Poll of the Day > Recommend me an RPG to play that was made in Japan.

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I can't get past the stupid thieves town in Dragon Quest.

Lunar: The Silver Star

So basically a JRPG.

FF1 to 15
Legend of Heroes: Trails of cold Steel 1 and 2
Bravely default
KH1, 2, Birth By Sleep
Digimon Story Cybersleuth
Star Ocean
.Hack G.U: Last Recode
Dragonball Fusions
Xenogears
Secret of Mana
Dark Cloud 2
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Lost Odyssey
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Mega Man Battle Network
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Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door
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Uh...what game consoles do you have?

Suikoden I and II (PS1; PSN)
Suikoden V (PS2)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii; New 3DS; I think Wii U VC)
Radiant Historia (DS) or Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology (3DS)
Baten Kaitos and Baten Kaitos Origins (Gamecube)
Legend of Dragoon (PS1; PSN)
NieR Automata (PS4)
Exit Fate (free fan-made game available for DL online, runs on PC)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1; maybe PSN?)
Suikoden Tactics (PS2)

Not going earlier than PS1 gen, but of course there's plenty of great JRPGs on the SNES and some on NES and Genesis, too.

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

I can't get past the stupid thieves town in Dragon Quest.

There is no thieves town in Dragon Quest... 1
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Mega Man Battle Network

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Tales of Berseria
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the y's series.
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Persona 3 or 5

Drakengard series
Nier games
Soulsborne series
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Locke90 posted...

the y's series.

Get ur Master System vanished omen ass outta here
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Final Fantasy 1
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Too many to list
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Red_Frog posted...

Lunar: The Silver Star

RFC22 posted...

So basically a JRPG.

Dark Souls isn't a JRPG.

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

RFC22 posted...

So basically a JRPG.

Dark Souls isn't a JRPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Eastern_role-playing_video_games

Eastern role-playing video games (RPGs) are RPGs developed in East Asia. Most Eastern RPGs are Japanese role-playing video games (JRPGs)

New directions and renaissance (2010s)
Hunting RPGs are a type of action RPG subgenre featuring the player and an optional team of up to three other players hunting down larger monsters with a set amount of time, using weapons crafted from the materials extracted from the map and/or from the monsters themselves. Unlike most RPG genres, the monsters have no health bars or hit points, but have stronger attack and defense stats, forcing the players to use survival items and coordinated strategies to eliminate a specific monster. First appeared in Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise, these games later expanded the hunting RPG genre into other games as well, such as Bandai Namco Entertainment's God Eater franchise.

Soulslike games are a relatively new genre born due to popularity of the Souls series. Those games generally have common elements like high difficulty, high-risk combat with hard-hitting enemies, sparse checkpoints, and enemies dropping souls (or some other resource used for upgrading stats and/or weapons that is lost upon death), but the player has one chance to regain the dropped souls if they can reach the place of their death without dying again. Examples of this type of game are: Dragon's Dogma, Lords of the Fallen, Bound by Flame, Bloodborne, DarkMaus, Nioh, The Surge, Ashen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Souls

Dark Souls is an action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FromSoftware

FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game development company

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^ Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is a game in which you are playing the role of Mario. Super Mario Bros. was developed by Nintendo. Nintendo is a Japanese company. Therefore, Super Mario Bros. is a JRPG.
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Lokarin posted...

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

I can't get past the stupid thieves town in Dragon Quest.

There is no thieves town in Dragon Quest... 1

Well, there's the problem. TC doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
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streamofthesky posted...

Uh...what game consoles do you have?

This is the key question here.

When in doubt, though, Trails in the Sky.
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Blaqthourne posted...

^ Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is a game in which you are playing the role of Mario. Super Mario Bros. was developed by Nintendo. Nintendo is a Japanese company. Therefore, Super Mario Bros. is a JRPG.

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Demons Souls
Dark Souls
Bloodborne
The Legend of Zelda
Legend of Mana
Nier: Automata
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Dragon's Dogma
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Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne for the ps2
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streamofthesky posted...

Uh...what game consoles do you have?

Suikoden I and II (PS1; PSN)
Suikoden V (PS2)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii; New 3DS; I think Wii U VC)
Radiant Historia (DS) or Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology (3DS)
Baten Kaitos and Baten Kaitos Origins (Gamecube)
Legend of Dragoon (PS1; PSN)
NieR Automata (PS4)
Exit Fate (free fan-made game available for DL online, runs on PC)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1; maybe PSN?)
Suikoden Tactics (PS2)

Not going earlier than PS1 gen, but of course there's plenty of great JRPGs on the SNES and some on NES and Genesis, too.

Maybe I'm just an irrational fanboy, but I thought Suikoden III was the best of the series and IV was a solid offering.
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Chrono Trigger

Megaman Battle Network 3

Zeus posted...

Metalsonic66 posted...

