I give credit to Neo Xzhan for inspiring me to make this thread.

So which old rpg's are your favourite? By saying old I mean NES/SNES/SEGA old. Or any other you can thing of.

I remember my countless hours being engrossed into Zelda: A Link To The Past on the SNES. That is still my fave and I'll never ever stop playing that. It was also my very first rpg.

After technology had evolved I discovered the ever so amazing emu. Which enables me to play more rpg's from that time period.
So far I am most impressed by the likes of...

Chrono Trigger (of course!)
Terranigma
Lufia I & II
Secret of Mana

...and many others. I really should check them over and find out what else had me hooked.

If anyone can recommend any others to me that would be most apprieciated.

I never played many RPGs back when I was a youngin, but I did play, Zelda and Chrono, well only a very small amount. I also got the rom of an old game I one played called Shadowrun, that game rocks.

Oh, BY FAR Seiken Densetsu 3!!!

The game was absolutely amazing, you choose from 6 people as your main character, and then you play as that persons story, you also pick from the other 5 to be your 2 companions throughout the game, each has their OWN abilities and job classes, but the classes BRANCH, so you go from say Mage to Dark Mage or Light Mage, then from say, Light Mage to like Paladin or something (those aren't in the game however...), so the customization of your party is endless!

It is by far one of my favorite games!!!

I suggest everyone here hunts down a copy (or test a ROM, but remember to delete cuz they illegal after 24. hrs...)

=D
We talked about this in chat today.

I have to say Chrono Trigger and Seiken Densetsu 3 are GODLIKE, the story, the characters everything is just great. Also I really like FF3 (FF6 in USA), it's one of the ebst (next to FF7 imo :p).

Shining Force 2. The game that got me into old RPGs. The god-like RPG of the Mega Drive, in my opinion. Get it, play it, love it. This game changed my thinking about gaming in general, and persuaded me that I need only play RPGs (and Metal Gear Solid) from now on.

I need to play Chrono Trigger. I'll start tonight. I promise.

Shining Force. my first ever RPG. sounds like a babies toy. instead of "my first train set" from Fisher Price, "my first RPG" from Climax...i think was the company

anyway, this game ruled. excellent beyond words. i love it. if it was a woman, i would have had 20 kids by now.

My favorite old rpg is deffinatly Chrono Trigger. That game rocks, everyone that's played it knows it rocks, everyone that hasn't played it should play it and then realize it rocks.

Another old rpg is Heroes of might and magic, even though its on the computer I think it qualifies for this thread seeing as it came out around 94/95

Originally posted by Bahamut ZERO
I need to play Chrono Trigger. I'll start tonight. I promise.
I shall remind you. ;)

Ahem. Chrono Trigger. Yeah, it does not really count as OLD for me because I did not even know about its existence before 1999, but it�s the one game that still got me excited after 4 years...
Secret of Mana? I loved it and still do, but ever since I played Seiken Densetsu 3... well... you know.
Chrono Trigger and SD3... my favourites forever.

Greetings.

My favourite RPG still is Breath of Fire II on the SNES. The gameplay was good, and the battle system (at the time) was pretty good and easy to use. The music was alright, although it did get to the point I muted the TV. Hard bosses, good characters, good storyline made me come back to this game, even today.

Another good RPG I played a lot of is Mystaria : Realms of Lore for the Sega Saturn. One of the first 3-D RPG/Strategy games around (I think. Not sure though.), I remember playing this game back in 93-94, and it was awesome. Thing is, I didn't have a Saturn at the time, and had to play the game at a friends place. Now, almost 10 years later, I can say I have a working Saturn, with heaps of games (As well as all three Evangelion games.) as well as the one game I've been hunting for, for ages : Mystaria : Realms of Lore.

The Phantasy Star games were quite good and enjoyable as well, yes?

Well, scince we happen 2 be bringing up old rpgs I might as well bring up one of the oldest ones I know of....Destiney of an Emporer, this game is awesome u can recruit loadz of different generalz, itz kinda hard but it is one of the best rpgs I've played. SD3 is another great great great game, Itz been a while scince I've played it tho so I think I'll go dload the rom in a lil bit.:D Lufia and Lufia 2 are some other great RPGS along with Secret of Mana and Legends of Phantasia or sumthing like that I dont really remember....it had a cool qoute though when u started playin it, and it had a totally different style of fighting. I cant even think of all the good RPG's I've played cuz I been playin them for a long ass time now. But if where countin Zelda as one...well then that is by far one of the greatest (SD3 still beatz it tho) But on that note...I think I'll be sayin my goodbyes.

