Your favorite old ass RPG?

[ThatSoulsGirl]

IDK what counts as 'old ass' these days, but Mass Effect is defo my favorite game of all time.

 

[phil777]

Trails in the Sky, if you consider 2004 games to be old

Of course you would say this, you have Tio-chan as your profile picture.

 

[phil777]

@Criscore
Looks interesting. Gonna add to my library next time it goes on sale (Steam).

Oh, you're in for a wild ride. I've got all of them up to the latest release, and geez, the story and worldbuilding is great. But yes, first games in the arcs are usually a bit slower to take off, but when it does.... Hoooo boy. XD

 

[phil777]

Valkyrie Profile

DIVINE ASSAULT! NIBELUNG VALESTI!

 

[phil777]

Digimon world 1, 2 and 3 for me. dunno why I keep coming back to these, eventhough I played most of the games you guys mention.

Hehhh, I tried those, but couldn't finish, must be the monster-rearing parts I didn't like. I prefered the "Story" games instead. It was more fun.

 

[phil777]

The Veldt soundtrack

The boss music.

 

[phil777]

2024 now, so yes it is old as ... most of in the thread, if not older.

I guess the sequel of that is Trails of Cold Steel, which I played.

It is a sequel and it's not. There's a chronology to this series, see, and between Cold Steel and Sky, there was the Crossbell duology, which they finally brought to the West on Steam. Before that, us fans had to use fan translation patches. After Trails of Cold Steel, you have Trails into Reverie, which basically gives closure to all the character arks until then. (So yes, you see Estelle, the Crossbell police force, and the characters from Cold Steel) The newest arc takes place in the Calvard Republic, which is the country to the East of the Erebonian Empire, where Cold Steel takes place.

 

[TestAddress]

There actually is a Tales of Destiny 2 on PS2 in JP, you can find a fan translation on the internet. Eternia was called ToD2 in America for some reason.

Must be licensing bugs, you know people are bugged not caring what they are marketing. I remember buying a chinese conditioner branded as shampoo.

 

[phil777]

Alright, I'll probably show my age there, but a lot of those RPGs I know and love have been mentionned already.

I'll also add the Might and Magic series (I personally played them from the 6 to 10, those before, I've heard of, but never played).

I'd also like to mention the Legend of Mana games, notably the third, which has recently been remade into Trials of Mana on Steam. (But I did play the SNES version anciently known as Seiken Densetsu 3)

 

[TestAddress]

Hehhh, I tried those, but couldn't finish, must be the monster-rearing parts I didn't like. I prefered the "Story" games instead. It was more fun.

I hate the idea of mons having level caps and needed to fuse them to become some rando low level monster with mixed moves but increased level cap.

It was really a challenge to speed run that 99 floor tower.

 

[phil777]

KOTOR and KOTOR 2.
FF9 was the my first hoop into FF.

Solid choices. I played the FFs since the 5th or so, up until the 13rd. I do recommend you play the 5th ONLY for Gilgamesh (aka Benkei) He has the most kickass theme which has been remade multiple times since then:

 

[TestAddress]

The Elder Scrolls and Fallout.

Skyrim was best

 

[TestAddress]

"old ass RPG"
everybody names games from the last two decades

I'm gonna go with Slash'em. A game so great that it will probably never be finished (in development for 33 years now, if you count the development of the nethack version it's based on) and you need to read the source code to find the true ending.

Dagger fall counts as three decades, so there are older people here.

 

[phil777]

Skyrim was best

I played Morrowind, a little bit of Oblivion. Skyrim is obviously better than its predecessors, but Morrowind will always have a soft spot in my heart. "YOU N'WA!"

 

[phil777]

PS1, SNES, or even older more esoteric console.
Chrono Trigger is probably objectively the best I’ve played, but I got most entertainment from Star Ocean 2 on PSX.

Have you played its sequel, Chrono Cross? I loved the tropical island theme, and overall the music was good. Overworld theme:

 

[phil777]

All Rance series, which started in 1989 and ended in 2018 (15 titles in total).

Ah yes, a true connaisseur. I played the 6th and up, and played some of the remakes. =/ Oh, I think I did play the one that featured Rizna, that's 5D, IIRC.

 

[phil777]

The Golden Sun saga

Good choice. I'm just sad about what happened to Dark Dawn, which means we'll never truly know the end.

 

[phil777]

Good old 1st Dragon Quest

Speakin' of, I've discovered the series around the 7th game (on the PS1) and haven't really let off since then.

 

[phil777]

I will give an honorable mention to Wild Arms 2, on the PS1, graphics are dated, but if you want an RPG with a Far West theme, there's nothing better than that series (I do feel it's somewhat post-apoc at times). I played the 3rd, which was also great (Female protag! Kinda rare!), but I've fallen off after the 4th. First anime opening of Wild Arms 2nd Ignition:

Spoiler: Second Anime opening on Disc 2. :D

 

[phil777]

Gonna echo Chrono Trigger, but also
I have some pretty fond memories of going over to a friends house and we'd take turns playing Grandia 2, otherwise like, Saga Frontier 2, your Final Fantasy 7 and 8, and I think it was Legend of Legaia that was basically a turn based fighting game? I got Septerra Core on steam, but haven't gotten around to giving it a go.

Ah shit, buddy, Jade Cocoon.

Ah, good times, good times! I remember playing Saga Frontier 1 and 2 as well. I remember always failing near the end, until I had to look up that you needed to follow a certain path to unlock the "good ending", or you were locked into an unwinnable fight against the fake Gustave and his Iron Knights. It always felt like the weapon skill unlocks were hard to get, even if you knew their composition for "combo" mode. -.- Also, LP being limited made some fights hard... >_>
I remember T260G being a lot of fun in Saga Frontier 1. Especially when used in conjunction with other robots.