Author Topic: Awesome RPGs (Read 40208 times)

Ramus · « **on:** June 02, 2009, 11:33:50 PM »

What are some recent RPGs that you've played that you feel can be labeled utterly awesome or fun. Please try to point out lesser known ones, we've already heard about the Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and Dragon Quest remakes.

Also, RPG is a loose term, so don't worry about sticking strictly to turn based battles, even if the game is a shooter with RPG elements, that can work.

My personal favorite is Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer for the DS. It's a roguelike of sorts, but it still retains that epic RPG feel as stuff carries over after death and you're traveling the land as more or less, a wanderer. It has no problems with the idea of kicking your butt and after you beat the game, well... then you get started on the true game with a new 100 floor dungeon as well as a food based dungeon, a trap base dungeon, and a freaking 70 floor expansion to the old dungeon leading to a difficult but fair game with loads and loads of replayability.

SONIC BHOCOLATE STRIKER · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:42:09 AM »

Baten Kaitos Origins is the first game that pops into my head.

trancehime · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:44:52 AM »

Knights in the Nightmare is first one because it is epically beautiful and awesome

shinyjam · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:46:28 AM »

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga - Endless Frontier, Epic battle system, Epic boobs jokes.

Ghaleon · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2009, 12:49:04 AM »

Quote from: RegulusHime on June 03, 2009, 12:44:52 AM

Knights in the Nightmare is first one because it is epically beautiful and awesome

looks cool, might have to give it a go.

My fave rpg series of all time is Lunar: The Silver Star, and Lunar: Eternal blue. They remade them for the psx as you all probably know. I still favor my original Eternal blue more than the remake though. Silver star was a better remake imo.

Hououin Kyouma · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2009, 05:11:21 AM »

Fallout 3 and Oblivion are one of the best RPGs in the world and also Fable 2 is the simplest and one of the best but in a different way from F3 or Ob

Chainsaw Guitar · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2009, 06:30:57 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JOCPMklqmI&feature=channel_page
I haven't actually played it, but being the Gamefreak fanboy that I am, I think it's awesome and that it should have a fan translation by now.

KomeijiKoishi · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2009, 01:30:57 PM »

THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU.

FABLE.

Nuff said.

?q · « **Reply #8 on:** June 03, 2009, 01:51:21 PM »

TWEWY was surprisingly good, one of the better "recent" games to come out.
(I say surprisingly because judging from its marketing one would believe the game is concentrated weeaboo bait with ridiculous controls.)

theshirn · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2009, 02:25:02 PM »

TWEWY is one of the best games evar.

Also, Terranigma. Anyone who hasn't played it needs to get the hell out of the thread and come back once they have.

Maid Xan~ · « **Reply #10 on:** June 03, 2009, 02:30:49 PM »

Quote from: u? on June 03, 2009, 01:51:21 PM

TWEWY was surprisingly good, one of the better "recent" games to come out.
(I say surprisingly because judging from its marketing one would believe the game is concentrated weeaboo bait with ridiculous controls.)

TWEWY is GOTY

Moerin · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2009, 03:00:34 PM »

Disgaea. That is all.

Also, Battle Moon Wars is pretty damn awesome. It's the only game where you can have a psychotic maid dope up Fem!King Arthur before she obliterates Getter Robo with a giant sword laser (among other things), and that's got to count for something.

Gambit · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2009, 03:08:49 PM »

I haven't played it much, but Rudra No Hihou is pretty good and has some of the best boss music to come from the snes era. Also Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is a great strategy rpg.

Maid Xan~ · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2009, 03:30:09 PM »

Quote from: Gambit on June 03, 2009, 03:08:49 PM

I haven't played it much, but Rudra No Hihou is pretty good and has some of the best boss music to come from the snes era.

This. More people need to play it. Bloody hard, though.

WRATHIE_Beatrice · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2009, 04:13:16 PM »

basically any game that is released by Atlus is awesome in some aspect imho..

Ghaleon · « **Reply #15 on:** June 03, 2009, 06:24:17 PM »

Quote from: Gambit on June 03, 2009, 03:08:49 PM

I haven't played it much, but Rudra No Hihou is pretty good and has some of the best boss music to come from the snes era. Also Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is a great strategy rpg.

Haven't heard of rudra no hihou. I have knight of lodis though. I personally felt it as being ok only. Compared to the ogre battle series (which is omgwtfpwn imo), it was a dissapointment. I'd have to say the music felt pretty darn weak too. Not very important to the game but I really hate final bosses whose difficulty revolve around status ailments. *shudders at "protect doas" or whatever its name is from lufia and the fortress of doom*.

Yes I know where are often artifacts or relics or rings or whatever that prevent such things, but I always tell myself to beat a game before reading a guide, and getting all the uber equipment, and all that. So it's normally not an option for me to gear up my entire party with ribbons or whatever.

Rabbit · « **Reply #16 on:** June 03, 2009, 06:26:31 PM »

Quote from: N.Theorist on June 03, 2009, 03:00:34 PM

Disgaea. That is all.

Also, Battle Moon Wars is pretty damn awesome. It's the only game where you can have a psychotic maid dope up Fem!King Arthur before she obliterates Getter Robo with a giant sword laser (among other things), and that's got to count for something.

