Reply To: BC1-1808 Homework, Aaron Rudderham

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Well not sure how much into turn based RPGs you are outside of Pokemon but Persona 5 is great. Great gameplay, story, music, characters, artstyle, oh and it’s like 100 hours long. Great investment.

Story wise there I definitely think that the Zero Escape games are the strongest, though they can mess with your head a bit. Do be warned though, there’s a *lot* of dialogue, but the gameplay is some good ol’ fashioned puzzles. Just for goodness sake play them in order, trust me, that is *very* important.

If you like Action RPGs then Diablo 3 is great, story is pretty weak overall but the combat is cathartic as hell. The Witcher 3 is probably the strongest all-rounder here, aside from Persona 5. Both fantastic RPGs.

Other good games for stories there would be Ace Attorney and Danganronpa. In Ace Attorney you’re essentially a lawyer from the world of anime so you spend half the game looking for clues and the other half going through people’s statements. Danganronpa is essentially that as well but on a multitude of drugs. If you can tolerate/like anime I find myself recommending DGR more just because of how absurd it can be.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is possibly one of the most accessible turn based RPGs I’ve ever played. It’s a little easy yeah but if you don’t play that kinda stuff much but want to give it a try this is a great start. Though naturally being a South Park game it hinges on how much you like the TV show and more importantly, its sense of humour.

As much as I want to recommend XCOM 2 it is HARD. I don’t just mean “steep learning curve” hard, I mean “play for 20 hours but have to restart because you backed yourself into a corner” hard. That being said if you’re willing to give it a shot and endure some of the BS thrown your way you can play one of the best Turn Based Strategy games of the past few years.

Not sure how you feel about character action games (games like Devil May Cry where you pull off combos ‘n stuff) but NieR Automata’s story is excellent, to the point where I’d recommend it even if you’re not a fan of those kind of games. Just… it takes a while to get to the good stuff.

Last but certainly not least is Yakuza 0. Yeah it may have a slow start and yeeeeah there may be no English dub and yeeeeeeeeah it doesn’t really fall under anything you like except for good story (and RPG elements I suppose) but damnit it’s one of my favorite games ever so I’ll never stop shilling it. If you have an itch for an ostentatious, story focused 3D brawler set in an (small) open-world Japan with a plethora of bonkers side activities then look no further!

Oh and just in case you still have your Wii I recommend the No More Heroes games, there’s nothing else quite like them anywhere else…