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Persona 4 is..

The best RPG of all time! 29 15.43%
 
Fantastic, I love it. 51 27.13%
 
A exciting and good game. 25 13.30%
 
It's okay, I rather like western rpgs 4 2.13%
 
Sorry, never played on PS2 or PSVita. 79 42.02%
 
Total:188

Xenogears is the correct answer.



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I'm not gonna count SRPGs. And these are in order:

1. Final Fantasy 6
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
3. Suikoden 2
4. Chrono Trigger
5. Persona 4 Golden
6. Final Fantasy 9
7. Skies of Arcadia
8. Tales of the Abyss
9. Tales of Vespiria
10. Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga



Dragon Quest VIII hands down was the game that made me want to do 3D in college. The music was extraordinary, the story was simple but solid, and the battle system was so strategic and the graphics still hold up extremely well today. It was truly perfection on a DVD ROM.



kupomogli said:

Brigandine.  The concept behind the game is simple, you start as one of six countries, the game ends when you take over all 40 cities.  A mix between TRPG and grand strategy, except the grand strategy element behind it is simplified so that the game moves on a quick pace.  Each month you gain mana from each of your cities, summon monsters for mana and add them to each knight, send knights on quests, or have them attack or defend a city. 

The enemy countries have everything you would start with if you started as that country and after every turn, the enemy countries will move knights to cover their borders, summon monsters, change classes, and attack other countries.  The AI is actually really good in and out of combat.

During battle it's like a TRPG.  You can bring up to one of three knights, knights being any character that can control monsters with rune power, be it fighter, ranger, mage, cleric, and all subsequent classes.  You have neutral characters who do no bonus damage, red/blue and white/black who will do a bonus percentage towards the opposite element multipied by however many colors the attacking character has or defends against the same element depending on how many of that element they have.  Every 10th level the character can upgrade to a higher class tier, while every fifth level they master the class on the current tier so you can cross class your characters.  Same with monsters but without cross classiing.

The storyline is good and music is great, but if you've played a grand strategy before, then you're aware that once you take over the entire continent the game ends, and that's the same as Brigandine.  With that the game has an endless amount of replayability.  I've played through the game hundreds of times for hours at a time and I can keep g oing back to it without getting bored in the least.

    

Brigandine Grand Edition.  This is a remake of the original Brigandine on the exact same console.  There are a lot of differences though, some more subtle, but there's a decent amount of changes that are less than subtle or major. 

Major changes in the game.  White/black damage still does higher damage against each other or lower damage against the same, but blue/red/green is now rock paper scissors where blue does more to red, red does more to green, and green does more to blue.  It's only a small percentage like it was the last game so it's far from bringing a character with the wrong weapon on Fire Emblem or Vandal Hearts and getting ohko'd.  That'll never even come close to happening.  There are new anime cutscenes for all the major story sequences for each character and also all the character sprites attack on the field of battle rather transitioning into 3D then attacking.  There is a multiplayer mode where they remove the main story(quests still available,) and up to six players can play the game, one as each country.  If less people play the remaining countries are held by the AI.  Graphics are better, music is completely different.  Then finally, the game actually has final bosses.  The enemy that was in the story in the first game but never actually made an appearance unless you used a Gameshark is the last boss of the game.       

The more subtle changes and not so subtle changes.  The new Lizard King class.  The Lizard Man could only upgrade once, now they can upgrade a second time, gaining a second attack along with the usual upgrade bonuses.  The Lizard Man class list was my favorite on the original, and now it's everyone's favorite on Grand Edition.  Your accuracy is shown whenever you choose  to attack now and you can do a regular attack or you can now do a higher damage attack with less accuracy.  The samurai class Iai Slash can now be used an infinite number of times, like spear throw, rock throw, and shurikens, but damage has been modified and accuracy isn't a guaranteed 100%.  Thunder, Geno Thunder, and other spells has been moved over to thte green element.  The Power spell no longer doubles your attack power for  one turn, but adds 50 attack.  Zemeckis can no longer move and attack in a single turn and he's still one of the best charactters in the game.  Certain characters get unique classes, a lot of classes get different passive skills. 

There were a ton of changes to this game, so many that it's not just a simple change that no longer makes it worthwhile to play the original.  The changes are enough to make them feel like  two separate games with the exact same story, characters, etc.  The changes also don't end up ruining the game.  It's just as enjoyable to play one version of Brigandine over the other. 

