Imagine being a kid in former Yugoslavia, never knowing the comfyness of playing SMT on a Super Nintendo because you're not Japanese and your parents could never afford one. It would be max comfy to play this in a bomb shelter.
You might not like TO but it undeniably left a massive footprint in the subgenre and was easily the most mechanically expansive console SRPG of the time.
I could name dozens of better games released in that year, just to name one in the same genre Final Fantasy V, SMT was decent in the 4th gen but only became good in the 5th gen.
Anon, I like SMT, a lot more than many Megaten or other JRPGs, but you have to be joking.
SMT has really good atmosphere and musci, it's also decently open in terms of progression once you get to future Tokyo, but gameplay wise it's a fricking mess in all versions, SMT2 might not be as interesting or crazy in terms of setting and story but it's at least playable.
What`s the Definitive way of play this game? PS1 version?
Yeah, PS1 is the best of the bunch.
Don't fall for the GBA version, it looks like ass and has a lot of bugs, stick to the PS1 version.
final fantasy boomers are insufferable
please for the love of god branch out
play something not made by square enix ONE TIME
FFV is better than any SMT game of that era and its only the third best FF on the SNES, also you goddamn zoomer back then Square wasn't merged with Enix yet.
It's a game about Japanese society at the end of the millennium. It's not crazy that it came out when it came out. It's perfectly fitting. You could say it anticipated the shift in the Japanese media though, which happened mostly in the second half of the '90s
Something I don't think SMT gets nearly enough credit for is that each mainline game really captures the feel of each era it was made in. More than any other game even.
1992 had wizardry 7, might and magic 4 and ultima underworld. Megami tensei 2 is also extremely similar to SMT. I've heard there were allegedly a number of 'wizardry clone' jap games in the 80s and 90s that nobody cares about, presumably a lot of them will have been first person dungeon crawler types like SMT to be considered wizardry clones. But is SMT really all that different from other contemporaneous things like phantasy star?
It was pretty fun even when I played it a few years back, easy as shit to accidentally cheese with bufu/zio but the way the game builds up and the ost were both top notch.
Why you Black folk pretend any of these games are good? This is an anonymous board, you are not getting any upvotes for being a contrarian with le based obscure taste.
>I come into the video games board not knowing anything about video games and that makes you a contrarian
seriously why even bother talking about SMT if you think its for obscure contrarians? what possible insight could you offer beyond 'idk'
>seriously why even bother talking about SMT if you think its for obscure contrarians?
it is, your perspective that it isnt is borne from you being part of a hyper-insular online group and not having the general emotional iq/empathetical capacity to understand what the common perception of things are
Insane statement, why talk about your brother's new job when only a handful of people have any idea about it? Why talk about this film you saw when most of the planet hasn't seen it? It's just an interest, you have lost your mind if you think it's strange for people to be discussing things that you aren't interested in
>Insane statement, why talk about your brother's new job when only a handful of people have any idea about it? Why talk about this film you saw when most of the planet hasn't seen it? It's just an interest, you have lost your mind if you think it's strange for people to be discussing things that you aren't interested in
? that has nothing to do with anything you or i said though
youre not even maintaining the same basic line of thought
In the context of a VIDEO GAMES discussion board no, megami tensei is not especially obscure, it's a series that has amassed millions of sales over dozens of games and many console/generations. On Ganker in particular, where we are, theres threads about SMT all the time. Liking something that YOU might be unfamiliar with isn't by necessity contrarian and your unfamiliarity or dislike isn't grounds for everyone else to stop talking about it. as for the issue of having an interest in something specific and beyond the scope of the wider public and the "common perception of things", not only is that ok and something that you are allowed to do but it is completely normal. Pretty much everyone is like that about various things and I can't believe that there is no one you know like that
Get it?
9 months ago
Anonymous
im not unfamiliar with it and never stated i was
its millions of sales are irrelevant in the long run, croc legend of the gobbos sold millions of copies. millions of sales do not make something not irrelevant. have you ever played an ultima or wizardry game even though you're into niche rpgs? i know the answer already
9 months ago
Anonymous
Honestly, your nonsensical rants tell far more about how low your standards are than anything else, and not him but I did play both Wizardry (including the actually obscure jp spinoffs) and Ultima.
If you seriously think SMT is an "obscure" series for contrarians you've got serious mental issues.
9 months ago
Anonymous
wow a person whos super interested in niche shit played niche shit??? wow
>i-im not super interested in niche shit!
