Make yours: https://topsters.org/
>>3932765You're alright OP.Give me a minute and I'll fill it out
>>3932765Solid list though a bit too much ff particularly x and xiii
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>>3932766>>3932765Here.>>3932771>Dark SpireBased. Been meaning to play that sometime.
>>3932773Fuuuuck I forgot to put SMTV on here
having ff13 in any list should be a bannable offence.
>>3932765Nice
At first 25 seems like a lot, but you probably made the limit so high so people could get the well known good games on their list and still have plenty of room for the things that show more personal taste.>>3932771>Mother 1, Knights in the Nightmare, AND Unlimited SaGalook out, this guy is a sicko
>>3932765YWNBAW
>>3932765I stopped trying as much after row 2
Yes, Utawarerumono is an RPG. Also, aside from the top 5, most of the list is not necessarily in respective order.
This would probably change around a bit if I put more thought in to it, or if I used a broader or narrower definition of JRPG.>>3933183I hadn't heard of Dark Half, but it sounds kind of interesting. I might give it a try at some point.
I'm impressed that this site is able to show some obscure jarpigs very fast
>>3932765I feel like I can only get up to 19/25 games, I could fill in the last 6 slots with jrpgs, but not jrpgs that I actually like enough to feel like it matters, like the seven final fantasies I didn't really like that much.I need to play the mother series, I think I should like at least 2 of those, maybe all 3.Going by other's 5x5s, maybe giving another chance to Legend of Mana, Dragon Quest games & Breath of Fire games, I dropped them when I last tried them though.Radiata stories and shadow heart I should probably play too.
actually I deleted my post and thought about it some more
>>3933307>AbadoonIs the main boy's fear-curing water thing supposed to be rechargeable? I thought it said it was, but I spent the whole game never finding a way to do it
>>3933483afaik its only possible with cheat engine maybe you remember it wrong?
>>3932765you dont even need that many choices o.p.send some recommendations
>>3933519Oh huh, for some reason I thought it was supposed to beWell that explains that
I personally dislike listing multiple entries from a franchise, even if I have multiple entries that I love from that franchise. As such, only the first three rows are games that I love. The last two rows are just games that I like. I could have done this with just games that I love by including repeating franchises, but I think that this list better represents the scope of my shitty taste better than a fifth of it being 90s FF.
>>3932765So, all the JRPGs I've ever played? What's the point of picking such a big number?
>>3932765why does everyone seem to have pokemon on their list. I was honestly disappointed by the series overall as a kid and didn't have time for iv/ev bullshit in college.
>>3934091>didn't have time for iv/ev bullshit in college.Oh nooo you couldn't just not autistically minmax for trivial advantages in an easy game for small children.
>>3933762this is a board for people who are RPG enthusiasts. You might be on the more casual end of the userbase anon - and that's fine, everyone has to start from somewhere.
>>3934104>Oh nooo you couldn't just not autistically minmax for trivial advantages in an easy game for small children.finishing the game is easy. When everyone is asking for iv/ev bullshit online when you are trying to get a battle during the fourth gen. I was in college, I had lengthy assignments. I didn't have time to keep track of invisible stats and play games with static sprites.
These stand out the most to me.
>>3934119lol there's like 4 disgaea games here you had more free time than any other chart poster
>>3934129trainning was was easy in the NIS titles, grinded everyone up in an hour or so no problem. Also the stats are visible and you can turn off the battle animations.
>>3934091It's nice to see someone else appreciate Growlanser. I still need to get around to trying the first game now that there's a translation patch for it.
>>3932765Are roguelikes like Shiren considered JRPGs?
>>3932765Only added games I completed and liked. Still have a lot to play.
>>3932765>>3934168Changed some stuff.
