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Vaelone
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Finland4400 Posts
June 28 2012 17:13 GMT
#41
Personally I'd like to add Breath of Fire IV, Grandia and Disgaea 1.

And you can actually buy many of the old JRPG's for PS3 or PSP digitally these days, emulating isn't the only option. Not saying it's a terrible thing to do since I've done it as well for the likes of Chrono Trigger even.
EscPlan9
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2777 Posts
June 28 2012 17:31 GMT
#42
PS1:
Star Ocean

SNES:
Secret of Mana
Zelda: A Link To The Past
Earthbound
Final Fantasy 2 and 3
Chrono Trigger

NES:
Zelda 1
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alukarD
Profile Joined July 2012
Mexico396 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-08 17:36:41
December 08 2013 17:33 GMT
#43
Maybe a poll? By console of course. That would be great, and people can play the best RPGs depending on the console/emulator they have. Its just really hard to choose one game before having the console/emulator.
As for my opinion games Ive played:
Fire Emblem Series
FF Tactics
Kingdom Hearts Series
Paper Mario & Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger

And real fun and underrated nobodys listed so far (I think)
Mario & Luigi Series!

GL HF!
Die Trying
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
December 09 2013 17:09 GMT
#44
+1 to Lufia 2 and Terranigma, they definitely belong among the FF6s etc.
knuckle
Jackie_Bop
Profile Blog Joined November 2013
Thailand29 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-09 17:24:22
December 09 2013 17:23 GMT
#45
PS
FF Tactics
FF 7,8,9

SNES
FF 6 (FF 3 as released on SNES)
Mario RPG
Earthbound
Secret of Mana series

GBA
Fire Emblem 1 and 2
synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
December 09 2013 17:27 GMT
#46
To recommend something that hasn't been mentioned yet (I think), Radiant Historia for NDS was really great. I definitely second the Golden Sun 1/2 and Paper Mario 1/2 recommendations
:)
Mephyss
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Brazil128 Posts
December 09 2013 17:36 GMT
#47
Mega Drive/Genesis

Warsong

This game is one of my all time favorites. Its a turn based rpg. The combat system while still pure RNG is awesome even today
AbsolvedMonarch
Profile Joined June 2014
Morocco1 Post
June 05 2014 10:57 GMT
#48
I feel that Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean for the NES haven't recieved enough mentions on this thread !

Go Play them NAO !! you'll thank me eventually
Sugar !
Capped
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom7236 Posts
June 05 2014 11:05 GMT
#49
On June 05 2014 19:57 AbsolvedMonarch wrote:
I feel that Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean for the NES haven't recieved enough mentions on this thread !

Go Play them NAO !! you'll thank me eventually


Weird ass necro for a 1 post account, but Tales of Phantasia is a pretty epic game with an even better combat system.
Useless wet fish.
KaiserJohan
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden1808 Posts
June 05 2014 11:12 GMT
#50
FF9 is the best console RPG I've played

Remember you even got access to PS2/Xbox1/Gamecube stuff easily on modern computers
England will fight to the last American
Monsen
Profile Joined December 2002
Germany2548 Posts
June 05 2014 11:15 GMT
#51
What so many others said. Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Series.
11 years and counting- TL #680
Syfiass
Profile Joined April 2010
France89 Posts
June 05 2014 11:16 GMT
#52
SNES : (in my personal order)
Tales of Phantasia
Secret of mana 2 ( you might find it with the name : Seiken Densetsu 3)
Chrono trigger
Lufia 2.

There are many others, but since everyone has a lot of good suggestions, i just mentionned my favorite.
Have fun ! :D
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50749 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-05 12:38:31
June 05 2014 12:34 GMT
#53
On June 05 2014 20:16 Syfiass wrote:
SNES : (in my personal order)
Tales of Phantasia
Secret of mana 2 ( you might find it with the name : Seiken Densetsu 3)
Chrono trigger
Lufia 2.

There are many others, but since everyone has a lot of good suggestions, i just mentionned my favorite.
Have fun ! :D


don't forget the soul blazer trilogy(Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and of course the best one Terranigma) and for what its worth Lufia 1 is also pretty good, but Lufia 2 makes me cry every damn time so damn good from gameplay to story.

as far as modern games go

DS:
Final Fantasy 4
World ends with you
Radian Historia(best JRPG in a loooooong time)

PSP is also has an emulator so recommend good PSP games people the only game I played on PSP so far is Hexyz Force, would recommend it to anyone.
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amaDeus
Profile Joined September 2011
Germany205 Posts
June 05 2014 13:01 GMT
#54
Tales Of Symphonia hands down. needs a bit to get into it but then... *-*
shin ken
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Germany612 Posts
June 05 2014 13:17 GMT
#55
there are lot's of incredible RPGs for Gameboy Advance as well! (and with VBA there's a simple yet powerful and accurate emulator)

Fire Emblem and Fire Emblem Sacred Stones: two of the best SRPGs ever!

Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
very underrated and generally unknown, but this SRPG has a wonderful story, innovative action (!) based combat system and and fresh setting! mechas on mars!

Golden Sun: is generally seen as one of the best 16bit-style RPGs.

Mother 3 The latest installement of the legendary earthbound series and a very good one. Has been fan-translated.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga This game has singlehandly revived the mario RPG series for nintendo. I still think it's the best RPG from Nintendo ever.

Mega Man Battle Network Series Those games are so good that , back in the day, I actually convinced my PC-only friends to play them all day long.

Riviera: The Promised Land Experimental RPG from sting, which cut's out a lot of traditional RPG elements and replaces them with other systems. It's a love-or-hate game but very special and definitly worth a try

Shining Soul II This is a Diablo style action RPG which is kinda incredible, because we're talking about a GBA game, but it's very addicting and has good gameplay (don't play this for story 'though)

Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 1 + 2 The Super Robot Taisen series is all the rage in Japan and those two games are the only main ones ever officially released in the west. You probably need to be a bit of a mecha fan to get the most of those games, but the are incredible popular for a reasen and very good SRPGs in general.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-06-05 15:23:00
June 05 2014 13:43 GMT
#56
Tales of Symphonia though (you can play on Dolphin!)

I also liked Tales of Vesperia (dunno if there are good emulators for 360/ps3?), though it doesn't seem as critically acclaimed
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50749 Posts
June 05 2014 13:48 GMT
#57
Symphonia is the best game in the tales of series.

I'll vouch for Riviera, I played the PSP version.
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SamuelGreen
Profile Joined August 2013
Sweden292 Posts
June 05 2014 13:49 GMT
#58
Grandia!
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