JRPG guide

I am pretty knowlegable on this genre. Here is a copypasta from another message board for good jRPG recommendations up to 2010 ish.

This generation kind of sucks for those, you need to get into handheld for good ones. If you don't mind classics:

Tales of Phantasia for 2D Tales, Tales of Symphonia for 3D Tales, then you decide for the rest of the series
Wild ARMs 1,2,3, and 5 and decide if you like the series enough to try xf and 4
Breath of Fire 1-4
Dragon Quest 3-8
Rhapsody of Zephyr(Dreamcast)
Koudelka and Shadow Hearts series
Grandia 1-3, then decide for youself whether to play Xtreme
SaGa aka Final Fantasy Legend series on GB
Romancing SaGa on SNES
SaGa Frontier series and "Romancing SaGa" on PS2(not the same as one on SNES)
Star Ocean 1 on SNES, 2 on PS1 if you are the type to learn how to exploit a game, and play for characters
Valkyrie Profile 1 on PSX and 2 on PS2
Suikoden 1-2 and then decide for 3-5
Secret of Mana(aka Seiken Densetsu 2), Seiken Densetsu 3 on SNES. You might also like Sword of Mana on GBA and Legend of Mana on PSX. DISCARD THE OTHER MANA GAMES
Luna: Silver Star Story on either PS1 or Saturn, Saturn one is original
Golden Sun series on GBA only
Skies of Arcadia(aka Eternal Arcadia) if you like FF10 style gameplay and happy stories
Nostalgia on DS if you liked Skies of Arcadia
The Legend of Heroes 1-3 and Trails of the Sky on PSP
Phantasy Star 1-3 for something classic, 4 is the modern style take on the series.
Panzer Dragoon series on Saturn
Shining Force 1 and 2 on GBA or Genesis, 3 is an incomplete game
Zwei! on PC if you can get the translation to work
Summon Knight on GBA
Riviera on GBA or Wonderswan, PSP one has worse voice acting for better BGM. This is a /tg/ take on jRPG.
Front Mission 1-4 on PSX and PS2
Fire Emblem and Advanced Wars on GBA and NDS
Orgre Battle Series/Tactics Ogre for a RTS + JRPG hybrid
and Kingdom under Fire if you liked Tactics Ogre
Havest Moon: strategy and farming jRPG where you marry a woman to end a game
Alcahest: Square's action jRPG on SNES before they decided they liked movies for games
Einhander: Squaresoft's shoot em up
Stigma Star Saga: a really barebone shoot em up jRPG on GBA
Alundra: Dungeon Crawler on PSX
Evolution Worlds: compilation of Evolution games, the dungeon crawler, on GC
Mega Man Battle Network and Mega Man Star Force:
pre-set strategy on NDS if you like to find about Mega Man series lore
Guardian Heroes: short Beat-em-up and JRPG hybrid on Saturn
Super Mario RPG on SNES: focuses heavily on mini games and timing
Parasite EVE 1 and 2 on PSX: sci-fi/steampunk jRPG
Vagrant Story on PSX: action jRPG that take on Final Fantasy world
XenoGears on PSX: religious mecha anime game
Chrono Trigger on SNES and DS and Chrono Cross on PSX: very famous take by Squaresoft on time and dimention crossing
Legend of Dragoon on PSX
Legend of Legaia 1 on PSX ONLY: a fighting game and jRPG cross. AVOID THE SECOND GAME.
Persona: if you don't minding a Fatlus
and Digital Devil SaGa on PC, the first game: unforgiving 1st person horror jRPG.
7th Saga: very old school jRPG where you choose your heroes and the rest of playable characters may turn on you or join you depending on your recruitment.
ActRaiser 1 on SNES: action/strategy game wherein you are GOD and you salvage people
Terranigma on SNES: Buddhism take on an action jRPG - if you liked it, try Illusion of Gaia next
Chrystalis on NES: mix of Zelda 1 and 2 much like Final Fantasy Adventure, with sci-fi theme
Dark Cloud 1 and 2 on PS2: jRPG with more customization
LUFIA 2 on SNES: a jRPG wherein dungeons are completely made of puzzles
Earthbound(aka Mother) on GBA and SNES: a jRPG with modern setting and psychic kids
Land Stalker and Lady Stalker both on SNES and Genesis: action-adventure jRPG, with terrible control but good otherwise
Magna Carta 2: action jRPG, only play the 2nd one on XBOX360 then you decide if you want the rest on PC
PoPoLocrois on PSP: a long PS1 era style jRPG
River City Ransom: short beat-em-up and jRPG mix where you rescue your girlfriend with your bro.
Super Robot Wars Gaiden Endless Frontier on DS: an ecchi mecha game with tons of jokes in it.
Ys 1 anc 2 on PC or PSP, fuck the other ports: action jRPG where there is no "attack" command, you simply ram into everything

