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Aside from SMT/Persona how many RPG games take place in a modern setting?
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>>3942338
There are tons.
>Yakuza/Like A Dragon series
>Tokyo Xanadu (+upcoming Kyoto Xanadu)
>The World Ends With You (OG + NEO)
>Blue Reflection 1/2
>Caligula Effect 1/2
>Monark
>Reynatis
>Varlet
>Eternights
>Mato Anomalies
>Dusk Diver 1/2
>Loop8: Summer of Gods
>Akiba's Trip series
>Mind Zero
I'm sure I'm still forgetting some, but these are all on Steam except for OG TWEWY which has a Switch remaster you can easily emulate.
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Cheeky but also kind of serious question. Would Earthbound still be considered a modern setting? Or are the halcyon days of the 80's where it's set as lost to time as any medieval era rpg?
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There's cars, modern infrastructure, the protagonist is clearly meant to be a normal looking kid from a modern time, etc so I'd say it counts more than it doesn't. It's really so all over the place that you could almost call the anachronism itself the setting rather than weigh which element is stronger, but I don't think any of this stuff is really mutually exclusive.
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Ghostwire:Touhouhou is sorely understood but this is what peak modern fantasy rpgs looks like.
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>>3942338
>just woke up
>had a dream where Tony Hawk Pro Skater had released a skateboard attachment and you could roll around in the house and it would replicate the gameplay in game
>and it had a collab with Atlus to make a version of Persona 5 Royal where Joker’s kickflipping and zooming around the whole game on a board and the more skills you did the more ranked up with confidants or damage to shadows you did
>WOO LOOKING COOL JOKER
>wake up and realize how retarded that sounds
Anyway good morning everyone I can’t find that snail comic reaction image I wanted to post with that
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I ended up picking it up because you mentioned it in the thread and I just finished it. It was a pretty solid 7/10 game. The fact that you never met Ed or Dale was kind of weird, I was expecting an after credit scene of Akito teaming up with them and taking the place of KK or something..
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Mega Man Star Force series.
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>SMT are post-apo stories.
Sometimes they're "mid-apocalypse" like the first part of SMT1, or Devil Survivor 1. I'd like another game like that.
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I actually went game by game on this list and holy shit... Aside from most of those not even being RPGs you have absolute fucking dogshit goddamn taste in video games. Fucking smash your computer and uninstall steam right now. Jesus fucking christ.
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>>3942338
You have to stretch the definition of "modern setting", but I think you want the Trails series of games.
From a setting standpoint, a hundred years ago the world was in a vaguely FFT-style era of tech and politics. Then the "orbal revolution" happened and things modernized very quickly. There's electricity, cars, phones, guns, even computers and the internet.
The reason I bring it up is that it feels much more modern than even literal modern settings, like Persona. The reason why is that the modern stuff is weaved throughout the entire game, it's not a separate, distinct part from the fantastical.
You gain magic by slotting gems into your phone. There are sidequests about destroying monsters, but then there are ones about taking pictures for newspapers, running security on a train, locating lost tourists, testing new computers, cooking food for a restaurant, etc. etc.
And the main stories are often full of very modern ideas, like trade conferences, information blackouts, political tension between NGOs, etc.
To be clear there are also major, major fantastical and scifi elements, but at its core it's a modern setting and is easily the best one out there.
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All the Digimon Story and World games