I want to get into these. I'm debating between playing 1 (which has the only story and characters people give a shit about from what I've seen) and 5 (which seems like the most fully-featured gameplay)
I want to get into these.
I want to get into these. I'm debating between playing 1 (which has the only story and characters people give a shit about from what I've seen) and 5 (which seems like the most fully-featured gameplay)
Yeah. Start at 1.
People do enjoy the story of the other games, by the way. 4 has the best story of the series in fact.
I have OCD and will probably play the game for like 500 hours so I don't necessarily want to play more than one in the series
1 is a fine game on its own. it only seems lacking if you play other games first and then try to go back to it.
>I have OCD and will probably play the game for like 500 hours so I don't necessarily want to play more than one in the series
That's not how OCD interfaces with this game.
>OCD
>500 hours
>1 game
sure, kid. you have "OCD".
NTA but you can easily pump thousands, even tens of thousands of hours into games. OCD has nothing to do with it.
>you can easily pump thousands, even tens of thousands of hours into games
Into multiple games? Sure. Into just one singleplayer game? Only if you're severely autistic.
i'm not autistic and i have 700 hours in ck2
It's doesn't, but it's enjoyable in some places.
4 story isn't amazing but it was the game I enjoyed the most. Yes I liked the sardine autism...
1 is the best, it's all downhill from there.
Start with 1, it's indeed the only one with a story worth a damn and the gameplay is not as bad as people like to meme.
5 has great gameplay, but the postgame is kinda simple and it's a bit too easy for my taste, but that's just my opinion, the story is complete slop and has mindbroken at least one schizo.
You need to play them in order because they get better with each installment and it's hard to go back.
let me help you out with that.
Uphill battle I would play them all it's hard to go back playing previous tittles because the mechanics got better with each game.
start with
>rhapsody
>la pucelle
play the psp version
>disgaea
pc or psp
>phantom brave
pc or wii
>Makai kingdom
psp
>disgaea 2
pc or psp
>prinny can I be the hero
>soul nomad
>disgaea 3
>prinny can I be the hero 2
>Zettai hero project
>disgaea 4
>disgaea D2
>disgaea 5
Honestly it's alot harder to go back because the gameplay improved tenfold with each game. Also you will be missing lore and interesting scenerios if you don't play the side games.the art The art and creativity peaked around prinny 2, it devolved into fanservice and e-girl tropes from there
>they get better with each installment and it's hard to go back.
Then why would he play more than one game if hes getting a better version of the same exact experience each game
Phantom Brave, Makai Kingdom, and the Prinny titles are an entirely different experience than the main staple series.
It's not the exactly the same, in the worlds scenarios, gameplay and art. Everything has changed considerably.
>You need to play them in order because they get better with each installment and it's hard to go back.
idk about that one unit chief.
I can go back to 2 or 1 at the drop of a hat after playing the first B team Disgaea game. I can go back to playing 2 after 4 because they're at the same level.
I can go back to playing 5 after 4 because 5 was made by C team and is middling but above 3 mechanically only because it tries to fit every system it can in.
6? I can go back to playing Rhapsody & LP after playing 6, D team didn't understand the series, you'd think some fool had cloned the B team.
7? Easy to go back to 2, 4, 5 or even because as much as it wants to be 4 or 5 saying HEY GUYS LOOK WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN WHAT THE SERIES IS! It's still a shallow game made by the D team but at least delivers on story/characters for the first time since 4.
I'm pretty sure if I was given the curse of immortality in a real post-scarcity society utopia then I'd be spending most of that time playing and enjoying Disgaea 2 and modding Disgaea 3, 4, 5 & 7 to be the perfect sequels to Disgaea 2 mechanically.
I am talking about story and art wise. It initially kinda looked shitty and generic in rhapsody, Harada's style peaked between Makai Kingdom, and Prinny 2 afterward it slowly devolved a cesspool of moe tropes and fanservice.
disgaea 1 artstyle has the most soul
nah, I would say 2 or 3 for the peak
see what I mean? When from generic, to rather interesting, to moe/e-girl/shota tropes.
With etna, she started rather generic, to someone trying to be sexy but couldn't, to being drawn like a e-girl
idk man that last Etna doesn't look like a e-girl at all, specially compared to the actual e-girls in the series, she's simply flat, d1 Etna is the most e-girl-ish in that image.
Etna never looked generic. Etna looks like Etna.
