I want to get my friend a couple of games for his birthday, but I don't really know what I would get for him...

I want to get my friend a couple of games for his birthday, but I don't really know what I would get for him. He really likes games where you can heavily customize a character's loadout or abilities for combat and plan out synergies and stuff, like Divinity or FFX I guess. The specific genre doesn't matter that much as long as it allows for as much freeform character customization as possible. He doesn't care that much about the story. Do you guys have any recs for some fun stuff I could gift him with?

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your friend is autistic and you should gift him a swift euthanisation

x-com 2

>He doesn't care that much about the story
My recommendation is get a new friend

Other than that Disgaea and FFT have h.eavy customization options, given he is into tactics genres.

who hurt you

it's tricky because most games nowadays have some "faux customization" which i'm guessing your friend isn't into. stuff like modernized mmos with skill trees where you just pick a trait/talent out of a list of three and then you pick another one out of three from the next branch and everything is really sterilized. you're probably better off getting a game with a strong modding scene if that's applicable and add in content with mods, the stuff you're talking about is exactly the kind of stuff modders like to add in but devs don't because of how hard it can be to balance. as an off-the-cuff recommendation i personally enjoy Rimworld, it has a large modding scene and every game feels like i could have minmaxed something better. it's not got stuff like "elemental synergies" to plan out like in an rpg or mmo but i pretty much like what your friend likes, and i don't typically like colony sims, but modded rimworld is really fun to play for me. if he's fine with roguelikes/card games then you could get something like griftlands or slay the spire. the latter of which has another really strong modding scene.

Your friend did. That asshole.

it sounds like your friend wants to play an oldschool mmo like ffxi lol. games are really streamlined nowadays so they're moving away from what he likes.

The Pathfinder games have loads of customizability in that way, might be a good idea if he doesn't already have them.

Wow OP your friend is a real dick.

OP pic got me thinking:
What is the closest mainline singleplayer FF game closest to FF14 worldbuilding and storywise? I have tried quite a few FF games over the years but the only ones I've finished were FF7 and FF12 (suprisigingly great setting and some cool ideas and I think it's underrated in the grand scheme of things), FF13 (mid af).
FF16 looks genuinely great as far as the concept goes, looks decently mature too.

>"people" itt mad because people dont care about vidya toddler tier stories
KEK you all have cancer

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this. when i was a kid growing up i was super invested into story, i played the combat to get to the story. now i'm more than a decade in and it's the other way around. there's only so many times you hear videogame plots before they all get old and you start skipping cutscenes.

No one, but you shouldn't be buying video games for your friend. He'll never learn to be self sufficient.

Unironically FF16, it looks like it's literally "FF14 but singleplayer", including the weird old-timey manner of speech. After that it'd obviously be FFXI since it's what FF14 was based on, and after that you're basically splitting hairs because almost no FF game really has a direct continuation aside from FFX-2 which we don't talk about. FF14 also by design steals/remixes whatever it likes from previous titles, like 35% of the game is just callbacks to previous titles to nostalgia-bomb the playerbase. If you really want to nitpick, it's any game from FF4/FF7 or beyond. I'd say from FF7 or beyond, after the series struck out into 3d which FF14 inherits a lot of its inspiration from (ridiculous cutscene-style attacks where a raid boss demolishes the world but the party only takes ~50% of their health total in damage, the way the characters emote by tilting their heads and waving their arms in cutscenes, the style of humor) while FF4 was the origin of the ATB system which the GCD in FF14 attempts to emulate.

I first played FFX like 20 years ago and just recently got every cheevo on the remaster. Completing those fucking sphere grids was such a ballache. thanks for reading my blog

>not just meandering down the sphere grid because you don't know any better and essentially keeping each character as their respective "starter class"
>not just abandoning kimahri because he was weird and struggling with the mandatory solo fight later on
>not just farming limit break on every aeon and character before every boss fight like the strategy guide tells you to so you don't actually have to play the game
game is best enjoyed like a retarded 12-year-old, anyone else is playing it wrong

dragon quest, breath of fire, idk man old rpgs lol. breath of fire was sweet but i was too retarded as a kid to take advantage of the fusion system

You never played any dragon quest in your entire life

This.
Or
Phoenix point

Disgaea 5 or 6 whatever the latest one is will probably also do

My uncles raped me as a kid. I'm a tranny now

i played smash though?

Get him Megan Battle Network. 2 or 6 would be a good choice

this but """your friend"""

could try and SMT, XCOM, Daemon X Machina, Divinity OS 2 or maybe Monster hunter?