If you can't find PS1 games, then get the PSN versions. I have not mentioned Korean classics such as War of Genesis that aren't easily accessible in the West.




Amendments
4bit-8 bit era
Dragon Ball RPGs(NES)
Dragon Quest 3/4(NES)
Final Fantasy(NES)
Final Fantasy Legend 1,2,3(GB)
Lufia: Legend Returns(GBC)
Chrysalis(NES)
Pokémon Red/Blue(GBC)
Dragon Quest Monsters /2(GBC)
16 bit era
Harvest Moon(SNES)
Chrono Trigger(SNES)
Final Fantasy 4/5/6(SNES)
Dragon Quest 5/6(SNES)
Terranigma(SNES)
Romancing SaGa 3(SNES)
Secret of Evermore(SNES)
Lufia 2 (SNES)
Super Mario RPG(SNES)
Front Mission (SNES)
7th Saga(SNES)
Ogre Battle(SNES)
Shining Force(Genesis)
Phantasy Star 2/3/4(Genesis)
Princess Maker 1/2(PC)
War of Genesis 2(PC)
Astonishia Story R(PC)
Lunar: Silver Story(Sega CD)
Samurai Shodown RPG(Neo Geo CD)
Generation V
Grandia (Saturn)
Panzer Dragoon Saga(Saturn)
Magic Knight Rayearth(Saturn)
Sakura Wars(Saturn)
SaGa Frontier 1/2(Playstation)
Suikoden /2(Playstation)
Tales of Destiny /2(Playstation)
Tales of Eternia (Playstation)
Final Fantasy 7(Playstation)
Final Fantasy Tactics(Playstation)
Parasite Eve /2(Playstation)
Koudelka(Playstation)
Valkyrie Profile(Playstation)
Xenogears(Playstation)
Thousand Arms(Playstation)
Dragon Quest 7(Playstation)
Mega Man Legend /2(Playstation)
Breath of Fire 3/4(Playstation)
Wild ARMs 1/2(playstation)
Diablo 1/2(PC)
War of Genesis: Rhapsody of Zephyr(PC)
Forgotten Saga(PC)
Ogre Battle 64(N64)
Harvest Moon 64(N64)
Generation VI
Grandia 2(DC)
Skies of Arcadia (DC)
Shenmue /2(DC)
Valkyrie Profile 2(PS2)
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarters(PS2)
Dark Cloud /2(PS2)
Dragon Quest 8(PS2)
Front Mission 4(PS2)
Suikoden 3(PS2)
Shadow of Destiny(PS2)
Shadow Hearts(PS2)
Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland(PS2)
Kingdom Under Fire(Xbox/PC)
Wild ARMS 3/4/5/AF(PS2)
Atlier Iris /2/3(PS2)
War of Genesis 3/part2(PC)
Zwei(PC)

Game Boy Advance
Riviera
Golden Sun/Lost Age
Shining Soul/2
Summon Knight Swordcraft Saga /2
Zone of the Enders
Harvest Moon: (more)Friends of Mineral Town
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Feselei!
Dark Arms
Evolution
NDS
Super Robot Wars Endless Frontier

PSP
Crimson Gem Saga
Wild ARMS XF
Legend of Heroes /2/3
Jeanne D'Arc
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Not including the handheld ones because of space allowed for posting. I can blind pick any of these and have a great time for that weekend. It goes without saying, it's my personal taste so if you don't like it, fuck off.

