ignore these morons they're trying too hard act le based and edgy when they're probably all underage tourists
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What are the must play JRPG/ARPG's?
You can separate them into classic (usually requires a guide, often obtuse) and modern (railroady and linear but streamlined and more balanced as a result). Best of each:
Classic:
FF5
DQIV
Breath of Fire 2
Chrono Trigger
GB/GBA era pokemon
Modern:
Octopath Traveler
DQXI
DS era pokemon (anything past this is just dogshit)
FF7
Persona 3-5
As for ARPGs I haven't played a single one I enjoyed outside of FF7R and that's just because I enjoyed the original. People like the Tales series for that though and all modern FF games are ARPGs.
My recommendations were pretty surface level, you're not going to find anything too groundbreaking/crazy if that's what you're looking for
Wtf you should be ELATED to be giving recommendations to newcomers and sucking them into your hobby, sharing the joy and saving them from wasting their time and money on mediocre stuff and having another person to discuss eith.
my jARPG's recomendations: >Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen (this is the first rec because the sequel is droping next month) >Demon's Souls (the og not the remake) >Dark Souls >Dark Souls II SotFS >Nioh >Nioh 2 >Lies of P (korean if you want to split hairs about it) >if you're not sick of soulslop and actually want more, Elden Ring >Way of the Samurai 4 >Final Fantasy XVI (don't listen to the naysayers, it's peak FF)
for classic jRPG's: >Final Fantasy Tactics (best FF game) >Tactics Ogre LUCT >Ogre Battle 64 (this series as whole is pretty good but these two are imo the best and play quite differently) >Shin Megami Tensei 3 >Dragon Quest XVI >Disgae PC (don't think it's the best one overall, but the series is pretty big and this one is definetivly the best entry point) >The Dark Spire >Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter >Lufia II >Pokemon Soul Silver/Heart Gold >King's Field 4
this is a pretty good list and the only thing i would add is maybe Vagrant Story to bridge the gap but as im thinking about it writing this post i dont recommend it compared to any of the games listed because of how arduous it is so frick me i guess
There's something extremely disconcerting about seeing some of those games listed as classic, although I guess with Disgaea & SRPG agiing that one at least makes sense thematically with the genre.
Black person is a mindset not a color.
You can be a light skinned Black person or a dark skinned white man.
Your skin does not determine if you are a fellow white man or a Black person your character does.
I'm loving FF6 PR right now. I beat the SNES original several times in the distant past, but I can barely tolerate all the random encounters, stat boosting annoyances, AP tedium, etc. now that I'm older. PR's QoL enhancements are just amazing and let's me enjoy the comfiness.
>>Not FF VI >now you just like to be a contrarian >aren't you??
Sorry anon.
I prefer II for its mechanics and didn't get my opinion from a listicle or youtube video or an unhinged ranking list by someone who hasn't played the games extensively.
I feel the same way about VI for the most part that I do about IV. It has ATB, it's focused on story & presentation first works for it but ultimately it just doesn't hit the spot in the way that II, III or V do for me. VI represents IV's approach to story "done right", it wows us with its prestige gaming moment and it truly has amazing art & sound design by a team who were quite frankly peaking in their individual fields but it's just not a game that's grown for me over the years.
I used to say IV & VI were my favs growing up, I saw VII for what it was, a spectacle but ultimately VI again where the innovation came from presentation first. That place of loving IV & VI dimmed as I engaged with other games in the series, spin offs and on replays where I would get progressively less from them. They are fantastic games still but they're not something I would recommend.
>>Not FF VI >now you just like to be a contrarian >aren't you??
Sorry anon.
I prefer II for its mechanics and didn't get my opinion from a listicle or youtube video or an unhinged ranking list by someone who hasn't played the games extensively.
I feel the same way about VI for the most part that I do about IV. It has ATB, it's focused on story & presentation first works for it but ultimately it just doesn't hit the spot in the way that II, III or V do for me. VI represents IV's approach to story "done right", it wows us with its prestige gaming moment and it truly has amazing art & sound design by a team who were quite frankly peaking in their individual fields but it's just not a game that's grown for me over the years.
