Top 5 psx rpg's

[starfox316]

And, please, if you like Final Fantasy just take up one spot for the series in your top 5. Honorable mentions are cool, too.

5. Jade Coccoon (lmao, i dont know why but this game and i hit it off)
4. Star Ocean: second story
3. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
2. Xeno gears
1. Final Fantasy (vii,ix,viii,tactics)

[sonoranreptile]

Here are my top 5:
5. Star Ocean: Second Story
4. Chrono Cross
3. Breath of Fire IV
2. Xenogears
1. Final Fantasy series

Honorable mentions to Alundra and Wild Arms 1 an 2.

[FlufflePuff]

5. Chrono Cross
4. Persona 2
3. Final Fantasy 9
2. Suikoden
1. Star Ocean

[RadiantSvgun]

5. Lunar the silver star story complete
4. Suikoden
3. Vagrant Story
2. Breath of Fire III
1. Tales of Destiny II

Honorable mentions to Final fantasy VIII, Thousand arms, Vanguard Bandits, Alunda, Parasite Eve II, and Xenogears.

[Captain Qb]

5. Vagrant Story
4. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
3. Chrono Cross
2. Dragon Warrior VII
1. Final Fantasy Series (Specially Tactics, VI and IX)

Honorable mentions to Alundra, Breath of Fire III, Suikoden, Star Ocean, Xenogears and many more.

Love, Captain Qb.

[-_-Nintendo-_-]

5.Final Fantasy 9
4.Vagrant Story
3.Suikoden
2.Jade Cocoon
1.GUARDIAN'S CRUSADE

[roushimsx]

Why on earth would you list all of the Final Fantasy games in one spot when they're all so different? Who cares if your top 5 winds up being 5 Final Fantasy games? They're generally diverse enough that it still shows a pretty broad taste in jRPGs.

For instance, I really liked Final Fantasy 9 but found 8 to be tedious and 7 to be too primitive. Final Fantasy I and II haven't aged well at all (II in particular was a tedious mess) while IV, V, and VI are still fun even with the technical quirks of the PS1 ports. Final Fantasy Tactics' battlefields were a bit cramped and the localization was awful, but it was still a joy to play. Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon was poo.

[Sylentwulf]

Why on earth would you list all of the Final Fantasy games in one spot when they're all so different? Who cares if your top 5 winds up being 5 Final Fantasy games? They're generally diverse enough that it still shows a pretty broad taste in jRPGs.

Cuz it's his damn list

1 - Final fantasy
2 - Dragon warrior
3 - Suikoden
4 - Vagrant story
5 - I really liked Kings field 1 actually. But thats off the top of my head, sure I could think of better.

[RugalSizzler]

This is a really good question SInce Inever really thought of it myself I just wented by what is and will allways be best still

Vagrant Story- The closet thing to Secret Of Mana and was the only other game that used this battle system besides Hybrid Heavan or Quest64.

Alundra PSX series - Was the alterative to Y's and Zelda at the time. When it went 3d the game itself was still just as fun. It was just amazing to see this game in action.

FF8- was a great improvment over FF7. The only reason this is better the fact after Midgar FF7 is pretty much meh. Also FF8 had only One Bahamut like it should be.

FF7- brought RPG games to the modern era or at least industrial era and basically was just FF6 revamped. I was also impressed by the transformation of etc character.

Personally I am not a PSX fan at all and the be RPG is not on the PSX. It is the Mother Series tied with Star Ocean/Tales Of Phantasia SNES. The PSX has alot of great games just not the gereatest and the only reason I picked Vagrant is the game reminds me of FF6+Secret Of Mana 3.

[heybtbm]

5.) Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
4.) Vandal Hearts
3.) Final Fantasy VIII
2.) Final Fantasy VII
1.) Final Fantasy Tactics

[FantasiaWHT]

1 - Valkyrie Profile
2 - Tales of Destiny II
3 - Lunar: SS & EB
4 - Azure Dreams
5 - FF (only Tactics and 9)

[starfox316]

1. I didn't list ALL the FF games in one slot, I put 3 or 4 I particularly liked up there in order because I just enjoy the FF series.
2. I didn't say shit about Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon. Try letting us know what you liked, instead of bashing other games not previously mentioned.
3. Cuz it's my damn list.



It just goes to show how many good to great rpg's there are to choose from, look at the variety in these lists! I completely forgot about the wild arms group, great games.

[Xexyz]

I've only played around 6-7 PSX RPG's so far but I only enjoyed 2 of them...