Update your copypasta. Why continue to play the PSP versions of La Pucelle or Makai Kingdom (or any of the games, frankly) over the PC versions? The only games that you listed that don't yet have native PC versions are Prinny 1&2 (which got modern Switch ports), Disgaea 3 (which you can play the vanilla PS3 version, or the expanded Vita version) and Disgaea D2 (which remains PS3 exclusive). Also, you don't list the recently localized Rhapsody sequels.
>Disgaea 3 (which you can play the vanilla PS3 version, or the expanded Vita version)
You can indeed emulate both.
but why the frick would you.
I never said emulation wasn't an option for the games without PC versions. But speaking of emulating Disgaea 3, does the Vita version even work on Vita3K that well? I have a hacked Vita so it isn't that big a deal to me, but if I wanted to emulate it on PC, would that even be possible? I haven't been keeping up with Vita3K's development so I don't know how well games run on it. I guess it also depends on specs, but I feel like my PC isn't too much of a toaster for it (GTX 1080, Ryzen 1700, 16GB RAM).
I played through it last year alongside 7, I was really down on 3 in the past, still nursing a sore hateboner from 2008 & 2012 but wanted to revisit it with a fresh set of eyes having suffered through 6. The vita version holds up really well though and it's no worse than a quick trip through DD2 or the Disgaea 1 remake. I really was surprised at how much my opinion changed. Still very far down on the recommendation totem pole for what it tried to do but it's worth a shot if you've played everything else.
I still have my copy on Vita too and I was originally gonna play it on that and my PSTV but my PSTV died so figured it was worth seeing how it ran.
It emulates fairly well on Vita3k on PC, bit of slowdown here or there but locking GPU & CPU clockspeeds & setting priority is enough to get you through most of it, might need to try a few diff builds to get it to work or switch GPU driver but it's playable.
Your "potato" GPU is more than enough for it even rendering at modern resolution, idk about CPU but I don't recall it doing too much to my 5600.
Personally I liked 5. The post game is near infinite if you want it to be. Eclipse power is a hell of a rabbit hole this series hadn't touched prior, not sure if they ever did after either.
why? From a gamplay standpoint I can understand, but lore and character wise it sucked.
I posted this before, but
The battle system and such was on point, but everything else felt shitty
>overlords status as gods seemed to be revoked and it seemed as though they were only "kings"
>none of the main cast had interesting designs nor did they seem like overlords,
You could argue red Magnus, if he was a king vying for overworld in any other game he would be fine, but as an overlord he
was pretty shitty.
>moe pandering
How about some cool shit instead of homosexual little girls
>curry pandering
>didn't really expound upon world jumping
>netherworlds felt like countries instead of entirely different planets
>we never really got to explore any of the worlds nor learn more about them
>we didn't get to explore any of the worlds that we shipped the research team off to.
> all overlords were just recycled units and we never encountered any we had known of before storywise
If we had the overlord of eryngi why not have the netherworld be the god spore similar to that of that giant fungus beneath the US or Alexander being the overlord of that yokai inspired one
>death lore
nah, it was established in other games that death doesn't work the same way, thus Usalia's whole arc was shit
>villians were shit and forgettable
In universe, the overlords we saw would have stomped them to death.
>INB4 lore is irrelevant, not when overlords are name dropped, are
dlc, and have fulfilled their roles in the games they weren't introduced in.
>Valvolga being a stand in for Baal in ZHP
>Etna trying to take over other netherworlds etc.
>final boss is shit
It honestly had the set up to be the greatest title and possibly the end of everything, but storywise
it was really crappy and just a giant let down.
I have lost faith in this series, 6 seems like it's going to be the same, some hype god of destruction destroying worlds, but it's probably going to be hampered.
Yeah D5 is my favorite gameplay wise but the story's a wet fart. 16 chapters and the only character I actually cared about and wanted to use was Usalia. I don't care about powerlevels whether overlords are "gods" or "kings" or just "badass demons". That seems like a small thing to get hung up on in a game series that had the original overlord die from choking on a pretzel.
Is Disgaea 5,6,7 good if I like 1 and 4, didn't really care about 2 and never played 3? Just looking for which one to try next. I like 4 story but sometimes the repetition really annoyed the frick outta me
>but sometimes the repetition really annoyed the frick outta me
7 is just th repeating the same joke over and over.
