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[Seriyu]

Etrian odyssey 3's trailer had a party named after the original trolls from homestuck too! Atlus USA is pretty great.

[warhammer651]

Picked up 4 yesterday. its a bit easier than the other games but overall still well designed

[Culise]

EO4 has some of the best little joke events in the series, I think.  At the last floor of the second area, and the music at the conclusion to the Moth Egg quest and that taunting crayfish in the Noisy Pool both already stick out as rather amusing to me.  It's the little things, I think, that really make the game so entertaining. ^_^

[frostshotgg]

I'm vaguely interested in this series. Does it run well on an emulator? I want to try it before I commit money, but some games are really finicky about emulators.

[Darvi]

An older version of EO3 was really finicky, but it works now.

[SirAaronIII]

Alright, so I've had Etrian Odyssey 4 for about a week now, and I've thrashed about the 2nd land and labyrinth and made it on to the 3rd floor of the 2nd labyrinth, and all I can say is this:
Dang, they sure are throwing the plot at us much earlier and in greater volumes now.

Also, a side question for you Real Pros out there that have beaten the game and started New Game +s:
What gets carried over? Like, is equipment not carried but map data is, or map data isn't carried and money is, or is nothing carried over at all because Atlus, or...? Thanks!

[DeKaFu]

Well, I just recently managed to beat EO1 with my lovely LDSAM team, and now I'm in the post-game with everyone's levels maxed.

I'm on floor 27/28, and...oh god.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've already successfully mapped out all the walkable routes on floor 27, but my policy for the entire game has been "never mark any feature on the map until you've walked on it/activated it". It's served me well for 26 floors and I'm not going to abandon it now.

But that means...Yeah. Every. Single. Damn. Pitfall.

I know about the fact that there's more pitfalls than the per-floor pitfall icon limit, so whenever I complete a "block" of them I replace them with empty squares with four walls drawn around them. It helps give me a sense of progress, which helps, since I've spent at least an in-game week on it and am only perhaps 25% done.
I know I could just look up a map online or something... but that would be giving up. That'd be the game beating me. I will not be defeated.

;_;

[Seriyu]

wahahahaaaa, good luck with that.

And say hello to the wyrms for me! You'll need the anti-fire, anti-ice, and anti-elec skills maxed for them. Or positively obscene level grinding. Seriously just grind up the protector it'll take less time.

[DeKaFu]

wahahahaaaa, good luck with that.

And say hello to the wyrms for me! You'll need the anti-fire, anti-ice, and anti-elec skills maxed for them. Or positively obscene level grinding. Seriously just grind up the protector it'll take less time.

Guess who just beat the Dragon with an LDSAM party? (No Protector or anti-element skills)

Spoiler: Strategy (click to show/hide)

The only way to keep Voltage from OHKOing my entire party was to have a Boosted Immunize going on. So my strategy focused on 1st-turn -> Boosted Immunize -> Axcela III next turn to refill Medic's Boost gauge. Because the Dragon has an attack that strips buffs, I had to be ready to re-apply it at any time. Meanwhile, my Landschnekt was attacking every turn and my whip-using Dark Hunter was using Gag to try to keep the thing's head sealed to shut down Voltage. Survivalist was shooting Multihits between 1st-turns and Alchemist was using Flame when he wasn't in charge of dropping Axcelas on the Medic.

Whenever it used Shield I just had to wait it out until it wore off. I'd take the opportunity to throw Trickeries at it from my Survivalist, because making the enemy miss never hurts.

I had a couple failures caused by the Dragon removing all my buffs immediately after I'd cast my Boosted Immunize, which meant I was unprotected for a turn while refilling his gauge. If its head wasn't sealed at the time and it used voltage on that turn, I was screwed. :/
In retrospect, I wonder if I could've used the Axcela III on the same turn as Immunize to refill it immediately, since Immunize was guarenteed to go first thanks to 1st turn. If so, that'd patch up my only real opening and make it easier to beat next time.

Regardless, the strategy mostly worked, and my winning attempt saw only two temporary deaths and the whole team standing when the Dragon went down.

It was kind enough to drop me a Volt Scale when it died, too. Huzzah!

Now on to the next one.

[Aklyon]

I hope you aren't trying that on the same day as the Volt Scale, things like that tend to make your luck go out soon after, at least for me and EO.

[DeKaFu]

After the ordeal with the Dragon, the Wyrm was almost pathetically easy. I failed on my first attempt due to not expecting its confusing attack, but on the second attempt (after I bought an Amber Ring for my Medic) I sailed through with no deaths or close calls. No scale though. At least it should be easy to kill repeatedly in the future.

Now to stock up on Instant Death Resist + items.

[Seriyu]

Oh riiiiight immunize is still around. Good man for proving me wrong!

[DeKaFu]

Alright, so, last night, after several attempts, managed to beat

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Primevil, the utterly ridiculous final final boss in EO1

with my LDSAM team.
After I beat it my team was close to death and I was paranoid my DS would shut off to spite me, so I warped out immediately and saved/healed.
This morning I headed back down to finish mapping the area behind the boss, and...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

IT WAS BACK. 14 DAY RESPAWN MY ASS. IT WAS RIGHT BACK WHERE IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE.
It took me half of a (real life) day to beat the damn thing once. Now if I want the satisfaction of finally 100% finishing my map, I have to beat it again? No. No thanks. Game over.

Never before has a game trolled me so hard.
I planned to 100% this thing but now I think I'll leave it be. Take a break and play other games for a while and then do EOIII.

[Seriyu]

AAAAHAAAHAAHAAAHAAHAAHAAAHAAHAAA, wow. Well now everyone knows at least. 

[Seriyu]

I'm here to revive the thread with news.

A new game has been announced, New Etrian Odyssey: Millenium Maiden!

The gist is it's a remake of the first EO game, this time with a bit more focus on plot and customization. You have five dudes, they all have names and plot associated with them as a typical JRPG party would, and you can switch classes on them. There's also a Classic Mode, which will work like EO1. Also expect balance fixes because Atlus wants you and your little band of incredibly lethal children dead. On top of all this, you'll also be able to pick between live orchestral performed music (wow, is that a first? I'm actually not sure. Maybe not.) and FM audio, IE synthesized tracks. On top of this, there's a new difficulty system, easy, normal, hard, presumably similar to EO4's system (IE, easy gets a permanent warp wire, probably weaker enemies), and it also uses the 3DS's 3D capabilities, IE 3D enemies.

But wait, there's more! You can find stones called "grimoire" that contain skills from other classes that you can graft onto your currently existing characters. So a protector with double attack, for instance. They occur randomly after battles.

A release date for the US hasn't been announced, and in fact it's just being announced in japan, but Atlus are cool dudes about these things so expect it at some point!