RPG Recommendations

[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.