Was talking to a friend of mine last night about how much we love old school turn based jrpgs. He plays a lot of little niche titles that I would never know existed usually, so now that I have beaten SMT5, I asked him for a recommendation for a game to play. He told me to get this specific game and I didn't even bother to look it up, just went and downloaded it.

It took all of 2 minutes before I realized I had done fucked up. He had me download a gotdamn eroge game. So of course I ask him for a serious recommendation and he swears to me it's a good game and to just give it a chance. So I'm thinking OK, maybe it's not that bad and I keep going a bit. I'm already banging big titty party members by the first town. What in the actual fuck? This is a whole ass genre of game too. So confused. I find it absolutely hilarious because of the super crude hornyposting dialogue of the game. Kinda want to play it just to see how much weirder and hornier it gets. I dunno, feels dirty man.

It's called Evenicle for anyone else curious about how raunchy games can get lol

Should start a thread series along the lines of "Seph plays terrible games so you don't have to".

Holy shit this is terrible it has to be a joke I am dying please help me can't breathe omg lololololololololol

Destor I need your expertise. You are into the Trails series of games right? Where do I start with that? I think it's like 2 series or something, but do I need to play one of them first or are they independent of each other? I can't do this eroge shit and need something I haven't played before.

Trails is legit probably my fav series in all of gaming. Gimme a bit and i wi reply to this

There a 5 series in trails. They tell a narrative across their series but they absolutely tell a larger story and characters over lap heavily and it does assume you already know them. Here's the order chronologically:

The Sky Trilogy:

Trails in the Sky: First Chapter
Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter
Trails in the Sky: The Third

FC and SC were meant to be 1 game but it was decided it was too long so it was split into two. 3 has a mew protag (who was a party member in 2) but the gang is all here. This series is set in Liberal.

The Crossbell Duology:

Trails to Zero
Trails to Azure

This series is set in Crossbell and both games follow Llyod Bannings. Many characters from Sky appear as well as geopolitical ramifications of the events in Sky.

Cold Steele Saga:

Trails of Cold Steele 1
Trails of Cold Steele 2
Trails of Cold Steele 3
Trails of Cold Steele 4

Set in Erobonia. CS 1 and 2 stand alone pretty well for the most part. There are characters from past games, mostly Sky, but theyre all introduced like you dont know them. However CS 3 and 4 will essentially demand you play the past two series and pull from both Sky and Crossbell fully without any regard for the players past experience.

Trails of Reverie

Not yet released in the states. This coming fall. It closes out the previous 3 arcs (the 1st half of the Legend of Heroes.)

The 1st 2 games of the 2nd half of Legend of Heroes are out in Japan and are coming but the localization lags about 2 years. Should have a similar number og games in the 2nd half.

I would recommend 1 of 2 starting points. Either at the beginning with Sky or with Cold Steele 1. If a psp port is fine by you sky is a wonderful game. Estelle Bright is easily my favorite JRPG protag of all time. If you want something more modern with the QOL youd expect from a modern game start with CS1 and 2. If you're on board with what the Legend of Heroes offers after CS2 go back and play the full series.

Fair warning its on the easy side so dont be afraid of higher difficulty settings.

As to what trails is its a series that focuses heavily on characters and world building. Each npc in every town has a name. If you speak to them they will say things unique to them and they perspective. In nearly all cases you can actually speak to them twice per chapter and get unique dialogue and sometimes a third time. These people have lives. The npcs that is. Over the course of the game and games these peoples lives will become fleshed out. That all is of course fully optional. But that level of depth is there if you want it.

The primary narrative in a trails game is back loaded so be aware that the major moments are always in the back 90%. You spend most of a trails game exploring the country its set in and learning about its lore while small details are put in place. Then shit escalates. The more you pay attention the more you get out of it. The broad strokes though are outstanding and the core gameplay i really enjoy.

So ots just Redo of Healer then?

I have no idea what this is but considering you say it's comparable, I don't think I want to look it up.

No, you don't.

Surprised you haven't heard of it though since youre pretty in the know when it comes to anime.

Seph is no longer playing anything because his big beautiful PC died due to dysenpowersurge

F

Thats BRUTAL

I went from being REALLY amped i might have someone new to talk trails with to GUTTED completely in less than a day :'(

So sorry to hear that man. I’m sure it won’t be inexpensive to replace. This has got to be the saddest death since Chris Jericho killed Dean Ambrose’s Mitch the plant. :'(

Started playing The Ascent. Fun little twin stick shooter, with rpg elements. Really well designed cyberpunk world. Was shocked at how good it looks, frankly.

