Good RPGs for PSX?

[jetsetradio4ever]

Can anyone think of any really memorable ones for Playstation besides the FF games? Thanks.

[Oobgarm]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/view...hlight=psx+rpg

[jetsetradio4ever]

Oh... Thanks anyway. :P

[FantasiaWHT]

That's a bit indiscriminate :P Author wanted memorable ones, not all of them

For some recommendations I could say:

Tales of Destiny I & II
Valkyrie Profile
Suikoden I & II
Lunar I & II

all are some of the best games I've ever played!

[Lady Jaye]

Plus the Ogre Battle/Ogre Tactics games if you're into tactical RPG... And then there's Dragon Warrior VII.

[Xantan the Foul]

Azure Dreams
Monster Collecting, town upgrades, random dungeons. All in all a pretty fun game.

Breath of Fire 3
I think this was about a 40 hour game. I didn't like it as much as the second one, but collecting the different dragon crystals (or what ever they were) to make new forms was pretty neat.

Dragon Warrior VII
I spent about 120 hours on this one, just to beat it. Standard Dragon Warrior game. A ton of sidequests that could keep a completionist busy till the end of time.

Grandia
About a 30 hour game, I think. I don't remember a whole lot about it, but I enjoyed it.


Guardian's Crusade
About a 20 hour game, gets a little tedious, but I managed to play it through to the end.


Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu
12 hour game, collect and merge various monsters. I really liked the merging system in this game, the monsters actually look like a combination of the two.


Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
25-30 hours. Nothing really special, but worth one play through.

Parasite Eve
15 hours. Great Cinematics, and an all around fun game. You could build up your weapons and armor, and power up spell like attacks.

Parasite Eve 2
More action than the first one, but every bit as fun. It feels alot more free than the first, with the ability to buy new weapons and ammo from the points you get by killing monsters.

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Memorable to me because I hated it, but I only paid $30 for it new on Ebay, and now people pay 5 times that much, and will be dissapointed.

Star Ocean: The Second Story
About 40-50 hours, two seperate main characters, lots of different party choices, and a multitude of ending variations.

Suikoden
20 hour game. 108 different party members, standard RPG combat and an interesting war style combat. I'd highly recommend this one.

Suikoden 2
Everything the first one was, but better.

Valkyrie Profile
Probably my favorite PSX RPG. Side scrolling dungeon exploration, with turn based RPG combat. But the combat feels so fluid that it's really different from other RPGs. Every character has a button assigned to them, and hitting that button will make him attack. Timing it right will set up really long combos that allow super attacks.

[GobopopRevisited]

Chrono Cross... thats all you need.

[FantasiaWHT]

Chrono Cross... thats all you need.

ahhhhhhhh stay away!

Well, it's cheap, so if you do buy it you won't be out THAT much money

I'd like to second Azure Dreams and add Chocobo's Dungeon, which is essentially the exact same game as AD except with different characters and settings.

[GizmoGC]

I have yet to ever play any RPGs on the PSX. I really should try one day.

[Poofta!]

couple GREAT games no one else has mentioned here:

Wild Arms 1 (3 branching and interwinding stories, fantastic game)

Alundra (zelda esque action rpg, fantastic! part 2 was awful)

Xenogears (3d graphics look a bit ugly, but this game has the most complex and interesting story ive ever seen in a console rpg)

and a general rule of thumb, all the PSX final fantasies are great. some better than others, personally i think there are better RPGs than FF8 and FF9, but the rest you really should play.

[UrQuan]

No one ever mentions Persona. I haven't played it in years, but I loved it when it first came out. It's pretty cool, wish I had a copy of it myself.

[hezeuschrist]

Chrono Cross... thats all you need.

ahhhhhhhh stay away!

Well, it's cheap, so if you do buy it you won't be out THAT much money

I'd like to second Azure Dreams and add Chocobo's Dungeon, which is essentially the exact same game as AD except with different characters and settings.

I have to agree with Gobopop, Chrono Cross was an absolutely fantastic game. The ONLY reason it gets such a bum wrap is that it really had next to nothing to do with Chrono Trigger, and even then it wasn't quite as good as it's forebearer so it gets panned. There's a reason it scores like this:

http://www.gamespot.com/ps/rpg/chron...q=chrono+cross

Seriously. One of 4 games to ever take a perfect 10 at GS, the other three being Tony Hawk PS 3, Ocarina of Time, and Soul Calibur. That's some hefty freakin company.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

Chrono Cross may not have had the largest budget, but it has the largest heart.

Like hell it didn't. The game was produced by freakin' Square and released in america with the help of Electronic Arts. I mean.. how big can you get? You're having two of the biggest game developers in the world releasing it.

No wonder Gamestop gave the game a perfect score. They're all smoking crack.:P

[slip81]

I really liked the Wild ARMs series

[DragonMaster Sam]

Can't forget a good strategy RPG like Vandal Hearts.

[Haoie]

Here's my 2 cents. Front Mission 3 is without a doubt the best in the entire FM series, and the best overall mech simulation/tactical RPG for the PS. Wanzers are cool.

[unbroken]

XENOGEARS

anyone that is into rpg's at all should experience xenogears at least one, after all, it changed my life.

[hezeuschrist]

Chrono Cross may not have had the largest budget, but it has the largest heart.

Like hell it didn't. The game was produced by freakin' Square and released in america with the help of Electronic Arts. I mean.. how big can you get? You're having two of the biggest game developers in the world releasing it.

No wonder Gamestop gave the game a perfect score. They're all smoking crack.:P

That was obviously a direct shot at the budget that FFVII had at the time. And Gamespot certainly wasn't the only publication to give it intense praise. IGN gave it a 9.7 and it's holding a 93% at gamerankings.com.

I highly question the amount of people that have actually played the game through to it's end that bitch about it so much. Just because it's completely different from Chrono Trigger doesn't mean it's a bad game. Had they named it differently and taken out one scene (which showed Chrono, Marle, and Luca) which didn't make much sense anyways, it'd be right on everyones list with Xenogears and any other Square produced game that doesn't begin with "F" and end with "antasy."

[PDorr3]

Breath for fire 4 was very enjoyable, legend of dragoon is another rpg not mentioned yet, despite its harsh reviews I found this game very fun, along with a great battle system. While i havent played much of it, threads of fate seems like a charming simplistic rpg as well.

[hezeuschrist]

legend of dragoon is another rpg not mentioned yet, despite its harsh reviews I found this game very fun, along with a great battle system. While i havent played much of it, threads of fate seems like a charming simplistic rpg as well.

I don't really think that by todays standards that LoD would even come close to holding up. I purchased it (GH) for $15 and I intended to play through it, and when I did (sometime after the PS2 release, probably 2002) I couldn't tollerate it. It had some beautiful CG and the story and battle system seemed intruiging, but the pace of the game was numbing. Speaking of horrid translation, it's got some of the most worthless dialog in a game, ever.

*girl trips*
Girl: Ow!
Guy: Are you alright?
Girl: I'm fine, let us continue

... that was the whole scripted scene. Double U Tee Eff.

The battle system had promise, but it too was horrendously slow. Far too much focus on the battle intro and the visual representation of the attacks.