinball which is utterly joyous

Post by **Mrak** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:19 pm

I got Fire Emblem Warriors thinking it would be a JRPG. I was very wrong.

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:46 pm

the gba fire emblem game is very good (i think it might just be called fire emblem, although its not the technically the first one), if you can find that anywhere (it might be on the 3ds eshop, but i don't know). there's another gba one (the sacred stones?) that's decent but not as good.

awakenings is great but i haven't played the ones after that because if you thought that was expensive, for the next one they decided to split it into three games, two which were entirely seperate full price 3ds cartridges, and the third part was a full price dlc download. fukc off nintendo

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:47 pm

also i want to play those robot games now.

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:48 pm

also supposedly the new yakuza game is a turn based jrpg thing for some reason, instead of a beat em up rpg thing

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:15 pm

Who is Wee Barry?

All I play is Dead Cells at the moment. I really feel like I should play something else. But I pick up the Switch and there it is

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:21 pm

Is that Fates, the one split into three? That is available as all-in-one now on the eshop.

Sacred Stones is the free one we got with the 3DS ambassador program, but yeah it never grabbed me and i'd rather play the other one.

I'm still playing Shadows of Valentia Echoes, which was actually a japanese nes game, not snes, called Fire Emblem Gaiden. It was the second one from 1992, the first one was 1990

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:22 pm

dead cells does look interesting, along with a lot of other rogue-likes which suddenly now appeals to me

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:22 pm

ves the rogue-like formula is catnip to me.

"If I die and start again everything will be slightly different? Take my money!"

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:24 pm

i played a remake of the first one (fire emblem shadow dragon or something) on the DS, but I have no idea how much of the first one was left in it. anyway it was okay i suppose I can't actually remember.

i also had a gamecube one (good), and a wii one (good until there was a mission near the end that was impossible because one of my characters wasn't levelled up enough and he had to fight an entire fight solo against someone who was levelled up way to much and it was shit).

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:26 pm

the japanese way

grind endlessly until op

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:26 pm

I was hopelessly addicted to the mobile fire emblem for a while, even though it was one of those mobile games with no real game, just a lot of things to collect and the temptation of spending money to collect them faster

I had to delete it eventually

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:32 pm

That's probably all mobile games isn't it

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:35 pm

except for one

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:35 pm

lovely monkey, hats

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:49 pm

I hope everyone else did the usual Anal Male Crossing thing where they bought it when it came out and then played it with increasing obsession for about 5 months and then got overwhelmed and quit forever

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:50 pm

I watched someone else (Ryan from Consolevania) play it instead

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:51 pm

i would hav edone but luckily i don't have a switch and now it's too late

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:58 pm

I was too busy playing Breath of the Wild and then when I eventually stopped everyone seemed bored of Annulment Crusting so I didn't bother getting it

Post by **endar** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:54 am

Oh, other things on 3DS:

Shin Megami Tensai: Strange Journey Redux - spin-off from main series (another one). Set in antarctica, where anomaly spews forth alternate realities and demons. First person dungeon crawler. Barely played, but like so far.

Severed - another fp dungeon crawler, using the stylus to slice of beastie's limbs to equip for yourself. Pretty cool, barely played it. I wanted to get both of these while they were on sale in the eshop, to play properly later.

Sega 3D Classics - OutRun and Super Hang-On remade in 3D. Brilliant. Lots of other Sega classics too

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 11, 2021 4:21 pm

daren wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 1:54 am Oh, other things on 3DS:

Sega 3D Classics - OutRun and Super Hang-On remade in 3D. Brilliant. Lots of other Sega classics too

Now THAT ^^^ I totally understand how awesome that'd be!

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:40 pm

is this the games thread? because for some reason next week you can get ten free ps4 games on yor ps4 for somethings i don't know games is this the games thread

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/03/17 ... f244024254

including rez and the witness and some other stuff (and also ratchet and clank seems to be free today too. i have no idea whether thats because of this or because of something else though)

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:41 pm

also i have spent the whole last week trying to work out what the title of this thread is actually a pun of but i cannot

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:54 pm

I forgot to download the playstation plus games in January, annoyingly. One of them (Control) looked quite good. I would almost certainly have never played it, but still.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:55 pm

Anyway in the spirit of collecting more things, I have downloaded ratchet and clank.

