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Best Nintendo RPG franchise?

Earthbound 21 7.84%
 
Pokemon 90 33.58%
 
Paper Mario 25 9.33%
 
Mario & Luigi 18 6.72%
 
Fire Emblem 58 21.64%
 
Advance Wars 11 4.10%
 
Other...? 45 16.79%
 
Total:268
Shiken on 10 July 2016

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b00moscone on 10 July 2016

Xenoblade for me.



 

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MTZehvor on 10 July 2016
IkePoR said:

Mario & Luigi is good and about the only one to challenge the best RPG.

Fire Emblem... doesn't really count.
Pokemon has grown far too monotonos to be the best.

lol Paper Mario

Earthbound and Advance Wars don't exist anymore so it's hard to count them as contenders.

No contest. Xenoblade.

How does it not count?



TorterraBoy on 10 July 2016

Mario and Luigi by a LONGSHOT. Especially Dream Team. Paper Mario is dead now, Pokemon barely has any story (except B&W) 



Jumpin on 10 July 2016

Earthbound, from this list, since Xenoblade is mysteriously absent, I'd have picked that one otherwise.

As far as Earthbound goes, it has some ingenious takes on RPG mechanics, particularly encounters. It still has the most advanced encounter system ever put into an RPG. The design is slick, superior to everything else on this list.

Fire Emblem would be my second pick, and as a game franchise, I may like it even more than Earthbound. I love part 4 and 7, but as far as RPGs go, Earthbound is definitely a better RPG as Fire Emblem's greatness largely comes from its strategy elements. As an RPG, Fire Emblem games generally don't play that well due to all the limitations. I would hesitate greatly to call Fire Emblem games great RPGs.

Pokemon is clearly the most popular, but it's fairly basic as far as RPGs go. More like an introduction to RPGs style game. If you're actually interested in RPGs, you'll graduate from Pokemon onto better games.



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Platina on 10 July 2016

Fire Emblem, for sure



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IkePoR on 10 July 2016
MTZehvor said:
IkePoR said:

Mario & Luigi is good and about the only one to challenge the best RPG.

Fire Emblem... doesn't really count.
Pokemon has grown far too monotonos to be the best.

lol Paper Mario

Earthbound and Advance Wars don't exist anymore so it's hard to count them as contenders.

No contest. Xenoblade.

How does it not count?

It's grey to me.  It's SRPG which has unoffically been a different genre, akin to how wRPGs are to jRPGs.  Totally different styles.



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bigtakilla on 11 July 2016

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