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 On 11/09/2014 at 02:22 PM by leeradical42 See More From This User » |
So alot of people are curios about these bland graphic 80 hour plus games and if your thinking of getting into these heres a few tips that will first see if your even meant for them and what to start with if you are.
Probably a Jsrpg you may enjoy awesome story
One thing about jrpgs that you have to know is first there very time consuming some stories can drag out to 7 or 8 hours before the real fun begins & thats not all but the norm is about that time, the stories not always that great but do set up your introduction to the charachters, and why your with these characters and why your adventure begins.
Two basic Jsrpg thats a great starting point
One thing about jrpgs and sjrpgs are that graphics do not need to be great in fact most are down right ps2 era graphics but with that said the time and fun to be had with the game will be story and character development and the battle system which in my opinion is turn based but theres plenty of Jrpgs & Jsrpgs that has unique battle systems that work very well so what is a jrpg or Sjrpg well its a Japanese strategy role playing game or a Japanese role playing game and dont laugh I know plenty of people who has no idea what that means.
The best place to start in my opinion is on a ps2 or ps3 or even a PlayStation one, matter of fact the best game to start with is Final Fantasy Tactics this is where I started with my obssesion of Srpgs and its a excellent game its basic enough to understand and deep enough to get you hooked and a story to keep you going til the end, strategy rpgs are very time consuming and may take months of playing to complete, especially with beating that learning curve of your more deeper srpgs but once you master the learning curve srpgs, jrpgs & jsrpgs will be much easier to pick up and play, I could get into the whole paper and dice aspect of srpgs but im not you will figure this out with time and one crucial bit of advice if you do start a srpg game make sure its one that holds your interest, theres plenty of srpgs that will frusterate you confuse you and just plain make ya want to throw your controller, dont make the mistake of getting a srpg that frusterates you or your venture into the srpg realm will be a short one.
I think the best place to start learning RPGs is actually the 16-bit ones. They were not too complicated or meandering. Final Fantasy IV is a good place to start, although FF6 is my personal favorite. Square even made a Final Fantasy game to appeal to beginner RPG players in the US called Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, but a lot of people don't like that one. I like it, though.
Also, Pokemon games and Mario RPGs are also good for beginners.
I think the N64 had one called Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles that was another good rpg to start with.
Crystal Chronicles was on the Game Cube. It's not very good. No real story, and meant for co-op, but you have to use GBAs as extra controllers.
Ha ha!! Your right that was a horrible mess of a game what the hell was I thinking lol!!!
I fell in love with them during the PSONE era, though I did play them before that. I just love the PSONE JRPG's the best.
Although I got my interest in the first NES Zelda and Dragon Warrior games my favorite ones were on the PS1 as well I still play some like Vagrant Story & Suikoden.
I would probably suggest starting off with something more modern like Persona 4 or in it's most basic form the most current Pokemon. JRPGs have pretty much disappeared from the main stream and fallen off the radar for most console gamers and pushed into a niche genre. I'd suggest the more current remakes for Final Fantasy 4 and X or even somehthing like Bravely Defalut on 3DS. Old schoo JRPGs are great but I think they'd be hard to start off with.
As far as Jrpgs are concerned I would recommend the Tales series like the 360s Tales of Vesperia the selections I picked in my blog are for Jsrpgs which are appropriate for Strategy Role Playing Games.
I was gonna do a blog aboug strategy games since I never really played them in the past. I'm playing Beyond Earth and Endless Legend. I've only ever played Tactics and Fire Emblem so I would be interested in reading a short list about the better strategy games on console, specifically SJRPGS.
Tears to Tiara got excellent reveiws but word of warning it has a long long story like it took 6 hours before I could even get control of my party.
6 hours? Dear Lord. I could have gotten to level 90 in World of Warcraft in 6 hours. Or played 5 Indie games for an hour at a time? Kidding aside, one of the things I meant to ask about JRPGs or SJRPGs is how you approach playing them? I can only play like an hour of any game at a time unless it is really engrossing. Vita, 3DS and PSP lets me use sleep mode so I can continue long campaigns. I'm still interested in this game though, but my backlog. Have less than a month to complete. Cue the mission impossible music.
The way I do it is if its a big game which most srpgs And Sjrpgs are check out a how to play vid on YouTube to get an idea of the battle system so you know what characters to develop into your main squad and get to know the battle and strategy aspect of the game maybe skip all the dialog do a few battles then start over and you should be fine.
Since I usually game with my buddy Mark, and we usually play shooters, I haven't gotten into too many JRPGs, SRPGs or even RPGs really, but I really love what few I've played. It's hard to find the time outside of my usual "social" gaming to play them. I keep picking them up though. I'm super excited about Codename: STEAM coming probably Spring of 2015. I'm preordering as soon as there is a set date for it.
I couldnt picture you sticking with a 80 hour srpg lol!!!
My breaking point is nearing the 100 hour mark. Even Dragon Quest VIII started to wear me out by hour 90.
On very long 80 to 100 hour games find a stopping point that is easy to remember what you were doing and play something else I very rarely play any game through the entire game without a break its usually good when you start skipping dialog to move on with the game its a good time to take a break.
Thing is, I always forget a lot of the mechanics of the game when I break from it, leading me to restart at the beginning rather than try and remember it all. Sometimes that's fun to do though. I'm wondering when I should break from Borderlands: Pre-Sequel and try some of the other characters or get back to my play of Diddy Kong Racing and RE4. I kinda want to take a break after 65 hours, but it's tough when you have friends still playing it.
My starting point was the Phantasy Star series, in particular PS II, which was available on a Sega Genesis Collection for the PS2. I never beat the game and it's very dated and it requires an online faq but it lays some ground rules for how RPGs work, especially the concepts of turn-based combat and grinding (more unforgivably so).
The better game in the series is clearly PS IV but we all start somewhere.
Never played Phantasy Star so I wouldn't know but I heard they are good games.
Chrono Trigger is the game I always recommend for people looking to get into JRPGs.
Yes Chrono Trigger is a good one so is The Secret of Mana which is now on ios and android as well which is another great one to start with.
I'd recommend one of the Dragon Quest games, no question. They cover the basics of both Japanese and western RPGs, such as party combat, turns, menus, overworld travel, a fully realized land mass, classes. The 16-bit and DS versions of 3,4,5,6 would be optimal.
Great starting games but the basic graphics and long stories may make players loose interest.
I never did finish Dragon Quest VIII. 90 hours in and it was still getting bigger and better, but I was beginning to wonder which was the real world, this one, or the one with Morrie.
I started with Japanese RPGs with Dragon (Warrior) Quest and Faxanadu, as well as with Ultima III, which was actually made in Texas but made a huge impression on Japan. I think that the best things people could do to try the genre would be to download some of the big PS1 RPGs from PSN, or, as stated above, pick up the DS remakes of Dragon Quest IV-VI, which are accessible.
Some Japanese RPGs are quite beautiful. Ni no Kuni and Valkyria Chronicles come to mind, and Square's RPGs are always technically proficient.
Dragon Warrior and quest is good starting points but they are long games but really theres not many jrpgs or srpgs thats not very long.
I had a feeling I might not like this game. Try as I might but when I tried to play those two titles you aforementioned I just couldn't get into them. And this isn't because I'm not a total fan of SRGPs or JRPGs or SJRPGs. I enjoyed The Shining Force Series and Lunar. But when it comes to overall SJRPGs they just don't do it for me. It's a shame too because it sounds like this game's story is intruging.
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