Your Top 5 Favorite JRPGs

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Son1x on 29 April 2009

There are some RPG's that don't have world maps, only "battle" areas and city areas

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Torillian on 29 April 2009

Xen said:
Roam the battlefield, but not the game world :P

Sure ARPG's are also different, but theres much less micromanagement there, wouldn't you say?

But again, if you're trying to define JRPG's by the amount of micromanagement then woudn't you have to take out games with tons of characters and where positioning matters (Suikoden).

Basically it makes the most easy sense to me like this:

JRPG's are RPG's from Japan, and within that genre there are 3 different battle systems that are common:

Turn-based RPG

Action RPG

Strategy RPG

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Xen on 29 April 2009

That's what I meant in roaming the world, cities and all that jazz.

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weaveworld on 29 April 2009

1. FF7
2. Lunar Silver Star Story
3. Xenogears
4. FFX
5. Vagrant Story

yes my catalogue is actually very one-sided...

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Jalocin on 29 April 2009

1. FFX
2. Kingdom Hearts II
3. Persona 4
4. Grandia
5. Kingdom Hearts

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Hark21ball on 29 April 2009

In no order

FFIV/Secret of Mana
Golden Sun/TLA
Tales of Symphonia
Chrono Trigger
Pokemon Gold/Silver

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TRios_Zen on 29 April 2009

Hmmmmm:

1) Lunar the Silver Star
2) Final Fantasy VII
3) Grandia II
4) Lost Odyssey
5) The Dark Wizard (Sega CD game that I think only I played)

I'm sure I'm forgetting some really good ones (Shadow Hearts Covenant was great too), but those were the first 5 that came to mind. And the Phantasy Star series...great stuff there too!

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Khuutra on 29 April 2009

In no particular order:

EarthBound
Mother 3
Final Fantasy XII
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
Final Fantasy VI

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Faxanadu on 29 April 2009

1) Secret of Mana (no nostalgia, currently playing)
2) Chrono Trigger
3) Golden Sun
4) Terranigma, Illusion of Time (Tie)
5) FFVII, FFVI

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Scoobes on 29 April 2009

1. FFVII
2. Chrono Trigger
3. FFX
4. Golden Sun
5. Mystic Quest/FF:Adventure (in Europe) (GB game) Played this when my PC broke, the only game I had access to and loved every minute :P

Honourable mention: Tales of Phantasia

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