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:05 am

dng wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:41 pm also i have spent the whole last week trying to work out what the title of this thread is actually a pun of but i cannot

Durrrrrr! It is obvious! (I've absolutely no idea, either!

)

Daren is leading us all a merry (and sesy) dance!

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:33 am

daren wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:54 pm I have discovered the Super Robot Taisen/Wars series. About 60 odd games going back to gameboy, msx and wonderswan.

Wonderswan is such a brilliant name for a handheld console. I've always liked it. Also they brought out a "Crystal Wonderswan" at one point, I believe (it was made of see-through plastic)

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:35 am

I'm not sure i've ever seen a wonderswan, even in pictures. i hope it looks exactly like a swan, somehow

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:39 am

Here's the Wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WonderSwan

It does not look like a swan, sadly, but it does have quite a novel control system which allows it to be played both in portrait and landscape mode.

What with this and another post I just made, I've got swans on the brain tonight

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:40 am

Wikipedia wrote:Bandai chose the name of the system to highlight its aesthetics and technical capabilities because the swan is recognized as an elegant bird with powerful legs that aid its graceful swimming.

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:44 am

amazing

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:44 am

I want one now

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 2:20 am

Weren't 93.28% of games on the Wonderswan RPGs? I remember being impressed with that Formula 1-style game on the machine, but I bet even that was an RPG somehow.

Post by **endar** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:46 am

blombluss wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:05 am
dng wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:41 pm also i have spent the whole last week trying to work out what the title of this thread is actually a pun of but i cannot
Durrrrrr! It is obvious! (I've absolutely no idea, either! )

Daren is leading us all a merry (and sesy) dance!

Wasn't me

Post by **vom** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:00 am

One wanders on the Wonderswan
Or one once did. Now it is gone

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 6:08 pm

hooray. how lovely

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 18, 2021 7:13 pm

daren wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:46 am Wasn't me

Darnnit! So close, yet so far!

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 3:14 pm

Gravid wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:55 pm Anyway in the spirit of collecting more things, I have downloaded ratchet and clank.

i played the first hour or so of this, and it appears to be the most blandly generic thing ever made

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:41 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 1:44 amI want one now

Can't you just nick one from the Queen?

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:44 pm

daren wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:46 am
blombluss wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:05 am
dng wrote: ↑Wed Mar 17, 2021 9:41 pm also i have spent the whole last week trying to work out what the title of this thread is actually a pun of but i cannot
Durrrrrr! It is obvious! (I've absolutely no idea, either! )

Daren is leading us all a merry (and sesy) dance!
Wasn't me

Wee Barry does so love his games.

Post by **endar** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:52 pm

Especially Japanese ones.

I have just discovered the existence of Octopath Traveller. It looks rather nice. It's on PC too, having first come out on Switch.

As is The Alliance Alive. I played the demo on 3DS and enjoyed it, and have now found it's on PC.

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:04 pm

I would like to play that octopath game, even though or maybe because is the stupidest word ever made

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:05 pm

Also today, 16 years after raz started the n3ta games thread with a post about planescape torment, I have bought planescape torment

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:06 pm

Next I'll have to finally get round to watching big fish, 14 years after Vom started the n3ta film thread with a post about big fish

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:53 pm

Those things never happened and you can't prove they did

Post by **vom** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:58 am

Valley

This was a nice game. It's a first person adventure with some combat, and an interesting energy system where you can give and take life to / from the surrounding environment. When you die, your resurrection affects the environment, so you have to go around healing trees and animals to restore the balance, which is lovely and oddly therapeutic.

Also there is a grappling hook, and a doomsday device, and the music is nice. And sometimes you get to run REALLY fast. I finished it this morning, and it was quite short (6-7 hrs) but it looks like there's quite a bit of bonus stuff to find so I will probably play more

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:49 am

That sounds nice

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:51 am

I have set my ps4 to download all those free ps4 games. I assume they will take approximately 68 thousand hours to download, due to everyone downloading them simultaneoasl all at once

Post by **endar** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:51 pm

Ooh Enter the Gungeon, I'll take that.

I already have Rez, of course.

Post by **endar** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:51 pm

Having also previously bought it on Dreamcast, PS2, 360...