RPG Backlog!

Crysalis(NES)
Tenchi o Kurau II - Shokatsu Koumei Den aka Destiny of an Emperor 2(NES)
Grand Master(NES)

FFLegend 1-3(GB)
FFAdventure(GB)
Dragon Quest 3(GBC)
Star Ocean Blue Sphere(GBC)

7Th Saga(SNES)
Alcahest(SNES)
Lufia 2(SNES)
Seiken Densetsu 3(SNES)
Secret of Evermore(SNES)
Terranigma(SNES)
Dragon Quest 5(SNES)
Shadowrun(Genesis & SNES, they're different)
Live A Live(SNES)
Star Ocean 1(SNES)
Super Mario RPG(SNES)
Tactics Ogre LUCT(SNES)
Tales of Phantasia(SNES)

Phantasy Star 2 and 4(Genesis)
Beyond Oasis(Genesis)
Langrisser 1-2(Genesis, L1 is also called Warsong)
Landstalker(Genesis)
Shining Force 1-2(Genesis)

Elder Scroll 1&2 available free on their official website
Ultima 4-6(PC)@ http://www.ultimaforever.com/

Easy Food: Pizza Omelet

Sup. This morning, I tried out the pizza omelet, and I liked it very much too. I figured I should give a few heads-up here, I found a easy way to do this.
1 - pop the yolk when frying them
2 - put the cooked egg on a dish
3 - put frozen pizza on top of the egg so that the pizza topping touches the egg
3a - microwave the whole thing for 1 minute
4 - peel the pizza crust with a spoon

Anamanoguchi hype

The dudes behind Scott Pilgram the game's OST just had a concert at DNA Lounge. These guys were pretty cool.  Even though I couldn't be there physically, I was able to catch the live on DNA Lounge Stream. I really admire guys like this. They were so hardcore at liking what they do, they made it work.

One voice about Puentes Hill Hyundai and buying a used car in America in general

This post is made to warn others(while reminding myself) of a vehicle purchase and what the dealers do to mess their customers up.

I recently bought an Accent 2010 model from Puentes Hill Hyundai in City of Industry. This is my fifth car. First one, 2001 Sonata, was more or less entirely paid off by my father. The Second one was a 1990 Jimmy, bought from my boss who was leaving the unit for a case of beer when I got to my duty station, Alpha Company 45STB 45SB, in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. After my then girlfriend crashed the car in an accident and totaled it, I got a 1995 Contour, which was absolutely the worst car I've driven. Fast forward past my discharge and my new work in civilian world, I got a 1995 Ford F350 modified into a moving center box truck, from UHaul which I got to put myself in case I needed to start a merchant work.

My first mistake was being a respectable person. My work schedule was hefty, and it was not easy to get a day off, hence I went there after work before the dealership shuts down. I did actually go there on my once-in-two weeks break on Sunday prior, but the dealer stood me up. Her name is Jenny Ahn of Puentes Hill Hyundai. So the second time I got there was a weekday night, and to my surprise she stood me up again. I called her twice on the way up there from Irvine to Industry, too. When I got there, the new 2010 Elantra that she promised me for 9500 did not exist. I had instead a 2010 Accent, an USED one. On top of that, the dealer herself was MIA. I would forgive being stood up the first time for anyone. The second time, though, hardly anyone in my shoes would. I was in the short end of stick since my apartment had been threatening me to tow away my box truck, and I thus needed to get rid of it. I reluctantly and against the better judgment, tolerated it and went ahead to deal.