Chrono Trigger ofcourse, but technically it doesn't even count cause I played it on ROM ^^
There was Lufia II though, which still on certain rainy days keeps me occupied xD

Shining Force, CT, Zelda games...they were all great. Absolutely great. Not my absolute favorites (well, I can't really say that for Zelda), but still damn good games...

I think two of my favorite RPG's would have to be...

Super Mario RPG: Who would of though a Mario RPG could be this good? There's still that old hint of platform jumping and such, but from an 3/4 Overhead view. This game made me believe if you put Square with Nintendo, you'd get a great game, no doubt. For some reason, I just couldn't get that feeling from FF1...no my friends, SMRPG is a godly game. Even more so when you actually buy the game (I imagine it's probably hard as hell on an emulator...all those jumps and stuff...x_x)

And my secon is

Dragon Warrior: As simple as it may be, it's still great. The second and third and the follow ups were good, but this was the root of it all. And let me tell you, this game should not fail to entertain you. It has most aspects of a regular RPG...fight, gaining levels, equipping weapons/armor, find old relics, etc....the game is just classic. Absolutely classic.

I got Seiken Densetsu 3, but never played it...x_X

Final Fantasy 1
Arcana
Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Final Fantasy 2
Earthbound

some of my favorite old-skewl rpgz

How many times do I have to say? Chrono Trigger!!!!!!!!!

The only thing i can recall that's old is all these topics you keep posting in. If it's more then a year old you can simply make a new topic. =/

Errk, Sorry, I wasn't really looking at the dates :-/

Originally posted by Magus
Errk, Sorry, I wasn't really looking at the dates :-/

If it isn't on the first or second page of the forum then DON'T BOTHER please.

Ct, magic knight of rayeath, and of for sure BREATH OF FIRE 2! ^.^

i think the oldest and one of the early RPG's is Digimon World....... It was scratchy lookin it looked like the picture was gonna jus dissentagrate any min....

The Oldest RPG I played is TLoZ: Link's Awakening for the GameBoy. It took me about 2 years tobeat though. :(
But if you means SNES's too, i'll go with TLoZ: A Link to the Past. Whyich dates back to 1991-2.
I love Zelda.

hmmm.....

I think the first I played was secret of mana when I was 5 or 6. I don't remember much about it....is it even an rpg?

yeah it is. yeps something like zelda must be also one of my first games but died like shit and never undersood what i had to do ( i was really young and i tryed it because my brother played it)

Oh jeeze...

Lufia I
Lufia II
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
SD3 (never got far in it though v.v)
FFVI
FFV
FFIV
FFII
FFI
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars


That's all I can remember.... for now o.x
I don't include Zelda 'cause that's more an adventure game..

Between Secret of Mana and Chrono trigger...Ok, I'll say Chrono Trigger. This game was just the best i've ever played. all genre united. great story, great design, great characters, great music...and great vilains.

The Oldest RPG I played is TLoZ: Link's Awakening for the GameBoy. It took me about 2 years tobeat though. :(


But at least you beat it. I never got passed this last fu***ing boss. Anyway i've come to a point where I love and Hate that game at the same time. ain't it strange ?:eye:

Thanks for reviving this shit-old thread that nobody cares about, moron!

Double post, shit reason for reviving, yep it's a moron all right...

Oh yea Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past would have to be my current favorite but Secret of Mana is a really good one too

A Link to the Past is a good one but its not an RPG but Secret of Mana is and if you haven't played it it rocks oh and Super Mario RPG is really fun too

Thanks for reviving this shit-old thread that nobody cares about, moron!

Or you know, way old topics more than x months old could be locked when they're found. Relax.

Anyhow, I think this is kind of interesting.

I remember playing the 1st Breath of Fire and never finishing it, and I haven't to this day. It's one of those games buried in my backlog that starts with the NES and goes until the current gen systems. I'll probably never get to it since there are new games I'm still working on and that I'll probably never finish.

I also played an obscure game called BrainLord. This one was an Enix game and it was supposed to play something like Legend of Zelda but with more and more difficult puzzles. It really didn't turn out to be a great game in its story, but it was alright.

Thanks for reviving this shit-old thread that nobody cares about, moron!

If you don't care about, don't read it, man. I cannot stand people who post only to point at the others like 5 years old kiddos in kindergarten...:eye:

and to avoid a double post, i'll also answer to the other cr�tin: I have double posted. so what ? I've been inscribed here for 2, maybe 3 months, and i did not thought this place to be so hostile. :notgood:

Last thing. I'm not a moron. you are.:angel:

Good bye.

haha

Moron.

haha

Moron.

And he calls that debating skill...Call me anything you want, this will prove only one thing: that you are an I.D.I.O.T.

Now if you excuse me i'v e got much more interesting things to do. like finishing to write my COC campaign.

haha

Moron.

