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Non-maintream RPGs that you enjoy

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-03 15:33

What are some RPGs you enjoy that do not have "Final Fantasy" in the title?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-14 21:39

>>36

Because they tend to be rare for some reason. All good RPGs end up being rare and therefore more expensive. Digital Devil Saga 1 is around 50 bucks USED...

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-14 21:42 (sage)

but DDS1 isnt good

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-14 21:46

Been playing DDS1 for the last 40 hours... and I bought DDS2 used for another 50, a bit ago. So I think it is good. Sue me.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-15 3:06

shin megami tensei: nocturne
front mission
arc the lad

are all extremely mainstream grow up "noob"

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-15 18:33

The Star Ocean series is amazing.

Also, Wild Arms 3 is neat, and has cool Cell Animation.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-15 19:39

Treasure Hunter G for SNES was fun.
Last game square made on a nintendo console.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-15 21:30

>>46
I thought Sting made it `~`

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-15 22:44

Tales of Phantasia, SNES version, FTW

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-16 6:59

Evolution, though the series could do with having a bit more cyframes for the other party members, and the game is way way too damn easy. Sting should increase the difficulty, drop in 2.5 times the experience, put less creatures on each level but with better AI, and a larger variety of traps. (so it actually feels like an archaelogical dig. You don't encounter snakes and lions every 50 steps in real life do you?) Also increase the amount of items you can carry dammit.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-16 7:45

>>33
I know I would. With an orgasm!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-16 16:35

Atalier Iris: Eternal Mana
If you import, OZ (konami)
Lunar isnt quite "underground" - but play it. Ps1 ver.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-16 18:56

Alundra

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-16 18:58

Is Lunar 2 for PS1 any good or should I go with the original

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-16 21:26

Lunar 1 was fun.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 20:55

VP

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 21:42

I hear Live-A-Live was good.  Oh and how about Vay and Popful Mail?  Never tried em.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 22:26

Popful Mail is like Slayers: The sidescrolling adventure game. Lots of madcap wacky fantasy humour. Can't go wrong with a wizard named Muttonhead.
Speaking of, Mail was hot, why is there no hentai of her? I swear, I have NEVER seen anything, which is suprising because all she wears is a breastplate and a one-piece white bathing suit under that.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-18 14:57

Crusader of Centy for genesis. Some have called it a zelda clone, but it really is nothing like Zelda, except the fact that it's a 2-d RPG with real time combat...but what isn't?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-19 21:02

>>58
truth.
I HATE the comparisons to zelda. "LOL U CAN THO UR SORD JUST LIEK IN ZELDA!" Can you make your sword rebound off walls in Zelda? Home in on enemies? Chase them like a homing missile? Fire multiple elemental blasts? NO? SHUT UP!
It's like all those morons that say Splinter Cell and MGS are "the same," or 2D fighters require no skill because they "all are limited to use the same movelists." Usually these jackholes get all their gaming information from shit like Stuff and G4 anyway, so it's not terribly illegal to put'em out of their misery. You should still make sure to cram them into an oil drum full of dynamite and explode them in a lake though, just in case you're in one of those staunchly ignorant-coddling areas. Plus, hey, free dead fish! Collect & eat!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-20 8:25

I love Tales of Destiny and its follow-ups, though they're getting a little stale.  I also adore the Lunar series and Shining Force 1&2.

And here's my Obscurity award:  Beyond Oasis for the Genesis.  Arabian-themed overhead Zelda-style adventure.  What do I win?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-20 9:13

None of you mentioned Dew Prism, failures.
Seconding Xenogears (but not xenosaga)
and also stating a fact
Quintet developed Enix prduced and published soul blazer trilogy over most games and pretty much all other action rpgs(read: ffgaidensetsu 2,3, and  beyond) forever. Oh and they definitely beat those turn based "action" rpgs.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-22 6:27

>>48
FTW.
For some reason my saves disappeared, so I am playing the new one for GBA while my friends replay the SNES version. D:

Name: Maxim !yUZcmRe/lw 2006-03-22 8:11

Another vote for Atelier Iris. It reminds me so much of the "good 'ol days" of RPGs, and the graphical style and chara design rock. Just anime enough without becoming an "interactive anime". Only complaint is that it's way too easy to get to a point where you need to be a much higher level without going around levelling.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-23 12:32

>>62
Dead battery, mang. An easy fix if you get a security bit / gamebit set on ebay. And have moderate soldering ability.

Name: Vinz 2006-03-23 16:44

Guardian War/Powers Kingdom and Lucianne's Quest.
Hunt around IRC for'em in 3DO emu rooms. LQ is sorta like Lunar Lite, and GW is 3D FFT but without moogles. (you can even have secondary and tertiary 'bodies' equipped the way one uses jobs in FFXI and use their skillsets.) Has a quaint lego-y charm to the graphics too. The appearance of the various classes/bodies (you're spirits inhabiting different golem things) is so stolen from FF1. Just try and resist yelling HADOKEN when you use the Atom Bomb spell. Both by Micro Cabin.

>>60
lol nothing much I imagine. It was popular enough to get a sequel, after all.
I wish they would reveal only after you killed someone they were related to you. I love my storytellin' nice and bleak, like when Nei bites the dust in PS2.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 0:21

Final Fantasy.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 3:49

i like mysterious dungeon games.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 3:55

square's tom sawyer for nes cause it has coons

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 18:11

Legend of Dragoon, i kinda hoping for its sequel.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 20:26

>>66

lol

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-27 23:17

The prettiness and depressingness of Valkyrie Profile,
but I'll also toss in Rhapsody and, for the SNES,
Robotrek.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-21 1:13

>>71
VP for my current all-time favorite RPG. Really looking forward to Sileria.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-21 23:43

not sequel but i wanna see tetris rpg, u know when the block disapear you gain exp points, and learn new block vanishing technique or send fire balls to reduce your opponent life meter like carol

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 0:20

Play Tetris DX Gaiden

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 1:12 (sage)

What the fuck is going on here? Only good console rpg is Chrono Trigger and why no-one has mentioned Fallout(quite mainstream though), Planescape Torment or Arcanum yet?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 1:32 (sage)

>>75
Because nobody cares about US RPGs

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 3:17

>>76
Errr. i agree with you on that except for fallout, i hate it when im in junior high but i love it now XD

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 4:34

>>76
Nobody cares about them, because they're much better than console stuff? Show me Japanese RPG with good dialog and REAL choices that ACTUALLY affect story/game. Haven't seen one myself.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 7:07

>>78
newsflash about 90%of all the rpgs are made in japan
and less than 20% get translated to english

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-22 7:28

>>79

were any of them 2D for ps2?

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