What's the best JRPG for someone who's never played one?

>>323228185
Probably one of them jrp's then.

>>323228185
Fire Emblem

>>323228370
What?

>>323228185

Undertale

>>323228694
>>323228694
>Fire Emblem
>JRPG
This one's trolling you, OP.

>>323228185
Undertale

>>323228185
>spoonfeeding bandwagon fags

Undertale

>>323228185

Final Fantasy VII. Seriously. It's not the best, but it's pretty good and is an easy to get into JRPG. After that try some of the older Final Fantasies, Final Fantasy IX, Dragon Quest, Tales, and then whatever you want.

Personally, Chrono Trigger, it tackles a lot of RPG tropes and is very forgiving while being a exceptionally great game. Story isn't complicated, great cast of characters, music, settings, it's one of those RPGs that you'll really struggle with deciding who to keep on your team as they're all really useful and well balanced.

Yeah, going 3D wasn't the best thing to ever happen to JRPGs.

>>323229175

Oh yeah, Chrono Trigger. I forgot to mention that one even though I was thinking of it. It's great for beginners too.

>>323228185

I love how you faggots have no set definition for any words you use. You just take a word like "Weeaboo" and apply it to whatever you fucking please.

>>323229521
And yet, for anyone who isn't autistic, its abundantly clear what he means. Curious, that.

Thats actually why I can't get into JRPGs even though I want too because the concept of many games look fun and in depth
I want to take my protagonist seriously, not a 10 year old wielding a sword surrounded by 10 year old girls

>inb4 "anon is gay because he's not a closet pedophile"

>>323229521
Found the weaboo.

>>323230030
There are a lot of JRPG's without the generic animu loli dogshit, it's like anime in the regard that you have to trudge through a lot of trash to find some gems.

Do most JRPGs use the same game engine and build? They all seem to follow the same formula with portrait cutscenes and board game overworld map.

>>323228185
Atelier is great though
>>323230030
Lost odyssey

>>323228185
Why would you want to play bad games?

>>323228185
The Screamer
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-screamer-the-story-of-a-boy-and-his-torch-worm-translation-project-thread.80444/

start with the best or get fucked like the rest.

from a time when games were games.

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Are Mario and Luigi games considered JRPGs? Those games are awesome

>>323228185
not playing any would be best

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>tfw this used to be JRPGs

>>323229175

>well balanced

Frog sucks shit.

>>323230437
Fuck off weeb.

>>323229817

Yeah? What meaning does a word from a Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip that was used to wordfilter "Wapanese" a word with a very distinct meaning have?

Please enlighten me.

>>323230819
>Hello 4chan! I am this autistic!

>>323230978

Ah yes. The other word that /v/ loves to bandy about but has no real definition for.

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>>323230597

Give Dark Cloud a try, it's $15 on PS4 and i'm not noticing any emulation issues yet, but it's probably not hard to emulate on PCSX2 either if you don't have a PS2 and the right cables lying around.

>>323230819
Poorly programmed, badly designed, soulless japanese trash with no effort and ambition put towards anything besides pandering towards the most tasteless otaku, ie. something like an atelier or neptunia game where the artstyle and writing is intentionally shit in such a way to pander to smallminded otaku.

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>>323228185
pretty obviously lord of the rings the third age

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>>323230795
make me

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Dokapon Kingdom. It's light on story so you can focus on actually playing the game and even though it's competitive you can easily co-op the main quest.

Xenoblade Chronicles if you can

>>323230756
>Playstation 4 cutscene
What did he mean by this?

>>323228185
Tales of zestiria

>>323231159

That sounds like one way to use it.

Yet that's not the only way it's used.

>>323231290
I have a friend who has that game. It's a fun party game

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>>323231159
Dude don't. He's going to do a word by word analysis now. Its like the weeb equivalent of baiting and trolling, only he actually believes in this shit so its like a fucking Jihad for them.

>>323229175
>chrono trigger
>good

hahahaha

>people complaining about weeb games

Omega Quintet looks as weeb as any, but is pretty damn fun and the combat is interesting. Yeah, lots of them are super pandering, but you really shouldn't judge them just because of looks.

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>>323230757

Fuck thee

>>323231164
>Western JRPG

>>323228185
Final Fantasy 7.

Play it
Love it
Get excited about the remake
Then play the remake and be disappointed because Square Enix is trying to make it look photo-realistic like modern FF's.

>>323231460
Nice counter argument, totally blew me the fuck out.

>>323231305
If not bait and actually just this young (not a slam, I'm just fucking old), its from Phantasy Star 4.

>>323230030
Pokemon is for pedophiles now anon?

>>323231290

that's a party game with rpg elements. great, but not a jrpg.

I gave mine away to my sister's friend's kids because i never played it anymore, but then i saw it's selling for like, 200 dollars.

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>>323231135

>posting that abortion of a game

>>323231435

So words should mean whatever you think they mean?

>>323231524
still counts!

>>323231637
Probably because its literally the most fun 4 player game of all time.

>>323231435
Well, that'd be a waste of time for him since I was joking.

