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Kenryoku_Maxis on 10 February 2009
Alic0004 said:

        Secret of Mana 2 is great (it's called Seiken Dentetsu 3 in Japan I think),

 

Actually Secret of Mana is called Seiken Densetu 2 in Japan.  Seiken Densetu 3 is a sequel we never got in America/Europe.  And its even better than Secret of Mana (less bugs, less glitchy AI, more items/options to gameplay, 4x larger game).  Its basically a game on the level of Chrono Trigger, as it came out near the end of the SNES lifetime.



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Goldsaintcamus on 10 February 2009

You say from that era, but I recommend you The World Ends With you, if you have a DS. No random encounters, excellent ganmeplay and music, and just, well, a great RPG



the_bloodwalker on 10 February 2009

Please, please!! get Terranigma :D



griffinA on 10 February 2009

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I think i'm going to give Seiken Dentetsu 3 a try. I've tried earthbound before and couldn't seem to get into it but im going to give it a fair shake and try again.

I have also attempted to play both snes final fantasys and the random battles just kill me. Although I have gotten pretty far with Final Fantasy 6. This has been a problem with JRPGs and me for a while, I didn't like golden sun for the same reason. This is the reason Tales of Ten and Arc Rise Fantasia are my most anticipated wii games.



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Kenryoku_Maxis on 11 February 2009
griffinA said:
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I think i'm going to give Seiken Dentetsu 3 a try. I've tried earthbound before and couldn't seem to get into it but im going to give it a fair shake and try again.

I have also attempted to play both snes final fantasys and the random battles just kill me. Although I have gotten pretty far with Final Fantasy 6. This has been a problem with JRPGs and me for a while, I didn't like golden sun for the same reason. This is the reason Tales of Ten and Arc Rise Fantasia are my most anticipated wii games.

Sometimes its not the random battles that's the problem, but the games flow, battle engine, etc.  I mean, perhaps for you it is.  But in the future if you find yourself wanting to look into more RPGS and coming up short for games that don't have random battles (since the majority have random battles), might I suggest something like Suikoden or Dragon Quest.

 

Also, I didn't remember this for some random reason, but a good SNES RPG with no random encounters is Super Mario RPG.  Which also transfers into the even better Papaer Mario and Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door.

 



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the_bloodwalker on 11 February 2009

get this game for SNES... seriously

 

Terranigma I loved the game since day one. too bad it went under the radar for so long

 



Mr. sickVisionz on 11 February 2009
Tokoro said:
Mr. sickVisionz said:

Chrono Trigger has random encounters.  Give Knights of the Old Republic a try.  Its turn based and its really good.  The story and voice acting is movie quality imo.  Easily one of the best games i've ever played.

 

 Actually, no, it doesn't. All the enemies are in pre-set locations. I think pretty much anyone could tell you that. Nice try though.

Neither did Earthbound. :3

Not random, but many of them are completely unavoidable.  I think the issue that people have with random battles isn't that you can't see them on screen, but that you can't avoid them.  Nice try though.

 



Domo-Kun on 11 February 2009

Terringma was O.K.

Secret of Mana is the best game ever made, however.



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Naum on 11 February 2009
peshkavus said:
have fun with your 16 bit but if you get tired of it in say 10 mins after smoking whatever you are smoking now, try Lost Odyssey it was good HD gaming.

 

I own Lost Odyssey and I liked it alot but it's not even close to the same awesomness as the 16- bit RPG's.



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Alic0004 on 11 February 2009
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Alic0004 said:

Secret of Mana 2 is great (it's called Seiken Dentetsu 3 in Japan I think),

 

Actually Secret of Mana is called Seiken Densetu 2 in Japan. Seiken Densetu 3 is a sequel we never got in America/Europe. And its even better than Secret of Mana (less bugs, less glitchy AI, more items/options to gameplay, 4x larger game). Its basically a game on the level of Chrono Trigger, as it came out near the end of the SNES lifetime.

 

That's what I was saying, thanks for clearing it up.  I probably didn't explain clearly enough.  (Secret of mana 2 = Seiken Dentetsu 3).  You can find a good fan traslation of it on the internet, if you get my drift...