Some of my favorite RPGs from the 8 and 16 bit eras are

Star Tropics
Final Fantasy Legend I
Final Fantasy III
Secret of Mana
Act Raiser
Earthbound
Chrono Trigger

*I hate the dolphin in Star Tropics. And the main character is named Mike Jones lol

Ah yes the old RPGs, I remember the few I enjoyed plenty:

Final Fantasy III(NES)
Final Fantasy IV-VI (SNES)
Breath Of Fire 1 & 2 (SNES/GBA)
Sword Of Mana
Tales Of Phantasia
Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past

The list goes on however these were definately my favourites, I'm sure I'm missing a few still, oh well. I'm not sure if this one is old or a classic yet but I really enjoyed Grandia, I have yet to finish all these games except Zelda but I will get around to it once schools over :D.

I never have a SNES on my childhood, so the first RPG I played with my twin brother haha was Breath of Fire III and Alundra for PSX.
The game that make me love the rpgs was Castlevania S.O.T.N., that was the game that make me enter to the rpg world haha.

With the emulators I've played a lot more, games for NES & SNES specially, like Aretha I & II, Arcana, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy I, etc.

Long live to 2D RPGs!!!!!!!

Long live to 2D RPGs!!!!!!!

Strongly agreed, and fortunately 2D RPGs are still being made for hand-held consoles and maybe a few still on other platforms, and especially some amateur game developers seem to like making 2D RPGs but they lack the commercial quality of a game. The snes in my opinion was a great foundation for those 2D rpgs we came to know and love, sure the NES had a few great titles but the snes was the console to really deliver it.

Prak, I simply posted in this thread to commend you on your efforts to rid the Shrine of morons or perhaps educating them in the true ways of the majestic dragon I call Popo.

Thank you, good sir. You truly are a king among these Japanese role-playing games.

D&d paper then to the computer.

Chrono Trigger, guys. Kurono Nigga.

Prak, I simply posted in this thread to commend you on your efforts to rid the Shrine of morons

keep fighting the good fight, o brave internet warrior.

Maybe unknow for the most: Dragonflight, Ambermoon, Zork, The Yawn

Without naming any Final Fantasy's...
- Seiken Densetsu 3
- Chrono Trigger
- Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen
- Romancing SaGa 3
- Terranigma
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I'm sure there are others.

Quest For Glory, biatches

I only had a few Secret of Mana and Breath of Fire 1

Besides FF6 and CT, i really liked Shining Force for Sega, and Lufia.

I love the old RPG's, they will never go stale, and most of them top RPG's coming out today!

Why do people consider any of the Zelda games RPGs when they clearly aren't?

Because people are stupid and use a definition for RPGs that would make Pac-Man a role-playing game.

I think Pac Man would make a good RPG if you just change it a little.

If the definition of what an RPG is is really a problem, it's really something pushed even more by magazines, websites, and retailers. This is a product of how players have assigned a definition (no matter how loose it is) to games that fit loosely-defined criteria. You'd basically have to convince the entire gaming community to change their own definition of what an RPG is and then make that new definition whatever it is that you wanted.

Point is this: unless something dramatic happens in how the entire world gaming populace defines an RPG and then that same dramatic event locks down an exact definition, we'll be at the same place we are now. I guess it's more of a language issue, in terms of the dynamics of what defines a word.

Personally, RPGs should probably be broken down into subcategories. They've done that with shooters, flight games and driving games, so there's no reason why it can't be done with RPGs.

Frankly, whether or not it's misleading, I don't see it becoming an issue just yet. I have yet to be fooled into buying a game I didn't want because it was miscategorized.

But whatever, it's not a big deal. There are a lot more things in this world to get upset about and try to cause a movement over than the definition of a genre within a realm of entertainment/art.

If the definition of what an RPG is is really a problem, it's really something pushed even more by magazines, websites, and retailers. This is a product of how players have assigned a definition (no matter how loose it is) to games that fit loosely-defined criteria. You'd basically have to convince the entire gaming community to change their own definition of what an RPG is and then make that new definition whatever it is that you wanted.

I've actually traced the history of inaccuracy in the term somewhere in this forum. I'll leave it to you to find that if you're interested.

The For-Dummies version is that Japanese developers attempted to adapt the mechanics of games like Dungeons & Dragons for use in video games. However, they were unfamiliar with the games that the actual mechanics originated from and mistook those mechanics for the defining characteristics of RPGs. The true defining characteristic of a role-playing game, per the term's original and most accurate definition, lies in free-form character development and interactions.

As their games spread across the world, so too did their misinterpretation of the genre.


