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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

When I was 13: "HOLY SHIT THERE'S A NEW FINAL FANTASY!"

Now: "Oh, that came out?"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they ever make an active pause battle game again I'll be interested. I can't stand these straight up action games that don't even let you control your party.

12 was the last one I liked, but even that was pushing it just because of the battle system, which I hated at first cuz it felt like a MMO but ended up loving because of gambits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want a turn based RPG, OctoPath Traveler 2 is a really excellent option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have the first one. I've never gotten through it.
The style is great and all, but I want a modern RPG that has a party turn based system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Sea of Stars, which just came out, is also great

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Baldur's Gate 3 is a turn based RPG and it is quite good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I might get it when it goes on sale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, are we? My bad. Baldur's Gate 3 fits "a modern RPG that has a party turn based system", so I thought it was a good rec.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup. Final Fantasy is a jrpg. The battle systems are completely different than western RPGs.

Final Fantasy did start out as basically a Japanese DnD, but they changed so much it's a completely different style. Also see Crono Trigger, And well... any RPG from Japan lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dragon quest, turn based, also by square enix.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I didn't grow up playing FF, but bought 15 on Steam on a whim because "road trip with the bros" sounded cool. I enjoyed it, but then when FF7R came out, they made so many exclusivity deals among other stuff like iirc being the first dev to sell a game on PC at $70 that all my interest kinda waned. Square Enix surrounds these games with so much bullshit that it's just not worth trying to follow it anymore as someone who doesn't mainly play on PS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was a die hard final fantasy fan since I until X came out. X was more of a movie than a game and turned me off to the series.

I was interested in the FFVII remake until I learned it only covered escaping Shinra.

Are there and Final Fantasy's that are worth it post X? Don't want a MMPORG.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was so excited for XV and it just killed my excitement for the franchise. I almost skipped over XVI because it just looked so uninspired. XVI has really revitalized that excitement for the franchise though. I'm loving this game.

I plan on getting a buddy and going through Strangers of Paradise next. I had played through the demo with a friend and it was a blast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't know when you were 13, but there was this great run from 7 to 10. Then 12-15 kinda flopped and for some reason 11 and 14 were MMOs. So there was a whole era where it was nothing to get excited about.

7 remake was hype though.