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Going Back To The Playstation RPG
Inzigna
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Hey people, I decided to do some shopping for good playstation (1) rpgs, nostalgia has kicked in, and I want to see some opinions.
I ordered Final Fantasy IX and VII, planning to skip VIII for another series, any recommendations?
I just want some good old PS rpg gaming, opinions will be good.
I ordered Final Fantasy IX and VII, planning to skip VIII for another series, any recommendations?
I just want some good old PS rpg gaming, opinions will be good.
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Xenogears
Wild Arms
Lunar games
Final Fantasy Origins/Anthology/etc. (includes Chrono Trigger on one of them)
That's all I can come up with off the top of my head without checking out the collection.
EDIT:
Vagrant Story
Valkarie Profile (if you can find it)
Chrono Cross along with FFIX was one of the last hurrah's of the Playstation era.
Thousand Arms in a charming rpg/dating simulator.
The first two there are viable if you are made of money. Amazing and amazingly expensive.
Wild Arms.
Also, if you're into "a little different," Elemental Gearbolt is a :^:. It's a light gun shooter/RPG, and is full of awesome and win.
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I'd like to hear more about Vandal Hearts. I've seen it floating around for 25 bucks in at the nearest bit of civilization. thoughts?
Make that a priority.
[spoiler:69a558cf6c]The Legend of Dragoon[/spoiler:69a558cf6c]
if you ebay you can get it much cheaper, but it's what got me into strat RPGs. It's AWESOME, if a bit simple.
I don't see how a person could not enjoy it though.
Also what everyone else is saying. But first Vagrant Story.
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Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
First time I tried playing the game the combat system was frustrating and I don't think I made it very far.
Second time I faqed my way to a set of a couple uber weapons, and it was the best gaming experience I had on the PS1. That's how great the story and presentation is. Once you can wrap your brain around the weapon crafting system (which I admittedly needed help on), you can start to open up the combat system a bit and have a lot more fun with it.
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I've always heard nothing but hate for this one.
Yes, a thousand times Vagrant Story.
I'd highly reccomend downloading Zy Nichols' FAQ, and reading through the crafting stuff - one of the best FAQs I've ever read, and he covers that aspect of the game really well.
Final Fantasy
Tales of Destiny
Alundra
Breath of Fire
Grandia
Lunar
Suikoden
Wild Arms
Stand Alone
Xenogears
Star Ocean
Arc the Lad
Brave Fencer Musashi
Front Mission 3
Legend of Legaia
Legend of Dragoon
Love or Hate Games
Vagrant Story
Valkarie Profile
Chrono Cross
Can't Stand
DQVII - Supposedly if you can get past the beginning there is a good game there, but since the intro is like 5 hours long and boring as hell that never happened.
All good RPGS, Also though you say your skipping FF VIII I still recommends playing it. Its not great, but its not terrible either and I think one of the main reasons everyone hates it is because it came out after FFVII not because its actually a bad game.
Hell yes. These were probably my three favorite RPGs from the PS1 era.
I found it weird that your storage chest was a separate save.
Was it possible to use a storage save from one game and use it on another?
The game became way too much to handle after a fight with Rosencrantz.
All those people? Wrong. DQ7 is nothing but love, aside from the fairly broken class system.
1. Final Fantasy IX PS Square Enix 46 8.7 92.7%
2. Chrono Cross PS Square Enix 41 8.7 92.6%
3. Final Fantasy VII PS SCEA 30 9.0 92.5%
4. Vagrant Story PS Square Enix 44 8.5 92.2%
5. Final Fantasy VIII PS SquareSoft 37 8.5 90.6%
6. Xenogears PS Square EA 22 8.7 90.5%
7. Final Fantasy Chronicles PS Square Enix 23 8.6 87.3%
8. Grandia PS SCEA 38 8.2 86.5%
9. Final Fantasy Anthology PS Square Enix 22 8.6 85.3%
10. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete PS Working Designs 23 8.3 84.0%
11. Valkyrie Profile PS Enix Corporation 22 8.2 84.0%
12. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete PS Working Designs 23 8.2 83.2%
13. Breath of Fire IV PS Capcom 30 7.8 81.2%
14. Suikoden II PS Konami 23 8.4 81.0%
15. Brave Fencer Musashi PS SquareSoft 22 7.6 80.6%
16. Dragon Warrior VII PS Enix Corporation 27 8.0 80.5%
17. Final Fantasy Origins PS Square Enix 32 8.2 80.2%
18. Star Ocean: The Second Story PS Enix Corporation 25 8.2 78.8%
19. The Legend of Dragoon PS SCEA 26 8.1 78.5%
20. Parasite Eve PS SquareSoft 27 7.7 77.1%
21. Legend of Legaia PS SCEA 24 7.6 76.6%
22. SaGa Frontier II PS Square Enix 27 6.6 75.3%
23. Threads of Fate PS Square Enix 23 7.0 75.3%
24. Jade Cocoon: Story of Tamamayu PS Genki 24 6.3 74.8%
25. Legend of Mana PS Square Enix 25 7.1 72.8%
26. Alundra 2 PS Activision 25 5.8 70.5%
27. Wild Arms 2 PS SCEA 22 7.3 68.0%
28. Darkstone PS Take-Two Interactive 23 5.7 65.6%
29. Koudelka PS SNK 28 6.6 59.5%
Pretty much everything's been covered by this thread.
I'm gonna chip in a recommendation for breath of fire 3 and wild arms 2.
I love the combat system. Setting up your grid how you want it is great.
No grinding. You can do some if you want to get the absolute most out of your stats, but it's definitely not necessary.
Of course, you see the enemies on screen, no random battles.
Some great graphics for the PS1.
Oh god the music, so beautiful.
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If not, thats a stupid exclusion
People have already mentioned FF Tactics, but Tactics Ogre was also available on the ps1 in an English translation, so that's worth considering.
Otherwise, people have mentioned some excellent games.
Just kidding. Don't play that. I remember buying it way back in 1997 because I needed an RPG fix.
Wild ARMs for reals. Great music, great sprites, decent story, fun gameplay, kind of archaic battle system but awesome nonetheless.
My recommendations:
Alundra
Arc the Lad Collection
Breath of Fire III
Breath of Fire IV
Chrono Cross
Dragon Warrior VII
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy Chronicles
Final Fantasy Anthology
Grandia
Hoshigami
Jade Cocoon
Legend of Dragoon
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Parasite Eve
Persona 2
Star Ocean 2
Suikoden
Suikoden II
Tales of Destiny
Tales of Destiny 2
Vagrant Story
Valkyrie Profile
Vandal Hearts
Wild Arms
Wild Arms 2
Xenogears
Bolded my favorites. Should be enough to start with.
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Alundra
Star Ocean
Final Fantasy Tactics
Legend of Legia (well, I liked it at least)
Brigandine
A few other obscure titles out there that I have but don't remember them right off hand unfortunately.
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There is zero reason to skip it unless he has already played through some and decided he doesnt like it.
Based on the polarized opinions of a handful of people, and completely ignoring what other people say is a poor decision
I got up to disk 3 and then I had to give it back to a friend, but man I loved the combat.
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