Don't worry, I'm already mapping out my path to an ever better PC. Might take a few weeks/month, but I shall make it so.

Perfect time to bust the steam deck out

yeah but its not the same and I'm so pissed at this other thing I won't even bother playing shit until I fix this.

Like I have Ragnarok sitting right there ready to go and I cant bring myself to even turn it on because of how blown I am.

Oh shit I might have got the beast working again 8======D~~~~~~

Yep, up and running albeit with the memory speed turned down for more stable voltage. Gonna let it ride a couple days first to check for stability before I start in on the games again though so I don't waste time and lose all my progress on everything again.

So fucking happy I had just finished SMT5. Would have been pissed af if all this happened before I fought the final boss.

YASSSSSSSSS

Playing the new Pokemon. Such a great game. They got rid of the mindless grinding for hours with instant battles that give exp. Makes traveling and leveling up so much quicker and enjoyable.

Most of this year I've been having a blast playing 7 Days to Die with my buddy a couple of nights a week. Gives us a chance to catch up with one another but also just seeing our skills and base improve over time is rewarding.

We started the game by taking over some three story building to use as our base and now have been gradually making improvements. Added an extra story, a mining shaft, and are now working on a full-blown underground garage.
Most importantly, constantly fortifying the base as we got incredibly close to dying in the last horde night we did when they found the one weakness in the base we didn't account for.

He and his wife are expecting their first baby sometime in late January so I suspect our gaming nights will be coming to an end for a while, so I'm just enjoying it while I can.

WWE2k22 is on sale (on Xbox at least) for about $20.




Glad I waited, as I still wouldn't shell out $70, but it is a MASSIVE improvement on previous versions. If you've played before though, put the difficulty on hard at least, or every match will be a squash match.


I was fighting Kofi last night with my CAW in MyRise mode. Was stomping him, had my signature and finisher ready. This fucker does ONE COUNTER, follows up with a few moves, taunt and then the god damn BOOM drop.




I'm stunned, can't counter, and then the Trouble In Paradise. (as I read that, how did the new day never do a joke about "just the TIP")??


He fucking won, in a match that was about ~5 mins, and outta nowhere in some shit that could have actually played out on TV.


I'd give it an 8/10

Soccer Story. Attempting to be Golf Story with soccer, but made by a diff company. Its charming in the same way Golf Story was, but isn't as good as its inspiration, and is currently suffering from several game breaking bugs. I already know I've activated one of the bugs on my file and will eventually have my progress halted once the story directs me to the NPC who won't talk to me now because of the bug. They are aware of the issues though and already working to drop a patch, so hopefully it won't take too long.

Game is free on game pass rn so if you have access to that it's def one to keep in mind if you liked GS at all.

Heads up though: the actual soccer is not going to play the way a typical soccer sim does. Not even close. It's 5v5 and powers come into play eventually. It's going to seem really hard at first when you actually try to play the game like you would normally, but once you figure out what you need to do it becomes kinda simple. And the 1v1 (actually 2v2 counting the goalie, but the game says 1v1) matches are extremely easy regardless and if you lose one of those you suck at games and should never play anything ever again.

I cant help but notice that soccor story is not trails

The new Need For Speed game is actually REALLY good!


Considering buying it.

Waiting on approval from a site to get the PSP games because i forgot my access credentials that were autosaved on my PC before I lost everything. Taking them forever and it's annoying.

have been tempted to just run the risk and sail the digital seas out in the open tbh

Theyre on steam

Was not aware. Are they decent ports or are they shitty mobile feeling ports like square and other companies like to do because they suck donkey dicks?

Oooooh humble running a 50% off sale that conveniently ends in 15 hours.

of course I just learned that the source i was speaking of was nuked by nintendo because they had pokemons early

Legit ports and very good ones

indeed. I always worry about that because I've bought some SHITTY ports of old PC games via steam before and its left a bad taste in my mouth. Its why I tend to go back to OG console/portable versions more often.

got the game downloading, will start tomorrow when i wake up

Might start it tonight honestly because its not a huge file. I hope it doesnt have one of those openings where it takes like 2 hours to get to the first save lol

Its safe to skip the original legend of heroes games (dragon slayer, etc) right?

Trails is def narrative heavy but if you can move your character you can save

They are most likely not canon. Nayuta might be canon since theyre re-releasing it this year but how its canon is unknown. But yes the previous legend of heroes titles are non canon.