Best RPG's?

Anima

Hey,

Was just wondering what people thought were the best rpg's. I'm currently playing Chronotrigger and i think its one of the best rpg's i've ever played. So any other ones worth looking at?

DiscoStu

Seiken Densetsu 3
Lufia 1 and 2
Tales of Phantasia
Final Fantasy 5 and 6
Terranigma
Secret of Mana
Earthbound(really good)
Illusion of Time
Phantasy Star 4
Shining Force 1,2 and CD
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Star Ocean(great gameplay just have to wait for the translation)
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Zelda: OOT and MM

all i can think of off the top of my head.

Anima

Wow fair few there. Will start downloading

zAbbo

Chrono Trigger is my fave,

I also enjoyed Mario RPG as well

Both snes

Rnger

Final Fantasy 6
Terranigma
Secret of Mana
Chrono trigger

Also Secret of Evermore but no seems to like it. I loved it.

All snes.

If u have KaZaA just search for snes roms in software and you can get a package of 20 snes roms. Most of the ones stu mentioned are in it.

And yes, Chrono trigger is probably the best you'll find imho

BLITZ_Molloy

Mega Drive

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Landstalker: Isometric platforming/puzzle RPG. Brilliant dialogue.
Phantasy Star 4: Graphically stunning. Lots of challenge. Great all round package.

SNES

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Shadowrun: Before Deus Ex there was Shadowrun.

LoGiE

I agree chrono trigger is still excellent. I've got a soft spot for Zelda Links Awakining on the Gameboy also

Lemming

Originally posted by BLITZ_Molloy
SNES

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Shadowrun: Before Deus Ex there was Shadowrun. [/B]

Here here!!

The only game that made me consider buying a SNES as well as owning my trusty MegaDrive/M-CD/32x

[Iramus]

Golden Sun
Shining Force 1,2,3 (whats Shining Force CD????Disco stu?)
chrono trigger
shadowrun
Zelda (of course)
oh yeah...Lufia 2

LoGiE

Originally posted by [Iramus]
Golden Sun
Shining Force 1,2,3 (whats Shining Force CD????Disco stu?)
chrono trigger
shadowrun
Zelda (of course)
oh yeah...Lufia 2

MegaCD shining force for Sega megadrives Mega CD:)

DiscoStu

Shining Force 3.
now thats something i would like to get my hands on. but i would need a US saturn and an awful lot of money.

wasnt there a panzer dragoon rpg on the saturn to?

BLITZ_Molloy

Panzer Dragoon Saga. You're talking pretty big money if you want to buy it off ebay or from UK traders. I'm told it's worth paying for though. Very unique and very good.

PD Saga got a Euro release. I'm pretty sure Shining Force 3: Ep1 did too. Ep 2 and 3 never got out of Japan though.

[Iramus]

believe it or not, ive got Shining force 3 part one on the saturn, and nope you dont need a US one. Its one fo the best games ever! Still play it today.

About Panzer Dragoon Saga. I remember they gave the whole of CD1 away with saturn power, i got CD1 and man was it awesome, the graphics were stunning!

Zukustious

Chrono trigger is probably the best one but try:

Secret of Mana
Terranigma
Secret of Evermore
Terranigma
Zelda
Terranigma
Secret of Mana 2
Terranigma
Breath of fire 2
Terranigma
Mario RPG.

I must put emphasis on Terranigma. Probably the best (next to Chrono Trigger anyway.)

Samurai

the best rpg ever has got to be FF7

SiN

Mario RPG is a brilliant rpg ...really worth playing
zelda on teh snes is really good ...the one on the gameboy is also worth a look tbh

Retr0gamer

Shining Force CD is actually two Game Gear SF's together with better music. It' a fabulous game.

bort

get Tales of phantasia
i just finished playing it and its slightly different to the others

and if u want a real challenge..........
shadowrun!!!

