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Good rpg for ps1?
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07-01-2008 12:03pm#1
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Dragon Warrior VII isn't as good as VIII but it's still a great game. I'd recommend against Legend of Dragoon, it's a very cliche and quite boring RPG.
The two very best RPG's in the vein of Final Fantasy are Suikoden 2 (very rare to find) and Grandia.
Suikoden 2 is a very plot heavy RPG that takes a while to get going but trust me, it has one of the best and most heartbreaking storylines ever. The castle system is also excellent and there's a bit of a pokemon thing going on since there are 108 characters to recruit, the majority of which are playable.
Grandia is a brilliant RPG in the vein of FFIX. It's cute and the storyline isn't very serious but it makes up for it with fantastic characters and probably the best battle system of any RPG.
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Not too clued in on the Wild Arms series but the Tales of games are fantastic. I know Tales of Destiny 1 and 2 are in english on the PSP. However one of them was released as tales of eternia on the PSP so you might have it already (might need to check wikipedia to see if tales of eternia really is a rerelease but I'm almost sure it is).
You won't be disappointed with Grandia, you have to have no heart not to fall in love with that game. Pity the superior Saturn version never got an english translation, from the little I played of it it's a much nicer looking game than the PS1 version.
If you like a good storyline then don't miss out on Suikoden 2. Not many people are lucky enough to have played it but those that have swear by it.
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FF/suidoken/tales/grandia/dragon quest/wildarms/persona/legend of mana/breath of fire/Valkyrie Profile/parasite Eve,no much good RPG back when ps1 yr really lol did i just say 'few'?
take your time ,OP,thats bacically all the games i touched back then
@ser retro:did you realise that you have replied this thread earlier,stop repeating some same points
wild arms1/2 are quite famous back then i think,rpg from sony,i remember ,cant expect much,but i remember i was amazed!
grandia too i like it,but seems these two RPG series didnt do well at later stage...blame Square for their CG domination!0 -
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Forgot to mention Xenogears, another RPG that never made it to Europe. Really good battle system and a very well written and intelligent storyline, especially if you are a fan of anime. Unfortunately the development of the game got cut short due to problems with Final Fantasy VII so the second disk is a bit of a letdown but the game is worth playing just to see how much better than FFVII this game could have been and for the great storyline.
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It's no difficult than any other JRPG. The last boss is a bit of a difficulty spike but if you do the side quests beforehand it's perfectly manageable. It's well worth playing and it's almost nearly a classic. It comes from a time when EA published the Square games in America so there is no censorship, so expect loads of anti religious sentiment it's very obvious when character sleep with each other in parts (tastefully done mind you). The only problem is the rushed second half of the game. Square pulled almost the entire team off the game to finish FFVII. The second half of the game is the two main characters sitting on chairs telling you what happens in the story and you do the odd dungeon now and again. Then your dumped on to the world map and told to go here for the final boss or wander around and do the pitiful amount of subquests.
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Gummy Panda wrote: »I'm currently playing this on my psp and its awesome. I just had my fight against neclord's abomination. I think i messed up in regards to runes as most of my characters don't have them. I basically didn't know which ones were once of appearances and which were worth the investment.
Also i ignored some characters so there very low level. Urgh time to grind some random battles.
Well I'll answer both your questions. With runes I tend to de-equip everyone once I'm finished a story section and want to change characters. It's best to keep at least 2 water runes for healing and then the rest should be all out magic and physical offense depending on the characters expertise.
Also there is absolutely no point in grinding in the game. Suikoden has level caps were if you are at a certain point in the game you will get to a certain level and after that you will get absymal experience points. Also the levelling up system allows even extremely low level characters to catch up to high level characters. Very low level characters will nearly match the levels of high level characters after 2-3 fights in the latest dungeon. The main character has spells that kill everything other than bosses outright. Use these at the beginning of a new area to boost the low level characters to acceptable levels. So don't be afraid to bring a few extremely low level characters with you.
Lucky you getting to play this game again fresh. The story is only going to get much better
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It's what I love about the game as well. It's a lot more realistic than other JRPGs that tend to explain everything with magic and use it to fill plot holes. It's also an absolutely heartbreaking story that it tells really emotional.
And then there is Luca Blight. How people rank Sephiroth as the best videogame bad guy ever when this guy exists is beyond me. A truly tragic and down right evil piece of work, probably the best videogame villian since Kefka.
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davidtobin100 wrote: »It's also part of the "Ivalice Alliance" which contains the FF Tactics games and FF XII, so it's the closest you'll get to a FF tie-in.
It's nothing to do with FF. It only got shoehorned into the ivalice alliance along with FF tactics as part of the new square enix corporate raping of the FF brand.
It is however a stonkingly good game.
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I didn't play any of the later ones, was the Yuber/Pesmerga plotline ever tied up?
Nope it hasn't been tied up yet. The series took a bit of a fall in quality after S2. S3 started great but fizzled out halfway through and the terrible pitched battle system meant the game lost it's epic feel. S4 isn't worth playing, a very poor game. S5 was a return to form for the series and is well worth playing. The first 5 hours are really slow but it hits you with a killer plot twist and the storyline from there is excellent. However it just doesn't have the cruel and dark streak of S2.
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