>>323231637
I think it's just a more old school experience. Dokapon Kingdom lets you decide what kind of character you want to make and how you're going to win the game while modern games give you a role in the story they're telling and you don't have any choice but to follow along.

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>>323231945
Oh that's cool, Gene made a cameo!

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>>323231996
>Autist bait
Not even once.

>>323228185

>HURR ALL JRPGS NOW IS WEEBSHIT

i know it's bait but play Xenoblade Chonicles X is okay but inferior to the previous one and come back to here about that shit.

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>>323229175
Friendly reminder that Square is making a new RPG for nostalgiafags that appears to take a lot of inspiration from Chrono Trigger

>>323231637

>200 dollars

holy fuck i bought it for like 10 bucks at gamestop 5 years ago.

>>323232347
Yup, looking forward to it in 3 years when it's finally localized.

>>323231660
>tharja
>no tights
Kyieru is a hack

>>323231660
fuck
that's hot

>>323232248

What makes it Autism? Or can you not actually describe the thought you're trying to convey with it?

Are you... unintelligent, by any chance?

>>323232282
That game is 6 years old.

>>323232737
You shouldn't argue with retards anon

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>>323230576
>RPG games made by Japanese developers
YOU BET YOUR ASS

Here's my two cents:
Favorite JRPG : Skies of Arcadia
Favorite JRPG series : SMT & Devil Summoners

>>323231164
>See this
>standard fare JRPG camera and interface
>realistic faces on turn counter
my eyes are confused

>>323228185

dragon's dogma, front mission 1-3, souls, vagrant story, suikoden, skies of arcadia

>>323232781

did i fucking stutter?

I only bought it because of a blurb on the back that said it put mario party to shame for killing friendships.

>>323228185
Define JRPG

>>323232832
It's actually pretty cool, LOTR with a battle system inspired by FF10. There was also a GBA version, though the gameplay is more Fire Emblem and not really as good.

>>323233131
OP here, I did not mean for the image to cause controversy - just wanted a game neutral JRPG image!!

>>323232830
I want to be Nemissa

>>323228185
Rather than FF7, Chrono Cross. Has slightly better graphics, more characters, better story, and more fun overall imo

>>323228185
Dark souls

>>323231660
Damn, there's no more.

>>323233451
the term itself is controversial, either tell us your definition or i'm going to have to say Dark Souls

>>323233575
Well, I mean JRPG - Dark Souls is a Japanese RPG, but it doesn't really fit the mold of a traditional JRPG..

>>323233693
Again, thats why I asked you to define it? I could say Ys, Tales, Etrian, etc

what do you mean?

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Story isn't innovative, but a nice mashup of christian and norse themes, which makes the following point possible.
It has a nice setting and varied areas.
Good sense of discovery and adventure.
Cute heroes, good villans/antiheroes.
It doesn't drag on forever. Very little filler/grind.
Great music.
Fun combat.
Neat things to discover if you decide to play it again.

This thread is really making the Weeaboos mad.

>>323231603
>putting the effort into arguing against a tripfag

you're not worth the effort.

>>323234107
Gah I really need to play this

I loved Yggdra Union and Knights in the Nightmare. How does it play?

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time was good and has real time combat

>>323228185
>japanese game
>complains of "weeaboos"

really now.

>>323235273
It's like Killer 7, you're on rails and depending on how well you do in battle you get a resources tha lets you investigate different objects or take alternate paths through each area.
In combat you use up items to deal damage and each character has a different attack pattern for each item. It's alright, but you have to play a lot of fights in practice mode to get the extra stats for mastering each item.

>>323235797
> but you have to play a lot of fights in practice mode to get the extra stats for mastering each item.

So kinda like Knights in the Nightmare leveling system, It's weird how a series managed to have 3 games, all different gameplay styles, all different stories yet still be connected. Yggdra Union is still probably one of my favorite games of all time

>>323235273
A bit like a point and click adventure.
Move from screen to screen and inspect various things using points you earn in combat. Interacting with them gives you lore, items, triggers combat, opens new paths, buffs/debuffs etc.

Combat relies on using items which have durability. You can only take 4 into combat and various characters can use them in farious ways (single target, muti target, piercing, targeting front/back row, various special effects), and can learn special attacks as they use them, although only the character whose prefered items it is can learn the highest level of special attack.

>>323234812
Yeah because of all these bad recommendations. If a casual asks for recommendations, you don't recommend the best games you can think of. You recommend something that's easy for them to be wowed by like a recent FF game or something. Give a normie 5 minutes with Chrono Trigger and he'll drop it.

The World Ends With You

Dragon Quest 3 is fantastic, especially the SNES remake.

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>>323228185
This became a massive success purely on the selling point of it's being "the best JRPG for someone who's never played one." It's also just the best JRPG.

>>323236447
Chrono Trigger is a good suggestion because it's a baby game for babies. As long as you fight the scripted encounters you'll easily blow past anything but the optional encounters.

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>>323235372
Worst story in series
Worst combat of the series
Worst characters in the series

>>323229175
Don't forget killing Crono and unless you do so the sub quest you won't get him back

>>323237478
It's better than the PS3 one