Arc the Lad 2.  The first game in the Arc the Lad series was okay.  Not a bad TRPG, but certainly not one of the best.  Like most TRPGs you moved to a new area to enter a story scene then a battle, or entered another area to fight a random battle for exp.  You gained skills per level, got accessories from enemies or treasures as you played through the story.  Arc the Lad 2 is actually part two of the first game, but Arc and his friends are wanted and you play as a hunter who think the people in his village were killed by Arc.  Arc the Lad 2 is better in every way.  Progression, story, gameplay(similar but better minus the few stat issues.)

When you play Arc the Lad 2 it's a completely different experience.  Like Shining Force, towns are now traversable.  The towns are all a decent size but never too big to get lost.  Weapon shops, item shops, inns.  There's also a hunter's guild in most towns.  The hunter's guild isn't just a side quest, the hunter's guild is literally one third of the game.  When taking one of the jobs, you're often met to a story sequence during some part of the job giving life to the world.  The writing to these story sequences are well done and while most of the jobs boil down to having to fight a group of enemies, it doesn't feel like it's fetch quest after fetch quest.

In the world of Arc the Lad 2 there are several continents, each one having their own world map with its own towns, dungeons, and random battle areas.  The amount of side quests in the game, including the hunter's guild equal the amount of content the main game has with places like the ancient ruins at almost every continent.  The ancient ruins isn't required but they're dungeons you can explore for unique weapons, items, and is also where you'll also find one of your playable characters power sources.

I'm don't remember exactly how many story characters there are, I think there are 20, which you can only take five per area, some areas you have to take multiple groups.  While there's 20 main characters though, you can have up to 32 characters.  The other characters that can be placed in your party are monsters.  You have a character named Lieza who has an ability called ravish.  As long as she's equipped with a whip, she can get any low HP monster that isn't a boss to join your group.

If you want more out of Arc the Lad 2 after completing the game, there's a game called Arc Arena.  If you own Arc the Lad 2 you already own this because it comes with Arc the Lad Collection.  You can load your saved Arc the Lad 2 data and use all your characters and monsters(monsters only at first,) in the arena battles.  There are preset arena battles which add some storyline to Arc Arena after completing them, unlocking harder ones, and then there's a tournament mode which you choose an arena and fight endless waves of increasingly difficult monsters to see how many battles you can survive.  After every two tournament battles you win, you can unlock an item/equipment chest or a monster chest.  25 item/weapon chests and 25 monster chests, so 50 battles in a row gets you everything.  The items within the chests are either just really powerful or have a lot of unique effects on piece of equipment.  The monsters all have bonuses that make them more powerful than the standard type of that monster with spells and skills added to them that they can't acquire.  Arc Arena also has a two player versus mode where both you and a friend(if any of your friends actually like these types of games,) where you can put your party up against theirs.

very exciting. My friend has Brigandine, good game. Thank you for your contribution.


I'm shocked at how few people have played Persona 4. So you have something unique and very big missed. The ratings also show good, why it should be mandatory for every RPG fan.

94.16%

http://www.gamerankings.com/vita/641695-persona-4-golden/index.html




1. Final Fantasy XII
2. Tales of Vesperia
3. Pokemon Emerald
4. The Legend of Dragoon
5. Shadow Hearts

Honorable Mentions: Ni no Kuni, FF9, Fire Emblem Awakening, Magna Carta II and Persona 2



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1 . Final Fantasy VII
2 . Final Fantasy X
3 . Vagrant Story
4 . Final Fantasy VIII
5 . Final Fantasy IX
6 . Dragon Quest VIII
7 . Final Fantasy XII

yeah im more of a FF fan than a JRPG fan, never played them to much unlike FF, so my tastes are a bit limited xD



1. Persona 4 GOLDEN
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver
4. Final Fantasy XIII
5. Tales of Vesperia



1.) Persona 4 Golden
2.) Final Fantasy IX
3.) Persona 3 Portable (Long live Minako! )
4.) Golden Sun & Golden Sun: The Lost Age
5.) Pokemon Platinum



KazumaKiryu said:

I'm shocked at how few people have played Persona 4. So you have something unique and very big missed. The ratings also show good, why it should be mandatory for every RPG fan.

Just because it's not listed doesn't mean they haven't played it.  I've played it and it's a great game, but it's not my favorite.  It's not even the best SMT imo.  The SMT series started selling well after the release of Persona 3.  SMT Nocturne and the DDS games released before then, so most people who got into the SMT games starting with Persona 3, never played those.  Where Persona 3 and 4 are more story focused, the SMT3 and DDS1 and 2 are more focused on gameplay and exploration while also having a good story that's size is more comparable to the old Persona games rather than 3 and 4.



1. Tales of Destiny 2

2. Xenogears

3. legend of Gaia

 

and too many to mention. hahahaha