Prilika keeps saying things wrong "you know what they say a cat never forgets!" and then someone goes "Prillika the saying actually goes a ELEPHANT never forgets" thats her entire personality
Fuji vommits up blood anytime anyone says anything thats his entire personality
Ceefore loooves explosions she loves explosions and guns and bombs snorts gunpowder guys cuz shes a bomb otaku XD thats her entire personality
Suisen just goes beep boop i calculate the chance of success of that thing we were doing as 31% and thats his entire personality
etc.
And it never gets better.
If you dont like repetition Disgaea 7 is not for you.
why the hell do the writers keep doing that, can't we get a disgaea 1 tier story or even a phantom brave (but even that got repetitive at times with its "jokes")
btw you guys, how's 3 then?
6 is repetition the game. Literally so much repetition the devs gave you autobattle so you can repeat even more. 5 has the best gameplay loop in my opinion. In terms of story, do not play 5 for the story. It's awful and even Shonen jump authors would cringe at it. 6's story is passable but just trapped behind the worst gameplay ever conceived.
I really liked 1 and 2. Although the endgame bosses disappointed me, they were more like puzzles that can only be solved in one way (I wanted them to be more like a challenge for autists like me who enjoy grinding uber tier characters). I also started playing 4 but couldn't bother to finish it.
Play Disgaea 7 and ignore the rest. It's the most well-rounded, followed by 4.
While 1 had a simple charming story (mainly for the time), the gameplay is extremely basic, limited and unpolished compared to the newer games.
>Play Disgaea 7 and ignore the rest. It's the most well-rounded, followed by 4.
The game trying to build back the cut mechanics but can't even get unit attacks right? LMAO
And you think playing the most barebones and basic game (1) is the best gameplay alternative? Ok.
Sure, it even has content that doesn't exist in 6 & 7. 7's gameplay is extremely shallow.
7 Has the best cast and story since 4 but it's barebones, 1 is still a solid SRPG to this day.
You're delusional if you think 1 isn't the most basic of them all.
The main appeal of 1 is gone if you have played any other Disgaea game. 1 was a novelty at the time because you played as the "bad guy", wacky humor and some interesting ideas like geo panels and item world.
>You're delusional if you think 1 isn't the most basic of them all.
You're delusional if you think 7 isn't a shallow skin walking imitation of an SRPG.
It has more mechanical depth than the last 2 titles and is perfectly fine to recommend. Recommending 7 of all things and saying to ignore the rest however is delusional and shows a fundamental lack of critical thinking.
> 1 was a novelty at the time because you played as the "bad guy", wacky humor and some interesting ideas like geo panels and item world.
DUDE DEEP DUNGEONS!
7's deep dungeon is certainly a novelty lacking in any semblance of mechanical depth, stripped bare to the point it registers only as a pale imitation; like most of D7 it fails to intersect with any of its surrounding gameplay systems. Pull, pull, pull. Now there's a novelty for you.
>You're delusional if you think 7 isn't a shallow skin walking imitation of an SRPG.
I like how you moved goalposts because you couldn't disprove what I said.
It also proves you're irrational and as such not worth wasting time on. Emotionally attaching yourself to a videogame of all things is utterly pathetic.
>I like how you moved goalposts
I didn't tho. There were no goalposts, I said 7 sucks and has stripped out mechanics and there's nothing to prove there.
There's no point in repeating it over and over, you may want to have an austistic shitfight for hours about semantics because someone disagrees that 7 is the one game worth playing and thine maidens virtue has been called into question but there's nothing there.
It's not a game with great mechanical depth and I said everything I had to say on the matter.
>Emotionally attaching yourself to a videogame of all things is utterly pathetic.
LMAO
Catch yourself in the mirror there did ya?
>I didn't tho
This is the only additional reply I'll waste on you, even if I know you'll handwave it away because you're objectively irrational.
The talk was about how simple D1 is in comparison to the latter entries.
Your direct response to
>>You're delusional if you think 1 isn't the most basic of them all
was to attack 7, while completely disregarding that the point was about 1. Pure deflection and moving of goalposts.
In fact, you completely and utterly ignore any criticism directed at 1. Obviously beause you know you can't defend things like the basic gameplay compared to latter entries, but don't want to admit it.
I seriously can't stand interacting with close-minded irrational people like you. People that can't even hold a basic rational discussion. You have no place interacting with other human beings.
Now go ahead and keep wallowing in your denial, shitposting and irrational behaviour. I'm done with you.
see
7 filtered me. I've beaten Disgaea 1, 2, and 5 but couldn't get past the first few chapters of 7.