I used to say IV & VI were my favs growing up, I saw VII for what it was, a spectacle but ultimately VI again where the innovation came from presentation first. That place of loving IV & VI dimmed as I engaged with other games in the series, spin offs and on replays where I would get progressively less from them. They are fantastic games still but they're not something I would recommend.
So no, it's really quite rude to assume someone is being contrarian if they like II because they adore the things that it did and the things it tried to do.
It tried to push narrative and was the first of the story trilogy but was held back and simplified in a way that never happened to IV. It took risks with its combat and Kawazu spun that off into his own line of games that I deeply enjoy and yes I cringe every time I see someone repeating the shield strategy who doesn't engage with the game itself or lets others have an opinion for them. I'm someone who utterly despises level scaling in games because it's so hard to get right but II for being an early game has less off these pitfalls if you play it without trying to cheat the system, you don't have to grind things out or make things too hard for yourself unless you cheat yourself but not playing the game.
I avoided XI for years, did the thing everyone else did where I refused to see it as a real FF because it was an MMO but I gave it a chance after seeing the magic within XIV's XI inspired Eureka and what did I get from that game? I got a game that for an MMO had an amazing approach to worldbuilding, where story wasn't presented as some grand spectacle but something you could discover. I got a progression system that looks back at II with fondness and I enjoyed skill ups, I enjoy levelling characters within that game because it takes the best parts of II and runs with it.
>>Not FF VI >now you just like to be a contrarian >aren't you??
Sorry anon.
I prefer II for its mechanics and didn't get my opinion from a listicle or youtube video or an unhinged ranking list by someone who hasn't played the games extensively.
I feel the same way about VI for the most part that I do about IV. It has ATB, it's focused on story & presentation first works for it but ultimately it just doesn't hit the spot in the way that II, III or V do for me. VI represents IV's approach to story "done right", it wows us with its prestige gaming moment and it truly has amazing art & sound design by a team who were quite frankly peaking in their individual fields but it's just not a game that's grown for me over the years.
I used to say IV & VI were my favs growing up, I saw VII for what it was, a spectacle but ultimately VI again where the innovation came from presentation first. That place of loving IV & VI dimmed as I engaged with other games in the series, spin offs and on replays where I would get progressively less from them. They are fantastic games still but they're not something I would recommend.
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So no, it's really quite rude to assume someone is being contrarian if they like II because they adore the things that it did and the things it tried to do.
It tried to push narrative and was the first of the story trilogy but was held back and simplified in a way that never happened to IV. It took risks with its combat and Kawazu spun that off into his own line of games that I deeply enjoy and yes I cringe every time I see someone repeating the shield strategy who doesn't engage with the game itself or lets others have an opinion for them. I'm someone who utterly despises level scaling in games because it's so hard to get right but II for being an early game has less off these pitfalls if you play it without trying to cheat the system, you don't have to grind things out or make things too hard for yourself unless you cheat yourself but not playing the game.
I avoided XI for years, did the thing everyone else did where I refused to see it as a real FF because it was an MMO but I gave it a chance after seeing the magic within XIV's XI inspired Eureka and what did I get from that game? I got a game that for an MMO had an amazing approach to worldbuilding, where story wasn't presented as some grand spectacle but something you could discover. I got a progression system that looks back at II with fondness and I enjoyed skill ups, I enjoy levelling characters within that game because it takes the best parts of II and runs with it.
It's fine that there's different approaches to FF, that I, III & V were gameplay first games, that II, IV & VI wanted to focus on narrative, that they experimented with the battle system over the years and players have their favs. There's people out there who love the games that Kitase directed and worked on, I adore V still to this day even if we never hear Kitase speak fondly of it the same way he does of his time on VI, VII, VIII or X and going back to that last sentence VIII is a game that tries something new and its the best part of that game aside from Nobuo's continued limits being broken.
So yes, I would recommend II to players over VI. You can think it's contrarian for reasons you couldn't even be bothered to list, but for me: There's no better FF game to go into completely blind other than XI.
