Adventure/RPG recommendations

>>382454592
Original Nier
Transistor
Aviary Attorney
Persona 2 IS and EP

>>382454998
Oh yup, I agree with Transistor as well. That was a rather fun little gem. I forgot about those indie Steam games for a second. Add Hotline Miami and Lisa to that as well.

Nier, fuck yeah, I need to get on that for sure. Is Automata just as good?

>>382455329
Hyper Light Drifter and Furi are also good indie games, but they are a little light on the character portion. As for Nier, They are two drastically different games in terms of focus. Nier is more of a character drama and Nier Automata is thematic narrative, but N:A has far superior gameplay. I would start with automata, and if you like it play Nier

Bump, I'm even open to VNs. I just want an interactive adventure simulation sort of game that does better than the faults of Persona (sort of boring dungeon crawling, poor pacing and large periods of inactivity, no interaction with anything except s-links, not great writing). P5 visually looks really good it's just a shame it's obviously targeted to the j-fantasy anime otaku type of audience.

>>382454592
Monster Girl Quest

>>382454592
What if you were to give this game to, say, twenty... intelligent people i mean, what would that do? Let's face it what would it do?

>>382456868
I like P5 to some degree, I just think there is a lot of wasted potential. It doesn't thrill me like all those other games have thrilled me, it's not interesting like a book or movie, it's still just too "video-gamey" for what the games try to accomplish.

>>382457259
Really, that's interesting.

>>382456524
Give Snatcher (SEGA CD version) and Policenauts (Saturn with English patch) a shot if you're open to VNs. Like Bladerunner and Lethal Weapon respectively, but with a Kojima spin.

>>382457259
http://vocaroo.com/i/s16ixgFu0KQI

>>382458091
Okay thank you for your rendition my friend, but can you really really say that the story telling department in P5 is done well? The games are seriously awkward and every moment spent at school is just boring as fuck. There's no mystery outside of the story, there's no exciting things to do, there is just dungeon crawling, life sim, and advancing the mediocre story which generally just means pressing X a bunch of times and choosing from 2-3 dialogue choices which usually don't ever effect anything.

>>382458438
I tried to get into p3 and p4 because it's my Friends' favorite series by far. He talks about it a lot.
I couldn't get into it no matter how much i forced myself to. The gameplay was just minimalistic, i never cared about any of the characters and overall, the game feels like i would've loved it if i was 15. I just can't do that now. I didn't like the dungeons, the combat, nothing. The music is good but it gets on your nerves from time to time.
p3 was slightly better than p4. I played p3 around 5 hours and 4 around 6-7 hours,meaning i just got out of the fucking never ending tutorial.
Now, p5 seemed to have improved upon everything that i hated about the other two, it looks faster, the dungeons arent randomly generated corridors, the art style is amazing. But i haven't played it so i don't know. Judging from the other two games, if it's targeting the same audience, then yeah, i would probably idslike it as well.

>>382459151
It's better for sure, it's just still not that good in the storytelling/character/interactivity department which is what I feel a game based on social interactions should be king at. The art style is beautiful and it has great production value, but at the core it is still very fundamentally flawed and not that enjoyable for me.

>>382459563
>which is what I feel a game based on social interactions should be king at.
Then you are not the target audience. Do you think that the persona fans want anything more than the bare minimum with slight sexual innuendos? Or the occasional philosophic shoe in? No, they don't want anything more than that, and Atlus knows it. It's anime, dude, anime.