I made many more mistakes stemming from that bad step. Since it was dark out when I got there at 7PM, even after inspection I failed to locate several paint scratches that I noticed a week later. Dealer's disgusting lie 1: "mint condition vehicle." This is less than a year old car. I count over 20 different scratches that cannot be patched. Speaking of a lie, here's another one: "recently serviced." Sounds ambiguous doesn't it? On a vehicle past 37,000 miles(how can that even happen with a car under a year old, anyway?), one under the excitement of buying a new car in a shiny place after traveling over forty miles to get that rare advertised price, could easily mistake that statement as what normal people mean, a 30,000 mile service. It's exactly what happened to me. The dealers only mean a Twenty Dollar oil change and nothing more when they say they serviced the vehicle. Two week later, I had a mysteriously noisy brakes and had to take the car to a local mechanic.
These mistakes net me so far over a grand, on a newly dogmad purchased vehicle. I'm not talking about a 10-year-old car from neiborhood gramps. "The Best Hyundai of Southern California" does this to their customers.

The car dealers operate on an entirely different thinking plane from the regular people. They like to make customers wait for a reason I could not comprehend. Here I was, ready to purchase a vehicle to them, they made me wait three hours doing absolutely nothing after I found the car. Seriously, after I gave the salesperson a clear message of what I want, how I can pay it, and what ever irrelevant personal information they got from me, they literally had me wait doing nothing. They were not processing documents, they were not handling another customer. They were surfing on the web and looking at me occasionally. Frankly I was a little offended and confused, since I had work to attend in less than 12 hours. What retail or service does this, besides a car dealership?



When they finally decided my 782-points credit was good enough, they sold me the car. Here's the catch, though. The customer must be ready to convince why he doesn't need options he knows won't need to the dealer. This was no easy battle. The dealership pushes four options: warranty on parts not covered by 'Hyundai's Best Warranty in the US'; a GPS; another confusing warranty that to me, sounded exactly the same as the first warranty, perhaps so customers not used to speak English fluently would buy both; and an option where they offered to restore any scratches for five years from purchase. It was an intense battle. My argument was that the warranty contradicts advertised advantages of "Certified Vehicles." When they're luring a customer to a car, they present Certificates, saying that the car is basically perfect and there won't be any worries buying a car used. However, when it's time to make payments, they remind the customer that after all, it is still a used car, so Certifications mean jack. The car that an hour ago, was perfect, now 'carries unknown risk, no one sees future.' Doesn't that seem like a contradiction to anyone else? I told him I got insurance, and the finance guy, Larry, was literally a bit flustered when I said that. He was trying hard to make sense of something that wasn't, because now he had to explain my own insurance that I hand-picked that I don't know what it covers. The car's price was 12000 USD, after trade-in it was 10000 plus tax. The warranty costs 2000 each, for 4000 extra total. I'm not a rich guy, I'm just a dude who works two MINIMUM PAYING jobs. These people who make living for selling three cars a month, try to argue that 4000 USD is not a big deal. Maybe to you, asshat, but not to everyone.
Then he explains the GPS. This one is funny. I am trained by U.S. Military in navigation skills. If you drop me off to an entirely unknown place, as long as I had the correct map and compass, I can get to where I need to. That skill, to the dealer, is now useless and I need to pay for 800-dollar GPS that doesn't even pay for my car when it gets stolen. It would provide a certain someone else besides me who I have no idea when they use the car an assurance. Right. I don't plan to share my car with anyone, especially someone neither you nor me knows. I showed him my four-dollar-compass and told him I'm straight. He glared at me to my surprise. He thought I wouldn't notice, but I myself worked in commission field. I know what the smiling "screw you" glare is, Larry the finance guy. Riiiight back atcha.
His remaining weapon was the "free" detailing. It costs one thousand dollars. One Thousand U.S. Dollars, to me, is saving up hard for three months, if not four. By saving up hard, I mean I do everything I fucking can, I am already pretty much at the lowest of the totem poll. That is not comprehended by these people who earn their entirety of their pay just by talking. It's not an easy money for me. It means working as hard physically and mentally draining if not harder as a fresh teenager at an age past 30 for me. For seventy hours a week, eating a lettuce and onion sandwich when my coworkers are feasting(and not even finishing on) their 12 Dollar Burger meals for four. months. straight.
When I was threatened to not get such a good deal on the car that I pretty much already secured, that the salesperson could give it to someone else, I had to give. The deal is that for twice a year, I can get the service. You know what though, I have to travel to the dealership, from Irvine where I live to City of Industry where the dealership is. That's four hours of my rare off day plus however much time it takes to work on the vehicle, on my gas, on my car. Only twice a year, so each time I go there, it's $200 per service. Has anyone seen an auto detail service that is $200 per visit? Not on a Hyundai Accent I have not. Let me know if anyone has. However, I was threatened to not make this deal, that someone else would have the car if I didn't get any options, that I had to sign it.
I hope the finance guy even knows what it is like to eat ramen for four months straight, passing off any cool new games/concerts/local amusement park reopenings during that time.
I left the dealership with a feeling not unlike that of muddy butt that day.

