Nintendo Direct REACTIONS, Elden Ring Hype Check & More!| GPWY Podcast

[@Kindlesmith70]

Speaking of Dragon Quest I have 3 games from the series that I somewhat enjoyed. Dragon Quest - Sentinels of the Starry Skies because of the co-op functionality. Teaming up with friends is a lot of fun, if somewhat overpowered. Dragon Quest Heroes - Rocket Slime because I liked the idea of the tank battles. It's certainly nothing new in concept, but I enjoyed this, getting a tank and customizing it via ammo and companions. It was wierd. Dragon Quest Builders because I really liked the concept of building up a place, creating rooms that have perks, and gathering people to live in it. If anyone knows a game similar to this that expands on this idea I'd be appreciative. It's a great foundation to build upon. Could you imagine taken this further by building homes, assigning questing parties to bring materials back for you, setting up guard posts and defense to keep away hostilities, bascially being the buidler, the founder, and then ruler of a small town. Making it work within the world. Sounds a bit like Dwarf Fortress but on a more visually appealing scale, and playing directly as a character. edit: Dragon Quest - Rocket Slime, shout out to Patapon, and up coming Ratatan

[@Kindlesmith70]

Probably going to get temp ban hammered for "spaming" by YT. 16:39 So as an rpg fan what's the scope of your experience? I'll throw a few recommnedations your way. Some I am sure you will have heard of, and may even have played. Chrono Trigger & Chrono Cross. Both belong together lorewise, but play quite differently. They are both available on Steam. Knights in the Nightmare, you are going to have to emulate if you aren't able to obtain this on the Nintendo DS (or 3DS) legally or otherwise. this falls into the tactics style of gameplay, but still very much is an rpg as you gain items, and level up your people. The blend of mechanics makes this one different enough from the standard tactics games out there. Fantasy Life. Another title that exists on a now 'obsolete' console, the Nintendo 3DS. A sequel is in the works scheduled this year for release called Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. I can't comment how much of the previous game's systems will be transferred to the new one, because obvious reasons. There's a lot of emphasis on making everything yourself through mini games, and the progression of everything else playing like a Secret of Mana styled game. Final Fantasy Explorers. Another Nintendo 3DS title that blends some interesting customization into a game like Monster Hunter. Fragile Dreams - Farewell Ruins of the Moon. This one is on the Wii. If you are able to play this through to end, it's a little depressing journey about a boy existing in a world where people have largely 'vanished'. [insert mysterious foreboding atmosphere sounds]. The story is the core drawn. Breath of the Wild had large discussions on weapon durability, and this game has this same feature, although I can't compare how much of bother it is as I've not even touched my copy of Breath of the Wild yet. I can say that the weapon durability in Fragile Dreams isn't too intrusive. I found hoarding every weapon was excessive by far. Comes down to how much you really want to grind, an aspect I don't recall really needing to do. The less you know going in, the more it may surprise you. Dokapon Kingdom. While not a generic rpg, it plays out like a board game. It's simplicity exists to facilitate it's cruelty. My experience with the game is sololy on the Wii. I do know you can get the game elsewhere, and there's other versions too. Don't play this if you can't accept losing, especially getting stabbed in the back. There can only be one winner in the game, and doing whatever it takes is key. Monster Lab. It's on several old platforms, but I only played this on the Wii. You roam around nodes along paths to beat up oth monsters so you can collect materials which you then use to carft your own parts for your monster(s). You are assembling monsters to fight other monsters essentially. The quality of your beast comes down to the qaulity of the materials and how good you are at playing mini games for the assembly process. This game could be consider just a turn based beat 'em up, too. The 3rd Birthday. A PSP title I think is based in the same universe as the Parasite Eve games. Very tactical action oriented. Patapon. I'd recommend the the first two as the third relied on multiplayer functionality as a maint component. These are on the PSP. If you aren't able to get a hold of these in a functional manner (emulation doesn't work well for these), I would suggest Ratatan which is in development by the same people that made the Patapon games. While not Patapon, this appears to have the same kind of feel to it. Press 4 buttons to the beat and your guys will follow the command. Nioh. A PS4 title. It's not too old to get info on it. Japanese themed Demon's Souls, but there's a lot more to it than Demon's Souls ever offered. There is a sequel, but I haven't played it yet to make any comment on it. I don't know if anybody plays this online any more, or if the servers are still going. Certainly a blast to play once you have a build you like. Dragons Dogma. The original one which you can now get pretty cheaply. It's not a game for everyone, to be sure. Resonance of Fate. Not really great imo, but the gunfu is pretty cool. It utilizes a system of combat similar to Natural Doctrine of making characters move along paths that intersect for bonuses. that being said.... Natural Doctrine. For the exact reasoning above. Placement, and intersecting pathing for boosts are a core features for combat. Rune Factory. A fantasy Harvest Moon I mean there is very little to say about it besides Harvest Moon, but with a fantasy spin, including combat. The series of this changes up the story, and formulas. You'd really need to dive into each for specifics. Generally they are a meh RPG with crop farming, and animal taming/raising. Tokyo Jungle. While not listed as an rpg, I kind of think it is. You are, after all, playing the role of a species and each playthrough you are levelling it's stats up to be better the next time you play it. It's such a bizzare game. White Knight Chronicles. A PS3 game. Unfortunately you will miss out on the online functionality of this which can help in a lot of ways. It's not important, but it speeds up certain aspects. Think a fantasy RPG, but you can go anime mecha. This game also has a sequel that allows you to transfer your character from the first game into it, keeping your levels, and skills you've chosen. Baroque. There's two versions of this game. The one I played and have is on the PS2. It's strange. Contains perma death, with your level resetting upon death, and losing all items that you didn't "save", but the resets are integral to the story. Odin Sphere. I didn't particularly like this kind of game. It certainly has a different approach to it. Trapt. A PS2 game of setting up traps to combo trigger against invaders for the most amount of points. It's a spinoff the Deception series. Robotrek. A Super Nintendo game. You play robots, that do a number of thing, travelling through several different themed environments. i never managed to complete this game, sadly. You could say this is an older, probably easier to get (through emulation), and variant of Monster Lab.

