Best rpg's you wouldn't know of

[monkat]

FF7
baldur's gate (sorry it is PC)

Yes FF7 is a very underrated and overly unknown RPG.

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ILU!!!!

 

[MelodieOctavia]

i don't know if it's been said yet, but Crystalis for the NES (imo) was one of the best RPGs for the platform, and nearly unheard of until a later GBC release, and still then it was obscured by larger titles.

EDIT: I SO DIDNT SEE THIS! GMTA!

Try the Soul Blazer series or Crystalis.

 

[GundamXXX]

You might have played it but Knights of the Old Republic 2 has an unofficial expansion pack that creates alot more in the game that was cut out due to being short on time (damn you LucasArts) Niw some modders created the patch and it adds a few new areas, alot of new lines and conversations and even a new subplot/quests!

 

[ferdi-t]

Thank you for all these replies. Some of the best games ever have been mentioned, and there's a ton of good suggestions to keep me playing for at least the next five years.

As there are bound to be people watching this thread to find out what to play, I'll throw in two suggestions myself..

- Shadowrun (snes)
- Lunar - Silver Star (originally sega CD, remake on PSP)

 

[sputnix]

puzzle quest nuff siad

 

[deathking]

Soul Blazer
Illusion of Gaia
Terranigma

 

[kaputnik]

Most of my favorite underrated rpg:s has been accounted for already, but I haven't seen anyone mention Glory of Heracles for the DS.

The name gives away that the setting, characters and enemies got strong influences from the Greek mythology. The story might not be ground breaking, but it's still very solid. The mechanics are pretty old school, it's the classic turnbased rpg, with a twist in the form of an attack power boosting system that makes combat a bit more interesting than the regular one button mashing.

If you got a DS you should really give this one a go.

You might have played it but Knights of the Old Republic 2 has an unofficial expansion pack that creates alot more in the game that was cut out due to being short on time (damn you LucasArts) Niw some modders created the patch and it adds a few new areas, alot of new lines and conversations and even a new subplot/quests!

You don't happen to have a url to that project?

 

[Devante]

NES

Home Sweet Home (JP game with complete English translation patch) - Info Link
Considered the first survival horror games from which the likes of Parasite Eve, Silent Hill, and most famously Resident Evil derive.

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Legacy of the Wizard - Info Link

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Battle of Olympus - Info Link
Amazing action/adventure in the same vein as Zelda 2. Loosely based on Greek mythology.

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Playstation

Valkyrie Profile - Info Link
Unique RPG whose storyline is loosely based on Norse mythology. Great battle system.

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[Cyan]

•Battle of Olympus (NES) is very good plateform RPG

•Faxanadu (NES), another very good plateform RPG
•Simon's quest (NES), as we are in plateform RPG, let's add this one

•Shadow gate (NES/N64), but it's more a point and click adventure than a classic RPG.

I don't know how far is your rate for "less known" RPG, but here are some good one, maybe you already played them as some of them are from known series.

Snes:
•The lord of the ring - book 1 (more adventure than RPG, but very good animations and music)
•Ranma 1/2
•Lufia 1 & 2
•SOS (I can only find a boat picture on the net, but I'm sure it's a classic RPG)
•Dark law
•Treasure hunter G
•shadowrun
•7th saga
•Bahamut Lagoon
•Paladin's quest (Lennus 1 & 2)
•Dual orb
•Elfaria 1 & 2 (I never played it, I don't know if it's good

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•Emerald Dragon
•Feda - Emblem of justice
•Lodoss to senki (I don't remember if there's an english patch)
•Traverse Starlight & Prairie

PS1:
•Grandia
•Jade cocoon
•Hoshigami
•Koudelka (prequel to shadow hearts?)
•Legend of legaia
•Marle's kingdom series (Rhapsody, Little princess)
•Rurouni Kenshin Meiji Kenyaku Romantan (humm, I think it's japanese only. I played the beginning only but it was nice.)
•Thousand arms
•Vagrant Story
•Card Captor Sakura (really easy, japanese only, good for learning japanese, no kanji at all)
•Arc the Lad series
•brave fencer musashi den (more Advantage than RPG)
•Parasite Eve 1
•Shadow madness ... (wait, it's a real crappy one, don't play this one)
•Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (japanese only, anti-hero RPG)

PS2 :
•hack// series
•La pucelle (tactical RPG)

Saturn:
•Dragon force
•shining the holy ark

mixed :
•Breath of fire (Snes, PS1, PS2)
•Landstalker (Genesis), Adventure.
•Wild arms series (PS1, PS2), RPG
•SaGa series (NES, Snes, PS1, PS2, DS)
•Ogre battle (Snes), real time strategy RPG
•Tactic Ogre (Snes, PS1, DS?), Tactical RPG
•Front missions series (Snes, PS1, DS), mixed action/RPG/tactical
•Lunar
•Atelier series
•Suikoden / Suikogaiden series
•Albert Odyssey (Snes/Saturn)
•Ys series (MSX to many new consoles)
•Hanjuku Hero (Egg Monster hero) (Snes, DS) (I thought there were a translation available)
•Tengai Makyou (Far east of eden) series (though, no English translation), parodies of other well known RPGs
•Phantasy Star series (Master system, genesis ?, other)
•Disgaea (Tactical)
•Sky of Arcadia
•Langrisser series (Snes, forgot if it's saturn too)
•Fire emblem series (Snes, gba, DS, and many other)
•Herakles no Eikou (Snes, DS) (Glory of heracles, on DS)
•Shining force (Master, Genesis .. I think), Tactical RPG (I played only the first one, I liked it)

And finally, almost all translation project from Gideon Zhi are unknown, obscure, but highly waited RPG:
•http://agtp.romhack.net/


You can also check the DS RPG list (it's somewhere on this forum).