"including the actually obscure jp spinoffs"
youre one of these people who makes it your personality to be into niche shit
and then youre arguiing the niche shit isnt niche shit
9 months ago
Anonymous
I never said I wasn't interested in niche games, you do have mental issues, serious ones at that.
And no, unlike you I do have an actual personality, I play niche games because I'm actually interested in videogames as a whole, I played the niche Wizardry entries because I really like Wizardry as a series, I'm not a mentally ill zoomer who only plays games because of peer pressure, I play them because I genuinely like them.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>And no, unlike you I do have an actual personality,
hahahahah i'll take your word for it
well anyway going out with my wife now have a good one
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, enjoy your tulpa bro
9 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I'm
1992 had wizardry 7, might and magic 4 and ultima underworld. Megami tensei 2 is also extremely similar to SMT. I've heard there were allegedly a number of 'wizardry clone' jap games in the 80s and 90s that nobody cares about, presumably a lot of them will have been first person dungeon crawler types like SMT to be considered wizardry clones. But is SMT really all that different from other contemporaneous things like phantasy star?
The evidence of this board and this very thread tells you there are people who talk about megami tensei. Its uninfluential on other games but "relevant" enough to warrant people wanting to discuss it without you being able to stop them because you arent a fan
Not really. Have you actually played it? It's not that impressive of a game compared to its contemporaries
Combat is fundamentally broken and turns into just spamming shock infinitely, it's not remotely challenging outside of the 5 minute section where you lose all your demons and friends
The dungeons are uninspired corridor mazes, the story is meh, the characters are cardboard cutouts
The only saving grace of the game are the music and aesthetics
Imagine being a kid in former Yugoslavia, never knowing the comfyness of playing SMT on a Super Nintendo because you're not Japanese and your parents could never afford one. It would be max comfy to play this in a bomb shelter.
we had sega terminator
Imagine playing kyuukaku megami tensei in a bomb shelter and getting filtered by the minotaur in floor 8 twice.
imagine if after you beat him pazuzu talked to you through le game itself and then le freakin demons invaded bomb shelter :0
Imagine being yugoslav but not knowing how your war led to the creation of one of the better SRPGs.
>being yugoslav but not knowing how your war led to the creation of one of the better SRPGs
Care to elaborate?
He's talking about Tactics Ogre
>Tactics Ogre
>one of the better SRPGs
To each their own I guess...
You might not like TO but it undeniably left a massive footprint in the subgenre and was easily the most mechanically expansive console SRPG of the time.
Why?
Because it's good unlike any other game released in 1992
I could name dozens of better games released in that year, just to name one in the same genre Final Fantasy V, SMT was decent in the 4th gen but only became good in the 5th gen.
Anon, I like SMT, a lot more than many Megaten or other JRPGs, but you have to be joking.
SMT has really good atmosphere and musci, it's also decently open in terms of progression once you get to future Tokyo, but gameplay wise it's a fricking mess in all versions, SMT2 might not be as interesting or crazy in terms of setting and story but it's at least playable.
Yeah, PS1 is the best of the bunch.
Don't fall for the GBA version, it looks like ass and has a lot of bugs, stick to the PS1 version.
"Final Fantasy V"
kek
FFV is better than any SMT game of that era and its only the third best FF on the SNES, also you goddamn zoomer back then Square wasn't merged with Enix yet.
I'd put FFV over SMT1, but FFV is the best damn FF game of all time. I'd put SMT1 over FFVI or IV though.
my mom was 14 in 1992
Out of 10!
final fantasy boomers are insufferable
please for the love of god branch out
play something not made by square enix ONE TIME
Sweltering summer 1992? True story?
afraid so
BLOODY HELL
If you were gaming on anything other than an Amiga in 1992 you were basically a loser.
thought I was on Ganker for a second
the only series more generic than ff is dragon quest
basically redd*t babbys first jrpg
fftrannies will cope but you know im right
i don't particularly care for FF or DQ, but as an SMT fan, I would not be throwing stones in this regard tbh
>moron that uses 'generic' as a serious argument against anything
You'd fit right in with Final Fantasy gays
How come that's surprising
It's a game about Japanese society at the end of the millennium. It's not crazy that it came out when it came out. It's perfectly fitting. You could say it anticipated the shift in the Japanese media though, which happened mostly in the second half of the '90s
Something I don't think SMT gets nearly enough credit for is that each mainline game really captures the feel of each era it was made in. More than any other game even.
how so?