Fast forward three weeks, a bill came as agreed. Unlike as agreed though, I was not allowed to pay off my car. I tried online, cheque, and over-the phone. These greedy dealership wants the interest money, even if the customer has the money to do so! They charged me instead a "convenience fee" to make a payment more than the minimum.
Let that sink in for a second. The dealership punishes a customer to make on-time, earnest payments because they want to squeeze every interest money they can, and when insisted, adds a "convenience fee" since it's so inconvenient to bother the maintenance-free online computer to make the payment.

You really have to take extra grand out of me that badly, when you charged me a 14000 USD for a car that you promised me to sell at 9500 USD. I know I am not wrong in feeling rage in a such situation.




I outta notify this somehow other than my 5-visit-a-month weblog, honestly. The only reason to pull me back is they are Koreans. Then again, they are scamming their own people, so there you go. Please learn from my mistake, and avoid Puentes Hill Hyundai. They don't care about you.

"Why do when I play videogames I feel like I am wasting my life?"[sic]

You would if you produced nothing on the way:
 ripping soundtrack
 writing/filming walkthrough
 hunting for glitches and exploits
 speedrunning and recording replay
 learning back story of the game and how it was created
 fanwork i.e. comics and stories
 mod
 making unique controllers to fit the game
etc etc
such things would not only heighten the experience, but also helps you learn skills other than gaming.
Hard core gaming breathes new meaning to it all. If you are just a passive person, which is mostly fine, then you really don't distinguish yourself between the rest of mindless TV viewing public.

The General People who don't get it will give gamers a lot of shit just for being a gamer. That doesn't mean there isn't any meaning to it at all. As I grew, I still enjoy the same thing I did when I was decades younger, but I do it in a different light. When viewing a comic, I now know how it was made, what planning went through for the story and how it was colored. When watching a cartoon, I am now blessed to be able to marvel at the techniques employed to save or exaggerate key frames. When I play a Platformer A, I can see the decision behind why the developer chose to make jump certain way, how s/he gave momentum of player character. With this in depth look, these mediums only really grow more wonderful over time. Thus, I can only conclude that people who chose to keep their passion on have more in critical thinking in mind, than the soulless rest.

Tips about dealing with homosexuality

Treat private lives as illusion that it is. You know it doesn't matter what race someone is when it comes to the true character of that person. It's the same thing with sexual orientation, or the town they're from, or the type of blood they have, or their horoscope.

Note all those things I mentioned, there were time when people seriously judged someone else because of those traits. Not very fair right? You aren't being fair if you can't get over it.

Just know that they are 100% same people like you outside of their sexual life. Know that they're not into you, just because of orientation. You don't worry about straight people and what they do with their bf/gf so why should you care about someone else's?

Games

If you enjoy storytelling, adventures and text adventures are better than RPGs. Rougelikes are better role playing than wrpg/jrpgs, and for combat and resource management you should go for Strategy or tower defense games.
RPGs are just introductory games with big contents.