>>3934091>why does everyone seem to have pokemon on their list.I did some tallying and it doesn't seem that over represented in the thread to me.Series representation:>Final Fantasy series45 (38 mainline) appearances >Megami Tensei umbrella 29 (18 w/o Persona) [I'm counting Metaphor has a Persona Game]>Dragon Quest series20 (19 mainline)>TLoH: Trails series13 (I'm disappointed in the people who listed tons of these at once in their lists)>Chrono series11 >Tales series11>Pokemon series11 (9 mainline)>Xeno meta series10>Breath of Fire series10 (this placement is actually really surprising to me)>SaGa series 8>Mana Series8>Disgaea7 (8 if you count Phantom Brave)>Mario RPG series (both of them)7>"Team Asano" games7>Kingdom Hearts7>Star Ocean series7>Metal Max series6>Mother series5>Grandia series5>Suikoden series5>Fire Emblem series4>Wild Arms series4>Shadow hearts series4>Etrian Odyssey series 4>The World Ends With You series4Series with under 4 appearances I'm not listing, because they got beat by the game without a series with the most appearances, The Legend of Dragoon, at 4.
>>3934163Don't see why not. It's your chart and no one is policing them.
Listing more than one game per series is cringeAnd 25 is way too many to get a read on, have a 3x3 instead
>>3934255>complains about the conditions of a thread he entered>posts a chart filled with zoomer slop
>>3934255Thanks for the Mardek recommendation.>>3934265Anon is completely right. It's quite obvious that you shouldn't bloat your list with games that are too similar.
>>3934255>he says >posting 2 pokemon games in a chart 36% the size of everyone else’sBad bait anon>>3934250
>>3934409He only posted one pokemon game. The other is a Mystery Dungeon game with a pokemon skin.
>>3934091Spamming bubble beam in rock gym/flamethrower in ice gym needs EV/IV? Without fanhacks i already quitted this snorefest series after BW2 People hyping Cynthia to be balls hard when she is just slightly harder in a braindead easy game
>>3934454>Spamming bubble beam in rock gym/flamethrower in ice gym needs EV/IV?>People hyping Cynthia to be balls hard when she is just slightly harder in a braindead easy gamenah, nah ,nah.....Back in 07' folks were asking about iv/ev shit before battle online and it was staple of battle revolution. Also it was never about the main game, the real challenge was were the expansions and other players.Back in 00' you weren't getting through stadium without the missingno glitch. You had to have multiple in game teams bc the shit worth while had crappy movesets in rentals.
>>3932765EB, 7 and CT are overrated
>>3934600bruh, you can't just say that and then be like: "Yes, Inindo is good enough to be on my list", lmao>Well, I thought the fact that the recruitable NPCs actually moved around the world and had their own goals to be quite novelOk, but the game still bad. Play Uncharted Waters or something, come on.
>>3934600I was thinking of playing Arcana and/or Inindo yesterday but went for MD Shadowrun instead, what do you like about them?
>>3934600>EB, 7 and CT are overratedSure, but not so overrated that none of them should be in your 5x5, then you're just a poser.
>>3934091Pokemon is fun because of the large focus on things that are relevant to the core game, but aren’t the core game itself (namely collection and playing against other people) that give incredible value and depth beyond what the main campaign provides. To compare to say (looking at your list and a couple others) Trials of Mana, which also shares traits with Pokemon i.e. very simplistic game to play, having a functional but extremely shallow story/characters (and desu pokemon’s beating it out on that now), ToM simply does not achieve that. And ToM is better than most jrpgs, because it’s designed to be played at least three times! It doesn’t just cut at 40 hours. And sure there’s social factors outside the game itself that influence it - a huge playerbase, a glut of documentation for those interested in it, more Mods than you could shake a stick at to tailor your preferred experience, Mountains of multimedia material, etc. that add to the experience and attachment too
>>3933185My boyfriend disagrees
>>3935100> (namely collection and playing against other people)There were three pilliars in my town drugs/music/sports, once folks turned twelve they dropped the shit altogether to fit in these social niches. All that was left for me was a simple game with static sprites with an expansion where nothing touched. >) Trials of Mana>> very simplistic game to playA classic game brought to the modern era with oldschool beatup'emup gameplay. >having a functional but extremely shallow story/characters (A light, story sure, but an existent one in comparison to the first four gens of Pokémon. Shit actually happened in game, fans aren't bullshiting with headcannon.> more Mods than you could shake a stick at to tailor your preferred experience>Mountains of multimedia material, etc. You sound zoomish, dude. >I was ten during gen1, >twelve during gen 2>skipped gen 3 all together >nineteen on the cusp on gen 4 We didn't have that in the first gen it was a bare bones game that made us clamor for what was happening in the manga.
There are plenty others already mentioned here. These have stuck with me the most.
