The RPG Thread

If you play Etrian Odyssey you can start with any of them, but I suggest starting with Untold 1 and playing Untold 2. They have story lines and shit. They're remakes of the first two Etrian Odyssey games. 4 is really good as well, and probably cheap as dirt now.

If you're going to be playing a lot of rpgs on the thing you might consider getting a bigger battery

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That thing will last two days of all day playing before it needs a recharge. Also makes the system easier to hold, imo.

You'll also probably want to pop for a extra large sd card, and if you do that, you'll need to format it to Fat32 to work with the 3ds, but you can go 128 gb and bigger if you go that route, which is really nice.

Persona Q is Etrian Odyssey gameplay with Persona 3 and 4 characters, skills, etc. in a unique storyline made for this specific game.

Think the big drawback is that the SD card is under the battery on the 3ds xl isn't it?

So that's a pretty big bitch. Have to unscrew the whole back and take it off, take out the battery, and swap them.

Could be wrong, I haven't had to deal with that since I got my 3ds xl last year so my memory might be mistaken.

Rezz_sl said:

Nah it's not under the battery. There's a tab on the underside on the right, near the stylus holder.

The downside of using multiple SD cards is just changing them out, really. And you end up having to re-log into the Nintendo Shop and shit because that information is saved on the card.

Seconding the Etrian Odyssey Untold recommendation. That's easily one of my favorite series of games for the last 5-6 years.

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Yeah I think its just covered up by the super big battery I have and the replacement cover they give you with the battery doesn't even bother with an sd card slot as a result.

But a 128 gb card is so big I never have to change it anyway. I have like...a lot of games on there, most of them large rpgs, monster hunter, xenoblade chronicles, smt and such and still have 600,000 blocks left open.

On the 3DS and Etrian Odyssey subject, about Untold versus IV, big difference is in Untolds, which are remakes, they added story modes. In story modes, you have a set party with actual characters that talk to each other and flesh out a story for the world and stuff. It's nice if you like being directed a bit, but overall you lose quite a bit from the bare sense of exploration you get when you play classic mode. In classic mode, you assemble a team of generic class characters and there's very little story, so you make your own story pretty much. The interesting part is team building, since you can pick different classes than storymode and play like you want, with like a super defensive setup or control heavy or damage heavy and stuff. IV only has classic mode since it's not a remake.

That said they're all really fun games if you like dungeon crawlers and shit. The difficulty is pretty decent too if you don't play on easy(even on easy there's some decent challenges iirc) and the whole exploring blank maps and drawing the dungeon on the 3DS is a really cool idea, really fun to do. It feels like old school rpg shit, but without the hassle of having to draw shit on paper and erase it if you fuck up and shit. Feels good when you finish a dungeon after mapping it entirely. You can have it automap if you're lazy too.


Other games I'm enjoying a lot on 3DS, although they're DS games really, are Ace Attorney games. They're mystery visual novels type of game. There's not too much gameplay(mostly you do point and click stuff), but it's fun piecing together crimes and trying to find the tricks to them and stuff. Been enjoying this type of game a lot lately, got a PSTV to play Danganronpa(which apparently is coming to PC, so waste of money there, but eh).

In a similar but a bit different manner, I'd highly recommend 999 on DS and then Virtue's Last Reward: Zero Escape on 3DS. It has more puzzles and shit on top of the mystery stuff, but it's really cool. 3rd one in the trilogy coming sometimes next year.

Vorph_sl said:

Yeah, I'll start with Untold. I remember thinking the original Etrian Odyssey was alright, but I think I'd like it a lot more with a story and dialogue.

Was looking at Virtue's Last Reward, but I never finished 999. Is it a direct sequel?

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Yes pretty much, so you'd want to finish 999. If you don't have much time/don't want to spend too long, you could just follow a guide, the game itself is like super short if you're not trying to find the answers by yourself and replaying the different routes. I wanna say like 2hours short maybe? I forgot. Most of the game's playtime was figuring puzzles the first time and figuring out the correct choices to get the true ending.

Also of note, since I didn't know that for a while after buying my 3DS, it's backward compatible with the DS games, so you can just plug it in and play it on 3DS.