Easy to learn, hard to master, lack in variety tier
-Puzzle
-Music
-Shmup

Has depth, but too difficult to learn properly
-Fighting
-RTS / TBS
-FPS
-Rougelikes
-Management Simulation

Best enjoyed as a social means in short bursts
-Sports
-Racing
-Party / Traditional
-arcade simulation
-arcade ticket

Charming, but gets old fast:
-Rail Shooter
-Platformer
-Adventure
-Tower Defense

Cheaper than Lego:
-Sandbox

For people with elementary reading comprehension:
-Visual Novel
-Interactive Video
-Dating Sim
-Edutainment

-I only do chores in digital forms:
RPG

This word does not categorize gameplay:
MMO

My dream game before I forget about it

I don't even have a name for this yet. It's just something I have in mind. When I actually learn some C or C++ I think I'm gonna hack old games to incorporate this idea. Anyway, the idea is:

Game is a cross of beat-em-up and versus fighter. Imagine Ninja Warrior Again or Valkyrie Profile 2 and you see the basic looks of what I'm shooting for, A 2D or 2 1/2D world.

There are shops, interactive NPCs who can give you quests and you can give them items for friendship parameters, or deceive and steal from them for quest shortcuts, money, or items. Can recruit any NPCs in the game as a sidekick. The game will have a lot of quests, but no leveling, fuck that timesink shit. Rewards are gears, but players have only certain amount of gears they can keep to make things fair for newcomers. Gears are reflected on player sprites to encourage customization. I plan to find a way to make the game generate itself some random quests so I can focus on quests that advance user's stories while not spending too much time on random ones myself. A lot of main quests that I do myself will be cross-genre to make things fresh, like, a quest will have tower defense gameplay, another is a puzzle to get by a dungeon, overhead ship shooter, racing and so forth. This will be possible once I figure out how Capcom did it with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure PSX.

That's not even the meat of the game though. What I want is a total, customizable versus fighter that interacts itself into a beat-em-up. If anyone knows Variable Geo(the anime), then it's kinda like that where a ring appears when character is "challenged" by 2nd player or met a boss encounter. Fighting area can expand via classic shatter-the-corner method employed in Real Bout and other oldies. This time, you can swap with your recruit when you feel endangered and regain health outside the ring. Game is not over when your ally dies, but it's over when the main character does.  Since this would be an illegit indy game, I'd rip off every cool costume I can find. Superman with Goku's gi? you got it. Light Yagami head with Batman costume? Definitely.

You know how the leading fighting game company likes to make 7 different variation of same fucking character, and call those different? I'm sick of that shit, and I want to make a game where you have one character who can equip any variation of a single move(say, hadoken) as user's preference. The player will even get to customize input methods. Sick of doing sonic booms hold back-forward+punch? Now you can make it (hold punch), release! or any way you want. The inputs are zero-sum so no single input will be easier or harder, just more optimized for the player. This way, there can be many characters slots while being balanced. Like GwonHo, every while the selectable moves will be introduced and balanced.

Also, the player is never given a penalty for losing a game in his single player campaign. Plenty of story branches would allow to lose a game but trigger a sequence, not endgame, from it. When gameover happens, whatever they worked would be saved.

Since I suck balls with writing a good story, I will copy someone's good work or hire a good writer to do overall story, one that is not a save-the-world. A horror game or sci fi fits my preference, but doesn't have to be. In fact if I have the resources I will probably do a level creator.

Too grand? Of course. Dreams are meant to be grand. When I achieve them, that just makes it more kickass anyway.

Adventure

Commissioned for an anonymous person.

MvC3 fake hype is getting old.

I can't wait til the game comes out,
just so I can laugh at the ridiculous shit that came out of some of you during this hype thing.

there were:
Howard Duck;
sucking dicks off random facebook posters for "reveals";
people actually believing that Capcom would do an event on Jump Fiesta, an event that had nothing to do with Marvel;
wishing for Dio for that matter;
fanboys actually thinking Pheonix Wright belongs to a fighting game;
pretending spider woman comes from Spider Man comics;
people trying to decipher a video of a Japanese guy eating a dozen fucking donuts

on top of Capcom's masterful trolls such as the alternate color schemes, NATHAN Spencer, and Jill who looks nothing like her MvC2 self.