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Grandia. I can't speak for the sequels as I haven't played them, but the PSX port of the original is fantastic and one of my favourite RPGs of all time. I love everything about the game apart from the shitty as hell English Voice Acting.  The battle system is quite possibly the best I've every played in an RPG as well, it's quite similar to the ATB if you needed further convincing.




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Like You see the First Grandia is a MUST PLAY... and I Think that Grandia II on PS2 too..

The 2 valkyrie Profile are MUST too, epecially the first one...

My selection would be like this:
PSX: Grandia, Lunar (both games), Star Ocean, Breath of Fire IV, Legend of Dragoon, FF Tactics.

PS2: Xenosaga (is a trilogy), Persona 3 and 4, Atelier Iris serie,Suikoden V, Star Ocean III, both Ar Tonelico, Rogue Galaxy, Unlimited SAGA, and if isn't problem a western RPG Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, two games...



 

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Kingdom Hearts.



ishiki said:

Shadow Hearts: Covenant  It's the second one, it got really good reviews. And it's my 2nd favorite PS2 JRPG to FFX.  
It's also developed by a large of the amount of people who co-developed lost odyssey. Nauhtilus or something like that they changed their names like 3 times.
I actually found the Lost Odyssey battle system, a worse version of the judgement ring that's in this series.

Persona 3 FES (though this had only control 1 character like FFXIII,  great story), and Persona 4 (doesn't have this issue, but worse story and characters imo)

I didn't really like many PS2 JRPG's. 

PS1. 
Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve (Make Sure 1, 2 imo sucked). Parasite is probably my favorite story from the PSX generation.
and Suikoden II. Those are kind of staples that everyone recomends though.

I thought legend of dragoon was like power rangers. It entertained me, but don't really ever want to touch it again. I find it's talked about too hightly here even though it was more hokey, and had a decent battle system for back then, but it's been down way better since.

I was avoiding Shadow Hearts: Covanent because it looked so silly, but I keep hearing great things. I'll probably have to try out the game on an emulator before buying it, but if you tell me it's like Lost Odyssey I think I will like it.

Vagrant Story I hear great things about, and I think I will get it.

I have about 30 games to trade in, and this place isn't like EB which gives you shit for old games. So I think I can afford a few titles. Worst case if I don't like it, I trade back. I'll put in my IP which games I decide to get, I'm going to go to the store tomorrow.



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BasilZero said:

PS1
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy Tactics
Wild Arms
Thousand Arms
Breath of Fire III
Breath of Fire IV

Star Ocean The Second Story
Tales of Destiny (Also known as Tales of Eternia)
Tales of Phantasia (Japanese version translated via emulator)
Persona 1
Persona 2 Innocent Sin (Translated via Emulator)
Persona 2 Eternal Punishment

PoPoLoCrois
Brave Fencer Mushashi
Dragon Quest VII
Final Fantasy Origins
Final Fantasy Chronicles
Final Fantasy Anthology
Legend of Mana
Lunar Silver Star Story
Lunar Eternal Blue

Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve 2
Valkyrie Profile
Rhapsody Musical Adventure
Saga Frontier
Saga Frontier 2
Azure Dreams
Vagrant Story
Grandia
Suikoden I
Suikoden II

PS2
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy X-2 (Beware)
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts II
Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
Tales of the Abyss

Tales of Legendia
Tales of Destiny 2
Rogue Galaxy
Star Ocean Till the End of Time
Persona 3
Persona 4
Dark Cloud
Dark Cloud 2
Disgaea Hour of Darkness
Disgaea 2
La Pucelle Tactics
Makai Kingdom/Wars (Forgot the full name)
Phantom Brave
Radiata Stories
Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Shin Megami Tensei Series (Devil Survivor and Digital Saga)
Grandia II
Grandia III
Grandia Xtreme
Magna Carta
Odin Sphere
Phantasy Star Universe
Romancing Saga
Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts II
Shining Force series
Steambot Chronicles
Suikoden III
Suikoden IV
Suikoden V
Xenosaga Episode I
Xenosaga Episode II
Xenosaga Episode III
YS Series

There are others I might of missed and of course I excluded the ones you want/have.

Edit: Ones in bold are must get.

I can easily make a list too, and I already have one which has some of those games...

I think my taste in JRPG's is very different then yours. I really dislike Kingdom Hearts and Odin Sphere. I also don't think Persona is my type of game.



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hatmoza said:
Michael-5 said:

 

I already own Chrono Cross, XenoGears and Final Fantasy IX, but plan to work on it. Other games I am looking at buying include The Legend of Dragoon (PS1), Dragon Quest VIII (PS2), Drakengard (PS2), Front Mission 3 (PS1) and ICO (not a JRPG, but still excellent).

 


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Alundra 2 is an Action RPG Puzzle game. A hidden gem from PS1 era. I couldn't think of anything else since a poster above made a list of pretty much every RPG in existence.

Yea, It's hard to find a decent review on this game, and it's nice to have a none Square JRPG on my list. Looks a lot like Golden Sun and Disgaea. Can you tell me anything else about it?



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Get Dark Cloud 2 godammit.



And beware of DQVIII. I loooved that game but it's very very retro. It took me by surprise at first and I didn't like it but I tried it again another time with more accurate expectations and it was amazing.



MrT-Tar said:

Grandia. I can't speak for the sequels as I haven't played them, but the PSX port of the original is fantastic and one of my favourite RPGs of all time. I love everything about the game apart from the shitty as hell English Voice Acting.  The battle system is quite possibly the best I've every played in an RPG as well, it's quite similar to the ATB if you needed further convincing.

ATB?

Sega Saturn is the first system going back which I don't have, so I want to complete my collection, well for every Sega, Sony, and Nintendo platform except the Saturn. Games for that system are expensive, and I'm only interested in 2-3 titles. I will likely get Grandia for PS1.



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I also heard the world ends with you is really good, but that's on the DS.