RGT Game Group Planning

[χKai]

Personally, I like the idea of doing this game for PS1.

It's simple to learn, more difficult to master, and a ton of fun. There are multiple character aesthetics and color palettes to choose from, but it's solely for cosmetic purposes.

It takes place on this randomly-generated grid-like dungeon, with cards randomly divided between players, which are drawn every turn and have different effects.

The whole idea is that you try to find treasure, the different items can also have various effects once identified by the merchant, and you can even get weapons and armor that increase your stats.

Every (round? Session? Idk) you have to get a specific target item, and bring it to the exit. That's all. But it gets more complicated when AI characters or other players get competitive and can come fight you to try to take your hard-earned prize.

You get to the exit with the target item to get your reward money. You can get money from other things too, such as getting in battles and collecting flags. Just because someone has the target item does not guarantee them first place, even if they get to the exit.

It's also up to 4 Players, but I don't know about how to get all that to work. You could just as well clear the 1-Player story mission and that would also be fun. But yeah, that's just another game suggestion.

 

[nobitakun]

Then I'm never using you unless we play a patch that makes her spellsword abilities able to target regular monsters.

I knew that would be brought up. It depends on how you equip her. I used to have her with 2 swords skill, one Chaos Blade in each hand. All the monsters were killed in one turn. Well, in fact, I had that skill with everyone, the party gets so broken every battle is a joke :D.

Understood, thanks for the feedback! I noticed there was a decent amount of traffic on this thread the past 24 hours but very few game recommendations. There were a lot of people into Parasite Eve and Final Fantasy Tactics, so I figured they probably would need to do a head to head.

I think that with the next one I will stress the importance of giving a game nomination so that we have a good variety moving to the next. Also, depending on how fast the group clears whatever game we choose, we can also find out how long the next one should be. It's all a learning process, and it's most importantly ran by community majority-rule, so whatever wins goes.

But yeah, you're right, I apologize. I was one of the people who didn't mention any other game. I got sad for seeing people only had attention to Parasite Eve.

Unknown games are fun, let's see...Frontier Hunter - Erza’s Wheel of Fortune.

I don't know what genres are exactly available for this, so I am saying this fast to finish game for the moment. Also, It would be advisory to say games that are not very demanding, because people even with computers 8-10 years old might want to play as well :)

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Unknown games are fun, let's see...Frontier Hunter - Erza’s Wheel of Fortune.

It's not even in the Repo...

I'd need to disclose here that the doctor also said to limit the intake of magical girls and furries. Too much stimulation for my old heart.

 

[nobitakun]

It's not even in the Repo...

I'd need to disclose here that the doctor also said to limit the intake of magical girls and furries. Too much stimulation for my old heart.

Ohh, but that game does not seem to have furries nor magical girls, but girls who can do magic.

So it needs to be from the Repo, alrighty: Harapeko Einya :)

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Ohh, but that game does not seem to have furries nor magical girls, but girls who can do magic.

So it needs to be from the Repo, alrighty: Harapeko Einya :)

Still a bit too much Loli energy maybe... Also, Windows.

Ideally, if you could propose something that could run easily on an emulator for both Win, Mac, Android and Linux, so everyone can partake (which is I guess, the whole point of this), that would be fine.

 

[dem6n dem6n]

Ohh, but that game does not seem to have furries nor magical girls, but girls who can do magic.

So it needs to be from the Repo, alrighty: Harapeko Einya :)

Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately, I think it's probably best we stick to games that are easily emulated with English releases or English translations.

One thing I do not want to get hung up on is also the obscurity factor with this whole thing.

While it's great to put a spotlight on lesser-known games, we should also be totally open to just playing through a classic that has appeal. People were hyped to play FFT when they've already played before, so I think there's definitely room for us to pick a retro game we just haven't played in a while and want others to play with us.

At the end of the day, the votes rule what game gets selected anyway! :)

Personally, I like the idea of doing this game for PS1.
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It's simple to learn, more difficult to master, and a ton of fun. There are multiple character aesthetics and color palettes to choose from, but it's solely for cosmetic purposes.

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It takes place on this randomly-generated grid-like dungeon, with cards randomly divided between players, which are drawn every turn and have different effects.

