Top 10 JRPGs

[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"]

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"][QUOTE="Hoobinator"]FFIV has to be up there. It's one of the best and frankly overlooked FF games in the series.kryloc

I disagree 100%.

I considerFFIV to be one of the worst FF titles (not that it's bad). No other FF leads you by the hand like IV. No other FF shoe horns you into cookie cutter development system (that lacks any choices), that is actually just a back ground development system for almost allthe rest of the FF franchise.

Sorry but the jump in plot telling just isn't enough for me with that title (which was it's only star feature over the past iterations).

What about mystic quest? :)

Well I said one of the worst, and Mystic Quest isn't really even worth mentioning (not to mention wasn't even released in PAL territories under the FF franchise).

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"]

What are your favorite JRPG's( Lets discuss) If you don't like stay out the forum.

1. XenoGears (PS1)
2. Final Fantasy 7
3. Persona 3
4. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
5. Final Fantasy 6
6. Persona 2 : EP
7. Megaten: Digital Devil Saga 1
8. Megaten: DDS 2
9. Persona 1
10. Final Fantasy 8

AvIdGaMeR444

You placed Nocturne above FF6?

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"][QUOTE="peacebringer"][QUOTE="jasonharris48"]

What are your favorite JRPG's( Lets discuss) If you don't like stay out the forum.

1. XenoGears (PS1)
2. Final Fantasy 7
3. Persona 3
4. Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
5. Final Fantasy 6
6. Persona 2 : EP
7. Megaten: Digital Devil Saga 1
8. Megaten: DDS 2
9. Persona 1
10. Final Fantasy 8

peacebringer

1.Xenogears

2.Chrono Cross

3.Final Fantasy 7

4. Panzer Dragoon Saga

5. Grandia

6. Chrono Trigger

7. Star Ocean Second story

8. Suikoden

9.Persona

10.Shin Megami Tensai Nocturne

1. Xenogears

2. Chrono Trigger

3. Final Fantasy 6

4.Secret of Mana

5. Kingdom Hearts (both 1&2)

6. Final Fantasy 7

7. Final Fantasy 9

8. Tales of Symphonia

9. Breath of Fire 1

10. Final Fantasy 4

People are way too harsh on Kingdom Hearts. It has a decent story and the gameplay is fun even if it is too easy. Xenogears has the best combo of gameplay and story for any jrpg to this date imo, even though the second disc was a bit rushed. Final Fantasy 4 was the first jrpg I ever played and got me hooked, and for some reason I love the story of the bad guy turning good.

I didn't count srpgs like FF Tactics because I just can't get into them for some reason.

Edit: I should also add that Final Fantasy 8 fails the list because of the draw system. I hate that system with a passion, it's the worst system in ANY FF ever.

1. Chrono Trigger

2. FFVI

3. Chrono Cross

4. FFVII

5. Earthbound

6. Super Mario RPG

7. FFIX

8. FFT

9. Xenogears

10. FFIV

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"]How do you guys feel about the Tales of..series I've most of the U.S releases but I was only able to get into the gamecube title Tales of Symphonia which was only decent to me IMO.kage_53

Symphonia is easily the best one. The combat system is by far the best of them all... the only one I didn't try and die to is Abyss, which is made by the one making Symphonia.

Some peoples here should really get into more Fire Emblem and Ogre Battle...

Except for FF6 and Tactics, I never enjoyed a single FF game.

FF7 is the best jrpg, but i like ten better (i was so sad)elite_ferns1

I found FF X's plot good on style but kinda weak in sense. If everyone stopped being so fatalistic they'd realize that people killing themselves wasn't solving anything.

[QUOTE="elite_ferns1"]FF7 is the best jrpg, but i like ten better (i was so sad)osirisomeomi

I found FF X's plot good on style but kinda weak in sense. If everyone stopped being so fatalistic they'd realize that people killing themselves wasn't solving anything.

But it did, for a time. Some peace is better than no peace.

These aren't in any particular order....yet. EDIT: Now it is.

1. Panzer Dragoon Saga
2. Tales of Symphonia
3. Fire Emblem 7
4. Final Fantasy IV
5. Pokemon Diamond
6. Paper Mario 2
7. Grandia 2
8. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
9. Fiinal Fantasy VI
10. Final Fantasy II

[QUOTE="osirisomeomi"]

[QUOTE="elite_ferns1"]FF7 is the best jrpg, but i like ten better (i was so sad)kryloc

I found FF X's plot good on style but kinda weak in sense. If everyone stopped being so fatalistic they'd realize that people killing themselves wasn't solving anything.

But it did, for a time. Some peace is better than no peace.

[QUOTE="elite_ferns1"]FF7 is the best jrpg, but i like ten better (i was so sad)osirisomeomi

I found FF X's plot good on style but kinda weak in sense. If everyone stopped being so fatalistic they'd realize that people killing themselves wasn't solving anything.

