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LordDarkrai

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I'm looking for one that has at least one of these aspects

Adventure feel
One where the dialogue feel natural
Unconventional
Lots of content

I'm also looking for one that has a so bad its good aspect.

Anyway, if it helps. Here the RPGs I really enjoyed to give you some ideas.

Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenogears
Xenosaga Ep.1 and 3
Final Fantasy IX, VI and X
Anything SMT, Persona, Devil Survivor related
Ni no Kuni
Pokemon
Tales of Symphonia
The Last Story
Earthbound
Radiant Historia
Chrono Trigger
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness
 
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If you like Tales of Symphonia I reccomend Tales of the Abyss. I find it a lot better and with a mostly better cast and a more original story.

I hear amazing things about Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. It's supposed to have one of the best stories in modern gaming and its huge. Haven't played it but I want to.
 
If you have a Gamecube or a Wii, the Baten Kaitos games are cheap and really, really good. They're made by the same company that made Xenoblade and Xenosaga.
 
Anything Tales. Though I don't know why @KingofManga420 says Abyss has a better cast than Symphonia. Especially Luke. He's nuts.

Anyway, I really enjoyed Arc Rise Fantasia which is a Wii game. You can probably find it cheap.
 
klystron said:
Anything Tales. Though I don't know why @KingofManga420 says Abyss has a better cast than Symphonia. Especially Luke. He's nuts.

Anyway, I really enjoyed Arc Rise Fantasia which is a Wii game. You can probably find it cheap.
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I happen to love Luke and thought his character development was actually well done. It was refreshing to see that archetype deconstructed, it made him a lot more human.
 
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B-but muh feminine men..
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Also .hack in general. The first four games, Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine are fantastic storywise, but the gameplay admittedly gets old depending on the person playing it. While it did a great job of emulating a MMO, .hack//G.U. and its games Rebirth, Reminisce, and Redemption are much more like action games and have a better-paced story.
 
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If you haven't played Bravely Default, I highly recommend it. It might slow down to a crawl in the third act, but it's a game that does quite a lot of things right.

Lunar: Silver Star Harmony is really good too, though I haven't played it very far.

Also, if you haven't tried them yet, I'd recommend looking into some of the older Final Fantasy games, particularly III and IV, which got 3D remakes for the DS. They were also ported to the PC, but they did a bit of a ham-fisted job of it in places. Still very playable, though. There are also some very good remakes of Final Fantasy I and II out there.
 
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The entire Etrian Odyssey series. If you liked Strange Journey or any of the other first person SMT titles you owe it to yourself to play EO. I recommend starting with 3 or 4 first seeing how 1 and 2 got remade with a ton of extra content.

Also if you liked Symphonia play Abyss or Vesperia. They're better in almost every way.
 
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Lunar: Silver Star Harmony is really good too, though I haven't played it very far..
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I'm also playing Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, also really good. Like the humor, I like the turn-based system and how the characters move on screen and such in a gridless system and the strategy that goes with it and also equipping two patches and two rings which can give your characters extra stat boosts and abilities and stuff. The music is good too.
 
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Dawn of Souls for GBA, fuck yeah.
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I'm actually more partial to the PSP version. Dawn of Souls sort of inherited the 4-year-old sprites of the Wonderswan Color version, and the visuals on the PSP version just looks so much better.
 
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LordDarkrai said:
I'm looking for one that has at least one of these aspects

Adventure feel
One where the dialogue feel natural
Unconventional
Lots of content

I'm also looking for one that has a so bad its good aspect.

Anyway, if it helps. Here the RPGs I really enjoyed to give you some ideas.

Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenogears
Xenosaga Ep.1 and 3
Final Fantasy IX, VI and X
Anything SMT, Persona, Devil Surviver related
Ni no Kuni
Pokemon
Tales of Symphonia
The Last Story
Earthbound
Radiant Historia
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I like Tales of Vesperia (HexBox, PS3) Record of Agarest War (PC, PS3, Android, and HexBox), Bravely Default (3DS), Lost Magic (DS), Oblivion (even though it's not a traditional RPG, and IMO twice as good as Skyrammed)
 
Thanks for the suggestions. With Tales of the Abyss, I stopped halfway for some reason. I want to restart as thinking about now, I might relate to Luke better then before.

With Bravely Default, I'm not really far into it. Its not bad, but I kind of loss interest as of lately.

Can't believe I forgot about .hack. I played almost every title and enjoyed them a lot with the exception of .hack//link which sucked.

Edit, can't spell for the life of me.
 
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