AL][EN

Originally posted by LoGiE
MegaCD shining force for Sega megadrives Mega CD:)

AAhh hell yea Shining force 1 and 2 ruined my life!!
the best RPG for its day without doubt in my opinion for a console. But then again i was a big megadrive Fan and i didn't ever play any SNES games so im sure that there is an equlivant RPG game thats just as good on the SNES, N64 etc

I wasnt aware there was a shining force 3 do you know if its still avaiable anywhere?

zynaps

Shadowrun is nice, a bit clunky sometimes..

All of square(soft)'s stuff that I've played on the snes/psx has been really nice, Secret of Mana was great in that it wasn't turn based like the ff series and chrono trigger...
Though charging up the weapons above level 2 (the whip to level 7 was really nice) got annoying since it took 15 seconds or so
Then again, the GF sequences in FF8 got a bit frustrating too when you just wanted to get back into the fight.

Ultima 7, 7 part II and 8 on the pc were nice, though obviously not emulated (except that you need software that patches all of the voodoo memory driver calls with its own flat memory code to run them in windows)...

That other weird one on the psx.... Syndicate? That was very nice, in a kinda hands-on way. Quite like shadowrun in feel actually

zynaps

lordsippa

Syndicate and its sequel Syndicate Wars are available on the PC...

Yeah... the Ultima series always have a place in my heart.

LoGiE

Ah yes syndicate:) which had it's own thread a while back. Not an RPG really in the strictist sense but still a classic.(Amiga Version was superior to the PC version) Syndicate Wars was amazing given you could total entire buildings.:)

RichyX

Shining Force 1 and 2 are the ****.
Shining CD was good too but I really miss having the towns wo wander around.
Shining the Holy Ark is one of the coolest RPG's I have, was quite different to the usual stuff I played with it's 1st person perspective.
Chrono Trigger was good but it kinda got dull for me after a while.

The 2 best RPG's ever IMO are Panzer Dragoon Saga and Shenmue.

zynaps

Not a whole lot of first person RPGs... Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, and system shock I guess by Origin... good lads the, eh? :P

Played UW through near to the end, then realised I'd eaten some caterpillar stew or something which turned out to be not only one of a kind, but necessary for the completion of the game, so that was a bit pissy... :P
Game had a nice, sometimes scary atmosphere when it wasn't being boring, though

Shadowcaster was kinda fun too, but much too linear to really be considered an RPG.

zynaps

justbrian

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Shining Force CD is actually two Game Gear SF's together with better music. It' a fabulous game.

This is my favourite RPG ever. Hard as nails at some points, but a fair type of hard.

zynaps

That's a long auld chronological gap in the thread

justbrian

Oh yeah, didnt notice it was a zombie. Typed in a search box for topic and this thread was in top 5 results.

dlofnep

All the classics have already been mentioned. I quite liked Battle of Olympus on the NES way back in the day.

Blikes

My Favs are:

FF X
FF X-2
Dark Chronicle

All on PS2

justbrian

Any love for non english converted j-rpgs here?

Tenra Bansho Zero
Bakumatsu Ryouiden MI BU RO

Games like that?

Dr Bob

dlofnep wrote: »

All the classic JRPG's have already been mentioned. I quite liked Battle of Olympus on the NES way back in the day.

FYP there

no love for
EoTB/Bloodwych etc on the 16bits

DnD Warriors of the eternal sun and
Buck Rogers :countdown to doomsday on the meg?

Or Planescape torment
Baldurs gate and the like on the PC then?

zynaps

luas_dublin wrote: »

Baldurs gate and the like on the PC then?

How about good old Exile/Blades of Exile then? Crappy looking but they had a certain charm.

jimi_t2

zynaps wrote: »

How about good old Exile/Blades of Exile then? Crappy looking but they had a certain charm.

More to the point, the new Avernum series!

http://spiderwebsoftware.com/

zynaps

jimi_t2 wrote: »

More to the point, the new Avernum series!

http://spiderwebsoftware.com/

Wow, didn't even think to check if he was writing more games... nice! Also his developer blog is there which is pretty interesting.

chopperbyrne

Criminal that the sublime Skies of Arcadia has not been mentioned yet.

Truly brilliant game. I recommend the Gamecube version for the added content and lower (but still quite high) encounter rate.