Pick a game for me to play on stream!

Jaxel

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So I've decided I'm going to play some RPGs on my JTV stream... I need help deciding what game to play. I've looked through the PSX games available on PSN and narrowed down to the following RPGs (I won't be playing any Final Fantasy games)...
  • Alundra
  • Arc the Lad 1/2/3
  • Grandia
  • Suikoden
  • Wild Arms 1/2
  • Vagrant Story
  • Xenogears
What game should I play? http://www.justin.tv/8wayrun
 
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On a side note, you have fantastic taste in rpg games, unlike fallout >_> or mass effect >_> pfft rpgs my arse.
 
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I like Fallout 3... I did not like Mass Effect; to me BioWare makes some shitty stories. The stories are "complicated", but that doesn't make them "deep". They are actually very dumb stories, with random nonsense minutia thrown into it to pretend that its deep, when its really not. And when you take out the "story", what are you left with in a BioWare game? Lackluster gameplay.

A lot of the RPGs I wanted to play, are sadly not available on PSN... like Chrono Trigger. I never played Chrono Trigger... someone should lend me a copy for the PSX.
 
Ah this day and age I usually don't pay attention to the storys, because they are mainly shit. The older games, like 2 gens ago were ripe with passion and excellent story lines. Nowadays it's just who can spruce-up the graphics best and sell a half completed piece of donkey feces!

And we can't get Wild Arms 1 on the PSN in england :(. But luckily I still have the game! But yes I would class bioware or bethesda games as "action platformers with rpg elements". But they lack atmosphere.... drastically.... yeah.... is bof on the US store?
 
Wild Arms 2, I've never played Wild Arms 1 yet. My older cousin buy it when he lived in Japan, actually I'm not a big fan of RPG game but Wild Arms 2 is my first RPG game. I miss the game so much.
 
I actually watch streamed video games quite a bit. There's this guy who started doing it a year and half ago. He was on hiatus at one point, but other than that he's pretty much streamed nightly at midnight Eastern time. www.kuoushi.com

Some of his regulars started taking interest in streaming themselves, including me, but I'm pretty busy with school at the moment and almost never have time for it. With the current block there are 4 streamers who stream back to back starting at 11 eastern time. I throw it on and leave it running in the background most of the time, and check in every now and then. I can tell you what I personally like watching.

RPGs are pretty boring to watch for the most part. You, as the streamer get to read chat more often and be more talkative. You can use conversation skills to make this worth watching in between interesting bits.

There are some games that will make a stream worth watching all the way through, something unique and controversial, like Candy Van.

After that I think, it just depends on the game and the streamer. There's a streamer on kuoushi.com who just attempted a nuzlocke run through Pokemon (Hardcore mode, if a pokemon faints you release it. You can only catch the first pokemon you see in a new zone). He also nicknamed his Pokemon after people in chat. Personally I think that was a pretty engaging stream. Even if you didn't catch it that night, you'd wonder if he had got the Pokemon named after you killed.

Here's a 5 minute stream I did of Metal Slug while someone else was running late: http://www.livestream.com/lasercakes/video?clipId=pla_f04bb601-c1d4-4893-86df-4a7afc8ea4bb. I also attempted to stream Touhou which can visually be very busy at times and would lag the stream down to 4 frames per second. It was also nearly impossible to read chat sometimes. I am currently playing through Doom III which is actually a quick-save/quick-load-fest. I really couldn't tell you if people like watching it.
 
TadeMasu said:
Ah this day and age I usually don't pay attention to the storys, because they are mainly shit. The older games, like 2 gens ago were ripe with passion and excellent story lines. Nowadays it's just who can spruce-up the graphics best and sell a half completed piece of donkey feces!

And we can't get Wild Arms 1 on the PSN in england :(. But luckily I still have the game! But yes I would class bioware or bethesda games as "action platformers with rpg elements". But they lack atmosphere.... drastically.... yeah.... is bof on the US store?
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Would you like to save the princess?

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**No

Deep. I love me some western and some eastern RPG's. There's a clear-cut difference in styles, but that doesn't mean one is worse than the other. That probably won't be a popular opinion here. I really got over the whole "if it's not turn based it's not an RPG" thing a long time ago. Though games did tend to be a lot more polished in the era before developers could rely on patches. I'd recommend the original, isometric PC fallouts to you. You'd probably like them.

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They're turn-based, isometric, well written, atmospheric, chalk full of text and genuinely complex. Everything you're looking for I imagine. At a time when I was sick to death of fantasy cliches they saved my opinion of RPG's. If you play these Tade, you might find something to like in New Vegas.

As for Jaxel I second the recommendation on Wild Arms. The graphics are a bit dated but the story's anime quality.
 
Genghis John forgot to mention the most important thing of the oldschool Fallout games.

You can punch rats in the dick in them.

Punch. Rats. In the dick.

I rest my case.
 
I'd go with Xenogears .... or Vagrant Story. These two are also the games I'd like to play myself again.

Wild Arms 1 was pretty cool as well, it's been ages but I still remember boss battle music.
 
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Would you like to save the princess?

>Yes
**No

Deep. I love me some western and some eastern RPG's. There's a clear-cut difference in styles, but that doesn't mean one is worse than the other. That probably won't be a popular opinion here. I really got over the whole "if it's not turn based it's not an RPG" thing a long time ago. Though games did tend to be a lot more polished in the era before developers could rely on patches. I'd recommend the original, isometric PC fallouts to you. You'd probably like them.

