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rollingsunblog · 1 year

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Gamers of a certain vintage may have fond memories of Beam Software’s 1993 version of Shadowrun on the SNES, or to a lesser extent, the 1994 Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game created by BlueSky Software.

Significantly fewer are likely to remember Shadowrun’s Japanese Sega CD adaptation from 1996, which not only was one of the last games launched on Sega’s failed add-on, but has never seen a full translation - official or otherwise - into English.

Unlike the more action-oriented SNES and Genesis versions, Shadowrun on Sega CD sticks fairly close to its source material, going as far as to incorporate actual dice rolls into combat. That fidelity can be chalked up to the involvement of Group SNE, who at that point were managing the Shadowrun franchise in Japan. The game’s scenario, co-written by Group SNE member Akira Egawa (江川晃), takes place in Tokyo and follows the cast of Egawa’s Shadowrun replays The Fallen Magician and The Nightmare Mark as they make their way through a series of episodic adventures.

The game’s cast represents a broad cross-section of Shadowrun archetypes. From left to right: Decker D-Head, Former Company Man Shiun, Street Samurai Rokudo, Physical Adept Sha, and Shaman Mao.

Setting-wise, this title draws from Egawa's somewhat controversial Tokyo Sourcebook supplement, a Japan-exclusive release that liberally rewrites the Shadowrun setting to make it more palatable to a Japanese audience. In Shadowrun’s early editions, the Japanese Imperial State (JIS) was presented as a militant, xenophobic superpower that eventually winds up invading and occupying San Francisco. Egawa’s Tokyo Sourcebook replaces this with a dysfunctional nation in the process of being torn apart by open warfare between rival megacorporations - a tweak that apparently didn’t impress hardcore Japanese fans, as several of them went on to write up an alternate JIS sourcebook, arguing that a villainous Japan was ultimately more interesting than a weak one.

#shadowrun #tabletop roleplaying #pen and paper roleplaying #console rpgs #trpg

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buttercup-barf · 5 months

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Been looking into Super Mario RPG recently... Guess which new guys are my favouties.

#super mario rpg #super mario rpg legend of the seven stars #geno smrpg #mallow smrpg #they are so. fucking cute. that whole game is so cute - it's a total 100% serotonin-filled joyride from start to finish!#i never had a console to play it on but the playthoughs i watched made me grin so much. and who didn't grin?#literally all i heard in all of those three playthroughs were just sounds of joy it's peak fun and whimsy and now i also wish for a sequel #HA. WISH. LMAO #they're wearing different shoes because i am the god of this world

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arcadebroke · 18 days

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#Secret of Evermore #1995 #SquareSoft #Super Nintendo #SNES #JRPG #RPG #console gaming #retro gaming #video games #video

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sentfromwolves · 6 days

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hey writeblr: if your current wip was a video game, what kind of game would it be?

#writeblr #writing community #is it cozy gaming mmorpg farm sim etc etc #is it first person shooter is it a rpg is there romance tell me more tell me how I would #play your book as a game #bonus points if you include console and combat system type #hbabl would be a rpg and you would exclusively play as nemesis #and honestly this is coming up because I saw a ff7 gif set and I can fantasize about hbabl through the lens of being a jrpg game #right?#LOL

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thankskenpenders · 6 months

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If Sonic ever attempted another turn based RPG, what would you like to see from it?

I don't really have a big list of demands. I would just like a Sonic RPG that doesn't feel like it actively hates the player. I also think an RPG would be the perfect place to use the IDW cast. Work the Restoration into the story! Let Tangle and Whisper be party members! Have a boss fight against Surge and Kit! This stuff writes itself

I don't expect this to happen anytime soon - the scars from Sonic Chronicles run deep, and it was way cheaper and quicker to make an RPG spinoff back on the DS. But I can dream...

#toko-in-the-90s #ask #tkp asks #honestly if anything i would sooner expect a mobile sonic gacha rpg than a proper console rpg. but i would rather it doesn't come to that

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forcefeedingsoup · 2 months

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in case you need to hear this today:

you don't have to be good at games to have fun playing them. It's okay if you can't even beat the CPUs. Games are meant to be enjoyed, and they aren't necessarily meant to be played aggressively.

