Good JRPGs

[Incompl te]

The World Ends With You

Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Kingdom Hearts II
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

 

[traceur_]

This thread has JRPG in its title. Few trolls for each page is pretty much guaranteed.

On site site you're just as likely to find that bullshit in any thread.

My favourite JRPG of recent times would be FF12, I liked the summons and the story is cool. And I'd suggest you get Final Fantasy 13 on March 9, because I'm certainly chomping at the bit to get it.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The last good Japanese RPG I played was Demon's Souls.

But I don't think you can consider that a traditional JRPG.

 

[Talvrae]

Good JRPGs

lol

As a JRPG hater i find that pathetic... Okey i think thouse game are in no way RPG... Dosnt mean there arant any of them who are goods... (in fact i liked some, who rare exception i dont like the genre in general, and i say it again theyr are not RPG... but Chrono Triger, Baiten Kaitos and Tales of Symphonia where fun...)

 

[Talvrae]

The last good Japanese RPG I played was Demon's Souls.

But I don't think you can consider that a traditional JRPG.

or a RPG at all again... from what i understood it's an extremlely hard Hack and Slash... Nothing more

 

[Casual Shinji]

The last good Japanese RPG I played was Demon's Souls.

But I don't think you can consider that a traditional JRPG.

or a RPG at all again... from what i understood it's an extremlely hard Hack and Slash... Nothing more

I guess an RPG can mean anything these days. *looking at Mass Effect 2*

But in lamens terms, it's a dungeon crawler where you choose how to upgrade your stats, weapons and armor.

 

[Talvrae]

But in lamens terms, it's a dungeon crawler where you choose how to upgrade your stats, weapons and armor.

Pretty much the deffinition of an Hack and Slash if you ask me

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

Shadow Hearts Series ( Play it NAO!)
The Disgea Series ( Its fucking hard, and insane at the smae time)
Dragon Quest Series ( The plots are lackluster, but the sheer fact that the game is taunting you just makes you want to complete it)

The SHin Megami Tensei ( This includes the Persona Series, the Devil Summoner Series,Devil Survivor, and Nocturne. Think a FUCKED UP Religion-infused version of Digimon...without the kiddy stuff)

 

[Callisto49]

Lost Odyssey and the Golden Sun series are both excellent.

 

[Quad08]

Skies of Arcadia

Best JRPG I've ever played, a shame it's only for the Dreamcast and Gamecube

 

[A random person]

Im going to assume that everyone here is a JRPG fan...i absolutely dislike them now. And for shame that none of you named any of the Dragon Quest games.

Dragon Quest VIII

EDIT: Ok there was one mention.

Considering the general attitude/flames I've seen over them, I'd consider that an odd assumption. From the demo I played, however, I agree with your recommendation.

On topic, Tales of Symphonia, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Fire Emblem (or do SRPG's not count?), Valkyria Chronicles (same concern as with FE), and Skies of Arcadia are good examples of the genre, though you should note that FFVI gets...wonky after a certain point.

 

[Delock]

The Tales series
LEGEND OF THE DRAGOON! (only obscure because FFVII came out too soon. a word of warning though: like most games released around that timeframe, the voice acting isn't superb and there are some hilarious spelling errors)
I've heard Parasite Eve is really good too.
Shin Megami Tensei ones are always good (God is always a jerk, and more so than other JRPGs so if you have belief problems with that you may want to avoid it)
Xenosaga (let it grow on you and you'll really enjoy it.)

It's nice to see that I'm not alone in liking JRPGs.

 

[Laggard]

Dragon quest 8 was quite good but only if you're patient, there is quite a bit of grinding in that game

This is a little OT, but are they any good jrpgs where you don't have to grind? I ususally straight to the end of the game to finish the story only to find that I need to gain an extra 10-20 levels just to beat the last boss. It really takes away from the flow of the storyline


Zelda (if you could consider it an rpg) is the only one I can think of

 

[TheEarlOfGrey]

My copy of Alunrda for the PS1 gets a dust clearing every month or so. People never seem to have heard or play it so I must have been the only Final Fantasy-less kid at school.

 

[The DSM]

The Tales of Series is good, my Tales of Vesperia files is about 96 hours.

Disgaea is a good tactical RPG too, thats 98 hours for me.

Also Persona 4 is amazing.

 

[sidereal_day]

1) Dark Cloud
2) Dark Chronicle
3) Kingdom Hearts
4) Kingdom Hearts II
5) Lost Odyssey

lol, you trollan

As soon as he/she said Dark Cloud, I thought it was a troll. My suspicions were confirmed when they listed Lost Odyssey.

 

[sidereal_day]

The Tales series
LEGEND OF THE DRAGOON! (only obscure because FFVII came out too soon. a word of warning though: like most games released around that timeframe, the voice acting isn't superb and there are some hilarious spelling errors)
I've heard Parasite Eve is really good too.
Shin Megami Tensei ones are always good (God is always a jerk, and more so than other JRPGs so if you have belief problems with that you may want to avoid it)
Xenosaga (let it grow on you and you'll really enjoy it.)

It's nice to see that I'm not alone in liking JRPGs.

I loved Legend of Dragoon up until about the final quarter of it. Parasite Eve was really good too, imo. And Xenosaga owns.

 

[FinalHeart95]

Lost Odyssey a million times over. The only game I've loved enough to do nearly all of the side-quests, and there are quite a few.

EDIT: If we're talking this generation anyway. All-time, give FFIV a whirl, as well as Chrono Trigger. Currently playing my way through FFVI, so can't say much on that.

 

[Talvrae]

Good JRPGs

lol

As a JRPG hater i find that pathetic... Okey i think thouse game are in no way RPG... Dosnt mean there arant any of them who are goods... (in fact i liked some, who rare exception i dont like the genre in general, and i say it again theyr are not RPG...

For someone who doesn't like JRPGs, you certainly appear on a lot of JRPG threads. Sniff, sniff, ça sent ici... c'est peut-être l'odeur d'un troll?

You call 2 a lot?
How to fix JRPG and this one...
Here i was saying how i taught a troll was pathetics, i was reading this threads cause my brother like JRPG and i taught i'l take a look for him (hell how do you think i first played the exception i mentionned, i didnt picked them out cause they catched my interest... -_-

 

[Talvrae]

Okey i think thouse game are in no way RPG (...) and i say it again theyr are not RPG...

If you're not a troll, you might want to avoid problems and not post this narrow-minded view in a JRPG thread. Such a blanklet statement usually devolves into a flame war.

JRPGs are in fact RPGs. Only recently have some segments of the Elitist and Troll population decided to state otherwise.

Helll no... in both case, ypi might call me an elitist but i say that since well, 98 and Baldur's Gate release... And i explained in detail in How to fix JRPG why they are in no way RPG...