Retro RPG fans, if Shining Force worth getting into?

[Michael-5]

kupomogli said:

Michael-5 said:

kupomogli said:

I'd recommend looking into these games, maybe they'll interest you. Brigandine Legend of Foresna, Brigandine Grand Edition, Tactics Ogre, Dark Wizard, Wild ARMs XF, Wild ARMs 4/5(sort of TRPG,) Arc the Lad series, and Kartia. If you've played all these then look around for others, but these are some of the better TRPGs in my opinion,

Hm... I'll take that into mind. I have the first game on the GBA, I'll play that before I get the others. Maybe this is a series like Lufia, which really only made 1 good game.

Never heard of Bigrandine, it looks okay. Not sure if it's a type of SRPG that iterests me. Tactics Ogre, except for the SNES/PS1 game, I own them all . Wild Arms isn't for me because I don't like Westerns, I plaed WA3, and I'm not too impressed. Arc the Lad I've heard mixed things and Kartia looks cool. The character designs remind me of Front Mission (Which is one of my favorite SRPG franchises, right up there with Fire Emblem).

Can you reccommend me any other SRPG's which don't look like Final Fantasy Tactics? Sorry Bigrandine and Kartia kinda look like that to me lol.

You mean don't look like FFTactics as in character art?  Or similar in style to gameplay?  I'll list a few other SRPGs/TRPGs.

Vandal Hearts, Growlanser 2, and Yggdra Union are all great games.  Especially Vandal Hearts which must have slipped my mind as I should have posted it in the last list.

I previoiusly listed Brigandine and Brigandine Grand Edition but I want to mention them again since Brigandine is my favorite game.  The games have literally endless replay value though because they're not your traditional style of TRPG.  Think of Romance of the Three Kingdoms where you have the world map and each of your cities.  On Brigandine you don't go in depth like drafting soldiers, training soldiers, increasing your farms, revenue, people support, etc.  You just set your characters to defend certain locations, send them on quests if you want them to attempt to find special items or new characters.  You can increase characters classes, cross class characters, etc   Your objective is to take over the continent and that's it, but with that also being the main goal of every other country, that's where the replay value comes in because you can just continue to do so.  Whether you want to take it slow and build up your army, cross classing every knight into the best character they can be or try to see how many months you can conquer the continent in.

Grand Edition was only released in Japan and it's a remake on the same system.  Sort of like Legacy of Darkness on the N64.  I own both and while the same, the changes they made also make it fairly different so I have efun playing either.  If you have friends that are interested in it, you can also play multiplayer where each person takes control of their own country and the computer AI controls the rest.  So playing a normal game of Brigandine with humans is a lot of fun.

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If you're interested in some non TRPGs though, here's some really good ones.   

MS Saga(don't let the Gundam theme fool you, this is a very good game,) Xenosaga 3, Grandia, Wild ARMs(I know you said you didn't like the western theme, but it's less on here than in the third, and if you like this then,) Wild ARMs 2, and Suikoden series.

Hm... I think you have a somewhat different taste in JRPG's then me.

Fire Emblem introduced me to SRPG's, and since then I've only played Fire Emblem, Front Mission, Advance Wars (although not an RPG), FF Tactics, Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre, ASH, and Jeanne d'Arc. I've played them pretty faithfully, I own all localized games and even some Japanese ones and for the most part beat them. I've also recently tried out Disgaea and in a weird way, I do like it.

FF Tactics was my least favorite SRPG of them all, it really focused on one character and felt like a traditional RPG with tactics gameplay. I think I really like the war theme in Tactic style games, and I love seeing character development. FE is known for character development, and I really like Front Missions style of story.

I've played Vandal Hearts, I'll probably add that to my little "keep an eye out for" list. I dunno if I would like Growlancer or Yggdra. I'll keep an eye out for Brigandine, out of all the SRPG's we've mentioned, which do you think it plays most similar to?

I'm interested in Shining Force because it looks pretty similar to Fire Emblem, and it's made by the developers on Golden Sun, and those two are my favorite handheld series. Preferably, I'd be looking for SRPG's on the handheld because I usually play them at work (I have a job which involves lots of waiting), or on roadtrips.

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As for other JRPG's I own all the Suikodens except for II and IV, own Grandia for PS1 and Grandia 2 for Dreamcast, and I own XenoSaga 1. I loved XenoGears and XenoBlade so I want to try XenoSaga, but it has such a slow start and from clips I've seen it looks a bit boring, so I'm not going to get Ep 2 or 3 until I play 1 long enough to know if I like this or not.

Anyway, like I said you have a bit of a different taste in JRPG's then me, my favorite series have been Chrono Trigger/Cross, Super Mario RPG, Drakengard, Baten Kaitos, Fire Emblem, Golden Sun, Tactics Ogre, Suikoden, Front Mission, Tales of ___, and Retro FF games.

Lol I have a good collection up to N64/Dreamcast. PS1 and older, my collection is lacking. Vandal Hearts, Threads of Fate, Alundra, Brave Fencer, Panzer Dragoon (Saturn), and Secret of ___ games are what I think I'm interested in.