After creating my "I Need RPG's" thread, I took it upon myself to contact a friend of mine that has way too many games. I hadn't spoken to him in a few years and I told him that I was having a huge craving for RPG's. Well, he let me borrow his whole PS collection (he has more, SNES and such but I figured one console at a time would be best).
After borrowing his collection, which consisted of more than RPG's. I went through every game, more than a few hours each and I decided on these, the ones I need to get myself.
Brave Fencer Mushashi
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Chronicles
Einhander
Alundra
Alundra 2
Arc the Lad Collection
Breath of Fire III
Breath of Fire IV
Dragon Warrior VII
Grandia
The Legend of Dragoon
The Legend of Mana
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
Persona
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Saiyuki: Journey West
Suikoden
Suikoden II
Thousand Arms
Threads of Fate
Ok, a slightly long list that is made of up mostly RPG's. I'm still kind of iffy on SaGa Frontier 1 and 2. I'm aslo not sure about Vandal Hearts 1 and 2 and the Wild ARMs series (mainly because I am OCD and if i get one game in a series I have to get the rest and I have checked out videos on the most recent Wild ARMs games for PS2 and the battle system seems strange as hell).
Anyways, to the topic. The Tales series. I tried my best to fall in love with Tales of Destiny 1 and 2 and I tried my best to rationalized the posibility of getting the rest of the games in the series (most of which got good reviews). But I just could not get over the battle system and I read up on the rest of the games and they all have similar battle systems and I've seen that a lot of people here love it and I want to love it too and I thought the story that I saw in Tales of Destiny 1 was great but the battle system just made me turn the game off. I feel sad that I missed out on seeing the outcome of the story. I can say the same thing for Granstream Saga. The story was going great but I couldn't get over the characters not having faces and the horrible battle system.
This brings me to my ultimate question of this topic. Should I suck up the battle system just for the story, and let it be known that if I do it for Tales of Destiny I gotta do it for the rest of the series (for my OCDness). Is it worth it, should I just say screw it and move on?
Note for those who reply: If you wonder why I left some great games off my list of PS games, I probably already own them. Check out my I Need RPG's thread to see what I have there and I'll add that I own MGS, Resident Evil 1-3 and Silent Hill, if you can think of any other games that were great, review wise or just your opinon, let me know. I won't hide the fact that I arrived late into the PS1 era and I tried my best to get the best games for it. It wasn't that I didn't want one, I just had a NES, Genesis and an Nintendo 64 (I only got it by putting it on layaway, thanks to my cheap dad who hated technology, nothing against him, RIP dad).