What were the Japanese eras before 4 like?
1992 had wizardry 7, might and magic 4 and ultima underworld. Megami tensei 2 is also extremely similar to SMT. I've heard there were allegedly a number of 'wizardry clone' jap games in the 80s and 90s that nobody cares about, presumably a lot of them will have been first person dungeon crawler types like SMT to be considered wizardry clones. But is SMT really all that different from other contemporaneous things like phantasy star?
There are a lot of first person dungeon crawling clones around that time from Japan. SMT was big since they were mostly Wizardery clones.
It was pretty fun even when I played it a few years back, easy as shit to accidentally cheese with bufu/zio but the way the game builds up and the ost were both top notch.
Why you Black folk pretend any of these games are good? This is an anonymous board, you are not getting any upvotes for being a contrarian with le based obscure taste.
it's a club, makes people feel secure in an opinion that they know others share
I just think it's a pretty fun game.
>I come into the video games board not knowing anything about video games and that makes you a contrarian
seriously why even bother talking about SMT if you think its for obscure contrarians? what possible insight could you offer beyond 'idk'
>seriously why even bother talking about SMT if you think its for obscure contrarians?
it is, your perspective that it isnt is borne from you being part of a hyper-insular online group and not having the general emotional iq/empathetical capacity to understand what the common perception of things are
Insane statement, why talk about your brother's new job when only a handful of people have any idea about it? Why talk about this film you saw when most of the planet hasn't seen it? It's just an interest, you have lost your mind if you think it's strange for people to be discussing things that you aren't interested in
>Insane statement, why talk about your brother's new job when only a handful of people have any idea about it? Why talk about this film you saw when most of the planet hasn't seen it? It's just an interest, you have lost your mind if you think it's strange for people to be discussing things that you aren't interested in
? that has nothing to do with anything you or i said though
youre not even maintaining the same basic line of thought
In the context of a VIDEO GAMES discussion board no, megami tensei is not especially obscure, it's a series that has amassed millions of sales over dozens of games and many console/generations. On Ganker in particular, where we are, theres threads about SMT all the time. Liking something that YOU might be unfamiliar with isn't by necessity contrarian and your unfamiliarity or dislike isn't grounds for everyone else to stop talking about it. as for the issue of having an interest in something specific and beyond the scope of the wider public and the "common perception of things", not only is that ok and something that you are allowed to do but it is completely normal. Pretty much everyone is like that about various things and I can't believe that there is no one you know like that
Get it?
im not unfamiliar with it and never stated i was
its millions of sales are irrelevant in the long run, croc legend of the gobbos sold millions of copies. millions of sales do not make something not irrelevant. have you ever played an ultima or wizardry game even though you're into niche rpgs? i know the answer already
Honestly, your nonsensical rants tell far more about how low your standards are than anything else, and not him but I did play both Wizardry (including the actually obscure jp spinoffs) and Ultima.
If you seriously think SMT is an "obscure" series for contrarians you've got serious mental issues.
wow a person whos super interested in niche shit played niche shit??? wow
>i-im not super interested in niche shit!
"including the actually obscure jp spinoffs"
youre one of these people who makes it your personality to be into niche shit
and then youre arguiing the niche shit isnt niche shit
I never said I wasn't interested in niche games, you do have mental issues, serious ones at that.
And no, unlike you I do have an actual personality, I play niche games because I'm actually interested in videogames as a whole, I played the niche Wizardry entries because I really like Wizardry as a series, I'm not a mentally ill zoomer who only plays games because of peer pressure, I play them because I genuinely like them.
>And no, unlike you I do have an actual personality,
hahahahah i'll take your word for it
well anyway going out with my wife now have a good one
Yeah, enjoy your tulpa bro
Yeah I'm
The evidence of this board and this very thread tells you there are people who talk about megami tensei. Its uninfluential on other games but "relevant" enough to warrant people wanting to discuss it without you being able to stop them because you arent a fan
Not really. Have you actually played it? It's not that impressive of a game compared to its contemporaries
Combat is fundamentally broken and turns into just spamming shock infinitely, it's not remotely challenging outside of the 5 minute section where you lose all your demons and friends
The dungeons are uninspired corridor mazes, the story is meh, the characters are cardboard cutouts
The only saving grace of the game are the music and aesthetics
What`s the Definitive way of play this game? PS1 version?