Ich hätte diese Option so gerne bei mehreren Spielen. Oder im echten Leben. #rpg #jrpg #xenoblade #reallife

You know, people are creating forums again. They weren't all that bad.

It's such a pity that the Game Gear games and the Mega CD version ditched all RPG elements from the Shining Force formula. This is why I never got into these games. Gimme towns to traverse!

Hochinteressanter Beitrag - werd ich gleich auf VSG selbst noch kommentieren!

Seriously, how much do they want to mess up things? "Yes"?

I'm part of the @warppoint.games family now! :D <3

Something great about gaming as a teen in the 90s? When you finished playing (Someone from the family wanted to use the TV), you quit the game, got the game package from the shelf, looked into the manual, maps and whatnot. And then you looked forward to the next time you'd play. #physicalgames

I might have reduced my online activitiy a lot (if anyone noticed), but you know what? I still love taking screenshots of games :D

Seit fast 30 Jahren gibt es das legendäre - manche würde sagen: berühmt-berüchtigte - Maniac-Forum. Rocco di Leo hat sich vorgenommen, dass weitere 30 hinzu kommen.

Wie cool ist das eigentlich, dass Leute unter @dievideogames.bsky.social das alte Projekt wieder so ehrwürdig und liebevoll aufgebaut haben? Ich beobachte mit Spannung! :D

I created a small turn-based combat engine similar to old JRPGs: "Fight!!" - and included it into rpg-o-mania. Had enough of reading articles? Then battle it out with some monsters! www.rpg-o-mania.com/rpg/index.php #jrpg #retrogaming

Send me a letter! Or a postcard. Or just write in my digital guestbook, if you like :D www.rpg-o-mania.com/rolecall.php I will publish all nice comments. Just because. #jrpg #retrogaming #webmaster

Das Debut-Album meiner Band Tengrilay ist draußen ✨🎉 Hört gerne rein, wenn ihr verträumten Alternative-Rock mögt ☺️ Ich schreibe die Tage noch ein bisschen was zu den einzelnen Tracks.

At least the cover got Max' colors and hairstyle right, and the enemies kinda exist in the game (but their heads are longer). Better than the Shining Force II cover which has nothing to do with in-game characters after all. Still love Yoshitaka Tamaki's art so much!

Stay focused. #playstation

Kann es sein dass es generell um die Leute rund um Chained Echoes extrem ruhig geworden ist? Hätte für ein Special auf meiner Site versucht die Entwickler zu kontaktieren, aber seitdem höre ich nur Grillen zirpen.

I bought "This Way Madness Lies" after a recommendation of @tapirfortuna.bsky.social - I like it! But to all the game developers - if you release a game that's on a platform with a limited resolution, please make sure that the pixel scaling is correct! The Switch mobile version is so ugly scaled..

When you copy basically everything from some older RPG, but it still kinda works. Just a pity that they had to include this modernish "balance turns"-thingy where you have to save certain turns or else...! #jrpg

Holerö #holerö

That really looks interesting! I liked Soleil a lot, but it kinda lost me in the latter half, where you just went back the whole original story. It missed more towns, more NPCs to interact with, more peaceful moments. Is this one better in that regard?

Okay, I just purchased it because of Thomas' suggestion. He's among my top 3 RPG recommendators.

While cloudflare is down - rpg-o-mania.com is still up and running!

A well-equipped Alundra. 28 hours in and with several optional hidden things uncovered. We're playing the PAL version with Working Designs changes to the difficulty, and honestly, it hasn't been as rough as we feared. Only at the start, really, when all you've got is the dagger.

