I never finished the first one, was loving it though, just somehow it never happened. Didn't play the 2nd and third. Loved the 4th and the 5th but my favorite is the 4th, I started alter f before I sold my ps2 so didn't finish it.
I was enjoying XF a lot but traded in my PSP when I got the vita so I couldnt finish, there's no digital version on psn europe.

Hoping they'd make a new one for vita or ps3/ps4

You might want to look better. I'm pretty sure XF is on the euro PSN shop. Actually i have my Vita right in front of me, one sec and i will confirm...

Yup, its there! Go to PSP games > WZ section and sroll down a bit. Wild Arms XF 17.99 euros. Published by 505 games.

1) Wild Arms 3 is by far my favorite.

Love the Characters, Love the Villians (And the MILLIONS OF TIME YOU FIGHT EACH OF THEM!)  You fight Wonderwoman, Im not even kidding....

Followed By

2) Wild Arms 1

3) Wild Arms 5

4) Wild Arms 2

5) Wild Arms XF

6) Wild Arms 4

7) Alter Code F (Not sure why, guess it was just to much of a change for me)

It pains me to say that I only ever got to play the first one. I did enjoy it, but I never got to beat it either. However there is still a copy of the game laying around so I can kind of still play it if I don't mind not being able to save the game.

Tagged. Interesting threads always pop up when I'm either sleepy, have a splitting headache, or both.

I own 5, but have never played it. I've only played through 1, 2, 3, 4, Alter Code F(halfway,) and XF. I'd rank them 3, 1, 2, XF, 4, and ACF.

I used to rank XF much higher, but then I played through it a second time after the omfg gameplay is so amazing, etc, died and as amazing as the gameplay is, there are some major faults beyond the gameplay. The worst by far is enemy AI. If an enemy is going to be closer to you by standing next to the cliff rather than going around, they're going to stand one space away from you next to the cliff, while you're way below them rather than go around to where they're "actually closer." Even with the faults though, it's still a great game because there are very few battles where that issue comes up. Plus the amount of customization with the class system is better than any other TRPG in my opinion, because it's designed to create custom classes when you're late game(far beyond anything you can do in FFT or anything similar.) I'd recommend it to any TRPG fan that can look past a games flaws when there's such a great game underneath.

Alter Code F is the worst of the bunch. I bought it day one and was pretty sad about how watered down the game was. It was like a bad mixture of the third and the first game. I played it halfway through before I quit. There's a glitch that happened a couple times when I was playing as well, where the world map disappeared and I could run anywhere. I might give ACF another chance in the future. I'm sure it's an amazing game compared to RPGs released nowdays.

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I highly doubt Wild ARMs profited off FF7.  When a big name title comes out, usually everything that comes out months before the release get eclipsed.  I think the fact that it was an RPG sold the game to most people, it didn't matter how good it would be or not.  That being said, Wild ARMs was better than Final Fantasy 7, the title everyone was waiting for.  The  in battle graphics may have been pretty crappy, but it doesn't change the fact that the game was very good and is still one of the best JRPGs that's been released.

Not every developer was the graphics whores that Squaresoft was and has been for the longest time ever since Final Fantasy actually made them such a big company.  How many RPGs came out prior to Wild ARMs that had 3D that looked better?  I can only thing of King's Field  1 and 2(or 2 and 3) with the only 3D rendered characters that were not CG, and while their heads were in proportion to their bodies, the character models don't look nearly as good as the big headed Wild ARMs models.  And for as great as the characters look in battle on FF7, the Wild ARMs in battle character visuals look better than the blocky 3D representations of the characters when not in battle on FF7.  I'm not some FF7 hater or anything like that because it's a great game, but it's not the end all of RPGs.  There are a lot of RPGs that are better than it that do not have the name Final Fantasy infront of a number.

And since when do graphics make a game suck?  Wild ARMs is a terrible game because the graphics in the game weren't as good as a game that was in development for more than three years?  From the sounds of it, you don't like it just because the in battle graphics are poor.  No offense, but I'd expect something different from someone with a Nintendo avatar.  Nintendo fans are always saying graphics don't make the game.  Do they or don't they make the game?  Or maybe it's because we're talking aboutt a Sony game and not a Nintendo game, because clearly only Nintendo games can look worse graphically while still being good games. /s.  I'm aware you play other systems as shown by your game collection, but the the avatar makes me think Nintendo fan(or maybe just Fire Emblem fan.)

After bashing the first one you praise Alter Code F which is nothing more than a very crappy remake.  So it is all about the graphics to you.

That's cool, I missed it. I think its overpriced for a PSP game at this point though. And with all my current backlog it doesn't justify. I do prefer it over final fantasy tactics.

How come you read a part of my post but not the other? Alter code F didnt come out here, so i dont know. Wild Arms 1 was the first RPG available to the Playstation so yes, it did quench some thirst before FF7 came out later. The battles looked atrocious and FF7 proved that. I guess you have a soft spot for the 2D overworld.

I didnt find the story especially good and the design would often leave you stuck on dungeons figuring out what you had to do, when sometimes you just needed to have gotten an item you missed elsewhere. I'm not saying its a terrible game, it was good for its time, but in retrospect, it was weak. I wouldnt play the original version again.

Thanks for the write-up, Soriku.  I agreed with the majority of your post; it's a terrific JRPG which sadly got completely overlooked due to releasing 2007 on the PS2 (or in my case, 2008 since I'm in the UK.  I requested it specially in GAME and they got an order in for me, but iirc they didn't buy any copies to actually sell themselves).

I wish this last line of your post were coming true, though.  We can only hope that one day in the future it'll happy; but Media.Vision seem pretty happy with iOS and the occassional SEGA game these days.

Someone who has played all the titles!  And still ranks WA3 as their favourite game.  Excellent.

The villains were indeed excellent.  The way they were gradually introduced with each chapter really worked well in the game imo.  And Janus was awesome.

Oddly, I got my friend into the Wild ARMs series and he played 3-4-5 and actually said that Jeremy from WA4 was his favourite bad guy.  I found that kind of a weird choice!