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Title: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: TristanBeoulve on August 22, 2014, 10:43:34 am
Feel free to share your favorite three RPGS and, if you want, say why. Please don't criticize others' picks, but you can comment on their picks. I guess I'll say mine and explain briefly:
1. Lost Odyssey- The perfect RPG for me, this game was criminally underrated, and was made by the creator of Final Fantasy. I found it to be more worthy than FF13
2. Legend of Dragoon- Amazing game, simple as that.
3. Final Fantasy Tactics- Appeals to my tactical side.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: 3lric on August 22, 2014, 11:27:18 am
1. Lost Odyssey (I often mention that this should've been FFXIII instead of what was released as FFXIII)

2. Suikoden (The game speaks for itself)

2.9. Final Fantasy VIII (Triple Triad and Junction system)

3. Legend of Mana (Awesome, that's all I can say)
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Angel on August 22, 2014, 12:09:56 pm
1. Lost Odyssey (I see a trend going, here)
2. Skies of Arcadia (just a lovely little game that's joyful to play)
3. Disgaea (the first game to make me laugh until I cried)

Honorable mention: Final Fantasy XII (I never get tired of playing and replaying the story, and some of the marks are still fun to hunt down)
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Celdia on August 22, 2014, 02:35:09 pm
1. Final Fantasy I
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Dragon Warrior III

Honorable Mention: Dragon Warrior IV - Almost edges out III since I played IV first and have a lot of fond nostalgia for it but III just feels like an overall better game for various reasons like the class system, the call-back to Alefgard from I and II, the overall story. IV has it's high moments but some of the quirkiness like Taloon's chapter and the inability to control your party members in the second half of the game drag it down. III is a solid ride from start to finish, even if the characters you play don't have any personality themselves. Considering my #1 choice though, that has never been a real problem for me.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Jumza on August 22, 2014, 05:41:40 pm
I have sooo many RPG's that I need to play, so my pool of ones that I've actually finished is small...

1. Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door
2. FFT
3. Tales Of Symphonia

They may not be the best rpg's out there, but they are the ones I love the most. I've played them all through several times and I never get bored of them. I'm actually on run #4 of ToS right now :P

Honorable mention: Though I haven't finished it yet, I've put almost 24 hours into Bravely Default and I'm still not bored of it. I decided on my first try to do it in hard mode, and 6 hours later I had finished the epilogue and it was -awesome-. The only thing that I absolutely hate hate HATE about Bravely Default is Bravely Second, an item you can buy to cheat your way through the game? What an awful thing to include in such a fun game :(
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: MiKeMiTchi on August 22, 2014, 09:14:30 pm
I haven't played lots of RPG titles since PS3 era, so I may be missing out on titles that really deserve top spots.

1. Suikoden (series) - love them all! I haven't played the first one yet though.
2. Final Fantasy Tactics
3. Digimon World (1-3) - Something close to my heart.

3.5 Persona - really love modern-styled RPG's
4. Rune factory
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: TristanBeoulve on August 22, 2014, 10:48:37 pm
Wow. This sure got a lot more replies than I'd expected. I'm honestly quite surprised that a good number of people here play LO, due to its 800k or so units sold.
COMMENT TIME:
I liked that little Lost Odyssey streak as well, Toshiko.

I only played Dragon Quest 9 and 6, the latter of which I lost before I could finish, but I do like them.

Played FFIII, but never got around to finishing it. I do like it though.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Angel on August 22, 2014, 11:44:33 pm
I discovered Lost Odyssey after the fact, due to never ever seeing it in stores, and never seeing anyone talk about it. After I learned about its existence, I bought it for myself as a birthday present in 2010. As with most, I was immediately taken helplessly in by the dreams, and knew that it was an instant classic. I don't think it's underrated at all, just underexposed. There are very few games that I would say are worth buying a console for alone, but LO is one of them. The only unkind words I can find to say about that game are: the Treasure Hunter achievement is sadistic, and Tolten's face makes me angry.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Dome on August 23, 2014, 03:48:52 am
- FF9 (Even better than the first FF I ever played, the 7th)
- FFT (Why would I be here otherwise?)
- Tales Of Symphonia (I FUCKING LOVE THIS GAME, but it's damn too easy)

Honorable mentions: Chrono Trigger, Digimon world 1
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: TristanBeoulve on August 23, 2014, 10:41:30 am
You know, Toshiko, Tolten was actually the most relatable (besides of course his royal status) because he was so weak, and also had a nice vocabulary. This made me go back to something I did back when my grandfather introduced me to Legend of Dragoon, the first RPG I ever played. I decided that I would pretend to be my favorite character. (This was when I was three, mind you, so don't judge.) Now, enter nerdy ten year old Tristan with no friends. My mother bought Lost Odyssey when we first got our Xbox 360 (the first console I ever played on that belonged in my house) When I started using Tolten, I gave him all my best rings, and swords. He was eventually doing more damage than Kaim.
I think the reason I loved LO so much was because of LOD (One letter difference, never noticed that until now.) And of course the amazingly written dreams (as of yet I have still not found every one), not to forget the great music.
Another reason LOD contributed to my love of the game was the combat system. In LOD, you pressed buttons before a character hit an enemy. E.G. With Dart, he hits four times consecutively, and you have to hit the right button as he hits each time. This is similar to the rings in LO.

MORE COMMENTS:
Toshiko, you are right about the game being underexposed, but look at Game Informer's review of LO.

I think I'll try out Tales of Symphonic if possible, I have a Wii and eBay.

Happy to see the Digimon games, Mike.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Kaijyuu on August 23, 2014, 04:56:03 pm
1. FF6
2. FFT
3. ??? (there are like, 5 games tied for this for me. Not many of them final fantasy, despite picking that for the top two)


FF6 only beats FFT due to nostalgia, I'll admit. I played FF6 when I was a young and impressionable lad, so it has a special place in my heart. FFT was a bit later, thus never had the same amount of "wonder" though I'll probably admit it's an objectively better game.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Lijj on August 24, 2014, 01:43:20 pm
1. FFT (hands down)

2. Faxanadu (not really an RPG; but has enough RPG aspects to count)

3. FFVI (similar reasons as Kaijyuu)
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Vaan on August 24, 2014, 06:33:54 pm


Also i must add that all the FFT's and Zeldas come right after that.
Title: Re: Top three favorite RPGs?
Post by: Xifanie on August 26, 2014, 09:26:16 am