I tried not to give the games already suggested previously.
Maybe there's duplicate, sorry

And I'm sure there are many more I forgot.

Some of them I never played (yet), so I hope they are good choice for you

 

[Devante]

Saturn

Legend of Oasis - Info Link
Amazing action/adventure with a prequel on the Genesis called Beyond Oasis.

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By the way, sorry but I don't know how to do that "make large image smaller" thing where you can click the image to see it 100%.

 

[Bitbyte]

I think that Xenogears for PSX is kinda underrated, it is a great game. A classic.

seconded

i forgot about this 1...good challenge also

Look up "underrated" sometime. If there's only one game I could recommend, it would have to be Legend of Dragoon on PSX. Such a great game, very
addicting combat gameplay, a nice story and great cinematic storytelling.

 

[taken]

Snes Rpg's Robotrek. secret of evermore.

 

[Goli]

I like your "template", Devante, so I shall use it too!
SNES/SFC

Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together
The precursor to Final Fantasy Tactics, and pretty much every Japanese SRPG!* (including the crap that Disgaea is)
Multiple choices that affect the ending!

Received a port to PS1, translated by Atlus. Aeon Genesis ported the PS1 version's scrpit to the SNES/SFC original, you can find it here.
Is also getting a super enhanced port on PSP, out already in Japanese and coming out in English on the 15th of this month!
*Part of the Ogre Battle Saga, which includes Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis (GBA, SRPG), Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (SNES/SFC & PS1, RTS/RPG) and Ogre Battle 64 (N64 RTS/RPG). The Ogre Battle Saga is written by critically acclaimed game writer Yasumi Matsuno. Other works include Final Fantasy XII (PS2) and Famitsu perfect scoring game Vagrant Story (PS1, out now on EU PSN for PSP and PS3).

DS

Magical Starsign
RPG developed by Brownie Brown* sequel to the GBA cult favorite Magical Vacation (Japan only).
Has a strategic battle system, charming characters and cute sprites!

*Brownie Brown, a Japanese seocnd party Nintendo company formed by ex-Squaresoft employees. Developers of most of the latest Mana games, fan favorite Mother 3, and the full fledged RPG featured in Professor Layton 4! Everyone should play every game made by them.

Wii

Opoona
A charming RPG adventure like no other!
Developed by Artepiazza, this game features young Opoona, a boy that crashlands on the planet of Landroll!
With the help of the overly bureaucratic people of Landroll Opoona saves the world!
The game is describes as a Lifestyle RPG, probably because of how well done the in game world is. It has a lot of the good things from real life... and the bad ones too.

 

[The Catboy]

Sega CD:
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Lunar: The Silver Star

Snes:
Breath of Fire 1-2
Final Fantasy - Mystic Quest
Robotrek
Ys III - Wanderers from Ys
Super Mario RPG

GBA:
Final Fantasy 1&2 Dawn of Souls
Final Fantasy 6
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Red Rescue Team
Phantasy Star Collection
Yggdra Union - We'll Never Fight Alone

 

[ferdi-t]

Just something I though of. Back in 1996, the brilliant Zy Nichelson wrote a 5 page feature about rpg's on the snes for the equally brilliant magazine Super Play. I uploaded the scans from the magazine below.

http://img64.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500039.jpg/
http://img717.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500040.jpg/
http://img25.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500041.jpg/
http://img823.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500042.jpg/
http://img543.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500043.jpg/
http://img716.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500044.jpg/
http://img828.imageshack.us/i/supplay4500045.jpg/

Some nice nostalgia to add to this thread.

(I hope this posts is okay with the guidelines of the forum, seeing that these scans are from a 15 year old magazine which has long been out of print. If this falls under copyrighted material, please let me know and I'll edit).

 

[Cuelhu]

Sailor Moon Another Story for SNES :3

 

[Fear Zoa]

Dark cloud 1&2

Although its hard to play them cause ps2 emus dont run them good and a actual copy is hard to find

(to the person that said legend of dragoon +1 still have that game)

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Try the Soul Blazer series or Crystalis.

Try the Soul Blazer series or Crystalis.Oh shit Crystalis!
I love that game.
QUOTE(TwinRetro @ Jan 21 2011, 02:09 AM) i don't know if it's been said yet, but Crystalis for the NES (imo) was one of the best RPGs for the platform, and nearly unheard of until a later GBC release, and still then it was obscured by larger titles.
EDIT: I SO DIDNT SEE THIS! GMTA!QUOTE(Aeladya @ Jan 21 2011, 01:33 AM)

Try the Soul Blazer series or Crystalis.

And to think I came in here to make sure Crystalis got mentioned.

I love you guys.

 

[Cyan]

I don't know crystalis.
Thanks for the name, I'll try it when I can

I completed the Snes RPG I tried on my post above.
(of course I didn't list known RPG, like tales of, star ocean, FF, and some of them which were already suggested (live a live), etc.)

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Cyan:
It's mentioned in one of the Retro Game Reviews, if you want to check it out.
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=122121