Final Fantasy storyline is usually weak.

I don't have that many so I put only seven:

1) Kingdom Hearts

2) FFTA

3) FFXII

4) Kingdom Hearts II

5) Final Fantasy X

6) Final Fantasy III DS

7) Luminous Arc

I don'tknow if I should count Paper Mario, but if it is then it would be my number one.

Star Ocean 2>all others.SkyRaid

umm

Star Ocean 1 > Star Ocean 2

I personally don't have a favorite JRPG, because they're all LAME!!!borgmaster

1. Chrono Trigger - Undisputed regardless of opinion number 1. It would be the highest rated game on GS if it were reviewed properly.

2. FFIV

3. FFVI

4. Earthbound

5. Xenogears

6. Star Ocean 2

7. Star Ocean TTEoT (personal, I sub in over Phantasy Star IV)

8. Mario RPG

9. Lunar Silver Star Story

10. Skies of Arcadia

Skies of Arcadia >all others.SkyRaid

fixed.

In no order

Final Fantasy 7

Tales of the Abyss

Tales of Symphonia

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 8

Fire Emblem

Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 12

Kingdom Hearts 1

Kingdom Hearts 2

Am I the only person alive that likes FF8 enough to put it in there top 10?

In no order

Final Fantasy 7

Tales of the Abyss

Tales of Symphonia

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 8

Fire Emblem

Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 12

Kingdom Hearts 1

Kingdom Hearts 2

Am I the only person alive that likes FF8 enough to put it in there top 10?

cloudff7tm

no TC has it on his list too

but darn every time I see that it kills me.

like I said in previous post, I'll be ok with you putting that game on your list as long as you consider disc 1 as the only part of Final Fantasy VIII and rest of the 3 CDs don't exists.

In no order

Final Fantasy 7

Tales of the Abyss

Tales of Symphonia

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 8

Fire Emblem

Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 12

Kingdom Hearts 1

Kingdom Hearts 2

Am I the only person alive that likes FF8 enough to put it in there top 10?

cloudff7tm

FF8 is in my top 10 too. FF8 was amazing. Its problem was that it came after arguably one of the greatest rpgs in history, FF7. Heck, the card game in FF8 was funner then half the rpgs ive ever played. Carmilla31

problem is not that it came right after FF7

problem was that FF8 had AWESOME first disc and rest of the game was horrible.

It also had too much potential to fall like that.

If FF8 first disc wasn't that good, FF8 wouldn't have been my most hated Final Fantasy of all time.

(no particular order)

xenogears

ff7

ff10

chrono cross

star ocean 2

[QUOTE="cloudff7tm"]

In no order

Final Fantasy 7

Tales of the Abyss

Tales of Symphonia

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 8

Fire Emblem

Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 12

Kingdom Hearts 1

Kingdom Hearts 2

Am I the only person alive that likes FF8 enough to put it in there top 10?

TriangleHard

no TC has it on his list too

but darn every time I see that it kills me.

like I said in previous post, I'll be ok with you putting that game on your list as long as you consider disc 1 as the only part of Final Fantasy VIII and rest of the 3 CDs don't exists.

LOL ok only disc 1 exists butI didnt really like the junction system and drawing magic was so annoying but I still love the game.

[QUOTE="TriangleHard"][QUOTE="cloudff7tm"]

In no order

Final Fantasy 7

Tales of the Abyss

Tales of Symphonia

Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy 8

Fire Emblem

Final Fantasy 6

Final Fantasy 12

Kingdom Hearts 1

Kingdom Hearts 2

Am I the only person alive that likes FF8 enough to put it in there top 10?

cloudff7tm

no TC has it on his list too

but darn every time I see that it kills me.

like I said in previous post, I'll be ok with you putting that game on your list as long as you consider disc 1 as the only part of Final Fantasy VIII and rest of the 3 CDs don't exists.

LOL ok only disc 1 exists butI didnt really like the junction system and drawing magic was so annoying but I still love the game.

thank you, I had a nightmare Final Fantasy VIII was 4 disc game! and 3 discs really sucked.

Too bad FFVIII was such a short game and the ending of cliff hanger, but what a great game.

Junction system was odd and drawing magic ended up discourging people to use magic so it didn't have good magic system, but everything else was great.

It's just the game was too short.

1. Final Fantasy I

2. Final Fantasy II

3. Final Fantasy III

4. Final Fantasy IV

5. Final Fantasy V

6. Final Fantasy VI

7. Final Fantasy VII

8. Final Fantasy VIII

9. Final Fantast IX

10. Final Fantasy X

:)

1. Final Fantasy I

2. Final Fantasy II

3. Final Fantasy III

4. Final Fantasy IV

5. Final Fantasy V

6. Final Fantasy VI

7. Final Fantasy VII

8. Final Fantasy VIII

9. Final Fantast IX

10. Final Fantasy X

:)

Drakier

LOL

[QUOTE="SkyRaid"]Skies of Arcadia >all others.lupinelope

fixed.