[@GoodPlayingWithYou]

This is epiiiiic. I appreciate the recommendations. I mean, anyone who suggests Parasite Eve is god-tier in my book. Keep them coming!

[@Kindlesmith70]

I'm kind of hyped for Fantasy Life 2 which they called FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time. I so wish a Tomodachi Life sequel would be made. I had a lot of fun messing around with this game. My fave aspects being creating all the inhabitants of the flat, Creating funny lyrics to the theatre, and asking dumb questions to the group and seeing who raises their hand (or doesn't). Miitopia got a sequel (or remake?) which is disappointing. I'd have actually loved if Miitopia was a part of Tomodachi as it would have added quite a but more to do with the characters you create. Makes me wish I knew complex coding. Not so much hyped about Elden Ring. I bought it after seeing marketing that made the game out to be something it wasn't. There's a fan made patch to fix the restrictions for multiplayer, but being forced into PvP each time a connection is made for co-op is obnoxious. The other thing was not being able to continue co-oping in areas the boss was defeated which forced exploring everything else using a guide to make sure which enemies prevent co-op from persisting weren't killed early, before taking on those enemies. As a solo experience I feel it may be alright, but that wasn't why I bought it. I love co-op games, and there really aren't that many great co-op games. Just saw Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which looks like it might be fun. A co-op Super Mario RPG styled game. There's not a lot of games on the NSwitch that takes my interest. A lot of shovelware, or games that are being ported from other systems. I did get it because there were a few titles I really wanted. Monster Hunter Rise, New Pokemon Snap as I never got to play the original and emulators couldn't get the oldie to work, and finally Animal Crossing: New Horizon which turned out to be a huge disappointment.They could have done so much more with it, but instead chose to keep the exact same formula, make the NPCs less fun to engage with, but provide the much requested freedom to customize the island. None of the updates were amazing as they only were adding in things that were in the previous games. I really had thought they'd add many new features that can be interacted with, with improved NPCs. This reminds me why I never bothered with PS5. As I have a PSP, Sega Master System, PS2, PS3, and PS4, I really don't want to touch PS5 considering, from my understanding, not everything is backwards compatible. I just don't have the space, and I don't want to spend money on a brick. Besides, there's a trend for Sony with games going onto the PC. So if I really desire a game that much and it comes to PC, I can just grab the game then. Oh I'm not a fan of any one comapny. I am a fan of games that entertain me, regardless of platform. I just happen to list a lot of Sony consoles because relevance. I am mostly a PC bloke, as almost everything can be played there. I still like to get original copies of games and the console they work on for legal reasons.

[@GoodPlayingWithYou]

Makes sense. I am not so hyped for Elden Ring DLC but I heard it just sold 5 Million copies, that's impressive. Mario & Luigi: Brothership looks really fun. I've always like the other Mario RPGs, so I'm glad to be able to play this one on the big screen. As for the library on Nintendo Switch, I too have a lot of games since they don't put them on PC (legally). I've bought them all physically because I don't quite trust Nintendo with their online system and policies currently. So I'm definitely hoping that the rumors are true that the Switch 2 is backwards compatible! I'll be so bummed if not.

[@Kindlesmith70]

@@GoodPlayingWithYou I've actually not really looked too much into the NSwitch 2. I've heard it hear and there, but never really dove into specifics. Would be nice if it were something like 3DS, basically an upgrade to the DS, fully backwards compatible. If not, I doubt I'll be getting it.