There's more to II than tales about programming ultima and hitting yourself with shields, there's a fantastic game underneath it all. If you engage with that game and enjoyed it you have a launchpad of where to within and without the FF series. If it's contrarian to recommend something that they might have overlooked then that says something about the way we view recommendations.
lmaoooo these gentlemen in the replies are lighting you up my boi.
play: >dragon's dogma >final fantasy 5 >chronotrigger
honestly i could list more but it would be more helpful if you told me what specific games you are interested in trying, 2d? 3d? monster catching like pokemon? what about tactics autism like FFT and fire emblem? do you want contemporary entries or older ones? do you want cozy graphics or like y2k era graphics. you don't have to answer my specific questions just give me like a general vibe of what you want out of this rec thread. i'm here to help bro
>2D? 3D?
If you are talking about JRPG's, there isn't really a difference to me, I think for ARPG's I usually like 3D more but I wouldn't mind 2D. >monster catching like pokemon?
Sure, if you have something nice to reccomened. I played the first five gens of Pokémon and the Stories spinoffs of MH. >just give me like a general vibe of what you want out of this rec thread
If it's a JRPG, im mostly looking for a good story above all else. If it's an ARPG, a good story would be nice but I usually like fun gameplay with long combos. Sorry about the earlier misunderstanding.
>Sure, if you have something nice to reccomened. I played the first five gens of Pokémon and the Stories spinoffs of MH.
not that anon but if you like collecting things in jrpgs, there is zoids legacy and medabots on the gba. And Metal Max on various sytems.
To add to this part of the discussion.
There's various things within Pokemon that you may like, like monster catching mechanic and battle system? You may love dragon quest and Digimon.
You might enjoy parts of some megaten games and some megaten games have digimon games that are really a nice little gap between them and pokemon.
>If it's a JRPG, im mostly looking for a good story above all else.
You'll find lots of these within the genre and that's a little vague but > If it's an ARPG, a good story would be nice but I usually like fun gameplay with long combos.
You may want to check out Drakgengard & NieR or even Kingdom Hearts. They're both games and series that have a "unique" approach to storytelling and lore with ARPG combat that has enough depth to be enjoyable but doesn't steal the show.
For ARPGs that have a great combat and story? Although it strays closer into beat em up territory Yakuza certainly can hit that mark and now falls into the field of dragon quest style games with a damn good story.
A nice little comment like that will catch you a recommendation you might not have gotten otherwise. Have fun OP.
really depends on the person. Also depends on how you define an rpg. People who like jrpgs tend to also include strategy games like fire emblem, but people who love western rpgs tend to get really upset about lumping something like warcraft in with their games.
suikoden 1 and 2
smt 4 and strange journey
digital devil saga 1 and 2
final fantasy 5-8 and 10 (only recommend 9 if you really loved the aesthetic of 1-6)
tales of phantasia
earthbound is overrated af but thats for a reason, ive yet to see a game that can replicate 90s americana as well as it did. its like the peanuts, but as a jrpg. gameplay is only slightly above dragon quest tho
xenoblade chronicles 1 and X
I played like 30 hours of coldsteel
I skipped playing for a day for some reason and just never went back. Some of the systems are alright but I found it to not be that engaging overall. Rean has simultaneously too much and to little personality. He's not dull enough to be a blank slate but he IS really dull. As for the other characters, if you've seen any amount of anime you can deduce their personalities and motivations by simply looking at them - a possible exception is Jusis, who I remember being fairly based.
Setting the game at a high school also makes it feel kind of repetitive and formulaic. Overall the game feels like a relatively high budget H-game without the pornography.
I'm not sure there are any universal must plays. One person's favorite can be kind of meh to others. Like I like Medabots on the GBA, but I also like collecting things, robots and earthbound. To someone that doesn't like those things, its probably a pretty meh game. Even something like FF6 or FF7 will be meh to someone looking for an open world western style rpg. Even something like Chrono Trigger might leave someone cold if they don't like the art style.
>What are the must play JRPG/ARPG's?
FFVII
FFVIII
FFIX
No, I don't expect you to like them all, but this trinity hails from one of the golden ages of gaming and each one has it's place among the greats for their own reasons.
I stopped playing before even that point because I found the characters, costumes, story, dialogue, and art direction all insufferable.
I get that JRPG's are made mostly with a teenage audience in mind, but holy shit.
don't mind the schizos anon they're still mad about being contained.