Top 2:

1. Suikoden
2. Vandal Hearts

I'd list FFT too but I gave up on it a little more than halfway through. Too much grinding got the better of me.

[darkhades]

5. Dragon Warrior 7
4. Xenogears
3. Suikoden
2. Chrono Cross
1. Final Fantasy

[Snapple]

1. Star Ocean: The Second Story
2. Final Fantasy Tactics
3. Chrono Cross
4. Final Fantasy 7
5. Breath of Fire 3

Honorable mention:
6. Legend of Mana
7. Azure Dreams
8. Final Fantasy 9

[Daria]

I think it's pretty retarded to group multiple games of a single series to one line, but seeing as how I don't care much for Final Fantasy at all it doesn't really effect me. :P

1. Valkyrie Profile - Beautiful game with a fantastic storyline. Gotta love any game that revolves around recruiting the spirits of the dead to wage war at the end of the world. Also really enjoyed all the senarios that explained why these warriors died, made them very human.

2. Persona 2 - Pretty much the same reasoning, both games are very dark and I love all the references in the Mega-ten series to Chthulhu.

3. Alundra - Wonderfully dark and depressing plot, with challenging and intelligent puzzels. A must for any Landstalker fan.

4. Dragon Warrior VII - One of the best Dragon Warriors ever created. Ugly, but the characters are very human and memorable. Also love the time traveling gimmick, much like Chrono Trigger had.

5. Lunar Eternal Blue Complete - A classic. Great cast of characters, hilariously funny, and a fun adventure story.

With Kudos going to the following games for just being admongst my favorites:

Breath of Fire III - My first Playstation RPG. I just fell in love wih everything about it.

Tales of Destiny II - Good game. :P

Shadow Madness - Hilarious script. Otherwise a sort of ugly FF7 knockoff.

Koudelka - Great trifecta of characters. Plays like a survival horror game with random battles and retardedly easy puzzels. The first of the Shadow Hearts series.

Rhapsody - Reeeeaaaly easy game. I wouldn't have botered with it at all if I didn't love the humor and the characters. But being an easy game you can whip through it in about 10 hours. And despite being all girly and colorful the storyline's actually quite sad.

Final Fantasy IX - My favorite Final Fanatsy game. Meaning one of the only ones I liked. Great characters with a fun, fast adventure plot. Until the very end where everything got all stupid. Vivi for the wins!

[Eternal Tune]

1. Suikoden 2
2. Lunar Silver Star Story Complete
3. Final Fantasy Tactics
4. Alundra
5. Wild Arms 2

Honorable mention:
Thousand Arms. I actually tried to play this on the 1.80 PS3 upgrade. Didn't look any better, but reminded me how much I loved this title.

[petewhitley]

1. Rhapsody

I don't care about the rest. Xenogears was "allright". We need more A) gay-ass chick RPGs; B) fucked-up quasi-anti-religion RPGs; or C) something other than the same stupid fantasy-sci-fi-wizard-bullshit RPGs that come out every year. Yeah, I know a couple of the ones you guys mentioned are questionably in one of those 3 categories, but for the most part, the RPG genre needs to fucking expand. We need some wild-west-RPGs, zombie-RPGs, alternate-history-RPGs, political-RPGs, etc. etc. That's another topic however. The PS1 had plenty of traditional-RPGs if you're into that sorta thing.

[Snapple]

petewhitley, although not PS1 titles, I'd think about the Shadow Hearts series and Live-a-Live for the Super Famicom (fan translation exists). Both of those I think did a good job of taking RPG elements and putting them in non-traditional RPG settings.

[roushimsx]

3. Cuz it's my damn list.

And that's all it is. It's a list post with near-zero substance, encouraging other empty posts with a few scattered people actually bothering to expand on their lists by offering supporting information for what they liked about each game or why they rated their games the way they did. You know, making something worth reading and encouraging discussion.

Your post is just a bunch of postcount whoring crap while people like Daria, RugalSizzler, petewhitley actually brought something to the table. While you're at it, why don't you make a thread about your top five favorite RPG characters and then maybe make a poll of what people think is cooler, the keyblade or the buster sword?

Hell, while you're on a roll, you should also go out of your way to have a huge, obnoxious sig block, because people with low content posts tend to enjoy having large, annoying sigs, too.

petewhitley, although not PS1 titles, I'd think about the Shadow Hearts series

Shadow Hearts was pretty snazzy. I'm really looking forward to playing the second game, because I hear it's hella good. The first game was nice, but it was a little too obvious that it was just a PS1 game shoehorned onto the PS2 at the last minute. The judgment ring system was surprisingly fun.