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prototypelq · 6 months

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Wonder if Larian's games could have been better if like, at least 20% of content from them had been cut.

Listen, listen, before you say anything - I love Larian and their mentality. This team is making incredible games, and the amount of creative energy that is poured into each of their releases is incredible. Playing their games is a joy, and hilarious and amazing.

But, but.

There can be too much of a good thing. And I don't think Larian's ever learned that...

Do you know the average percentage of players that actually finish the main story in games? 30-40% if we look at achievements across different platforms. That is 60-70% of players who never saw the end of the main story.

I've been replaying DOS2, and it's a Joy to play through, however the 'joke' that tutorial level takes about 10-15, maybe even 20 hours to complete is...not a joke. There is beauty in hiding some content, so that only the dedicated players find it, but this doesn't exactly work for RPG systems that heavily depend on level&equipment of your player characters, now does it. This basically forces players to clear out the entire map to be able to progress the story further, and while the tactical aspect of this game is big, I doubt your average player can use it to beat difficulty&enemy level curve.

I had a big DOS2 phase before, my last memories of the game are Beast's quest (BEST COMPANION WHY IS NOONE TALKING ABOUT HIM) in Arx, soo I've been somewhere very near the end of the game. I never finished it because I was frustrated with a lack of direction for the main story for a long time, and Arx was the point where I jumped games.

So yeah, I believe cutting at least 20% of content from each of the acts of that game would have helped keep the main story in focus, plus the time to complete the game might have been more affordable.

Another thing is, from the documentaries on DOS2 development, and with the Larian saying that BG3 production took the studio much closer to the edge of closing, Larian seem to have a systematic problem of forever chasing their ambitions without really caring about their costs. DOS2 development was described as 'trying to build a plane as it is taking off', a lot of features for the game have been added last minute, and BG3 release players are sort of in the same boat. So yeah, some content cutting would have helped out the studio themselves quite a lot, or let them have more time for quality testing and polish.

tldr: I believe Larians are amazing but also head over heels in their production, their games are huge and the nature of their rpg mechanics forces player to play through everything,or never finish the main story, plus the studio have a history of releasing arguably unfinished games*, so I believe they should consider cutting content for future releases both for the studio's sake and to improve the player experience

*don't @ me, DOS2 and BG3 were arguably unfinished on release. That said, Larian's 'unfinished' and Average Game Industry 'Unfinished' are very different instances, I meant that Larian clearly would have benefitted for some polish time before release

btw why the Hell are there built-in Larian-approved player modifications for the games, however Turning Them On is a crime that disables achievements??? Larian, my guys, why.

#i am not a 100000% achievemnt hunter but i do like having them it's like a cool sticker about your experience in each game #and i want my cool stickers #not a issue currently as modding community my beloved have given me the tools to make the game even more enjoyable for me #but i miss my cool stickers on console where i first played the game #also help i lose dos2 combat so much i feel like it ruined other rpgs for me? how could i ever go to limiting classs systems after this #i love class systems and speicif playstyles but dos2 is honestly god-tier good #larian studios #thank you larian for your service #polymorph necromancy summoning aerotheurge geomancer my beloved #i installed so many mods i love them all never playing base game without them again #bg3 #dos2 #divinity original sin 2 #baldur's gate 3

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xwagnerplaguesx · 1 year

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Breath of Fire series (Capcom)

Breath of Fire (1993) Breath of Fire 2 (1994) Breath of Fire 3 (1997) Breath of Fire 4 (2000) Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (2002) *I refuse to acknowledge BOF 6

#breath of fire #capcom #rpg #video games #games #gaming #Consoles

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akaikami-cherryblossom · 5 months

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Me: I kinda want to try bald.ur’s ga.te, it looks fun

My lil bro, every time: you know that’s a SEX game right??? You can have SEX??? That’s GROSS. There are so many SEX scenes. I KNOW you don’t wanna play a SEX game!!! >:(

