We have a lot of RPG fans on this forum ans I decided that we should have a thread where we talk all things RPGs. From Western to JRPGs, ARPGS to SRPGS we cover them all. Mainly made this thread as the Vita and 3DS will have alot of high profile ones this year and a lot of JRPGS are coming this year.
note: We will not tolerate any of the what counts as an RPG taljk please.
Anywho I'm an Admitted newbie too the Genre as a whole. I remember watching My older cousin play stuff like Wild arms and chrono trigger. I didn't play my first RPG until Final Fantasy X for PS2 and Tales Of Symphonia for Gamecube.
Currently i'm playing: Mass Effect 2 (in prep for 3) Golden Sun Dark Dawn
On the way I have Fable 3 Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies Final Fantasy XIII (if i ever get out of the rut i was in)
On my list too get this year currently are Mass Effect 3 Fire Emblem Awakening Dragon's Dogma The Last Story Xenoblade Ni No Kuni Bravely Default
So What's everyone's favorite rpg? Mine is Tales Of Symphonia. Its probably Nostalgia but I remember seeing the build up to that game in Nintendo Power and being at target with my mom and Practically begging for that game. Got real invested in the characters and story of religious persecution. Was pissed that kratos betrayed me right after I had stocked him of with new gear.
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DQ 9 for the ds and the 2 gba golden suns would be my top 3, the new ds golden sun wasn't as fun, but don't let that stop you from playing/buying a copy of the gba ones!
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Final fantasy Mystic Quest (go ahead say it! it's the black sheep of the family, but it doesn't change the fact the Music was just awesome ) Final Fantasy 2(or 4? The one with Cecil ) Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost ocean Mega Man X command Mission (sorry if it doesn't count but it played like Final fantasy ) Legend of Dragoon!!!!! (why have they not made a sequel! And why is it not on the PSN... Amazing game) Tales of Symphonia (It's tales of Symphonia.... Need I say more?) Tales of Symphonia: dawn of the new world (not as good as symphonia but still a fun game.) Arc Rise Fantasia (Great RPG only to be butchered by such awful voice acting... I mean oh my gosh, who hired those actors/actresses 0.o)
Honerable Mentions to games I watched my older brother playthrough.
Mega Man X Command Mission was actually pretty great for the first half. The second half killed it, though, IMO. If you want a good FFX clone, try the Shadow Hearts series.
As for Legend of Dragoon, despite its vocal fanbase, it apparently didn't do very well, at least critically (it sold over a million copies, though, so you'd think it would've gotten a sequel at some point). Same with Arc Rise Fantasia. I'm actually not surprised you liked it, as they share similar criticisms (inconsistant gameplay, difficulty spikes, relatively uninspired), which you managed to overlook.
I barely beat any games, let alone RPGs. My favorites are:
Kingdom Hearts Final Fantasy V Chrono Trigger Pokemon HeartGold Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey 2nd Super Robot Taisen Z Rogue Galaxy The Dark Spire Dark Souls Tales of Vesperia
I'm not playing anything at the moment, but once Tales of Graces f gets here I'll play that.
I like ARPGs like Kindom Hearts and SRPGs though I do like some JRPGs like Dragon Quest and Mother (and Pokemon if that counts) but other than that I don't really play them.
I am an obsessed downloader of PSX-era JRPGs. I have a bunch of them and I probably haven't touched 90% of them. Stockpiling for the apocalypse, I say...
Currently playing~
Fallout 3
Chrono Cross
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (sporadically)
Up next I'd like to pick Hyperdimension Neptunia back up and start Skies of Arcadia Legends and Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia up.