Of course, you'll only enjoy it half as much if you haven't read pretty much every Nasuverse canon work in existence, seen all the Kara no Kyoukai movies to date, and played Melty Blood. Super Robot Wars experience not required, but it sure does help.

Third Eye Lem · « **Reply #17 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:11:39 PM »

Persona 4, but everyone knows that. Same with Skies of Arcadia and Wild ARMs 3.

Has anyone played Devil Summoner 2? I'm considering buying it.

Slacker · « **Reply #18 on:** June 03, 2009, 08:48:45 PM »

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

A great RPG with real-time combat, it's a solid game that does nothing game breaking but it's still very impressive to play, definitely a nice change from Final Fantasy.

The game also represents achievements called "battle trophies" which can unlock certain things, some of them are a real nightmare to get.
And it also has a endgame dungeon with over 100 floors for all you dungeon crawler freaks out there.

Also in my book feature's one of the most impressive boss fights I ever fought.

RainfallYoshi · « **Reply #19 on:** June 03, 2009, 09:18:48 PM »

Even though it's probably considered mainstream, Tales of Symphonia is an amazing game. You basically get 8 playable characters to mess around with and they all have very different styles of play. It's like an RPG/Fighter mesh up, which is awesome.

Another two that are great are Paper Mario and Paper Mario: TTYD. Sure, they are pretty childish in graphics and dialogue, but they are some of the most fun RPG fights there are. Every move is interactive and you really feel like you're actually fighting instead of just telling your people to do things.

Gambit · « **Reply #20 on:** June 03, 2009, 09:25:12 PM »

Quote from: Ghaleon on June 03, 2009, 06:24:17 PM

Haven't heard of rudra no hihou. I have knight of lodis though. I personally felt it as being ok only. Compared to the ogre battle series (which is omgwtfpwn imo), it was a dissapointment. I'd have to say the music felt pretty darn weak too.

I haven't played any of the others in the series so I really wouldn't know how much of a disappointment knight of lodis was and I tend to like certain games more than I should anyway. Definitely agree with you about the music.

I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of rudra no hihou considering it's a pretty obscure rpg from Square that never got released outside of Japan.

trancehime · « **Reply #21 on:** June 04, 2009, 02:04:04 AM »

Quote from: Gambit on June 03, 2009, 03:08:49 PM

I haven't played it much, but Rudra No Hihou is pretty good and has some of the best boss music to come from the snes era. Also Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is a great strategy rpg.

It's good. But also hard.

Didn't stop me from finishing it twice though

Ghaleon · « **Reply #22 on:** June 04, 2009, 02:05:42 AM »

Quote from: RegulusHime on June 04, 2009, 02:04:04 AM

It's good. But also hard.

Didn't stop me from finishing it twice though

hard is good though, especially when it comes to rpgs where difficulty is a concept 99% of them completely lack.. aside from the occasional "you will die in 1 move if you didn't know this in advance" (good example is letting that boss turn you into zombies before casting mega death in ffx).

SONIC BHOCOLATE STRIKER · « **Reply #23 on:** June 04, 2009, 02:06:06 AM »

Quote from: YellowYoshi1 on June 03, 2009, 09:18:48 PM

Even though it's probably considered mainstream, Tales of Symphonia is an amazing game. You basically get 8 playable characters to mess around with and they all have very different styles of play. It's like an RPG/Fighter mesh up, which is awesome.

Another two that are great are Paper Mario and Paper Mario: TTYD. Sure, they are pretty childish in graphics and dialogue, but they are some of the most fun RPG fights there are. Every move is interactive and you really feel like you're actually fighting instead of just telling your people to do things.

I am sonicbhoc and I approve of this post.

Cadmas · « **Reply #24 on:** June 04, 2009, 02:55:15 AM »

Best RPGs that I have played that kinda hide in plain view are
Grandia Xtreme for it's unique battle system and Dark Cloud 2 for it's
Item building, town building, and poor, yet lulzy voice acting.

Other than that I haven't gotten my hands on any outstanding RPGs lately.
FF12 was a big let down and 13 and 14 don't look like they are going to sweeten the pot.

Moogy · « **Reply #25 on:** June 04, 2009, 02:58:24 AM »

I think Nippon Ichi, Gust, and Atlus R&D1 make the best RPGs, personally.

Though, of course, Xenogears gets an honorable mention as well.

Maid Xan~ · « **Reply #26 on:** June 04, 2009, 03:21:17 AM »

Quote from: Lem_Gambino on June 03, 2009, 08:11:39 PM

Persona 4, but everyone knows that. Same with Skies of Arcadia and Wild ARMs 3.

Has anyone played Devil Summoner 2? I'm considering buying it.

ZOMG, TIS LEM!

Third Eye Lem · « **Reply #27 on:** June 04, 2009, 03:49:15 AM »

Quote from: Xan on June 04, 2009, 03:21:17 AM

ZOMG, TIS LEM!

lol hai xan C=

Alice Fact · « **Reply #28 on:** June 04, 2009, 06:59:02 AM »

Custom Robo, if only for the battle system, is just one of the best damn games ever.

Zbo · « **Reply #29 on:** June 05, 2009, 10:06:00 PM »

Black/Matrix 00.
Shining Force Feathers.

You dogs need to play these.

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