FFX is the best version of a turn based RPG. Not for the story but for the lengthy endgame and huge amount of things to do after you've beaten the story.
I started a new game to try out the alternative sphere grid. I really love how amazingly well the game is designed, with every character having a purpose, and a reason to use them all in battle. Can't get enough of the game.
The reason you like X is exactly why I cant stand it. That and the weird chinese esotericism that permeates the story. 1 or 2 superbosses is enough. I don't want to have to grind for 200 hours just to get everyones final weapons.
yeah. I love it when numbers go up man I can't help it. The actual "story" of X is not good, and neither is the voice acting. The only "good" thing about the story is that it's short.
out of curiousity, as someone who hates the grind of FFX endgame and the like. Do you enjoy games like Yakuza or Xenoblade with heaps of side content?
I'm going to let you in on a secret. You're not going to get good answers because they only people willing to reply are newbies that spoonfeed, so you're best bet is to assume every game listed in this thread is bad.
Shiren the Wanderer 2/4/5
Etrian Odyssey III/V
Ys Felghana/Seven/Origin
Xanadu Next
Grandia I/II
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Baroque
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Chrono Trigger/Cross
Romancing Saga: Minstrel Song/Scarlet Grace
Metal Max Returns/3
Shin Megami Tensei II/Nocturne/Digital Devil Saga/Soul Hackers
Mother 3
Forever Kingdom
Demon's Souls
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
Kowloon High-School Chronicle
Record of Lodoss War (Dreamcast)
>blank rec thread
have a nice day
>blank rec
what's that? what's the proper way to make a thread here then?
It's generally not cool to go to any hobby board anywhere on the web and just ask for general recommendations.
Sorry, my bad then.
It's cool.
ignore these morons they're trying too hard act le based and edgy when they're probably all underage tourists
You can separate them into classic (usually requires a guide, often obtuse) and modern (railroady and linear but streamlined and more balanced as a result). Best of each:
Classic:
FF5
DQIV
Breath of Fire 2
Chrono Trigger
GB/GBA era pokemon
Modern:
Octopath Traveler
DQXI
DS era pokemon (anything past this is just dogshit)
FF7
Persona 3-5
As for ARPGs I haven't played a single one I enjoyed outside of FF7R and that's just because I enjoyed the original. People like the Tales series for that though and all modern FF games are ARPGs.
My recommendations were pretty surface level, you're not going to find anything too groundbreaking/crazy if that's what you're looking for
Don't listen to those homosexuals. Play Final Fantasy Tactics.
that's moronic. you're moronic
Wtf you should be ELATED to be giving recommendations to newcomers and sucking them into your hobby, sharing the joy and saving them from wasting their time and money on mediocre stuff and having another person to discuss eith.
>go on Ganker
>ask for broad recommendations
>get them
it's as shrimple as that
my jARPG's recomendations:
>Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen (this is the first rec because the sequel is droping next month)
>Demon's Souls (the og not the remake)
>Dark Souls
>Dark Souls II SotFS
>Nioh
>Nioh 2
>Lies of P (korean if you want to split hairs about it)
>if you're not sick of soulslop and actually want more, Elden Ring
>Way of the Samurai 4
>Final Fantasy XVI (don't listen to the naysayers, it's peak FF)
for classic jRPG's:
>Final Fantasy Tactics (best FF game)
>Tactics Ogre LUCT
>Ogre Battle 64 (this series as whole is pretty good but these two are imo the best and play quite differently)
>Shin Megami Tensei 3
>Dragon Quest XVI
>Disgae PC (don't think it's the best one overall, but the series is pretty big and this one is definetivly the best entry point)
>The Dark Spire
>Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
>Lufia II
>Pokemon Soul Silver/Heart Gold
>King's Field 4
says you Black person
this is a pretty good list and the only thing i would add is maybe Vagrant Story to bridge the gap but as im thinking about it writing this post i dont recommend it compared to any of the games listed because of how arduous it is so frick me i guess
There's something extremely disconcerting about seeing some of those games listed as classic, although I guess with Disgaea & SRPG agiing that one at least makes sense thematically with the genre.
