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= Valador
12-28-2005, 02:02 AM
Two awesome series that are commonly overlooked when compared to series such as Final Fantasy.

I personally loved these series when I was younger. Wild Arms I, Suikoden I & II and Breath of Fire I, II & III were amazing. All of the series started out back in the day as 2d sprite traditional RPGs, but now have 3d sequels etc. I find the old games far more fun than any of the new ones.

This thread is for people to discuss the the above series. Enjoy.

I'll go first...

I loved the first Wild Arms game. This and FF7 were the first RPGs I had for my Playstation. I wasnt too big on the 3d battles, but I loved the 2d Zelda look when you were exploring. The story in this game was fucking awesome and the characters were very well done for their time. lol, Jack (or Zack in Japan) owned with his talking mouse Hanpan.

Suikoden I and II... I loved these games. They had characters right up there with the FF series. The battle system was badass with the 2 rows of 3 characters making for a 6 man party was awesome and made you think up tactics. The large scale fights were very cool too, like a game of chess and the 1v1 special fights were cool as well. I think the best part of this series was its story and its characters. You could collect 108 characters in each game and if you saved your data from one game you could unlock things in the next. Haha, Flik is the man, I almost shit myself when he came back for II when we all thought he died in I. Haha, Flik laughs at your army. Viktor was awesome too.

Breath of Fire... wow, taking it back... One of the more simpler series I played growing up. I would have to say III was my favorite due to the characters and story. Even though each game is basically the same story with the same people, this one struck me as the most fun and enthralling. I liked the dragon system in this one the best and Rei was fucking awesome. Ryu + Rei = badass transforming ass raping mofos. IV was an ok game, but not as good as some of the others. The graphics were good, the story was ok, but it was just lacking... I did like having the good guy and bad guy being part of the same being, seperated though.

Anyways... discuss.

Convict
12-28-2005, 03:23 AM
what about dragon warrior you forgot that 1...also there was a new breath of fire out for ps2 dragon quarter is the name was a little different but i ended up liking it more then the rest..


breath of fire 2 was sweet i think that was the first time with the animated attacks on the mobs got me...watching katt with the polearm was sweet and in the end when you charged up the mountain to kill the last guy it made my hair raise on my arms as a kid..still have that game....

has anyone here ever tried legend of legia that is one sweet game 1 and 2 rocked they inttroduced hand to hand combos in the sub screen for figh5s


im curretly playing dragon quest 8 for ps 2 along with l2...it has some of the old school fighting ad kida reminds me of gaming b4 l2...comes with ff12 preview 2 btw


ps darkcloud how could i forget that 1 it is a sweet game

= Valador
12-28-2005, 03:49 AM
what about dragon warrior you forgot that 1...also there was a new breath of fire out for ps2 dragon quarter is the name was a little different but i ended up liking it more then the rest..


breath of fire 2 was sweet i think that was the first time with the animated attacks on the mobs got me...watching katt with the polearm was sweet and in the end when you charged up the mountain to kill the last guy it made my hair raise on my arms as a kid..still have that game....

has anyone here ever tried legend of legia that is one sweet game 1 and 2 rocked they inttroduced hand to hand combos in the sub screen for figh5s


im curretly playing dragon quest 8 for ps 2 along with l2...it has some of the old school fighting ad kida reminds me of gaming b4 l2...comes with ff12 preview 2 btw


ps darkcloud how could i forget that 1 it is a sweet game

I never really got into Dragon Warrior (Quest, w/e). Its one of the big RPG series, I'm looking at the little guys that didnt get much attention like Legend of Dragoon. It was kinda under the radar, but it was good nonetheless. I'm kinda turned off from the new Dragon Quest because like one of the main characters looks identical to Trunks from DBZ... Even though the DBZ artist has drawn for many games, i.e. Chrono Trigger etc... this looks too much like a DBZ/FF hybrid. o.O

Parasite Eve 1 was a good game. 2 was so-so.

Oh shit, how could I have missed this... the Lunar series. I love this series. Fucking owns. Anyone who hasnt played it is missing out on a great RPG.

qwerty
12-28-2005, 01:17 PM
Suikoden 1 & 2 were real good imo, never got into Wild Arms and BoF, I only played 3 & 4 :(

the suikoden series lately (3,4, tactics wtf?) has been shitty and the last BoF game (Dragon Quarter) was horrid as well, I liked them better in 2d form :X

Hadron
12-30-2005, 01:36 PM
I remember those games.

I had the original Wild Arms and Suikoden, both of which were played countless times.

Never played the sequals though.