#bestie it is an rpg yes there are sex scenes but you have not seen the otome I’ve played #also like. you watch porn. you’ve told me. what the hell. I’m older than you.#I mostly wanna play for astarion tho he’s enamored me and I want him #even if I were to try n get it tho I don’t have the console and my bro does and he didn’t let me borrow it when I got p5 #so it’s not even worth it #long story short I wanna play b.g.3 so fuckin bad #lc screams #now censored! because I don’t want the huge fandom to find it :D #he also just thinks he knows what’s best for me and owns me I need to kill him

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autopotion · 4 months

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There are a number of things in Crimson Shroud I was kind of iffy about that put me off playing it, but now that I am I actually find I'm liking it quite a bit. The writing, art, and music are all very moody in a way that's familiar to me (Yasumi Matsuno + Basiscape, you know how it is lol, plus I think the guy who did the art took notes from Akihiko Yoshida) and while I originally found the tabletop aesthetic to be off-putting (your guys are always represented by little tabletop figurines, and dice that you physically roll with the stylus are a big part of the mechanics) over time it's really really growing on me. I think it's kinda cute ngl.

I feel like this is the type of game I would've been obsessed with if it had come out in the early 2000s and I'd played it then. Really weird, very stylistic, thick with lore for a relatively short game, not very well known, moody tone... Like it brings Summoner to mind, actually, which was a flop of an RPG that came out in the early 2000s that was also openly and heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, but also I have a lot of fond memories of it lol. And that game was also very moody

Also you can totally tell this was intended to be a sequel to Vagrant Story originally, it wears its spiritual predecessor on its sleeve. It really feels like a journey through Lea Monde abstracted through figurines, dice, and dungeon maps. This might be heretical to say... but I'm kinda... enjoying it more than I was Vagrant Story, LMAO. I think for two reasons: 1. turn-based combat is more familiar to me, so I'm adapting to Crimson Shroud's mechanical depth much more quickly, and 2. the major female character in this game, Frea, is actually playable, and is your party's linchpin. Will always be lamenting Callo Merlose's demotion to NPC in vanilla Vagrant Story for game memory reasons u_u

The main dude is also growing on me unfortunately. "Giauque," the stupidest possible version of "Jack." I had my hackles up when he internally referred to Frea as a she-dog early on (shortly after she was revealed to be a member of an oppressed fantasy ethnic group, which like. I don't even want to get into all that shit right now, but it's the other reason I was put off by this game) but over time I think it's clear that was just a very poor way of demonstrating their usual dynamic, which is that he took Frea under his wing and likes her quite a bit, but portrays himself as a gruff, amoral lout, so he prefers to bicker instead of be effusive. The implication is that they're a bit like each other IMO, both too sharp-tongued for their own good

I also know a ton of spoilers so I'm paying lots of attention to Frea in the frame story... We'll have to see how it's handled, but I do like that the main antagonist of this game is a woman. So few games feature a woman as the primary villain, and even if they do, they find ways to blunt her impact (like Ultima in FFT, she's resurrected at the ass end of the story and then Ramza & co. kill her immediately), so I'm curious to see where Crimson Shroud will go with Abigail (an insane name for a villainess in a dark fantasy piece btw)

BASICALLY I think if CS was a fifty-hour game I might find it more exhausting, but since it barely hits twenty if you're taking your time, I'm a lot more invigorated by it. The short runtime works in its favor IMO.

#crimson shrouding #weirdly it also like..... reminds me of pyre???#which is an insane thing to say the two have very little in common #but there's like.... a tone thing. a 'pack in a bunch of lore in a tiny space' thing.#a 'you can see our fantasy inspirations openly and obviously' thing #CS is doing a spin on TTRPGs #pyre is doing a spin on console RPGs especially those that were inspired by TTRPGs #something something #... a 'there's a lot of depth here but we're still focused in on the one concept' thing

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rollingsunblog · 1 year

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A long-ish playthrough of 1993′s Sword World SFC, a comparatively faithful adaptation of Group SNE’s 1989 fantasy RPG.