>Final Fantasy Tactics (best FF game)
Based
>Lufia II
BASED
According to who? You? Go frick yourself Black person
>Black person
how can you ascertain someone's skin tone from a Gankernit post
It never was about skin tone. Turns out it was the content of character the whole time.
You must be new here
Black person is a mindset not a color.
You can be a light skinned Black person or a dark skinned white man.
Your skin does not determine if you are a fellow white man or a Black person your character does.
Based. Normalgays hate being gatekept.
normalgays do the gatekeeping
not the other way around
moron
youre unaware
if you have to ask that. then don't make threads. you get nothing for making threads and no one cares. just lurk.
the fact that no one has told this homosexual hes supposed to lurk for 2 years before posting really shows how lost the zoomer generation is
The time of the zoomer is now, oldgay.
Son of a b***h.
I'm loving FF6 PR right now. I beat the SNES original several times in the distant past, but I can barely tolerate all the random encounters, stat boosting annoyances, AP tedium, etc. now that I'm older. PR's QoL enhancements are just amazing and let's me enjoy the comfiness.
Worlds Collide randomizer is a better way to get QoL and you can always use cheats to get around grinding.
shut the frick up morons if people wanna ask for blanket recs then let em at it, you're just terrified your terrible taste in games would get exposed
here OP I'll list the good FF games for you don't waste your time on garbage
II, V, IX, XI, XII
have fun
>FF2
>Not FF VI
now you just like to be a contrarian, aren't you??
>>Not FF VI
>now you just like to be a contrarian
>aren't you??
Sorry anon.
I prefer II for its mechanics and didn't get my opinion from a listicle or youtube video or an unhinged ranking list by someone who hasn't played the games extensively.
I feel the same way about VI for the most part that I do about IV. It has ATB, it's focused on story & presentation first works for it but ultimately it just doesn't hit the spot in the way that II, III or V do for me. VI represents IV's approach to story "done right", it wows us with its prestige gaming moment and it truly has amazing art & sound design by a team who were quite frankly peaking in their individual fields but it's just not a game that's grown for me over the years.
I used to say IV & VI were my favs growing up, I saw VII for what it was, a spectacle but ultimately VI again where the innovation came from presentation first. That place of loving IV & VI dimmed as I engaged with other games in the series, spin offs and on replays where I would get progressively less from them. They are fantastic games still but they're not something I would recommend.
I don’t believe you for one second
Sounds like a you problem.
So no, it's really quite rude to assume someone is being contrarian if they like II because they adore the things that it did and the things it tried to do.
It tried to push narrative and was the first of the story trilogy but was held back and simplified in a way that never happened to IV. It took risks with its combat and Kawazu spun that off into his own line of games that I deeply enjoy and yes I cringe every time I see someone repeating the shield strategy who doesn't engage with the game itself or lets others have an opinion for them. I'm someone who utterly despises level scaling in games because it's so hard to get right but II for being an early game has less off these pitfalls if you play it without trying to cheat the system, you don't have to grind things out or make things too hard for yourself unless you cheat yourself but not playing the game.
I avoided XI for years, did the thing everyone else did where I refused to see it as a real FF because it was an MMO but I gave it a chance after seeing the magic within XIV's XI inspired Eureka and what did I get from that game? I got a game that for an MMO had an amazing approach to worldbuilding, where story wasn't presented as some grand spectacle but something you could discover. I got a progression system that looks back at II with fondness and I enjoyed skill ups, I enjoy levelling characters within that game because it takes the best parts of II and runs with it.
It's fine that there's different approaches to FF, that I, III & V were gameplay first games, that II, IV & VI wanted to focus on narrative, that they experimented with the battle system over the years and players have their favs. There's people out there who love the games that Kitase directed and worked on, I adore V still to this day even if we never hear Kitase speak fondly of it the same way he does of his time on VI, VII, VIII or X and going back to that last sentence VIII is a game that tries something new and its the best part of that game aside from Nobuo's continued limits being broken.
So yes, I would recommend II to players over VI. You can think it's contrarian for reasons you couldn't even be bothered to list, but for me: There's no better FF game to go into completely blind other than XI.
There's more to II than tales about programming ultima and hitting yourself with shields, there's a fantastic game underneath it all. If you engage with that game and enjoyed it you have a launchpad of where to within and without the FF series. If it's contrarian to recommend something that they might have overlooked then that says something about the way we view recommendations.