Mega Man Battle Network

Lunar is amazing.
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PS2 -> Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Arc the Lad 1-3 are worth playing too)
PS2 -> Dragon Quest VIII (not sure which Dragon Quest you meant, so just in case i included this one, if it is this one, then DQVII is great too)
PSX -> Chrono Cross
PSX -> Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete & Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
SNES -> Chrono Trigger
SNES ->Tales of Phantasia
SNES -> Seiken Densetsu 3
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GreenKnight127 posted...

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne for the ps2

best post in this topic

beefcake71090 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Uh...what game consoles do you have?

Suikoden I and II (PS1; PSN)
Suikoden V (PS2)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii; New 3DS; I think Wii U VC)
Radiant Historia (DS) or Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology (3DS)
Baten Kaitos and Baten Kaitos Origins (Gamecube)
Legend of Dragoon (PS1; PSN)
NieR Automata (PS4)
Exit Fate (free fan-made game available for DL online, runs on PC)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1; maybe PSN?)
Suikoden Tactics (PS2)

Not going earlier than PS1 gen, but of course there's plenty of great JRPGs on the SNES and some on NES and Genesis, too.

Maybe I'm just an irrational fanboy, but I thought Suikoden III was the best of the series and IV was a solid offering.

I mean, I was trying to give a broad sampling of my favorite RPGs across multiple franchises.
I agree III is great and IV is still a decent game. I did want to recommend all the main Suikoden games, but figured the suggestion would be brushed off if I didn't pick a few specific titles out.

I want more than any other game, a Suikoden that takes place chronologically after III. I really liked how the plot felt like it was moving towards some sort of final conflict, probably centered around Harmonia, and would like to see a firm conclusion to the various plots.
It was also intriguing seeing the antagonists' perspective in the post-game and seeing Leeknat as being more.... "morally grey" than is usually presented.

I always thought, based on that it'd be really interesting as well to have (spoilers only b/c it's impossible to talk about w/o mentioning the spoiler above) a Suikoden II spinoff where Jowy is the main character and he's also being guided by Leknaat to collect his own 108 stars of destiny, because she's manipulating both him and Riou into renewing the fated conflict between their two runes for her own reasons.

Tony_Biggie_Pun posted...

Megaman Battle Network 3

BN3 was my personal favorite. They really went all-out with the post-game content in that one.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Tony_Biggie_Pun posted...

Megaman Battle Network 3

BN3 was my personal favorite. They really went all-out with the post-game content in that one.

I still prefer MMBN2. The first three games were great, though.
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5 and 6 were also good.
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RazorX2003 posted...

PS2 -> Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Arc the Lad 1-3 are worth playing too)
PS2 -> Dragon Quest VIII (not sure which Dragon Quest you meant, so just in case i included this one, if it is this one, then DQVII is great too)
PSX -> Chrono Cross
PSX -> Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete & Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
SNES -> Chrono Trigger
SNES ->Tales of Phantasia
SNES -> Seiken Densetsu 3

Tales of Phantasia for Super Famicom was great. I am glad they did a remake for it on PSX!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHR6wdUBSgc" data-time="

streamofthesky posted...

beefcake71090 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Uh...what game consoles do you have?

Suikoden I and II (PS1; PSN)
Suikoden V (PS2)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii; New 3DS; I think Wii U VC)
Radiant Historia (DS) or Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology (3DS)
Baten Kaitos and Baten Kaitos Origins (Gamecube)
Legend of Dragoon (PS1; PSN)
NieR Automata (PS4)
Exit Fate (free fan-made game available for DL online, runs on PC)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1; maybe PSN?)
Suikoden Tactics (PS2)

Not going earlier than PS1 gen, but of course there's plenty of great JRPGs on the SNES and some on NES and Genesis, too.

Maybe I'm just an irrational fanboy, but I thought Suikoden III was the best of the series and IV was a solid offering.

I mean, I was trying to give a broad sampling of my favorite RPGs across multiple franchises.
I agree III is great and IV is still a decent game. I did want to recommend all the main Suikoden games, but figured the suggestion would be brushed off if I didn't pick a few specific titles out.

I want more than any other game, a Suikoden that takes place chronologically after III. I really liked how the plot felt like it was moving towards some sort of final conflict, probably centered around Harmonia, and would like to see a firm conclusion to the various plots.
It was also intriguing seeing the antagonists' perspective in the post-game and seeing Leeknat as being more.... "morally grey" than is usually presented.

I always thought, based on that it'd be really interesting as well to have (spoilers only b/c it's impossible to talk about w/o mentioning the spoiler above) a Suikoden II spinoff where Jowy is the main character and he's also being guided by Leknaat to collect his own 108 stars of destiny, because she's manipulating both him and Riou into renewing the fated conflict between their two runes for her own reasons.

That's actually a very good idea for a Suikoden game. Kind of blew my mind there. I think Suikoden fans need to get together and work on the games we want to see come to life. A fan project I think is worthwhile would be remasters, with trophies. Then obviously, games that continue the plot and explore other areas and true runes would be great.
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You should start with Final Fantasy, the most famous JRPG.

Watch this video to learn about and help choose your first FF game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziD8dwJNA48" data-time="

No matter what system (even your phone) you have, you can play at least 1, but most likely more than 1 FF games.
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