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I hate stealing mechanics in traditional JRPGs (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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Love having all my party members twiddling their thumbs defending and healing while one guy fails his steal rolls 10 times in a row

I extra love it if the steal move deals damage so you have to also worry about the target dying from too many failed attempts

I double extra love it when it's a boss battle when on top of everything else the story momentum just grinds to a halt while you fuck with a stupid RNG for 5 minutes

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[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I kinda think that this a big reason why the “Traditional JRPG” is a more-or-less extinct genre outside of the Persona series, and whatever weird remake, or “narrative experience” experiment SquareEnix is working on right now.

i agree, only atlus (persona and smt dev/publisher) figured out how to make these games fun in this low attention span era. Theyve been on a roll, even the new franchise looks awesome, they even managed to make Yakuza a turn based jrpg and its awesome.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah. Turn based yakuza was NOT in my life bingo card lol

Was fantastic though.

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