No, Ill list the good FF games:
FF1;
lmaoooo these gentlemen in the replies are lighting you up my boi.
play:
>dragon's dogma
>final fantasy 5
>chronotrigger
honestly i could list more but it would be more helpful if you told me what specific games you are interested in trying, 2d? 3d? monster catching like pokemon? what about tactics autism like FFT and fire emblem? do you want contemporary entries or older ones? do you want cozy graphics or like y2k era graphics. you don't have to answer my specific questions just give me like a general vibe of what you want out of this rec thread. i'm here to help bro
>2D? 3D?
If you are talking about JRPG's, there isn't really a difference to me, I think for ARPG's I usually like 3D more but I wouldn't mind 2D.
>monster catching like pokemon?
Sure, if you have something nice to reccomened. I played the first five gens of Pokémon and the Stories spinoffs of MH.
>just give me like a general vibe of what you want out of this rec thread
If it's a JRPG, im mostly looking for a good story above all else. If it's an ARPG, a good story would be nice but I usually like fun gameplay with long combos. Sorry about the earlier misunderstanding.
xenosaga
>Sure, if you have something nice to reccomened. I played the first five gens of Pokémon and the Stories spinoffs of MH.
not that anon but if you like collecting things in jrpgs, there is zoids legacy and medabots on the gba. And Metal Max on various sytems.
To add to this part of the discussion.
There's various things within Pokemon that you may like, like monster catching mechanic and battle system? You may love dragon quest and Digimon.
You might enjoy parts of some megaten games and some megaten games have digimon games that are really a nice little gap between them and pokemon.
>If it's a JRPG, im mostly looking for a good story above all else.
You'll find lots of these within the genre and that's a little vague but
> If it's an ARPG, a good story would be nice but I usually like fun gameplay with long combos.
You may want to check out Drakgengard & NieR or even Kingdom Hearts. They're both games and series that have a "unique" approach to storytelling and lore with ARPG combat that has enough depth to be enjoyable but doesn't steal the show.
For ARPGs that have a great combat and story? Although it strays closer into beat em up territory Yakuza certainly can hit that mark and now falls into the field of dragon quest style games with a damn good story.
A nice little comment like that will catch you a recommendation you might not have gotten otherwise. Have fun OP.
>What are the must play JRPG/ARPG's?
really depends on the person. Also depends on how you define an rpg. People who like jrpgs tend to also include strategy games like fire emblem, but people who love western rpgs tend to get really upset about lumping something like warcraft in with their games.
suikoden 1 and 2
smt 4 and strange journey
digital devil saga 1 and 2
final fantasy 5-8 and 10 (only recommend 9 if you really loved the aesthetic of 1-6)
tales of phantasia
earthbound is overrated af but thats for a reason, ive yet to see a game that can replicate 90s americana as well as it did. its like the peanuts, but as a jrpg. gameplay is only slightly above dragon quest tho
xenoblade chronicles 1 and X
>suikoden 1 and 2
what ever happened to the remaster that was coming out?
Trails of Cold Steel
FF 7,8, and 10 (ignore the rest)
Persona 5 Royale
Is Cold Steel a meme game on here or do people genuinely recommend it?
It's a meme, just like Atelier and Neptunia.
I genuinely enjoyed the first two CS games, they're among my favorites. The sequels were also fun too despite their flaws.
I played like 30 hours of coldsteel
I skipped playing for a day for some reason and just never went back. Some of the systems are alright but I found it to not be that engaging overall. Rean has simultaneously too much and to little personality. He's not dull enough to be a blank slate but he IS really dull. As for the other characters, if you've seen any amount of anime you can deduce their personalities and motivations by simply looking at them - a possible exception is Jusis, who I remember being fairly based.
Setting the game at a high school also makes it feel kind of repetitive and formulaic. Overall the game feels like a relatively high budget H-game without the pornography.
