RPG Recommendations

[mikoto_qc]

if your into old turn by turn RPG one of the best of all time in my mind : Xenogears.

P.S not Xenosaga

[Hulan]

if your into old turn by turn RPG one of the best of all time in my mind : Xenogears.

P.S not Xenosaga

See, I don't get this. Every time someone asks for suggestions for RPGs, either Xenosaga is never mentioned or someone says not to play it. I genuinely don't understand. To this day it stands head and shoulders above virtually any other RPG in terms of character and story in my mind (though someone mentioned Lost Odyssey, which probably had better character development [damn you memory flash backs!]). If it had a flaw, it is that these games have too much story (and too many cut-scenes to present it [there are literally several 30 minute long cutscenes in the first game; I believe the longest is like 45 minutes]). But I would say that makes it the distillation of the purest JRPG elements.

Seriously though, if you have 90-100 hours (for all three games in the trilogy), and a craving for a good science fiction story, I highly recommend it. A lot of the music is done by Yuki Kajiura, and the English voice acting is pretty ahead of it's time, given the first game was an early era PS2 game.

[IndigoDarkwolf]

See, I don't get this. Every time someone asks for suggestions for RPGs, either Xenosaga is never mentioned or someone says not to play it. I genuinely don't understand.

I was a big fan of Xenosaga 1, in spite of the 20-minute cutscenes. Well, actually, I wasn't bothered by them. It was like having both an anime and a JRPG. For me, that was novel, and the plot was interesting enough to me to keep me playing. I was completely turned off by Xenosaga 2, however. Just didn't like anything about it: the new character models, monotone voice acting, combat system, character progression... I feel I gave it a fair shake, but in the end I just had to shelve it and I never looked back. I don't sell my old video games anymore, but if there were one out of my collection that I would sell, that'd be it.

I have no idea if Xenosaga 3 was any better. I figured after missing out on 2, I was probably going to miss important parts of the plot in 3, and after all the changes in 2 that I didn't care for, I just wasn't interested in spending the money to pick up 3.

Heck, I at least look back on Megaman: Command Mission. Not really in a positive light, but moreso than Xenosaga 2.

[Zezlar]

I was a big fan of Xenosaga 1, in spite of the 20-minute cutscenes. Well, actually, I wasn't bothered by them. It was like having both an anime and a JRPG. For me, that was novel, and the plot was interesting enough to me to keep me playing. I was completely turned off by Xenosaga 2, however. Just didn't like anything about it: the new character models, monotone voice acting, combat system, character progression... I feel I gave it a fair shake, but in the end I just had to shelve it and I never looked back. I don't sell my old video games anymore, but if there were one out of my collection that I would sell, that'd be it.

I have no idea if Xenosaga 3 was any better. I figured after missing out on 2, I was probably going to miss important parts of the plot in 3, and after all the changes in 2 that I didn't care for, I just wasn't interested in spending the money to pick up 3.

Heck, I at least look back on Megaman: Command Mission. Not really in a positive light, but moreso than Xenosaga 2.

Xenosaga III was my favorite of the series. I love this series to death. Better then Gears/Blade imo.

[Hulan]

Xenosaga III was my favorite of the series. I love this series to death. Better then Gears/Blade imo.

Agreed, and yes, Xenosaga II is definitely the weakest in the trilogy. More like something you have to get through to make it to 3, but honestly, it's well worth it. The combat system in 3 is more like something you would expect to see out of a mid generation Final Fantasy game (ability based, rather than combo based), but they do some very interesting things with the AP and Boost systems. The action cutscenes are by far the best in the trilogy, and while Momo's voice acting is still atrocious, everyone else has really stellar VAs in the third game.

Xenosaga III is definately worth looking into, just have to make it through II. That being said, if you don't do any of the sidequests in II, it only takes like 10 hours (it's not actually that long of a game).