At the time their modern formula appeared on PS2 (Persona 3&4), they were a welcome change of tone and design in a market dominated by Final Fantasy-ish operatic jrpgs.

They’re obvioulsy milking it now, which make the apparition of Expedition 33 and other -indie- JRPGs a very good sign to me. I’d love a remake of Vagrant Story or Koudelka, too…

Completely agree

I actually enjoyed that, and it was foreshadowed, but i’d also defy anybody to explain FF7 Remake’s scenario to me in a way that’d make it clear XD

Your expedition 33 experience is relatable, actually. They’ve made a Jrpg so well they even got the “let the scenario become confusing as fuck” part right.

Like FF7 remake 1&2 :) Or Kingdom Hearts.

I think what you like about FF7 remake is that it is not a JRPG, but an action-rpg. I’ll say it’s a good one on that aspect, I just hated the generic ubisoft open-world design with tons of boring minigames as fillers for badly paced/light novel narrative beats.

I do love Persona 5 OST but yeah, there is an overdose at some point. Expedition 33 avoids that by having a specific OST for each zone of the game.

I have no specific action-rpg to recommend in mind, except kingdom hearts 2 if you feel like going a bit retro.

Ff7 remake is 100% fan-service AAA slop. Play real jRPGs, play Persona5, Expedition 33, play the original, but not that brain-rotting time-stealing remake, it’s an insult to life itself.

Although I admit it was a very pretty game. Now all they have to do is take their precious game engine and make a real game out of it.

We praise the machine that is not used against us yet.

Careful what you praise.

Very interesting answer, thanks! It’s not the first time I’m being told of Commet, it sounds very interesting as well

I dunno if this could help, but this article is making me want to choose XMPP over Matrix. https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/

Maybe you’d like this: https://github.com/commetchat

I’ll put it in my notes and wait until their distribution system is a little maturer. It looks pretty Discord-adjacent

Do you have better app/network references to look into?

Oh did you both install it? It’s neither on Flathub nor F-Droid

Hello! If it is not ironic, I get how confusing this is. To enter a federated network, instead of a centralized one (one app, one stop), you have to find an access point. In mastodon, it’s called an instance, or simply a computer on which a server version of the network is installed (You use a client to access a server, and that server is linked to other likewise servers, thus making the federation). To enter the Matrix network or any kind of federated network, you have to sign up to an access point, first. All of this is very confusing for newcomers.

So, like it’s in the works for fluffychat (a Matrix desktop client and phone app), the signing up process must include some form of directory of available access providers open for signing up. In fluffychat, I’ve seen a drop-down menu of available signing up servers ordered by spatial proximity, that looked really neat.

I’d love that in France…

Green is good for our health. We should eat some. (especially when they’re user-friendly, which is critical for a first OS change)

Linux, I’d say Manjaro, Linux Mint or Bazzite

So far, I have stumbled upon Stoat, a project called Sharkord, the Matrix network and the XMPP network.

Xmpp is both secure and snappy. Stoat doesn’t federate but the interface is really Discord-like.

Some kind of XMPP based Stoat would be nice.

Some love money more than the future of others.

No

Tried it 🏴‍☠️, they seem to have gone for “It’s bigger than the first one!” and indeed it is. Big, empty spaces to run through with nothing happening. Uninstalled. 70€ saved.

Stop making huge environments full of nothing.