PS1: Final Fantasy IX; Never have I seen a game with such a well crafted set of characters, relationships, music, plot, writing, setting and combat be so overlooked. FFIX was a silid title that I came into fully expecting to hate the cutesy looking characters and seemingly harmless looking world- until I played it of course. It's some of the best writing I've seen in a game, some of the best characters I've ever seen, it's moving, it's funny, it's harsh, it's happy, it's morbid, it's hopeful and above all it's absolutely astonishingly good. The inclusion of little optional cutscenes (Active Time Event) makes you feel more that you're seeing a story unfold than other FF games, and serves to endear itself all the more as far as I'm concerned.
One of the best games of it's type of all time. It deserves to be played by all.
Honerable Mention: Legend of Dragoon; Check it up in Wikipedia, as I can't describe how much I like that game in the time I have right now....epic isn't the word for it!
PS2: Genji; One of the most overlooked games I've played- it had a good storyline, a nice form of gameplay somewhere between Devil May Cry and Dynasty Warriors, but with a nice balance and actual tactics to your play. Very original title when it came out as well.
PC: Fallout Tactics; Fallout's newer, more lean sibling- it didn't have the great balance of storyline and exploration that Fallout and Fallout 2 had, but what it has got is a solid Action-RPG system, a nice mission system, excellent acting (As always in Fallout games) great sound, nice choice of characters, great level design, vehicular combat and the sense of feeling that yo're actually leading a military team in Post Apocalyptic America. It was a great game that was unfortunate enough to have the 'Fallout' brand on it- it always spealt doom for this title as people wanted a new RPG, not this.
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