Archmage Callinon wrote:
Hmm..
If I were to exclude Final Fantasy's, Chrono Trigger, and the Seiken Densetsu (Mana) series... I'd probably recommend:
In no particular order
Skies of Arcadia, Valkyrie Profile, Suikoden 2, Breath of Fire 2, Grandia 2, Lufia 2, Tales of Almost Anything (Phantasia is good, so is Eternia), Lunar Silver Star Story Complete.
Yeah... that's a good place to start...
Earthbound and Super Mario RPG have already been mentioned, also excellent games.
If you want to take a trip in the wayback machine, check out the Quest for Glory series (1-4.. 5 was crap).
There are also a few PC adventure titles I could recommend, but I'm already veering off topic so I'll stop.
OMG.. I loved skies of arcadia! Im just so mad that at the time it was one of my first rpgs so I sucked and couldnt get passed the boss that was red that shot a red beam that basically 2 hits of it and your dead! Really wish I could have gotten a chance to beat that game..
On topic: I also dont trust myself to rate rpgs without being bias to FF titles lol.. FF7 was the VERY first rpg I ever played. That game blew my mind because I never played a game with such an in depth story. Always played no story depth games like Street Fighter(Super Nintendo one) or The very first Twisted Metal haha.. If I had to suggest RPGs These were the best to me
(Keep in mind this is the order I played them in lol)
1.)ff7(loved)
2.)ff8(loved)
3.)ff9 (Grew on me over time, then loved lol)
4.) Chrono Cross (loved, am replaying threw atm)
5.) Chrono Trigger (Blew my mind that a game with lower quality graphics could be sooo good)
6.) Xenogears (immediately fell in love with this game when I tried it over a friends house, never actually got my hands on a copy till much later!)- really wish this had a second part or something.. End felt super rushed
7.)Legend of Dragoon (Different but pretty good, kinda long)
8.)Skies of Arcadia
9.) Legend of Legaia (the one for dreamcast?)
10.) Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (This game is long as hell, was barely able to finnish it lol.)
11.) FFX (I liked it, took me forever to beat for different reasons, school etc.)
12.) Rising sun for gba I believe.( Didnt get to finnish. Pretty good though.)
13.) FFtactics Advanced (Never got to play the original. But I actually like this game had a crazy strong pld)
14.)Disgaea.. (the entire series was good to me, I love the cinematic over the top attacks lol, especially the team combos)
15.)ff12 (Honestly.. COuldnt get into this one.. Played about 2 hours of it? Felt like a cheap ffxi so didnt finnish it. Sorry Ostia and Wint lol.. I tried!)
16.) ff6 (Just started this for the first time a couple months ago.. Just past the ghost train a ways where you have to feed someone Jerky to get them on your team? Forget his name been a while.) anything pre ff7 I havnt played so trying to go through them.
Feel like Im forgeting some but.. Thats my list
Edit: OH! Shadow Hearts. The first one. Not a bad game. I liked it. (Also Kingdom hearts for the console.. Im a sucker for anything with Cloud or Squall or any FF in it at all haa.. Ehrgeiz anyone? No? ..oh ok. LOL)
Edited, May 21st 2013 9:21pm by SaitoMishima