Is this series any good?
What ones are worth playing?
Is this series any good?
Colton Morgan
Nathaniel Morales
>Is this series any good?
Yes. Probably the best modern dungeon crawler RPG. Combat is fantastic, dungeon design is great and there's plenty of content. The story is... just kinda there, but it's not something that hurts the experience either.
>What ones are worth playing?
I personally don't think any of them is "bad", but if I had to pick one to start, go with either Etrian Odyssey Untold (which is a remake of the 1st one with the addition of a more story-focused mode) or Etrian Odyssey 4 Legends of Titan (which is very good and one of the easiest ones to start).
Bad places to start are Etrian Odyssey 3 (way too hard and cryptic for a newcomer) and Etrian Odyssey Nexus (mixes content from the entire series, might overwhelm a newcomer).
Carson Thomas
Nexus felt pretty easy, honestly. I played on Heroic Mode and didn't really have a hard time until around the final boss.
Tyler Roberts
You need a healthy dose of autism to enjoy these no friend D&D simulators
Thankfully I meet the requirements
Jack Gutierrez
How do people feel about the first game in the series? Like how does it compare to the rest?
I found out about Etrian recently and decided to start with the first one.
Adrian Harris
It's very slow, clunky, and has a bug where a certain skill reduces all damage to take to trivial amounts and it still stacks with other damage reducing skills. Not really worth playing since they remade it but the dungeons are slightly different so if you really want you can play through it.
Justin Garcia
Please do so. It's where those of us who were fans in the beginning started on and played and the new additions to the series/remakes are very out of the spirit of those first 3 or so games. The music, lack of characters, graphics and old-style early DS game atmosphere with brutal unforgiving concepts do well to harden you for the series proper; the even the remake on classic mode doesn't properly recreate it. Do yourself a favor.
John Richardson
>Is this series any good?
Yes, but it is niche. It's a Japanese take on D&D, with much quicker progression. Imagine Wizardry but it doesn't hate your guts.
>What ones are worth playing?
4 is easy and is more story focused. It's a different type of game than the rest in the series.
5 and Untold 2 would be the main ones to start with after that, being more true Etrian Odysseys.
Nexus only after you've already played one other game.
Connor Johnson
>Is this series any good?
Yes
>What ones are worth playing?
Literally all of them besides 1 and 2, because of really buggy and/or bad design. 3 suffers a bit from this, but really not much in comparison.
I'd suggest starting with 4 or 5. (if you want to start with 4, there's a patch for increasing walk speed, quite handy)
Luke Bell
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