Krome Dragon's Den

: RPG gaming stuff, anime stuff and reviews

[kromedragonden]

Do you still like grinding?

Now playing final fantasy tactics, while I love the game 5/5, the sluggish progression system, low loot percent chances, palette swapped enemies at higher level is just filling playtime. So I'm just gonna finish the story which I enjoy.

This was great in the 90s -early 2000s when gamers had the time but less studios, console and gens = less games, plus storage space limited the amount of scripted content.

People grew to enjoy grinding and got a taste for it.

Modern day games with Dungeon crawling like diablo 3, disgaea 4/5 etc. carry this tradition further with procedurally generated maps, enemies and loot.

I like what the Witcher 3 has: cleverly disguised side/fetch quests with stories(contracts), ways to kill enemies way over your level (percentage damage).

[demifiendrsa]

Leaked Harry Potter RPG video game footage.

Set in the 19th Century (1800’s) Wizarding World, this 3rd person open-world action RPG game centers around your character with unique abilities who has eared a late acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are a newly arrived 5th year student to Hogwarts that demonstrates a latent gift for magic with a unique ability to track and identify remnants of a pottant ancient power. Upon arrival, strange events begin to materialize In the Forbidden Forrest and trouble begins o brew within the castle walls. Together with Professor Elezar Fig, you embark on a journey through both familiar and never before seen locations to bring to light the truth behind these mysterious occurrences. On your quest you will craft potions, master new spells, and discover fantastical beasts. You will battle Dark Wizards, Goblins, and other supernatural enemies and uncover the truth about your destiny - the Fate of the Wizarding World lies in your hands. FEATURES - Journey to Hogwarts to become one of 8 different Wizard types -Experience Hogwarts, make new friends, uncover new secrets, and change the fate of the Wizarding world. -Experience a new magic system that creates countless possibilities to master magic. -Freely explore the Wizarding World for the first time., Choose your house and friends at Hogwarts, and decide to pursue a path of good or evil. -Create your own witch or wizard, and experience a all new story separate from the books or films

[kromedragonden]

Today's star catches.

[brutus-red-xiii-deactivated2021]

She’s so fucking CUTE!

[cyberlesbiab-deactivated2021052]

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

i love the storytelling in the Kirby games because of the ever-present implication that something extremely significant is going on in the background of Kirby’s peaceful life on Popstar 

like, in the Kirby universe there’s this massive war between technology and magic and gigantic space demons with cat faces and you don’t get to learn anything significant about it. 

you are looking at these events of cosmic significance through Kirby’s eyes, and all Kirby knows is that these are are assholes that caused his sandwich to fall on the kitchen floor this morning and they need to pay for that crime 

like, imagine you’re some kind of cosmic warlord demon bent on dominating the universe, but somehow you blowing up a planet caused a sandwich to fall off a plate and that enraged the wrong extremely strong pink baby.

kirby doesn’t know or care who you are or what you’ve accomplished. you indirectly fucked with his lunch and now he’s coming to kill you. 

[nixcraft]

Work in IT, got this in the mail today.

[kromedragonden]

How to not burnout of an RPG

I often find myself getting tired of an rpg after a few dozen hours just begging for it to be over. Why do I tire so quickly? It's not a fault of the game itself, the real culprit is excessive grinding and side-questing.

Only grind as much as you need to beat the next boss.

Leave maxing stats, unlocking every special skill, weapon etc to endgame, new game plus and post game.

Avoid unimportant fetch quests unless you're dying for that small cash reward.

That extra costume, event,  gimmick weapon/skill/guest character aren't always worth time.

Focus on side quests that tie in close and don’t take you away from the main story

[kromedragonden]

Was turned based JRPG combat as great as we thought it was?

Alot of hardcore jrpg fans say action rpg combat is mindless dumbed down hack and slash spamming of one attack for most non boss battles. But don't turn based rpg just have you do the same thing,much slower in turns, with a time wasting transition and results screen? Doesn't that feel dumber? Traditional turn based rpgs like final fantasy etc have your characters stand in a horizontal line taking turns based on a speed stat. Characters automatically walk up to enemies, attack and go back into position. AOE spells just hit all enemies and do not require you to catch enemies in the target area. All dodging is handled by a luck or evasion stats. There is little to no differentiation between melee and ranged weapons aside from design and animations, giving ranged characters no safety. There is no positional awareness, so you can't sidestep out of a spell or trap. Realtime/semi-real-time RPGs like the Witcher 3, skyrim, dragon age, ffxv etc.. force you to do all your strategy in quick (some with optional pauses). You need to manually get in range to deal damage, and dodge attacks,traps, spells, block, cover and decide which spell or weapon is effective. REAL turn-based strategy RPGs are:

fire emblem,

final fantasy tactics

shadowrun returns series

divinity original sin series

, tactics ogre

disgaea series etc.

These games have you take turns positioning your units like chess pieces.Your decision are based on:

how many tiles your unit can move

elevation and how high can your unit jump

obstacles that block projectiles

traps

weather

how many tiles does an aoe skill cover etc.

In conclusion,the narrative and themes were the strong point of old jrpgs and the gameplay was just good enough to take you along for the ride. Action combat can be just strategic if not more and is respectable way for rpg gameplay to evolve. If my rant had you thinking, feel free to like, share and reply with your thoughts.

[kromedragonden]

If you ever feel ugly remember there are bunch of mosquitoes watching you who think you look like a whole snack.

[kromedragonden]

Being a teenager was such a stupid phase I'm glad to be out of. Everyone being all bitchy, edgy, rude, forming cliques, gossiping, fighting making bad decisions etc.

I don't even know what most of my classmates are doing now and they don't know what im doing,

I don't care, they don't either.

[314eater]

today is the only day you can reblog this

[pixelartus]

Charlie the Duck | 22th Sep 2017 (PC)

“Charlie the Duck is an old school 2D side-scrolling platform game. Run through levels, collect coins, diamonds and other power ups. Jump on top of enemies to defeat them. Dive into the water to find hidden areas! This is a complete remake of the PC version originally released in 1996 for MS-DOS.”

The sequel Charlie II is also available on Steam (since 19th Feb 2018)

[kromedragonden]

I loved Charlie duck back in 2004!

[iraffiruse]

[tumbling-website]

Reblog for the last one

[inbreadshark-deactivated2016030]

it’s a game show where everyone eats the furniture in a room and tries to see which is made of chocolate

[pemwin]

So basically you’re telling me this is the best fucking game ever created

[ammarlou-deactivated20200401]

Definitely reblogging for the last gif 😂

[pom-seedss]

It is so much better considering they are all wearing suits.

[nileseyyniles]

Phone call home 😂📚💥

[kromedragonden]

Future of alternative forms in Pokémon and buffing.

Since sun and moon an ultra sun and moon had regional variations but didn't have mega evolutions to buff underpowered Pokémon.

* Megas didn't "fix" those Pokémon since you lose your choice of item to make them viable and some should of just gotten a permanent evolution.

* Would it be a good idea to just give the Pokémon their mega evolution abilities as alternate forms or regional variations without the stat boosts?

[ksniasolo]

[alone-intheshadows-deactivated2]

I HAVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS GIFSET

#that meat lady was the real national treasure

[kromedragonden]

I remember this!

[safelyendangered]

“destiny”

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