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fallout3.jpg


They're turn-based, isometric, well written, atmospheric, chalk full of text and genuinely complex. Everything you're looking for I imagine. At a time when I was sick to death of fantasy cliches they saved my opinion of RPG's. If you play these Tade, you might find something to like in New Vegas.

As for Jaxel I second the recommendation on Wild Arms. The graphics are a bit dated but the story's anime quality.
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Oh yeah I do like those kind of games. Been playing D2 for like 9 years >_>. I like the whole (well I don't want to quote this but) "diablo 2 like games", they just have that wicked atmosphere about them. And I prefer Baldur's Gate to D2.... But D1 beats all of em :D!

But that's just it, my only qualms with western RPGs nowadays is the fact that they are commercialised way too much. Seems to me most people expect the game to be as epic or amazing as the advertisements to it, which I think they spend more time on -_-. Let me give you a better example:
I live/love/want to marry Oblivion
I hate/despise/want to poop on Fallout 3

I have no clue which one was more commercialised, but it felt more passion and effort went into the making of Oblivion, even when it has like 2 voice actors maximum lol. I just appreciate hard work and not some half assed attempt at milking the gaming society. And I have no clue if I am contradicting myself to the above statement based on those 2 games, but it's just my opinion.

P.S. If you second Wild Arms 1, YOU DA MAN! By far my favourite rpg of all time. It's so nostalgic, well written, and for it's time fan fucking tastic! Still is a gem today as well lol.
 
TadeMasu said:
Oh yeah I do like those kind of games. Been playing D2 for like 9 years >_>. I like the whole (well I don't want to quote this but) "diablo 2 like games", they just have that wicked atmosphere about them. And I prefer Baldur's Gate to D2.... But D1 beats all of em :D!
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Did ya try torchlight I take it then? Needs multiplayer *fist shake* which was weird, because they had multiplayer in Fate.

But that's just it, my only qualms with western RPGs nowadays is the fact that they are commercialised way too much. Seems to me most people expect the game to be as epic or amazing as the advertisements to it, which I think they spend more time on -_-. Let me give you a better example:
I live/love/want to marry Oblivion
I hate/despise/want to poop on Fallout 3

I have no clue which one was more commercialised, but it felt more passion and effort went into the making of Oblivion, even when it has like 2 voice actors maximum lol. I just appreciate hard work and not some half assed attempt at milking the gaming society. And I have no clue if I am contradicting myself to the above statement based on those 2 games, but it's just my opinion.
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As a side note I got into a protracted argument on another forum in a morrowind/oblivion topic because I said oblivion had 6 voice actors lol. I was using hyperbole but too many people took it seriously. Nice to see you noticed a shortage too. As for that observation I think it's fair, but I never pay too much attention to advertisements anyhow so no matter how they advertise it doesn't phase me for good or ill, I usually base my purchases more on reviews and personal developer reputation. And I'm sure oblivion had more passion behind it, it was after all Bethesda's baby, while Fallout 3 was just an acquisition. It was a "fan interpretation" that I think fell flat as sort of an imitation. To that end though I think (terrible 3rd person animations asides) that new vegas is a lot better game though than fallout 3. Primarily because it has a lot of the people who worked on fallout 1 and 2 on it I think the genuineness was there. As for mass effect, it's hyped to the extreme but I still like it. I'm a big sci-fi nerd though. Mass effect blends a lot of elements from other sci-fi franchises, into a whole I find delicious. But like sticking all your favorite foods into a blender I know some people won't find the chimera palatable.

P.S. If you second Wild Arms 1, YOU DA MAN! By far my favourite rpg of all time. It's so nostalgic, well written, and for it's time fan fucking tastic! Still is a gem today as well lol.
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It's the writing that I think still saves it to this day. About the time I had played it, I had just started watching anime. It really gave me a similar feel to like, outlaw star. Maybe that's because the little (dust mouse? Wind mouse?) bossed Jack around in a similar fashion to Gene and Jim, or the whole mysticism meets wild west feel. Heck it could be a lot of things that I only imagined. Bottom line, the writing's good. That sort of thing doesn't age.
 
I'm actually in the middle of making a wild arms boss walkthrough lol. Well in the middle as not finishing it, now would be a grand time :P.
 
wow i can't believe i am holding the project up. i'll make sure to drop by my copy oc chrono trigger tomorrow
 
NeoOutlaw said:
wow i can't believe i am holding the project up. i'll make sure to drop by my copy oc chrono trigger tomorrow
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Well I've been playing Yakuza 3 instead... so it's not a complete loss... Sometimes I have 60 people in the room just watching me beat up Chinamen.
 
Well my PC is straight up dead now. In case you don't know, the raid controller on my MOBO died last week, taking out my main hard drive (which was not raid'd, ironically, the drives that were in raid0, work perfectly fine)... so I ran to best buy, bought a hard drive and a new raid controller and everything was working again... although with a major performance decrease.

Well yesterday my MOBO died completely. I've just ordered a new case (better for transport), new mobo, cpu, coolers and ram... but I wont have a computer up and running till sometime next week. So until then, I wont be streaming at all. If you can, please donate! =P
 
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