>ITT: We only play Atlus, Falcom, Squanix and Jewtendo gamesI will be honest, I fucking hate this normalfaggot board
>>3937558which other jrpgs do you recommend friend?
Love this thread. Here are mine.
>>3937558Tbf this applies to the whole 4ch*n
>>3937558Square is based.
>>3940855How the hell did both Questers make it onto your list?
>>3940922Really fun games. Different items that give different skills, like the resource system, and the setting. They've gripped me more than some other classics.
>>3940855You have some unique tastes. Did you have a bizzarre childhood? Or a Gameboy but no NES/SNES system?
>>3940855KoL and POLC, but no LUCT? Interesting.
>>3932765This was rough. I might have forgotten some that I really like that didn't make it to the list. There are lots of RPGs I like, for example Chrono Cross, I just don't feel comfortable putting Cross on the same list as Trigger. I'm also not completely sold on XII, I just needed 1 last game to fill the chart so I decided to add another Final Fantasy since nothing else was coming to mind.
>>3941294The resource system in Quester adds basically nothing to the strategy and just seems like it exists so you don't beat the game in 2 hours.They're nothingness games where I would have felt like I got scammed had I payed full release price for them instead of getting them on sale.Have you played Path of the Abyss? (which also isn't incredible, but it beats the pants off Quester and has similar points in the equipment in the design)
>>3932765This thread made me realize I hadn't played as many JRPGs as I thought...
>>3940855>Legend of DragoonEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW......That game doesn't belong on any list.>tried to be hyperreal and looked like shit>no memorable music>characters were kinda meh>uncreative monsters >nonsensical plot.>nonsensical settingsyou are going to tell me that some fallen Wingly city is just going to sit there for thousands of years and no one is going to touch it?>shitty battle system.Common dude.Also the Third M&L was the best.>>3938332[props for lunar, Mana, FFVI, CT, CC, ssmrpg and FFTI have to Visions of Mana doesn't belong on that list; the gameplay was good, but the creativity was sucked out by the Chinese that given to be developed.>Crazy monster mutant/ storybook towns people replaced with generic races>no mana esque music>MMO esque fetch quest and battle quest>generic sacrafice plot.>Familiar faces made China/korea friendly nuttered bullshit.FUCK THAT.
>>3941371I had a Gameboy, but I didn't even play RPGs on my Genesis back then.>>3941428I enjoy Person of the Lordly Caliber more than the turn based game, but it's still 25 games which is a lot. >>3941778https://youtu.be/R5rcSKydLEE
>>3941759I enjoy it. Setting out into the world, having a limited amount of actions when it comes to walking, taking down debris, getting food, synthesizing resources during combat to use skills that require drugs, batteries, gunpowder, tools, and bullets. Then each character can take up to three actions but start with five AP and skills cost a certain amount of AP from one to even four. You have skills that apply a damage over time tick on enemies and you have other skills that capitalize on it, among other things like debuffs to get through enemy armors. Then there are the aggro mechanics that shift around who is most likely in your party that'll be attacked. Skills that hit many enemies draw aggro quickly from enemies thus they start to dog pile high threat party members, but not only can you accrue aggro but enemies just hitting that character will reduce their aggro level and certain skills can reduce it, shift it, or raise it in hopes to outpace other party members threat levels.I at least found it fairly enjoyable in contrast to some other RPGs I've played.
>>3941789yeah that's not really a memorable menu music. I would say the wingly ruins battle music was alright as well as the final boss theme It just was a mid game overall in comparison to everything else.
>>3941796There's some PS1 JRPGs I found more enjoyable than it, and others I didn't.
>all these non-rpgsas expected of this reddit sub
>>3942436Reminder: a game needn't be turn-based in order to be an RPG.
Dont want to open another thread, but maybe someone can help me. Is Trails in the Sky 1st chapter a challenging and rewarding game to get into?And if not do you any recs?
>>3942923>challengingIt gets easier when you get more tools to your arsenal, so you probably have to play on the highest difficulty. Some fights are pretty tough still though.>rewardingI'd say so.
>>3942937Alright ill give it a try. How about the Trails of Cold Steel series?
>>3942946Sorry, you need a Trails expert for further analysis. I've only played the first two games.