Cold Steel is basically like a mix of nu-Persona and Grandia to me, and not in a good sense
Genuine recommendation from me at least. One of the best RPGs ever made. The fact that it annoys fanboys is just a bonus tbh
Cold Steel titles are modern JRPGs that will be more familiar to current genre fans than games from 20+ years ago. It is what it is.
i played it after all the memes on here and i was shocked at how much i actually enjoyed it but i definitely understand why its a meme
It's one of the best Kiseki games.
The Erebonia arc is the peak of Trails.
Phantasy Star IV
Breath of Fire II
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VI
Persona 3: FES + The Answer
Suikoden 1 and 2
Trails in the Sky FC
Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2
Valkyria Chronicles 1
Xenoblade Chronicles 1
FF7
FF9
FF10
FF13
Romancing Saga 2
>What are the must play JRPG/ARPG's?
I'm not sure there are any universal must plays. One person's favorite can be kind of meh to others. Like I like Medabots on the GBA, but I also like collecting things, robots and earthbound. To someone that doesn't like those things, its probably a pretty meh game. Even something like FF6 or FF7 will be meh to someone looking for an open world western style rpg. Even something like Chrono Trigger might leave someone cold if they don't like the art style.
>What are the must play JRPG/ARPG's?
FFVII
FFVIII
FFIX
No, I don't expect you to like them all, but this trinity hails from one of the golden ages of gaming and each one has it's place among the greats for their own reasons.
>not a single mention of bravely default
Loops really filtered people, huh?
I stopped playing before even that point because I found the characters, costumes, story, dialogue, and art direction all insufferable.
I get that JRPG's are made mostly with a teenage audience in mind, but holy shit.
one of the issues with Final Fantasy IX also.
post your favorite rpg
lemme guess fallout zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>JRPGs
Chrono Trigger, FF6-10 (except 8), EarthBound & Mother 3, Dragon Quest 5, Suikoden 2, Shin Megami Tensei 3 (warning: this one is hard), Persona 4 & 5, Paper Mario 1 & 2
>insert reddit hive mind list
>Everything I don't like is reddit
>popular game bad
>seething so hard he has to reply to it twice
kek
A very fun take on the bare bones battle systems of classic jrpgs, with (mostly) non-cringe dialogue.
this guy makes some great games honestly. cosmic star heroine is also pretty great, just gotta get past the artstyle
FFX. The combat is perfection, if you don't grind levels to be overpowered.
don't mind the schizos anon they're still mad about being contained.
FFX is the best version of a turn based RPG. Not for the story but for the lengthy endgame and huge amount of things to do after you've beaten the story.
I imagine the final boss is piss easy if you complete the side bullshit. Without grinding it's a great fight.
well I usually beat the game to end credits and then it reloads your save. There is no new game+
That's a good way to go about it.
I started a new game to try out the alternative sphere grid. I really love how amazingly well the game is designed, with every character having a purpose, and a reason to use them all in battle. Can't get enough of the game.
The reason you like X is exactly why I cant stand it. That and the weird chinese esotericism that permeates the story. 1 or 2 superbosses is enough. I don't want to have to grind for 200 hours just to get everyones final weapons.
yeah. I love it when numbers go up man I can't help it. The actual "story" of X is not good, and neither is the voice acting. The only "good" thing about the story is that it's short.
out of curiousity, as someone who hates the grind of FFX endgame and the like. Do you enjoy games like Yakuza or Xenoblade with heaps of side content?
>the story of FFX is not good
>neither is the voice acting
Frick off.
moron alert
I'm going to let you in on a secret. You're not going to get good answers because they only people willing to reply are newbies that spoonfeed, so you're best bet is to assume every game listed in this thread is bad.
>assumed it was bait for jrpg wars
so /vrpg doesnt have a thread just for jrpgs? yet the starfield post lasts 5 months... k
Shiren the Wanderer 2/4/5
Etrian Odyssey III/V
Ys Felghana/Seven/Origin
Xanadu Next
Grandia I/II
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Baroque
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Chrono Trigger/Cross
Romancing Saga: Minstrel Song/Scarlet Grace
Metal Max Returns/3
Shin Megami Tensei II/Nocturne/Digital Devil Saga/Soul Hackers
Mother 3
Forever Kingdom
Demon's Souls
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
Kowloon High-School Chronicle
Record of Lodoss War (Dreamcast)
Those are the best imo.