Awesome RPG suggestions, anyone?

[EverPhoenix]

I wanted to ask you all if there were any awesome RPGs (good characters, awesome plot, fun game systems, etc) that you knew of to recommend for me to buy/otherwise acquire.

Im after a game i havent played/finished before (i havent played too much in the world of games), and preferably not one of the following:

Secret of Mana/Evermore
Chrono Trigger
Illusion of Gaia

I ask not to recommend those because they are already up there on the games i will get around to playing in the near future.

So.. any suggestions? Also, feel free to also use this as a recommendation thread.

[chicken]

Terranigma ^^

also played THE ELDER SCROLLS: OBLIVION a lot, but once you went through it a thousand times and found almost EVERYTHING on the map, it starts getting boring

[EverPhoenix]

hey this exchange is as fast as some of my msn conversations.

Ive tried oblivion before, at a friend's place. It was a bit too open-ended, i think if i did manage to get into that game i wouldnt come out for a long long time. And i could play terranigma again, although i do know the plot more or less by heart, it wouldnt be the same as experiencing the awesomeness for the first time.
cheers for the tips though

[psychokind]

chicken wrote:

Terranigma ^^ also played THE ELDER SCROLLS: OBLIVION a lot, but once you went through it a thousand times and found almost EVERYTHING on the map, it starts getting boring

unlike morrowind. it's such a shame they couldn't keep up the atomosphere created in morrowind...

[Blade]

I tried playing Morrowind, but the graphics sucked so hard I couldn't stand it...

[psychokind]

Blade wrote:

I tried playing Morrowind, but the graphics sucked so hard I couldn't stand it...

by the time it was new the graphic was amazing. the only problem is that morrowind looks better the better your computer is, you almost can't change things manually.

[EverPhoenix]

i found morrowind way too hard to get into. waaay too open-ended. tried once, killed something. nothing leveled up or gained experience so i rage-quit. never had the desire to play it lol.

[AlphaMan]

People tell me I have a strange taste in games, but...

Lufia 2 : Rise of the Sinistrels (Great oldschool SNES RPG)

Brain Lord (SNES Action RPG by Produce, reminds me a lot of the Quintet games to be honest)

Darkstone (PC Diablo clone)

Crystalis (NES Action RPG)

The Guardian Legend (NES, idk if you can consider ActionRPG/RPG or if neither, but it's kind of like Zelda)

Final Fantasy Legend II aka SaGa 2 (oldschool GB RPG)

Ys III (Sidescroller Action RPG for SNES/Genesis/NES)

Summon Night 2 (GBA RPG with sidescroller battles which don't suck unlike Tales series)

[tay120n64]

What about the Final Fantasy series? There's only like, fifty of them to choose from, lol.

Of them though, I'd recommend the following:

FFIV
FFVI
FFVII
FFVIII
FFX
FFXII
FF Tactics (PS1 or PSP versions)
Crisis Core: FFVII
Kingdom Hearts I & II

Or hell even a Mario RPG:

Super Mario RPG
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Paper Mario
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Other Reccomendations:

Golden Sun
Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Fallout 3 (It's Oblivion... with GUNS!)
Star Ocean First Depature
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Tales of Symphonia
Xenosaga (3 part series)
dot Hack (4 part series)

That's all I can think of right now. Was that helpful?

[psychokind]

Terranigma
Secret of Mana 2 (aka Seiken Densetsu 3)
Zelda Lttp/Oot/Twilight Princess
FF VI (aka 3)
Morrowind
Gothic I & II
Neverwinternights 2
Shadowrun (SNES)
Unterwegs in Düsterburg (German only)
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Xenogears
Sailormoon RPG
Tales of Phantasia

[EverPhoenix]

wait wait wait. theres a sailor moon rpg? wow

and cheers for the advice guys, its helped. but now there are too many to choose from ><
alphaman - seeing as you like lufia 2, your game taste is awesome. that game is so unbelievably good. and i thought brain lord was a quintet game :S
ive played a few of the games mentioned, cant say theres any (other than morrowind) that i disliked at all.
do the old-school ff games (i define old-school to be before ff7) have the same depth in plot as 7 and 8? 'cause i'd definitely give em a go if they did.
golden sun is sitting on my desk, (i have the cartridge) but im stuck and cant quite bring myself to use a faq... ill get over that soon enough.

im actually really surprised no one mentioned grandia 2, that game blew my mind first time i played it

[tay120n64]

Oh, definately. Final Fantasy VI probably has the best character development in the entire series. The story is rather weak in the NES games (1-3) but 4 and 6 both have engaging stories, with 6 of course being the best.

Actually, alot of ideas that were introduced in 6 have remained as staples in the series. It redefined Final Fantasy even more so than 7, aside from the level of presentation that 7 started. If you like Fianl Fantasy, definately give 6 a go.

[Hammerit]

tay120n64 wrote:

Oh, definately. Final Fantasy VI probably has the best character development in the entire series. The story is rather weak in the NES games (1-3) but 4 and 6 both have engaging stories, with 6 of course being the best.

Nah didn't like the 6th, but the 5th was simply awesome. The job system and the world merging .... On the first world I already thought: Yeah that's it, there's the final boss, now go get your biggest hammer and go for it. But then a second world ... okay played through it and thought this definately has to be the end, but then all of a sudden the worlds merged and hell they got me on that one .

Nevermind you want a good suggestion: Suikoden I-III. Those 3 will keep you entertained for months ^^.

[gavdaman88]

I found a cool rpg, its called crystalis for the NES

The rom is on romnation. net

[psychokind]

EverPhoenix wrote:

wait wait wait. theres a sailor moon rpg? wow

Hehe yeah. And it's surprisingly amazing!