1: Fire Emblem: Awakening

2: Shin Megami Tensei IV

3: Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

4: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

5: Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

6: Pokémon Alpha Sapphire

7: Bravely Default

8: Pokémon Y

9: Tales of the Abyss

10: Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars

1. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (My favorite game of all time, so safe to say it'll be #1 after I beat it again on 3DS)
2. Fire Emblem: Awakening (In my Top 3 games of all time :D hoping Fire Emblem If will be as good/even better!)
3. Pokemon X/Y
4. Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
5. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

After that they get really difficult for me to rank.

Bravely Default bored me after a few hours. Fantasy Life is fun but the endless text and bland characters/story REALLY hurt it. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team could have been good but the incessant tutorials just got frustrating. Paper Mario: Sticker Star barely resembles a RPG and its lack of EXP effectively made ANY battling outside of required boss fights pointless. I'm sure I have another RPG or two that I'm forgetting I own.

On that note, I'm not sure why people are putting Monster Hunter on their lists, as it's not really a RPG series. If it counts, then the three Zelda games on 3DS should probably get to be called RPGs too... Just my opinion though. I like Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (hated 3 Ultimate), but it's not a RPG in my mind.

TK14 said: On that note, I'm not sure why people are putting Monster Hunter on their lists, as it's not really a RPG series. If it counts, then the three Zelda games on 3DS should probably get to be called RPGs too... Just my opinion though. I like Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (hated 3 Ultimate), but it's not a RPG in my mind.

I'll explain why I consider Monster Hunter an RPG whereas I do not consider the Zelda series an RPG. 

1. In Monster Hunter you choose the role of your character by choosing gear. In LoZ you are not able to choose the role of Link. He is a jack of all trades, and you need to use all of his trades to progress in the game. In Monster Hunter I can choose to be support/dps/or a damage taker. I also can choose which types of weapons I like and stick with it if I want, or move on to a different weapon of choice. Furthermore, I am able to design my character's appearance to however I wish. This is the definition of "Role-playing." 

2. In Monster Hunter your character has stats and the enemies have stats. One might argue that you can't see the damage dealt to the enemy, but that isn't a qualification for whether or not something is an RPG. 

So for those reaons Monster Hunter is an RPG whereas LoZ is not an RPG. 

1. Bravely Default
2. Fire Emblem
3. Pokémon X
4. Mario and Luigi Dream Team
5. Kingdom Hearts 3D
6. Shin Megami Tensei
7. Codename S.T.E.A.M
8. Pokémon Alpha Saphire
9. Tales of the Abyss

Think that's all I've played.

sc94597 said: TK14 said: On that note, I'm not sure why people are putting Monster Hunter on their lists, as it's not really a RPG series. If it counts, then the three Zelda games on 3DS should probably get to be called RPGs too... Just my opinion though. I like Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (hated 3 Ultimate), but it's not a RPG in my mind. I'll explain why I consider Monster Hunter an RPG whereas I do not consider the Zelda series an RPG.  1. In Monster Hunter you choose the role of your character by choosing gear. In LoZ you are not able to choose the role of Link. He is a jack of all trades, and you need to use all of his trades to progress in the game. In Monster Hunter I can choose to be support/dps/or a damage taker. I also can choose which types of weapons I like and stick with it if I want, or move on to a different weapon of choice. Furthermore, I am able to design my character's appearance to however I wish. This is the definition of "Role-playing."  2. In Monster Hunter your character has stats and the enemies have stats. One might argue that you can't see the damage dealt to the enemy, but that isn't a qualification for whether or not something is an RPG.  So for those reaons Monster Hunter is an RPG whereas LoZ is not an RPG.

Fair enough, you definitely make some legitimate points. But to me, a RPG generally has a "levelling" system and experience points (why I generally don't consider Paper Mario: Sticker Star a RPG nor the Zelda games--though both of those at least allow you to improve your HP stat as you progress, so your character gets "stronger," the same way upgraded armor/weapons improves your stats in Monster Hunter), and/or has a fairly strong story narrative. Monster Hunter has neither in my opinion. To me it's more of a quest-based action game. It does offer a lot of choices though, I'll give you that. I'd almost consider it its own category of game, I think, because it takes elements of several different genres. Similarly, I'd consider Zelda its own genre because it has elements of action, adventure, and RPGs (story/character driven, upgradeable weapons (in SS especially), increased HP as you progress, etc.). 

Boutros said: Why no one liked Paper Mario?? Is it that underrated? Or is it not considered a RPG?

Because it suck.

Especially if you played the original game on nintendo 64, or even better, paper mario on gamecube who is a masterpiece. (way better than any 3ds rpg, without problem (for me)).

Even the Wii Paper Mario was much better than this.

Where will Xenoblade 3DS stand?

Paper Mario: Sticker Star is definitely up there with Entian. There is no right to call SS a bad game.

The music was fantastic (rated 3rd in the series), the presentation was second best in the series, the stickersystem was very unique, and the game simply had charm.

The ONLY problem with SS is that it didn't built character. You would hop from stage to stage, so it was meant to be played in bits of peices at a time, not a full-fledged story like PM:TTYD.

Now please, enough bashing on SS because it was unorthodox to the series. It was a great game for what it simply was.

EpicLight said: Where will Xenoblade 3DS stand?

I personally don't have a new 3DS and even if I did I have my Wii copy which I play in Dolphin, so it is useless to buy the game again to play portably (I don't consider it a portable friendly game with its long-winded quest structures.) But I'd rate it #1 on the list if I got the game for N3DS. 

1. Fire Emblem: Awakening
2: Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: Overclocked
3. Shin Megami Tensei IV (Still trying to complete the neutral ending)
4. Bravely Default (Actually still haven't been able to finish this one, not enough time)
5. Etrian Odyssey IV (still haven't been able to beat all the post game content)
6. Rune Facotry 4
7. Xenoblade 3D
8. Persona Q
9. Etrian Odyssey Untold (Still haven't finished it actually)
10. Project X Zone

Honorable mentions.
- Denpa Men (Still haven't beat the last dungeon, which might actually be a post game dungeon I forgot exactly where I stopped)
- Tales of the Abyss (A solid port of a much older but still classic game of the Tales franchise)
- Crimson Shroud (Interesting take on table RPG meets JRPG with a story from the man that gave Vagrant Story and Tactics Ogre)
- All the main Pokemon games (I just haven't had the time to dive into one)
- The Keep (Only saw the trailer but it looks impressive and challenging.