Sword World SFC is a cut-down reworking of the previous year’s Sword World PC, which reportedly spent a whopping three years in development and effectively bankrupted its original developer, XTAL SOFT. T&E Soft, creators of the seminal action RPG Hydlide, swooped in at the last minute to rescue the project, and would go on to release Sword World SFC2: Legend of the Ancient Titan in July 1994.

#sword world #japanese rpgs #console rpgs #trpg

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chromaji · 5 months

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fuck you mean “a new rpg maker has been vaguely announced”

#‘rpg maker with’ WITH *WHAT*?!!!#apparently its console-only from whats been revealed so far so… i sleep tbh.#now if its announced for pc i’ll really be looking into it but until then ehhh

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daz4i · 9 months

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every once in awhile i think about how creative wonderlands is and what a good game it is. found out recently it was being planned for years before coming out (tho mostly created over quarantine) and you can really tell bc my god it's so original and has so many unique and fun ideas like it's hard to think of a part i didn't like. and even if like a certain side quest is a bit tedious the gameplay all but makes up for it. dude it's so good everyone should play it

#my expectations of it were high but it met them all and then some fr fr #ik other blands fans don't like the lack of post game content but idc abt this stuff bc I'm a replayer at heart anyway 😎😎😎#and this game has so much content esp if you like side quests and collectibles it's so fun 🥺 i love it sm guys #you don't need to know borderlands to play it guys... if you have a pc or console that can run tiny tina's wonderlands pls check it out.....#especially if you like dnd or story driven first person shooters esp with rpg elements......#or meta style of storytelling or silly humor or fantasy or gay pirates. it has smth for everyone really

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arcadebroke · 2 years

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shinigami-striker · 6 months

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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga | Friday, 11.17.2023

The very first Mario & Luigi RPG game, Superstar Saga was released on this day 20 years in North America exclusively on Game Boy Advance!

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sparx-png · 6 months

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blog intro! let's be moots!

I've had this blog for a while, but I realized I've never made an introduction and I love doing that. So here we go.

name: sparx

gender & pronouns: bigender/nonbinary, they/[any]

ethnicity: mixed-race latino

languages: english, spanish

age: 22

blog type: multifandom

interests: video games, anime, movies, tv, webcomics/comics, etc.

video games

• genres: RPGs, JRPGs, visual novels, platformers

• favorites: kingdom hearts, the world ends with you, devil may cry, mortal kombat, our life, mystic messenger, rakuen, ori and the blind forest, final fantasy, persona

anime

• blue exorcist, erased, tokyo revengers, jojo's bizarre adventure, attack on titan, ouran high school host club, free!, hell girl, to your eternity, death note, tanaka-kun is always listless, afro samurai, devil may cry (2007), from me to you, etc.

movies

• genres: animation, comedy, romance, romcom, fantasy, action, adventure, horror, martial arts

• favorites: scott pilgrim vs. the world, inception, studio ghibli films, gkids films, lord of the rings, knives out, the mummy, fantastic beasts and where to find them, the matrix, encanto, old 2D disney movies, insidious, old dreamworks movies, fantastic beasts and where to find them, etc.

tv

• genres: animation, fantasy, sci-fi, action, adventure

• favorites: invincible, over the garden wall, the legend of vox machina, avatar: the last airbender, twin peaks, our flag means death, clone high, etc.

webcomics/webtoons/manhwa/manga

• omniscient reader, blue hearts, surviving romance, let's play, i'm the queen in this life, blue exorcist, death is the only ending for the villainess, i love yoo, my deepest secret, the guy upstairs, kiss him not me, age matters, batman: wayne family adventures, lost and found, comedown machine, etc.

other

• music, hello kitty, books, poetry/lyrics, liminal space, glowwave, backrooms, reality shifting (don't judge my escapism tactics aaa), language learning, stand-up comedy etc.

dni list

• homophobes, xenophobes/racists, transphobes, and any type of bigot I guess lmao

• i'd prefer to interact with 18+ users instead of minors, but I'm not super strict

And that's pretty much it! I'll likely be continuously updating the list of interests over time. By the way, this is my secondary blog. If we become moots, I'll follow you from my primary (@eightb-all) that I don't use much. Tumblr sucks at secondary blog capabilities :,)

Nice to meet you all!

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