I'd like to make a chart but I don't feel like arguing over what counts as a RPG.
>>3932765>>3933183>>3933256>>3934174good taste, bros.
>>3943020wing it
>>3943020bro, you didn't end up on /vrpg/ by accident. you know what a jrpg is.
>>3942923do you like generic romcom anime, especially ones that rehash every anime gag you have ever seen? Then you might like Trails in the Sky.
>>3932765Going through my finished JRPGs, I struggled. Guess I'm more of a larper than I thought, considering my backlog of JRPGs is bigger than the actual amount of completed ones.
>>3932765im lazy. so lets do 12.can't search for the Dragonball Z SNES RPG though. or anything fan translated?
>>3943098>y backlog of JRPGs is bigger than the actual amount of completed ones.i just kept replaying the ones i liked....
>>3940855Knight of Lodis sux.
>>3943078that is literally the worst thing anyway could have saidDROPPED
>>3943123Super Saiya Densetsu is there. And there's tons of fan translated games listed here, I assume you're just typing the name wrong.
>>3943071I know but do you guys know? I consider the Yakuza games, even before turn based Like a Dragon, to be jrpgs for example.
that was really fucking hard to do not gonna liei know theres a lot of games to play i havent played yet, but ive also havent liked some jrpgs hard enough
>says not gonna lie>is the king of redditEvery single fucking time
>>3943303>le king of reddit because i dont like "Loli fighters X"
>>3943232I said this earlier in the thread, but no one here is policing these. Yeah, someone might rib you a bit, but it has more often been for "but that game sucks" than "that's not a JRPG". I personally don't consider Soulslikes to be JRPGs but I don't see any reason to throw an autistic conniption fit over it. Hell, knock yourself out and throw in an Igarashi-vania on the list if you jive with Alucard, Soma, and/or Shanoa. As far as I can tell, this thread is using the loosest possible definition of "JRPG" to mean "RPGs developed in Japan" and "non-Japanese developed RPGs inspired by JRPGs".
>>3943304Uhh reddit bob, it's time to settle down and get some taste, not gonna lie. Know what I'm sayin?
>>3943307Oof, not sure about this one
>>3943307What do you want me to say, man?I havent played suikoden 1 or 2, i plan to.Havent played xenogears but i plan to. Xenoblade gaems dont interest me and they are on nintendo consoles.Ive played persona 4 and 5, but i dont like them as much as 3.I prefer paper mario 64 to thousands year door. I didnt want to fill the entire chart with FF games as well. Between all the tactics games, i like A2 the most.Havent played wild arms but i plan to.I want to try Etrian oddisey one of these days as well.Im not interested in SMT, the aesthetics dont attract me.I didnt like metaphor much. Exp33 is good but i wouldnt qualify it as one of my favorites.I played breathe of fire 3 and dropped it since i didnt like it much. I want to try 4 eventually. Havent played tails of ____.Trails games as well, the sky trilogy is excellent, and zero/azure are ok, but cold steel and onwards is pure slop.Havent played mother games, not usre if they are interesting to me.I played legend of dragoon but didnt like it much.
>>3943310What the fuck mang. I told you to settle down mang. Like woah mang. I be postin my top 15 later for you to get sum insight mang. Gonna take a while but I'll post it if you know what I'm saying, not gonna lie, but is gon be fire, yo.
>>3943312>I be postin my top 15 later for you to get sum insight mang.Yeah do that so i know which games i should avoid to not become a miserable retard like you
>>3943314That is very rude mang.
>>3943316wat
>>3943317kek google not wanting to be racist brought us here.
Here's my chart. I had to stretch the definition a little bit to make it up to 25 but in general I am happy with it. But pretty normie taste I feel, except for Noora and the Time Studio, no one has played that one.My favorite is either that aforementioned Noora or Paper Mario: TTYD, depends on the day of the week I guess.
>>3943343>Etrian IV >Etrian IV before other EtriansExplain yourself!>Etrian VNice I think its greatly underappreciated
>>3943343Also convince me E4 isn't on there because of pure nostalgia
>>3943349>>3943350EO4 being there is a very personal pick, I know that isn't objectively the best or the most challenging one of the etrians. But EO4 got me into the series and I place great respect on games that introduce something great to me. So on to the chart it goes.
>>3943355I respect what you said