1: Final Fantasy 6 (Considered by Final Fantasy fans the real greatest game in the series anf perhaps one of the best games on the Super Nintendo, It was a master piece that was kind of killed in translation, though it was a great way to end the series before it started become overated emo fangirl crap)

2: Chrono Trigger (Hell I would normally have this at number 1 if I had finished it, though I never got to finish it (Lost it :( ) it was still an amazing game, I made it about 3 quaters of the way through, and the fans are still asking for a revival in the francise)

3: Xenosaga (Pretty much for the same reason everyone else loves this game, The story and the soundtrack)

4: Super Mario RPG (Pretty much a sleeping dragon of RPG's, not many have played it, but is still considered one of the top JRPG's ever to grace earth)

5: Pokemon Red and Blue (Really, do I need to explain myself, These games kicked the crap back in the day)

[QUOTE="mjarantilla"]

[quote="TriangleHard"]because it focused too much on individual character development over the main plot.TriangleHard

Nice to know.

:P

Not really. I don't like mystery novels that much.

I actually prefer Asian novels such as Art of War, Romance of the Three Kingdom, and stuff you wouldn't know about because they aren't written in English.

Final Fantasy VI had stories that was way too broken into little pieces that none of them recieved proper attention to grow. It was like Saga Frontier. Bare to the bone stories with very little meat on it.

Also the main plot wasn't that interesting. If it wasn't for Kefka, it would've been really poor plot that tried to make it seem political initially but failed miserably.

Which is why I enjoy Matsuno's works so much due to his highly detailed political situations and character development, which all of them are fairly well planned with right pacing.

Art of War isn't a novel :|

1. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

2. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

3. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

4. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Version

5. Final Fantasy X

6. Super Paper Mario

7. Paper Mario

8. Kingdom Hearts II

9. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Version

10. Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

Obviously, the Pokemon first and second generation games come on later in the list.

golden sun

tales symphona vesperia

chrono trigger/cross

exactly wat i was about to write just in different order

1. FF IX

2.FF VII

3.FF IV

4FF I

and then it goes in order (except the ones that have been used)

First of all were talking about jrpgs and not srpgs right?

The three most important elements in a jrpg is story, characters, and gameplay. With story and characters being slightly more important.

It has to have all three to be good.

1.) Suikoden II - This game has the least dumbest storyline I have seen in a jrpg. With the least amount of cliches. With the least amount of stupid characters. With the least amount of corny moments. With the least amount of plot holes.

With an antagonist that is better than every FF antagonist combined (If Delita doesn't count). Thankfully the plot never revolves around saving the world. An absolute miracle in the realm of jrgps.

2.) Xenogears - It actually has some nice developed well rounded characters. The characters actually are somewhat psychologically believeable. It has some very interesting antagonists. While cliched, its less cliched and less stupid than most if not all other jrpgs.

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Yeah, pretty sad list seeing how the rest of the jrpgs I played couldn't meet the three categories above.

1. Final Fantasy VII

2. Dragon Quest 8

3. Chrono Trigger ( I haven't finished it so it stays on number 3)

I don't feel like picking out others but those are easily my favorite. FFVII has yet to be beat IMO, I remember playing it and thinking I was the only person that liked the game until years later I realised it was one of the top sellers and the most succesful JRPG. Music alone brings back so many awesome memories. To bad it's been plagued with crap in an attempt to milk the franchise. -Looks at DoC,CC,AC and so many others-

Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantsy XII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy VI

Haven't played the other ones though I'm sure they'd finish the list

I never really got whats great about FFVII, i got passed Kalm and it was so boring i gave up on it...

Right now playing FFIX and its friggin amazing!

1 Vagrant Story

2 Ocarina of Time

3 FFX

4 Chrono Trigger

5 Odin Sphere (does this count?)

6 FFVII, VIII and IX are equally good in hindsight. Not really fond of ATB combat and overall gameplay in any of them, but they each have nice narratives and settings.

8 Super Mario RPG

9 Tales of Symphonia

10 Valkyrie Profile (can't decide between 1 and 2. 2 has a freakishly fun combat system and both have pretty decent stories that spiral into something really odd and out of the blue towards the end)

FFX

KH

KH2

havent played many JRPGS, and these are the only ones i like

Changing up the list

1. XenoGears(PSX)
2. Final Fantasy 6(SNES)
3. Final Fantay Tactics (PSX)
4. Persona 3 FES (PS2)
5. Final Fantasy IX (PSX)
6. Persona 2 (PSX)
7. Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne (PS2)

Thats all I have ATM