For the record, I'm not asking for a tutorial or explanation on how to play the game. I'm asking your preferred way to play through them. Of course, your first time playing will probably be different than your next time or your 10+ times playing the same game. But I just got curious about asking. For some who don't know, Role Playing Games or RPG are a genre of games where you commonly play as characters that can be flexible in the way they develop their combat abilities by the player. I say that because while some games allow the player to choose a "Class or Role" as a starting point for their character, it most likely will be a reflection of how they choose to play the game. But some games will instead give you characters with their class & role intact, and it's up to the player to use it conduct the team on how to best use them.
I hope I'm not making it as complicated as it sounds. It all depends on the game honestly, and trying to explain each and every one of them wouldn't be the point of this post. To make it easy, is just the games where you can gain experience points to strengthen your character's stats. Use gold to buy useful battle items or gear to further improve your stats. What makes this kind of gameplay unique from other games is the importance of your stat levels, strategy, or exploiting enemy weakness during combat. In other words, you use your brain way more for preparation before you even get to the combat zone. Though I wanted to make it easy to understand, more experienced people will know is way more than that already.
To be honest, I feel the genre is still struggling in the market. It is true that there is many games of the type that exist in many areas of the world, it was no easy task to be popular in some regions. While I wouldn't call myself a RPG fan personally, I don't dislike the genre. But there is many games of that kind that I don't like more than I do. It's a complex thing that many other people will tell you when sharing opinions. It's easy to see when people discuss "Best game in series" which is already a huge divide in opinions even when the list to compare is smaller than because of the series's restriction.
So just curious if anyone would like to share some of their kinds of RPG games are. I'm not really asking for your favorite of all time, so you don't have to pick one. Just what are the different kinds do you like or dislike? How do you go about playing them. I can tolerate turn based games like Breath of Fire but only if the pacing is good. Action ones like Secret of Mana are fun because it's more about me feeling more in control of my character and because of that, I can use skill more than my thinking. It's almost like a fighting game at that point, but still limited by RPG elements. I have played tactic games like Final Fantasy Tactics, but I prefer Shining Force for being more simple to understand from Story to the gameplay. Just some examples of what I am looking for.
I hope I'm not making it as complicated as it sounds. It all depends on the game honestly, and trying to explain each and every one of them wouldn't be the point of this post. To make it easy, is just the games where you can gain experience points to strengthen your character's stats. Use gold to buy useful battle items or gear to further improve your stats. What makes this kind of gameplay unique from other games is the importance of your stat levels, strategy, or exploiting enemy weakness during combat. In other words, you use your brain way more for preparation before you even get to the combat zone. Though I wanted to make it easy to understand, more experienced people will know is way more than that already.
To be honest, I feel the genre is still struggling in the market. It is true that there is many games of the type that exist in many areas of the world, it was no easy task to be popular in some regions. While I wouldn't call myself a RPG fan personally, I don't dislike the genre. But there is many games of that kind that I don't like more than I do. It's a complex thing that many other people will tell you when sharing opinions. It's easy to see when people discuss "Best game in series" which is already a huge divide in opinions even when the list to compare is smaller than because of the series's restriction.
So just curious if anyone would like to share some of their kinds of RPG games are. I'm not really asking for your favorite of all time, so you don't have to pick one. Just what are the different kinds do you like or dislike? How do you go about playing them. I can tolerate turn based games like Breath of Fire but only if the pacing is good. Action ones like Secret of Mana are fun because it's more about me feeling more in control of my character and because of that, I can use skill more than my thinking. It's almost like a fighting game at that point, but still limited by RPG elements. I have played tactic games like Final Fantasy Tactics, but I prefer Shining Force for being more simple to understand from Story to the gameplay. Just some examples of what I am looking for.