Favorite Alternate RPG Series. - Page 2

May 21, 2008, 3:52 PM

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Originally Posted by L

Fuck sake, I hated every aspect of the game besides Moses and it's OST, which was very fucking small.

Agreed. Moses=cool. And the OST is great. But hate that one song..."Hey you there, causin' trouble, don't you know the rules of this town...?"...gawd I hate that...

what I really hated about it was that Grune never summoned even though all the hints were there that she could summon! I never found out on her quest cuz I sold the shit before I could. Horrible game...

May 21, 2008, 4:49 PM

Screw Square Enix. The best RPG series overall is Tales.

Legendia didn't do much for me, but all the others I've played have been amaaaaaazing. Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss are especially great.

May 22, 2008, 12:06 AM

Oh jeez, harder question than choosing between my mom and dad.

Fire Emblem, Golden Sun, Tales, Sui(Except 4 D

, Baten Kaitos and Breath of Fire are all great series' I've played.

I'll just be a rebel and go with the strategy game. Fire Emblem was(Not counting pokemon) my first RPG.

May 22, 2008, 1:57 AM

Just because I enjoyed Tales of Symphonia tremendously (storyline, gameplay, and characters), I voted for Tales, even though I've never played the other series yet. I'll have to check the other Tales game sometimes.

Fire Emblem is a close second. I loved the gameplay, but didn't really enjoy the storyline. =/ It was way too linear for me, but it's still one of the best games I've played out there.

The Legend of Dragoon is just memorable...to the point where I don't actually remember most of the details, but still love the game for some reason.

May 22, 2008, 7:34 AM

Legend of Dragoon isn't a series...it's just one game...>_>

Anyways, of those listed, definitely Fire Emblem for SRPGs (Shining Force to a lesser extent)...and Breath of Fire for the standard RPGs...but idk if I've played enough of either series to really judge...I've only played the two FEs that were released in NA on GBA and I've only played 1~3 of the BoF series...BoF3 rulz!

As for other Square-Enix alternate RPG series...I'd include...

Phantasy Star - I'm not including those horrible MMOs...The first was beaten out by the first FF by only a few days...The four series set of Sega games are great. Awesome oldschool sci-fi based RPG series. If you managed to get through those horrible first person dungeons in the first PS game, I bow to you.

MegaMan Battle Network - They're fun, unique gameplay w/sort of corny, cheesy anime storylines that I still end up enjoying. There's a lot of them (I haven't finished 5 yet or played 6 yet) and only 3 bugged me at all and that was just some minor level layout issues.

Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre - I am basing this solely on The Knight of Lodis on GBA. It's a great game and reminds me of another great SPRG series...

Langrisser - I am basing THIS solely on Langrisser 2/Der Langrisser. It begins a lot like Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis in that you ask a lot of questions in order to calculate certain character values & such...but it plays more like a Shining Force than a FFTactics on the battle field...very cool games.

Advance Wars - Good but basically a modern setting FE...Quite difficult at times. Most battles I end up having to play through at least once to figure out what I'm supposed to do.

Mario RPG - Though the first one was by Ninny & Square, the others were w/o Square and Superstar Saga & Partners In Time are both solid games.

Pokémon - Speaking of Ninny...The games are good...though similarly to the Megaman Battle Network games, if you've played one you know how to play them all basically...there's very little change between the games in the series. The game can really require a strict regiment of leveling though...and the number of "playable characters" is not for the faint of heart...>_>

May 22, 2008, 7:49 AM

I guess the only other real series I played was .hack//G.U. from Bandai-Namco.

A three volume series that could've been confined to one release, but it was just a marketing ploy to make money, and since I bought all three games, it works

I did enjoy playing it, so I can't really complain.

I'm also working on and off on XenoSaga, also a 3 game series.

And I guess I should include Devil May Cry as well since I played the first three games. Probably the goriest game I can play without feeling squeamish, and I know there's some messier stuff out there

Other non Square-Enix games I have but own only one of the series:

Shining Force Neo

Persona 3:FES

Suikoden IV and Tactics

But, the majority of my games ARE Square-Enix, and Final Fantasy series is the largest series I own (FFI to FFXII except III and XI, and including Tactics, FFX-2 and DoC), and then the Kingdom Hearts series is next with only 3 games.

May 22, 2008, 10:40 AM

Uh...is Devil May Cry a RPG now??

Also, I don't know how much Shining Force Neo fits in to the rest of the SF series...though technically the whole thing is the Shining series, it's only that besides Neo the SF ones were always SRPGs...*shrugs*

EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, but my vote went to BoF cause Rei & Teepo will always share a soft spot in my gaming heart!

*sniff*

**Battle Royale: Profiles** · May 22, 2008, 4:45 PM

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Originally Posted by V_Translanka

Legend of Dragoon isn't a series...it's just one game...>_>

Oh, crap, you're right. D= I never played the game, as you can see, but I guess I somehow assumed it was a series.

My vote was for Shin Megami Tensei, Nocturne and Persona are great series. Digital Devil Saga wasn't too bad, either.

Fire Emblem is a close second. That game is a life-saver on long trips.

May 22, 2008, 10:10 PM

Ah, I'm not sure what to classify Devil May Cry as.

DMC1 and 2 was pretty much just action, but DMC3 felt kind of like an Action-RPG, since there was a storyline and such, but I really don't know >__<