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Do we have one of these threads already? I hope not... Anyway, as the thread title says, what game(s) are you currently playing?

 

I'm spending most of my gaming time right now with Etrian Odyssey for the DS. It's a 2007 first-person dungeon crawler RPG by Atlus, set mainly in a gigantic dungeon of 100 or so floors.

 

You start out by creating a party of up to six characters of different classes, then assigning their initial 10 skill points. Then you start exploring the dungeon floor by floor... and without a map. Or rather, you do the mapping yourself on the touchscreen. You note down pathways, doors, the stairs up and down the floors, etc., and believe me, while it might sound tedious, you'll need it. A good map is one of the key points for survival in this game. Outside the dungeon, in town, you sell your loot, buy new weapons, armor, medicine and the like, accept quests, party management, rest and save, etc.

 

It is pretty hard, tho. Especially in the beginning, when everyone's still on Level 1, dealing only puny damage to enemies. However, I feel like that difficulty makes it all the more rewarding in the end - the feeling of finally tearing through a F.O.E. (some abbreviation that stands for the monsters visibly roaming on the map, ex. bosses and their underlings) that once had you trembling, had you reaching for medicine and healing spells every round, left you beaten and battered - if not worse -, that's just great. A sense of accomplishment I wish more contemporary games would instill into me.

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