Point is this: unless something dramatic happens in how the entire world gaming populace defines an RPG and then that same dramatic event locks down an exact definition, we'll be at the same place we are now. I guess it's more of a language issue, in terms of the dynamics of what defines a word.

It doesn't have to be something dramatic. All that needs to happen is for those who know and care about the truth behind the matter to speak up and spread the word. As knowledge spreads, change occurs gradually and naturally.


Personally, RPGs should probably be broken down into subcategories. They've done that with shooters, flight games and driving games, so there's no reason why it can't be done with RPGs.

That's already been done, but unsuccessfully. All it's doing is further devaluing the meaning of the term as it is applied to more and more games that loosely fit the criteria of one specific so-called subgenre.


Frankly, whether or not it's misleading, I don't see it becoming an issue just yet. I have yet to be fooled into buying a game I didn't want because it was miscategorized.

If something like this ever reaches the point where it becomes a huge issue, it'll be far too late to fix it. And frankly, with an ever-growing number of people misusing the term on a daily basis, it's approaching that point alarmingly fast.


But whatever, it's not a big deal. There are a lot more things in this world to get upset about and try to cause a movement over than the definition of a genre within a realm of entertainment/art.

Bullshit. If something's wrong, someone has to try to fix it. There are plenty of people already campaigning for the big issues. It's the little ones that desperately need champions.

Seriously, I understand it wrong, but as you always say, its a misnomer. Its almost always used now to describe games like FF and other "action/adventure" games. Is it really that big of a problem?

Its a matter of one mistake, and the language evolving after it. You speaking up about it constantly really doesn't drive me (or anyone, really, besides a few people who like to kiss ass) to refer to them as their "truly proper name".

Racism is generally a misnomer, if you want to go that route. As far as I know, a "true" race, is the human race. Not "black", "white", etc. But because it is so widely accepted and still used, no one really cares. Its a minor evolution in the language. People understand it.

I get your point, but instead of posting in every effing thread that has the incorrect usage of the term RPG, could you put it in one thread? I can't stand seeing it all the time. I really don't see the misusage of a genre that is SO widely accepted as an issue, big or small.

Cassie, take a moment to read over the thread again. I didn't start this. I just chimed in at the appropriate moment with the counterpoint.

It's not a secret that I dislike the improper use of the term and that I think it will eventually be damaging, hence I will point it out where I feel it is appropriate. I think you'll find that very feel people find me out of line for it as long as I'm not shitting up half a dozen threads at a time with it or starting huge arguments over the matter in threads that are unrelated. And in case you haven't noticed, I've made mention of it very few times in recent months.

I don't find you out of line for it either, but it seems like every time the term is used, you'll make a post correcting the person or at least a comment on how it is misused.

I guess I just see it as one of those things that probably isn't going to change anytime soon, and if it doesn't.. who cares? Music genres have been misused and evolved to encompass a bunch of different things. As long as it is recognized correctly, what harm is done? I feel like every time I check new threads or posts that use the word "RPG" in them, I can expect a post from you discussing the misuse.

I'm not accusing you of Narmor'ing threads or anything. I don't think you are incorrect, and I don't necessarily disagree. But I do think that people get the point, and its to the point where its beating a dead horse. meh, its probably just a personal pet peeve or something for me.

Cassie, take a moment to read over the thread again. I didn't start this. I just chimed in at the appropriate moment with the counterpoint.

It's not a secret that I dislike the improper use of the term and that I think it will eventually be damaging, hence I will point it out where I feel it is appropriate. I think you'll find that very feel people find me out of line for it as long as I'm not shitting up half a dozen threads at a time with it or starting huge arguments over the matter in threads that are unrelated. And in case you haven't noticed, I've made mention of it very few times in recent months.

You're really not fouling the thread here either, despite our opposing views. It's a lot like some people calling a pistol magazine or a rifle magazine (an actual enclosed object that contains bullets) a "clip". It really irks a lot of shooters I know, and it nags at me a little, but I usually don't pay it any mind since in my head, I know what they're talking about. I have yet to have a friend of mine ask for a rifle clip (when he uses an Armalite) and have another one of my pals hand him an actual clip of 5-8 rounds.

My favourits are terranigma, chrono trigger, secret of evermore and treasure of the rudras(for emulator)

I love this era of RPG's. What is treasure of the rudras, never heard of it, since it's a rom i'm assuming its fan made?

I Loved The Original Phantasy Star On The SMS (or an Emulator)

Well I discovered Treasure of the Rudras, I got the english version, it looks cool.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars...I have Breath of Fire II on my Wii but I haven't gotten around to playing it.

There's this DOS RPG called Adom. It has an incredible amount of stuff, but text based graphics. And it's also really hard to play.