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The whole idea is that you try to find treasure, the different items can also have various effects once identified by the merchant, and you can even get weapons and armor that increase your stats.

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Every (round? Session? Idk) you have to get a specific target item, and bring it to the exit. That's all. But it gets more complicated when AI characters or other players get competitive and can come fight you to try to take your hard-earned prize.

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You get to the exit with the target item to get your reward money. You can get money from other things too, such as getting in battles and collecting flags. Just because someone has the target item does not guarantee them first place, even if they get to the exit.

It's also up to 4 Players, but I don't know about how to get all that to work. You could just as well clear the 1-Player story mission and that would also be fun. But yeah, that's just another game suggestion.

This was a really well-written pitch! Thanks so much for the suggestion! It sounds really cool, actually, considering randomly-generated dungeons didn't come out for ages.

 

[χKai]

I knew that would be brought up. It depends on how you equip her. I used to have her with 2 swords skill, one Chaos Blade in each hand. All the monsters were killed in one turn. Well, in fact, I had that skill with everyone, the party gets so broken every battle is a joke :D.

I did not understand that at all. What?

 

[nobitakun]

I did not understand that at all. What?

Meliadoul is a Holy Knight, so she naturally can wield Knight Swords. You only need to equip her with the dual sword skill from Ninja and instead of using a sword and a shield you get two swords and attack twice a turn. If you combine that with the Chaos Blade, you can kill any monster in 1 turn.

 

[χKai]

Meliadoul is a Holy Knight, so she naturally can wield Knight Swords. You only need to equip her with the dual sword skill from Ninja and instead of using a sword and a shield you get two swords and attack twice a turn. If you combine that with the Chaos Blade, you can kill any monster in 1 turn.

So basically; just don't use her Swordskill moves.

 

[nobitakun]

So basically; just don't use her Swordskill moves.

No, basically I render her usable in any situation :)

 

[diapered]

I want to be Meliadoul :)

Is there a hack that lets you rename human characters like you can for monsters? That's awesome! I haven't heard of this O_o Last fft hack I played was "convenience" that reduced jp grinding.

 

[χKai]

Is there a hack that lets you rename human characters like you can for monsters? That's awesome! I haven't heard of this O_o Last fft hack I played was "convenience" that reduced jp grinding.

No, but as far as I know, I think you can use the Gameshark to do it.

 

[nobitakun]

No, but as far as I know, I think you can use the Gameshark to do it.

Ohhh, I thought Meliadoul was her regular name in the game:

Her japanese name is メリアドール・ティンジェル. Maybe you refer to that? :O

 

[diapered]

Ohhh, I thought Meliadoul was her regular name in the game:
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Her japanese name is メリアドール・ティンジェル. Maybe you refer to that? :O

It is, but I thought you wanted to be able to change her name to yours, in game, since it was floated to play through fft with rgt member names. That's what I was asking about: I'm not aware of a hack that lets you change human names :(

 

[sandogma sandogma]

Love the idea, but I'm not sure if RPG's are a good fit. Think about it, if we want to participate in this each month, and you're picking RPG's like Final Fantasy Tactics, we would have to dedicate a lot of our free time to finish an RPG in just a month otherwise we'd have to force ourselves to stop at the end of the month so we can spend time on the next game.

I don't think I like the idea of starting a bunch of RPG's and not finishing them. I think any RPG's/SRPG's should be omitted, and instead we stick with games that we can actually complete within a month.

Perhaps as a compromise, RPG's can be a seperate group and we could have like, 3 or 4 months before moving on to the next one. What do you all think?

 

[nobitakun]

It is, but I thought you wanted to be able to change her name to yours, in game, since it was floated to play through fft with rgt member names. That's what I was asking about: I'm not aware of a hack that lets you change human names :(

For these kind of things you don't need hacks. Save editors are enough. Do you know FFTastic?

It is supposed to allow you to change every character name in your savefile :)

 

[diapered]

For these kind of things you don't need hacks. Save editors are enough. Do you know FFTastic?
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It is supposed to allow you to change every character name in your savefile :)

That's cool. No, I have never used a save editor.