Thread 717429142

This game would be so fucking amazing if it didn't have the absurdly long spellcasting animations and terrible item management

Does his hair look that stupid throughout the whole game or is that just for the cover art

>>717429142 (OP)
This and Klodelka are games with 10/10 presentation and 5/10 gameplay.

>>717429142 (OP)
engine limitations are a bitch, the PS1 was already killing itself trying to render them grafix's but they also developed the game with the slow gameplay in mind so don't be shit faggot

>>717429142 (OP)
i would rather have had a more faithful Parasite Eve 2 than both the Parasite Eve 2 we got and Vagrant Story.

graphics are amazing tho

>>717429645
C'mon, give Vagrant Story a bit more respect. Koudelka's gameplay is truly awful.

>>717429962
I will not. Hell I'd argue Klodelka is more tolerable to play. But both are boring.

>>717429669
I genuinely do love the game. But it's absurd that you have to do this long animation over and over just for using items even. It was common in a lot of games like in Secret of Mana 3 where every JRPG had extremely drawn out and slow spells. And with the inventory stuff, the fact that you can carry so little and you also have the memory card bullshit every time you just want to store things.

>>717429142 (OP)
>This game is so fucking amazing
ftfy

>>717429645
Koudelka's gameplay is just a bit barren and way too easy, but at least it's functional and mostly coherent.
Vagrant Story is an unfinished mess of incomplete mechanics, most of which don't even work as intended and are invalidated by other, somehow worse mechanics.

>>717429142 (OP)
All it needs it some sort of quickswap between weapons, instead of having to constantly go in and out of the menu.

I tried playing Vagrant Story last month, the game is alright but i went in expecting a more traditional JRPG, i had only played the first level and never realize it was, more or less, a dungeon explorer.
So, i don't know. So many PS1 JRPGs i've decided to try fall short in the most mundane stuff, like Xenogears and the obnoxious load times inbetween going from any place to any place, or how long it takes to save etc. It doesn't make the game unplayable, but it's the same reason that made me stop playing Legend of Dragooning - long load times, slow animations etc.
I wasn't even playing on PS1, i was playing on a PS3, so load times should have been bit better. Oh, and Legend of Dragoon for the PS5 retains the fucking loading times for the sake of emulation accuracy, which made me ragequit on the game.

I know people will say that "zoomers can't deal with not having their instant dopamine hit" and whatnot, but i can't be bothered with games that make simple traversal from point A to point B a fucking chore. Oh, forgot an item in the last area and it's just 2 steps away? Get fucked, here's 15 seconds of load time.

>>717429474
Does look like this and he's the reinforcements.
>>717429142 (OP)
One of the few games that need a proper remake.

I love the vibe of this dark/moody dungeon crawler game. But I hate turn based games.

Any reccs?

>>717432806
I'm playing Xenogears with retroarch and the load times are okay imo, idk if it's quicker

>>717432806
Are those worse than FF9? I played through it on my PS1 in a questionable condition but I still managed, obviously wouldn't have minded if things were faster but wasn't dealbreaker tier for me.

>>717433676
I played Xenogears on Duckstation for a little bit to compare, it's much faster if you just unlock reading speeds, even faster if you use the fast-foward, i'm just a cunt that likes to play on original hardware.

>>717433870
It's been awhile since i've played FF9 to compare, but i can say that FF8 is absolutely AWFUL when it comes to the animation times. Every battle takes an eternity to end because the attack animations go on for 10, 20 seconds. I think in FF9 there's a short-animation option to cut the attack animations short, so that could be a good QoL improvement over FF8 and the games i mentioned.

>>717429142 (OP)
That and the whole shit awful combat too.