Favorites are~
Golden Sun series
Persona 3 and 4
Final Fantasy series (specifically IV, VII, XIII, and Tactics Advance but really all of them in their own ways)
Skyrim
Chrono Trigger
Mass Effect 2
Pokémon series (Gens 1/3/5 are my favorite)
Tales of Phantasia/Symphonia/the Abyss
The World Ends With You
Paper Mario
Valkyria Chronicles
Nier
Fire Emblem series
Xenosaga Episode I
Parasite Eve
Dragon Quest III (I like the character designs so much ... hehe ... only reason I kept playing)
and probably more I'll add as I remember
My birthday's coming up in a month and change so I hope I can scrounge up the cash to add Xenoblade Chronicles, Mass Effect 3, and Final Fantasy XIII-2 to my collection soon enough.
Oh and I'm really really trying to get into some WRPGs as well which started with ME2 and then Skyrim and Fallout, so if anyone has some good recommendations I'd love to hear them~
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I'm really looking forward to Mass Effect 3! If i'm playing anything by then, i'm just gonna stop and play Mass Effect 3 (Collectors Edition yeahhh) and finish. Trying to finish KotOR by then.
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Currently playing:
Kid Icarus Uprising
Radiant Historia
Getting this year: The Wii RPGs, maybe Mass Effect 2 and a 3DS RPG.
Favorites: Mother 3, 2nd gen Pokemon/remake, Paper Mario, Golden Sun 1 and 2, Dragon Quest Monsters 2, insert mega obscure RPG Maker game here, Skyrim, Oblivion, Mass Effect, SMRPG, Chrono Trigger, Radiant Historia, TWEWY, Phantasy Star Online, Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss are my two favourite games ever, I love them so much!!! My other two favourites would be The world ends with you and Xenoblade chronicles. I intend on starting Golden sun: The lost age soon, it will be interesting to see whether I like it more than the first or not as opinion seems very divided on which is better. The way they've switched the roles of the characters in it sounds interesting.
SO I've jumped back in too Golden Sun: Dark Dawn after Getting Burnt out. I have too say I like how even though the whole old Civilization and Technology is very tropey it works to advance the story from the pure sword and Sorcery of the first two. Currently I just got done watching Briggs death and I have to say a few of the set piece's have been pretty impressive here and there.
I'm pretty fuzzy on the first two games but there weren't any mention of machines in those games right.
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right now im playing tales of the abyss for 3ds and ar tonelico qoga for ps3 im a big fan of jrpg's i beat these rpg games skies of arcadia world end with you tales of symphonia tales of symphonia 2 DOTNW tales of phantasia tales of eternia tales of vesperia tales of legendia tales of the abyss PS2 final fantasy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 12 13 13-2 super mario rpg legend of 7 stars paper mario 64 kingdom hearts 1 2 ps2 re coded ds re chain of memories ps2 birth by sleep psp mother 1 2 3 dragon quest 1-9 arc rise fantasia runa factory 1 2 3 DS frontier Wii tides of destiny PS3 disgea 1 2 3 4 pokemon blue emerald silver heartgold platnium white devil survior overclocked trinity universe monster rancher 4 ar tonleco 1 & 2 eternal sonata PS3 persona 1 2 arc rise fantasia crono trigger crono cross and pre-ordered tales of graces F PS3 and xenoblade Wii and last story Wii i wanna play tales of innocense R for ps vita if it was english and tales of rebirth if it was in english iplayed a whole lot of rpg's and some i dont renember this isnt all the rpg's i beaten
RPGs I've gotten in 2012 (so far): Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI, Eternal Sonata, Persona, Xenoblade, Atelier Rorona and Solatorobo. Um... yeah, the FF overload is because the PS Store had a sale.
RPGs I've beaten in 2012: Crisis Core, Final Fantasy I, The World Ends With You and Final Fantasy XIII.
Currently playing: Final Fantasy VI on my PSP and Chrono Trigger on my WII.
The next ones I'm planning on playing: For home consoles, I'm gonna start Xenoblade when I beat Skyward Sword. And I'm probably going to start Eternal Sonata soon since I'm currently not playing anything else on my PS3. For handhelds: I don't think I'm gonna start any new ones until I've finished FFVI. After that, I'm thinking... FF VIII or IX, and maybe Tales of the Abyss.
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