-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
RPG Site Best of 2019: Reader choice is Fire Emblem - Staff RPG of the year: SaGa Scarlet Grace
- Thread starter Naga
- Start date
Thanks to RPG Site for being the only site to give Scarlet Grace the attention it deserves :D
Regarding Disco Elysium, I've been hearing great things about it here, but the art just looks very distracting to me, so I don't think I can ever bring myself to play it ....
Regarding Disco Elysium, I've been hearing great things about it here, but the art just looks very distracting to me, so I don't think I can ever bring myself to play it ....
Don't be fooled by the name. RPG Site is historically mostly a weeb-friendly site.
If by "distracting" you mean freaking good, it really does.
Just looked this up and saw this in a review:
Wtf is this shit true? How can such a broken mess be goty?
Pathologic 2 was hands down my RPG of the year and is particularly deserving of the commendations for Writing & Storytelling and Design & Immersion IMO , but I understand if no one on the site got to it or had it click. Fire Emblem is a strong runner up and I'm really looking forward to Disco Elysium's console release whenever it comes.
Also haven't played a SaGa game since PS1 but now I'm quite intrigued by Scarlet Grace.
Also haven't played a SaGa game since PS1 but now I'm quite intrigued by Scarlet Grace.
Honestly, this review doesn't quite describe why he finds it difficult, so it's tricky to reply to. SSGA is a game that can reward experimentation and tailoring a party (equipment, skills, etc) to take on the toughest challenges. If you expect to create a static team that can take on absolutely everything the game throws at you, you are probably going to run into trouble sooner or later. The game definitely requires a bit more than just 'attack and heal'. Final Fantasy it is not.
Kawazu also gave me a nice quote regarding this in general, really, and I feel this is a good thread to repost it.
Thanks. I'm going to check it out. I've read/watched reviews that have dismissed alot of the game as nothing special, but sounds like I need to check it out for myself.
It looks really bad to me, like extremely bad with dull color palette and uninspiring style. But it may look good to others.
The reviewer might be a little bit confused.
From what I know, in the game there are 2 different kind of difficulty: encounter and game.
Game difficulty is systemic wise.
It affects how the game scales the battle rank (enemy base strength) according to how many battles you've done.
Harder difficulty will make the enemy's strength scales faster and thus make the game in general more difficult.
Encounter difficulty is just specific to the battle you enter.
It's based on the battle rank/enemy's base strength with hard and brutal fight adding some bonus (either stronger "boss" like enemies or more enemies) and easy fight giving you less enemies to fight.
Higher difficulty also give you more rewards, and from what I gather encounter difficulty does not affect how fast battle rank rises.
Hence it's advised to try fighting harder enemy always, while keeping your gear up to date and work towards unlocking more useful techniques.
You will do well just forgetting about game difficulty.
I cleared playthrough not messing around with game difficulty and keeping it at normal.
It's true though that this game is not walk in the park, but it's comparatively easier than previous SaGa.
There are lots of people who can help give advice in Scarlet Grace OT.
If you're newer player, it might help if you start with easy.
Last edited:
it hurts that SaGa is digital only these days. Will cost them some hype and sales.
It's an interesting game, and I think it's hard to describe to sell the game to the right audience. I'm not a SaGa enthusiast so I took a chance on it and have been blown away by it... But I can understand it isn't going to be for your typical RPG gamer. I would just say it's of an exceedingly high quality in the game loop, party building, battle system, quest system etc. BUT if you're looking for an involved story, cutscenes, or engaging dialogue you won't find it here. The story is fast paced, events might only be a few text boxes, and I think the game focuses more on the fact events are happening all over the world than bothering to delve into them. Idk. I love the game, I want to sell people on it, and I understand that people aren't going to like it... but a lot of the criticisms seem half baked and I feel like those who don't like it are just bad at acknowledging it sets out to do things differently instead of being an issue around its quality.
Hope you do decide to get it and find it as awesome as many of us have though!
