MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Arcade games with RPG mechanics that are emulated in MAME

> > Thanks, I'll check out Gaiapolis. I've gotten my characters to lvl 99 in Gauntlet
> > Legends and Gauntlet Legends Dark Legacy and finished those games. Actually you can
> > probably beat them at low character levels because the monsters just get stronger
> > with you. KoV 3 sounds like a money grab like they did with Double Dragon 3. Still
> > it'd be fun to play and keep jamming on the insert coin button.
> >
> > > There really aren't many because it isn't a genre that suits arcades at all.
> > >
> > > Gaiapolis has some RPG elements.
> > >
> > > Gauntlet at a push, but that's more the theme than the gameplay.
> > >
> > > Knights of Valor 3 apparently does too, but it isn't emulated, and most players
> of
> > it
> > > hated it as a result (you can't 1CC it, you literally have to build up your
> > character
> > > over multiple plays, grinding the same levels at a credit each time until you're
> > > ready to face the later ones, I ended up with a lot of people begging me to crack
> > it
> > > / emulate it just so that it could be hacked into a regular game like the rest of
> > the
> > > series)
>
> Cadash has some elements of RPG. Arcade was usually not designed for that sort of
> thing. It was mostly designed for 2-10 min play per quarter. If you want something
> more grindy like gauntlet legends I would recommend a couple of games from steam,
> 'full mojo ramapage' or the current iteration of gauntlet would be a good pick.

There are still undump RPG games that MAME doesn't have yet. Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle is one of those games. Too new on this one.

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