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[Tawa]

How about The Knight of Lodis?

Ehh, the main reason I abandoned my Fire Emblem Let's Play was that it's sort of tedious to write screenshot Let's Plays for strategy games. A proper Let's Play for a turn-based strategy game involves taking screenshots of every move you make and more often than not captioning them. With a traditional JRPG you can take fewer screenshots and skip over the long bits of dungeon crawling and random encounters and get straight to the meat of the story and boss battles.

Thanks for the recommendation, though, I might have to try that one after I finish the Fire Emblem games for the system.
Re: Golden Sun:

The first two Golden Suns are basically a single looooooooong game on two cartridges.

Golden Sun is far too wordy for its own good.

I kind of like wordy games, and I wouldn't mind doing one looooooooong Let's Play for both games. Is there an awful lot of unresolved plot at the end of the second one?

[USEC_OFFICER]

It's not a good wordy game. It's more like:
'Heys guys, we should do A!'
'You can do A by B!'
'We must do A because C!'
That sort of thing. Needless repetition of stuff you already know just inflates the word count much more than it should. And the plot is rather weak and full of holes too, so... Yeah. Don't do Golden Sun.

[EnigmaticHat]

I really, really liked Golden Sun as a kid.  It has a really nice atmosphere I felt (kinda... mysterious?  IDK) and they did some good things with the graphics and sound.  Which is a little diminished now because, you know, GBA.

I don't remember excessive dialogue but its been years so *shrug*.  What I do remember is that in addition to the standard two lines of dialogue for NPCs you can also mind read all of them to hear what they're really thinking.  Also you get a boat in the second game and you can go exploring.

[Tawa]

Hm.

Well, the translation patch for Mother 3 is being screwy (Linux :v), so I think I'll just take a shot at both of them and see which one I feel would be more suited for a Let's Play.

[Bohandas]

I just got a sudden hankering for new RPG that has weapons that level up. Examples: Disgaea, Dark Cloud, FF9, and I suppose FF7 if you count materia.

You know, it's not the character, or the weapon proficiency, it's the weapon itself that is leveling and getting stronger. Weapons that transform when you use them enough is the best, because it's like your weapon is a character that is growing alongside you in the game, and that's just a good feeling man.

Not new and not an RPG but any installment of Ratchet & Clank after the first has this

EDIT:
Also if tabletop RPGs co8nt there's also the Weapons of Legacy rules supplement for D&D 3.5

EDIT:
Actually, also in D&D 3.5 there's nothing in the rules preventing you from playing as an intelligent magic item as long as the DM's ok with it.

Skyrim is also halfway this. Improvements to the character's skill (in smithing and weapon enchanting) allow for direct improvements of the weapon (and armor pieces) itself that persist even if the character's skills are debuffed or reset.

Temple of Elemental Evil also has weapon enchanting. The limit is based on a character's skill level, but the improvements made are to the weapon itself and persist even if the weapon is given to someone else and/or the crafter is dropped from the party.

[Shadowlord]

Partway through The Summoning (isometric DOS RPG by SSI) you find a rusty sword which thirsts for blood and speaks to you. The more you kill with it, the more powerful it gets.

[Jimmy]

Here's one for you all: Recommend me a game that's best played rip-roaring drunk.

[Bouchart]

I once saw some drunk playthroughs of Oregon Trail 2.  Everyone died.

[FallacyofUrist]

Here's one for you all: Recommend me a game that's best played rip-roaring drunk.

I'm pretty sure there's a game this forum was pretty much dedicated to... what was it again... oh yes, Dwarf Fortress!

[Bohandas]

Here's one for you all: Recommend me a game that's best played rip-roaring drunk.

Cards Against Humznity

[Shadowlord]

Call of duty on console, while talking into the mic? :V

[puke]

whoops, nevermind. managed to reply to something from 2013.

[EnigmaticHat]

Here's one for you all: Recommend me a game that's best played rip-roaring drunk.

Monaco, 4-player co-op.  Preferably as the Mole.

[Graknorke]

A good MechWarrior game that also has servicable mouse-aim. I like the concept but I didn't at all grow up in the era of keyboard aimed first person shooters, so I can't really play some of them at all (had a go at the demo or whatever it was of MW4).

[Scripten]

A good MechWarrior game that also has servicable mouse-aim. I like the concept but I didn't at all grow up in the era of keyboard aimed first person shooters, so I can't really play some of them at all (had a go at the demo or whatever it was of MW4).

Weird. I remember being able to use the mouse with MW4. Might take some finagling with the settings? I know that MW3 had a much more intuitive mouse-driven aiming style, but it was also incredibly buggy. If you can get around those issues, it's not a bad game in the slightest.

EDIT: Mechwarrior Online has a pretty great mouse aiming setup. I don't like the multiplayer focus and the need to follow meta to stay competitive takes too much time for me, but others definitely enjoy it.

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I'm looking for a game, any genre, but preferably first-person, with an emphasis on gritty, dark urban environments. Something like Duke Nukem 3D or Quarantine, but possibly more modern. Bonus points if it has a unique color palette.

I've pretty much exhausted every game I know of, but I'd like to think I've missed some.