DE and maaaaaaybe Outer Worlds are the only crpgs on the list. Everything else are JRPGs, ARPGs, or strategy games
Dragon Quest Builders 2 is criminally low. Sure it has its problems. But it is so sincere, wonderful and down to earth. I even spent the time to breed a colorful pet to get the platinum and make my town in the middle of the air complete with a damn elevator that works with a push button! This game is insane and I hope more people play it on PC.
You may want to learn that other people can have different opinion.
cause it is.
it's as much an arpg as other arpgs. More so in some cases
This looks dope
But then when I look the game up to see what it looks like I see this
I'm sure the game is great but my god it is visually unappealing. I wish I could look past it, it really does seem like the combat is good shit.
For me, Fire Emblem, Cold Steel 3, and DQ11 will be my Top 3 on my GOTY list as well.
Still finishing up Cold STeel 3 but im loving it and can easily see how it's the best in the Cold Steel story arc
Once you're in the Trails fam, you go nuts for anything Trails. Plus someone showed me earlier a "happy new year tweet" from NISA and it's just people going "When's Cold Steel 4?" lol
Really interested to see the reception of the series once the Switch port of CS3 comes out.
Still finishing up Cold STeel 3 but im loving it and can easily see how it's the best in the Cold Steel story arc
Once you're in the Trails fam, you go nuts for anything Trails. Plus someone showed me earlier a "happy new year tweet" from NISA and it's just people going "When's Cold Steel 4?" lol
Really interested to see the reception of the series once the Switch port of CS3 comes out.
Tbh they can only cut maybe 20-30 quests out of ARR and out of 400 plus quests to shadow bringers it won't amount to that much imo
This looks dope
But then when I look the game up to see what it looks like I see this
I'm sure the game is great but my god it is visually unappealing. I wish I could look past it, it really does seem like the combat is good shit.
See, I love the visual design of traveling over the map in SaGa a lot. It's simple but effective. And really there's only like 3 things you see in this game - the map, the battle system (where the models are serviceable but for the actual battle portion is so fast and I'm tracking the damage and effects to pay much attention), and static scenes in 2D conversations. I admitted early up the thread this is maybe not the popular consensus, but I feel kind of confused when people talk about it looking so bad. Of course I'm just playing it in my phone so maybe that changes my expectations.
Congratulations to Nintendo for creating one of the finest JRPGS of the generation, personally I feel like Dragon Quest 11s was a slightly better game as well Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but Fire Emblem: Three Houses was very enjoyable, no doubt about it. The Nintendo Switch had a wonderful year in the role playing game department and hopefully this year will be even better.
I listened through a bit of the deliberation podcast that's linked on the site and, uh, did I miss something or did no-one on there actually play Shadowbringers? At around 45 minutes, when deciding on the best OST someone on the podcast says something like this:
There's also a bit further on (at about 2:47:00), where they are deciding on whether to put Shadowbringers or Iceborne in the top 5, and the arguments seem based entirely on hearsay. Some paraphrased examples:
It also feels bad to see a site focused entirely on RPGs completely ignore Sunless Skies when it comes to best writing discussions. I get why larger sites miss it, but for a site so focused on RPGs, it feels like a glaring omission.
To which the only reply is that someone did play in the past, but they did buy the OST for Shadowbringers so they feel comfortable talking about it.
There's also a bit further on (at about 2:47:00), where they are deciding on whether to put Shadowbringers or Iceborne in the top 5, and the arguments seem based entirely on hearsay. Some paraphrased examples:
Granted, I haven't listened through the entire podcast so I might be missing some context (I definitely hope I am), but the above exchange just struck me as downright bizarre. The first comment especially, where someone felt obligated to put the game into the top 5 simply because he knows their audience feels strongly about it despite the fact that no-one on the podcast (seemingly) actually played it. I know someone on the site played the game at least, since it has a review and a write-up on the best-of list, but I guess they weren't on the podcast.
It also feels bad to see a site focused entirely on RPGs completely ignore Sunless Skies when it comes to best writing discussions. I get why larger sites miss it, but for a site so focused on RPGs, it feels like a glaring omission.
