[General Discussion] Unexpected RPG Positive Experiences

Wizardry: Tales of the Forsaken Land --
Jesus. This is one of the best games I've ever played. It's a first-person dungeon crawler for the PS2 and takes place from a first-person perspective. When you get in to battles, it unveils a battle screen with your party members and the enemies.

Vanilla console RPG fighting at first. Got your front and back rows. But as it develops and your party members fight alongside eachother (and after a tutorial on it), you develop tactics. These tactics allow you to do very neat stuff later on as you learn new ones.

The back row can guard some folks on the front row from all attacks, you can do dual attacks, et cetera <3 Real cool because some enemies are fucking IMPOSSIBLE to hit, but the best way to nail them is have someone act as a "dummy" and have an allied action set to guard that guy. Nail the enemy with some undodgeable blows and down they go~

King's Field --
This is an RPG in a sort of way. The whole series has been nifty, but the PS2 installment? Ohhhh. Sooooo good. What was really neat was how the creators hid shit so damn well. You had to look around everywhere to find all the good weapons and armor. It was amazing how some of this shit was stashed ='D

Persona 3 --
This was also a leap of faith. Past persona games were very cool, but I never took a liking to Nocturne, DDS, etc. Very little story, and sometimes just absolutely cruel in difficulty. Persona 3 is definitely one of the best RPGs I've ever played.

A shame I still haven't beaten it Oh FES~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Megavolt

Hey, I found the PS2 game interesting as well (and the hidden stuff + sense of desolation gives the game a Metroid-esque quality, which suits me just fine), but I got stuck on something that maybe you can help me with... How do you swim? It sounds silly, but I could never figure out how (even when I searched online), and with no way of progressing further into the game, I had to drop it a year or so ago. I'm pretty sure that there's no other path available to me and so I imagine that I have to find a way past that water room in the sewers/catacombs. Yet I sink to the bottom everytime (even when I unequip all my stuff), run out of air, and am forced to run back up the steps and out of the water.

Heh. I haven't played it in a couple years, and my memory blows =( Well there are potions for underwater breathing, I believe. You just haul ass -- there isn't a way to swim. You plunge in, run, look for a ramp =O Doesn't happen too often in the game, if I recall right.

How ya doing, buddy?

Pretty sure there are. I might be forgetful But I remember one or two scenes where you've gotta fuckin' HURRY. Maybe you just chug healing potions ;O

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.