A very personal view on #suikoden (already published in German for @vsgde.bsky.social in the past) now on my website: www.rpg-o-mania.com/coverage_ret... It's written so extensively and personal that you could mistake it for a @binaryscroll.bsky.social text!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVUV... one of the best Final Fantasy music pieces and an incredibly great remix. I'd be all in for a modern Final Fantasy 3 :D #jrpg #finalfantasy #retrogaming #nobuouematsu

Ich habe etwas für Videospielgeschichten geschrieben: www.videospielgeschichten.de/ich-sehe-du-... #suikoden #jrpg #retrogaming #playstation

We could have so great 2D art nowadays. Why do devs so often resort back to pixelated visuals? I mean, literally playable cartoons! Why isn't this more of a thing? Something that looks good in my opinion: www.rpg-o-mania.com/spot_after_i... #retrogaming #jrpg #metroidvania

It annoys me to no end that there is a genre called "Metroidvania" and it pays no respect to one of its earliest entries: Wonder Boy III: Dragon's Trap. Why not call it Wondermetroidvania? eh? www.rpg-o-mania.com/spot_after_d... #metroidvania #retrogaming #wonderboy

Thanks to everyone who contacted me and showed that there are still real people on the internet. Will continue creating new stuff for rpg-o-mania shortly! www.rpg-o-mania.com/coverage_cal... #rpg #jrpg #webdesign #zefixdesglumpmitdenehashtags

Okay, I updated nothing for 80 days and the reaction was... nonexistant. No one reached out to me. Almost no one reacted to any social media post. It is as if no one is watching this stuff on my website anymore, except from AI bots. www.rpg-o-mania.com/coverage_cal... Feel free to share.

Wo Energie für Beteiligung in sozialen Medien?

I tried to finish the artwork of Kasumi from #suikoden, where the original wasn't drawn beyond the knees. Do you think I did well? #fanart

Now available at most German train station bookshops: two big magazines on Metroidvania-style games and the big world of Nintendo - I wrote couple of background-articles for both of them. Isn´t that nice?

Every now and then I go visit wolfgangarchive.com and I'm happy it's still there.https://wolfgangarchive.com/psiv-web/design/mainhero.gif

If you use #AI to create your podcast cover, I lose all interest. Even if I like the topic. I'd rather have a crude photo/screenshot with Comic Sans text on it. This crap not only robs artists & is bad for the environment, it also takes away every bit of visual personality your project might have. 🚮

Yup yup. I like the visuals. And yo, it's different screenshots than in Mastodon.

If you're interested, I wrote an article about why the summer of 1999 was special when the first translation patch was released for Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana): www.rpg-o-mania.com/coverage_sei...

I'm still doing that.

I created some of the FF14 job icons in a higher resolution and vectorized them. Feel free to do with them what you want: www.rpg-o-mania.com/coverage_ff1...

I don't know why so many fishing minigames in RPGs use buttonmashing to reel in. This is so incredibly unrealistic. www.rpg-o-mania.com/ower-dms/gal...

Play-In-Progress: Ys X, chapter 6. It is "fine" right now, keeps me motivated. But boy did they bloat the game. Dana and Monstrum Nox were swift, evade-based games with a great story, Nordics is system upon system upon system with great characters, great music, a meh story and a convoluted gameplay.

NEU bei VSG von @rpg-o-mania.bsky.social Ich mag keine Videospiele - Das ist ein ziemlicher Claim, hier auf Videospielgeschichten, oder? Und tatsächlich, so richtig mag ich Videospiele nicht... www.videospielgeschichten.de/ich-mag-kein...

I'm not trying to smooth talk, but Thomas does a really good job especially writing about RPGs and the like. If you can speak German, the M! games is a great read. It can also be purchased digitally, so no need to go to a Kiosk in a German speaking country :D

Ys VIII - X

und ich stimme zu!

New review up! www.rpgreats.com/2024/11/drag...

I see myself in this message. :D

This really shows much of what I dislike on this game. Squished sprites. Enemies that just move around by some pixels. Attack animations that are just the static sprite two times mirrored. Random attacks without any logic behaviour by the enemies. Aaah!

Neu bei VSG: Die (Un)vereinbarkeit des Videospielhobbys und des Mamaseins – Teil 1 Wie lassen sich Mutterschaft und das Hobby Videospiele miteinander vereinbaren? www.videospielgeschichten.de/die-unverein... #Gaming #Elternschaft #Kinder #Eltern #Videospiele

Auf der Polaris trafen wir André Eymann von Videospielgeschichten. @vsgde.bsky.social Eine tolle Website für alle, die mal selbst Artikel rund um das Thema "gaming" verassen möchten. www.videospielgeschichten.de