Yer RPG picks, broken down by console:

Cave Story is a slightly RPG-ish 2d platformer which my friend who loves JRPGs enthuses about and I haven't really been able to get into

(to Ste's question, no idea about iphones)

xpost I think the go-to iPhone RPGs are Chaos Rings, Ash (pretty new), Zenonia, and Wesnoth (more of a SRPG but w/e); Final Fantasy Tactics is also supposed to be coming to iOS soon. of course I'd rather play yet more 9 Innings than any of them (except for Wesnoth).

also I wouldn't call Cave Story a RPG any more than I would call the DS Castlevanias RPGs. great great great great GREAT game, though (also should be coming out for DSiWare soon).

WESNOTH FOR IPHONE?!?!

AND IPAD (which would be my recommendation since the interface requires a fair bit of screen space). also you can play multiplayer with the desktop version from the iOS version.

Snes: Secret of Evermore! Final fantasies, too many
Mega Drive: Can't really remember many, shadowrun was good. There was an actiony rpg that was quite good, story of thor was it?
PS1: Suikoden, FF7+tactics, Azure Dreams,
Saturn: Dragon Force (not really rpg but still), Shining the holy ark, Shining Force 3, Dark Saviour. Never got round to playing panzer dragoon saga but apparently there's working saturn emulators now so hopefully will soon.
PS2: Dragon Quest 8, Shadow Hearts series, Persona 3+4
Xbox360: Eternal Sonata i guess?
PC: Planescape: Torment, baldurs gates, neverwinter nights, Dragon Age. Too many

I sold FF7 and FFT to a guy on Craigslist for $45 yesterday. For not wanting to put up with ebay, seemed like an okay deal.

bought FFVII & FFVIII for £3 sold for £40 #cozstersmillions

Just bought FFIX for PS3/PSP and am already aggrieved by the awkward colloquial US English crowbarred into it.

PSX: FFVII (obv)
PS2: FFX
Xbox: Morrowind x 2348792387429387429
GBA: Golden Sun
360: Oblivion (default position; I got ~1/2hr into this before stopping)

psshhh who cares, ffix is awesome

lol you tried to live like a cerebrate

― El Tomboto, Monday, December 24, 2007 5:53 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"what's my motivation?"

― El Tomboto, Monday, December 24, 2007 5:53 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

lol

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N)

AND IPAD (which would be my recommendation since the interface requires a fair bit of screen space). also you can play multiplayer with the desktop version from the iOS version.

― "Anus Landlord": A little rough, but good. (jamescobo), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

ya i was gonna say

did anyone every play Y's on the Sega master system?

i remember seeing it in C+vg mags back in the day, and being quite envious of master system owners. Was it actually any good, vaguely remember reviewers going nuts over it.

will try it out on emulator, but just wondered what ilg thought

ive played the ds version which i didnt really love but tbh a lot of the late 80s rpg classix bore the shit out of me. basically the combat was too finnick-y and tedious & there wasnt enough depth to the game to keep me interested.

but i mean i gave up on the o.g. dragon warrior when i tried playing it earlier this year in disgust so

decided to waste a summer afternoon tryna do a top three for every console from 3rd to 6th gen.

NES:

crystalis
dragon warrior iv
final fantasy

SEGA (8-bit)

phantasy star
ultima iv
---

SNES:

chrono trigger
final fantasy vi
secret of mana

GENESIS:

shining force 2
phantasy star iv
shadowrun

SEGA CD/SATURN:

lunar silver star story
shining force iii
dragon force

PSX:
final fantasy tactics
valkyrie profile
xenogears

N64:
ogre battle 64
paper mario
---

DREAMCAST:
grandia 2
skies of arcadia
record of lodoss war

PS2:

persona 3: fes
dragon quest 8
suikoden iii

GC:

fire emblem
tales of symphonia
paper mario 1000 year door

XBOX:

star wars kotr
fable
morrowind (should really be ---)

The Turbografx-CD version of Ys 1&2 is available on Wii VC. It's fun.

the Ys remakes on PSP are great

lol/sigh at folding together sega cd and saturn

SEGA (8-bit)

phantasy star
ultima iv
---

man, that ultima iv conversion was fantastic. i had it as a kid, a parent bought it on sale somewhere and for some reason all the extra materials were in french. this was kind of a problem in terms of working out how all the spells worked and so forth. i never really got past that enough to actually get anywhere in terms of finishing the game: just wandered around finding people and putting stats up until it got to the point where the wandering monsters were too much to survive encounters with. i spent so much time playing it that eventually the contacts on the cart got dirty and random squares of the environments kept being replaced with menacing purple blobs

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/jamescostello/ultima4set.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIMT9otk-G0

man i feel like my snes picks would be soooooo challopsy compared to lamp's list

some deserving games that haven't been mentioned in this thread yet

SNES: Dragon Quest V
GCN: Baten Kaitos Origins
DS: Dragon Quest IX

can't believe jordan repped for sword of vermillion upthread! that game was awful

on the other hand i had it on some family chalet holiday with a megadrive and nothing to do, and no other games i hadn't played, and i was sick, flu-ey, headache and wanting to vomit all the time, so i can't think of playing it without thinking of playing it in a semi-trance state (it is a very repetitive game), half-conscious, nauseous

like looking at the screen shots made me feel, briefly, like i wanted to yak

the Ys remakes on PSP are great

yeah, I've been slowly playing through these and they are v. fun. definitely into the stripped-down feel of ys 1. (about 3 towns! just 5 pieces of armor!) basically a perfect diversion for a long plane ride.

first two games def have too much backtracking tho.

my SNES picks: earthbound, final fantasy 6, chrono trigger, lufia 2

talked a bit about lufia 2 in the retro thread. very streamlined mechanics for its time.

lol/sigh at folding together sega cd and saturn

yeah that was a total cheat.

http://dorando.emuverse.com/images/ys-ancient-ys-vanished-omen.jp3.png

i got in trouble with my big brother, because there was a bit at the back of the instruction booklet to 'write down hints and tips you obtained from the townspeople', and i had copied a bunch of random villager dialogue into these pages in terrible six-year-old cursive

ys was great!!

i feel like those last three posts were posted in reverse order

so dragon crystal (the fourth game shown in that youtube upthread (and the first i have not played (i have now watched that clip seven times (oh god)))) turns out to be a master system roguelike, which is making me glad i kept that sms emulator around once i got bored with phantasy star

I wouldn't claim to know much about any other platform but the Genesis/Mega Drive answer is Rings Of Power imo.

PC PC PC PC

Sorry for the trolling, just feeling a bit left out and don't understand why it has to be this way /sadface

Rings of Power gotta be top 3 Megadrive yeah. Wd try to make a case for Crusader of Centy aka Soleil too.

lol repeating myself every couple of years

Sword of Vermillion on the Megadrive was fantastic. Shining In The Darkness, too.

I have Phantasy Star II / III / IV and Shining Force / Shining Force 2 on a Megadrive collection for the Xbox 360. It's sad that i'll never get the chance to play them when i can't find the time to complete Dragon Age.

Hylics series looks fascinating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yo8I1-kZ6U

Can't recall the last time I saw such a well developed look for a game.

that is nuts. wow.

hylics is cool, didnt know there was a 2 coming but i guess its out today?

yeah man that looks fucking sweet

v. interesting

reminds me of Undertale a little

Dread Delusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH3M_lCZZWA

that is definitely an aesthetic

looks like a king's field tribute/spiritual successor. wonder if they'll keep the vintage control scheme