DOT wrote:
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DOT wrote:
MrDollarBills wrote:Now this looks intriguing.
There's another game Atlus just released. A tactical RPG called Unicorn Overlord. I heard it's phenomenal
j4remi wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Now this looks intriguing.
There's another game Atlus just released. A tactical RPG called Unicorn Overlord. I heard it's phenomenal
I downloaded the demo for Unicorn Overlord, and the gameplay instantly hit my nostalgia buttons. But it was for literally one game that I can't recall anything else repeating. Ogre Battle for SNES (and remade for N64).
Ogre Battle was a tactical RPG unlike anything else. You don't control the turned base battles. Instead, you're like a general. You put together parties and send them along a big map to liberate villages, look for secrets, and fight the enemy. I LOVED that game, and Unicorn Overlord is the first time in forever that I've played a game like it.
The only other game close to it in style was Kessen, but that was much simpler and bit more like the Total War series where you control big armies rather than preparing small parties for turn-based style matchups.
Just seeing this style of gameplay make a comeback gave me some hope that maybe you guys will get to play a Dragon Force clone some day. Nobody played Dragon Force, but it was an absolute classic in my book.
MrDollarBills wrote:j4remi wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Now this looks intriguing.
There's another game Atlus just released. A tactical RPG called Unicorn Overlord. I heard it's phenomenal
I downloaded the demo for Unicorn Overlord, and the gameplay instantly hit my nostalgia buttons. But it was for literally one game that I can't recall anything else repeating. Ogre Battle for SNES (and remade for N64).
Ogre Battle was a tactical RPG unlike anything else. You don't control the turned base battles. Instead, you're like a general. You put together parties and send them along a big map to liberate villages, look for secrets, and fight the enemy. I LOVED that game, and Unicorn Overlord is the first time in forever that I've played a game like it.
The only other game close to it in style was Kessen, but that was much simpler and bit more like the Total War series where you control big armies rather than preparing small parties for turn-based style matchups.
Just seeing this style of gameplay make a comeback gave me some hope that maybe you guys will get to play a Dragon Force clone some day. Nobody played Dragon Force, but it was an absolute classic in my book.
yeah i'm digging the return of tactical RPGs. hell, i am honestly more interested in turn based/tactical than action RPGs now. For some reason (probably age) i just want to take my time and not have to worry about hectic hack and slash/inputs
MrDollarBills wrote:yeah i'm digging the return of tactical RPGs. hell, i am honestly more interested in turn based/tactical than action RPGs now. For some reason (probably age) i just want to take my time and not have to worry about hectic hack and slash/inputs
DOT wrote:I've been playing a ton of Civ IV lately, cause that was one of the foundational games of my childhood
It's f*cking brutal, like even on mid-level difficulty. Maybe I just suck at it lol
It was like that, plus KotoR 2 and Call of Duty 2: Big Red One which kinda defined my childhood
It's not exactly the same, but I've been a big Paradox Games guy for a while now which is sort of the evolution of games like Civ, especially Victoria III which is basically just Economy Simulator; the game. It's just a shame how many actual Nazis there are in the fandom, really spoils the fun. It is funny though to see them go into a Vicky III community and complain about how Communism is way too OP in the game
j4remi wrote:I LOVED the KotoR games and Jade Empire, which was basically KotoR gameplay in a kung-fu movie setting. Since I didn't play PC games, I always missed out on the Civilation games. I remember always thinking they looked like the series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, because of the top down displays. If they're anything alike, I'd probably be a fan.
DOT wrote:I think the hardcore 4X guys still view Civ IV as the gold standard of the genre
It doesn't have any real-time stuff, like combat is just one unit attacks another and basically dice rolls choose who wins, until they changed it in Civ V to where you can see how much damage exactly will be done to you and the enemy, as well as making it so only one unit can occupy one tile at a time making it more strategic but ironically making it easier, as AI isn't able to strategize very well so you can easily outmaneuver them, where in Civ IV they just build giant death stacks of over a dozen units that you just need to smash your way through
I still enjoy it, but like I said once you go over a certain difficulty level, the bonuses the AI get are kind of absurd. Like, I get it, that's the only real way to balance it without getting better at AI programming, but still. The game I'm on now, I took a civilization that specializes in expanding, spammed new cities to the point of almost ruining my entire economy, and I still was the smallest in terms of population
You compare that to like, CK3 where I have a playthrough where I started as the lowest level character you can make in Ireland and owned every province in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England by the time his son was 40, even with all the nerfs they put in place to stop that it's still too easy.
MrDollarBills wrote:Looks like Oda's taking a 3 week vacation to focus on himself..
Good. Life is too short.
DOT wrote:Every goddamn time
DOT wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:Looks like Oda's taking a 3 week vacation to focus on himself..
Good. Life is too short.
Yeah, 3 week vacation, then 1 chapter, then golden week
So we get 1 chapter for the next 5 weeks
I'm fine with it, like he's in good health and it's just pre-emptive, but definitely good to take time off.
MrDollarBills wrote:I was gonna say "dude, spoilers!!" but then i realized you aren't really spoiling anything, this meme is just the harsh truth. This series has been garbage since chapter 236.
I pray that the young author of Kagurabachi doesn't walk this same thorned path that Gege is on.
On another note, did you get a chance to see the new blu-ray cuts from Season 2, Episode 17?
TerrenceClarke wrote:Where is the love for X Men 97. I told ya this a Japan thread
j4remi wrote:TerrenceClarke wrote:Where is the love for X Men 97. I told ya this a Japan thread
It's kinda got me in an uncanny valley. I grew up with the old series and this animation really nails it. But the voices are like bad impersonations of the classic, and it throws me off. I'm hoping it grows on me over time. Plus it's hard to see Cyclops reverted to his good guy phase when the comic version has come so farSpoiler:
I rate Invincible over everything else stateside. Which is some BS, because all they'd have to do is copy the DC formula of actually adapting the most beloved comic stories. Jonathon Hickman's Avengers and Secret Wars, then House of X and Powers of X would SMOKE everything if they got a decent animation studio on board.
TerrenceClarke wrote:Where is the love for X Men 97. I told ya this a Japan thread
KnicksGadfly wrote:TerrenceClarke wrote:Where is the love for X Men 97. I told ya this a Japan thread
You missed it bro! We were talking about it a while back. But it’s on the radar for me. I only binge this stuff when all the episodes are out. Definitely pumped about this.
My dudes won’t talk to me about dune 2 though