Best DS rpgs?

[Human Snorenado]

Go.  LIST LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT, BITCHES

(Already got Knights in the Nightmare and Fire Emblem remake)

[Joe Molotov]

Radiant Historia
Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier
Devil Survivor 1 & 2
Dragon Quest V

[Don Flamenco]

chrono trigger
TWEWY

[MrAngryFace]

Good list. SRT:OG is ridiculous but way fun- Radiant Historia is just plain good. My issue with the Devil Survivor game is that they kinda need a faq from what I could tell. SMT: Strange Journey is great though.

[demi]

The World Ends With You
Dragon Quest IV V VI IX
Final Fantasy IV
SMT Strange Journey
Etrian Odyssey I II III
Chrono Trigger
The Dark Spire
Nostalgia

[MrAngryFace]

aww shit, how'd I forget Etrian

[demi]

Here's some more off the cuff ones, not particularly good...

Glory of Heracles
Contact
Magical Starsign
Pokemon Conquest
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Pokemon (aside from the obvious, they are good GRINDAN to me)
Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 1, 2
Suikoden Tierkreis
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

[archnemesis]

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• Etrian Odyssey
• Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard
• Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
• Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
• Infinite Space
• Radiant Historia 
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey


• Dragon Quest IV: The Chapters of the Chosen
• Dragon Quest V: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride
• Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie
• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
• Inazuma Eleven
• Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard
• Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
• Suikoden Tierkreis
• The World Ends with You
• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume


• Contact
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
• Final Fantasy IV
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
• Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
• The Dark Spire


• Final Fantasy III

Even though they're not ranked at the top I strongly recommend Infinite Space and Inazuma Eleven for originality. The story in the Inazuma games is made for kids and boring as hell, but the stylus controlled action parts of the game are excellent.

Edit: You know what. Feel free to dock a point from Etrian 2, 3, Devil Survivor 2, and Strange Journey since they're cheap rehashes.

[Human Snorenado]

Forgot to mention that I have a 3DS XL, so if there are any real good rpgs out for that I could get them as well... from what I can tell though the 3DS lineup mostly sucks in general.

Radiant Historia sounds interesting but FUCKING GOOD GRIEF is it expensive and none of the GS within like 50 miles have it.  If anyone wants to sell theirs or do me a solid and pick it up from a local GS and ship it I'd be willing to cover shipping and like $5 or whatever for your hassle.

Edit: forgot to mention that I plan on picking up Infinite Space as well, frag already recommended that and we have pretty similar tastes (the Knights in the Nightmare purchase was completely on his recommendation, but it sounds awesome from the reviews I read)

[cool breeze]

if you like FTL and the idea of commanding a spacecraft, Infinite Space is sort of like that, but more typical jrpg and long.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Strange Journuu~ is the bomb.

[demi]

You fat fuck, I already posted all the RPGs for 3DS every time you farted in thethread.

- Devil Survivor Overclocked (superior version of DS1, even an easy mode so the game is actually beatable, includes bonus scenario)
- Tales of the Abyss (PS2 port)
- Kingdom Hearts (uguu)
- Crimson Shroud (downloadable title)
- Denpa Men (cutesy basic RPG with wifi collectable gimmick)
- Paper Mario just kidding, not an RPG

[Human Snorenado]

You fat fuck, I already posted all the RPGs for 3DS every time you farted in thethread.

This thread is all about ME, demi-san. 

[demi]

Here's a bunch of DS games too courtesy of /v/ wiki - very informative

http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo_DS

[Tasty]

[MrAngryFace]

AWWW FUCK! That's right- Pokιmon Mystery Dungeon; First game has one of the best stories in a pokemon game ever. Fucking DARK shit

[Human Snorenado]

DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE, ANDREX, KEEP THAT SHIT OUT OF MY THREAD!  THIS IS ABOUT RPGS, NOT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY!

[Don Flamenco]

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• Chrono Trigger

Fixed.  not even debatable, don't try

[Human Snorenado]

I replayed CT a couple years ago on my pc and it's still really good.  I'd probably give it a 4.5 out of 5.  Keep in mind that I'm gay for Fire Emblem though, so I usually give those games at least 4 out of 5 just for showing up.  We all have our own stupidity.

[Tasty]

DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE, ANDREX, KEEP THAT SHIT OUT OF MY THREAD!  THIS IS ABOUT RPGS, NOT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY!

Lol, Pokemon is about as RPG-y as they come.

[SantaC]

Glory of heracles was pretty decent

[Raban]

Just walk into the DS section of a game shop and spit. It'll land on a decent RPG.

[Steve Contra]

Etrian Odyssey is fun, and hard as fuck. 

[Don Flamenco]

DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE, ANDREX, KEEP THAT SHIT OUT OF MY THREAD!  THIS IS ABOUT RPGS, NOT ANIMAL HUSBANDRY!

Lol, Pokemon is about as RPG-y as they come.

i tried Platinum for a few hours...it was kinda like playing Final Fantasy 1 or something, but with fusion. 

[Steve Contra]

Lemme look and see if I still have Etrian Odyssey somewhere.  If so I'll send it your way so you'll curse my name.

[Himu]

So you shat on the ds' lineup for years without having played nor knowledge of its best games?

 

[Human Snorenado]

So you shat on the ds' lineup for years without having played nor knowledge of its best games?

 

Sure, why not?  Also, the 3DS line up *IS* currently complete crap.

[demi]

Its bout to get sweeeeet as fuk, though.

[Human Snorenado]

Lemme look and see if I still have Etrian Odyssey somewhere.  If so I'll send it your way so you'll curse my name.

I actually played the second EO for a bit right when it came out.  I had a regular DS for like a month before getting disgusted with it. (Likely to be a repeat here, but whatever)

[Human Snorenado]

Its bout to get sweeeeet as fuk, though.

Well yeah, because FIRE EMBLEM

[demi]

And EO4 and SMT4 and Soul Hackers

smang it

[Don Flamenco]

if anything, no question i will get one for SMT4.  Maybe I should buy DS rpgs now so they don't get all expensive on me.

[Tasty]

Its bout to get sweeeeet as fuk, though.

Well yeah, because FIRE EMBLEM POKEMON X/Y

Fixed.

[Mr. Gundam]

I still need to pick up Strange Journey.

Fuck your pokeymanz, man.

[Human Snorenado]

I still need to pick up Strange Journey.

Fuck your pokeymanz, man.

*fistbump*

[Himu]

Get Strange Journey and DQ9.

Then bow down.

[Human Snorenado]

I plan to play DQ9 eventually... more "traditional" jrpgs, while generally enjoyable, aren't as appealing to me as stuff like Fire Emblem, EO, etc.  Please Understand.

[Rusty Shackleford]

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• Chrono Trigger

Fixed.  not even debatable, don't try

I'd second that but the one problem I had with the DS port was that the font was ti-ny. First game I've ever had eyestrain reading the text. Must be getting old.

[Himu]

I plan to play DQ9 eventually... more "traditional" jrpgs, while generally enjoyable, aren't as appealing to me as stuff like Fire Emblem, EO, etc.  Please Understand.

haven't played it but you may enjoy the dark spire

[Mr. Gundam]

I have DQIX, but only played it for an hour or so.

Stupid handhelds.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is OK, especially if you played the GBA ones. Pretty short. Just be careful of those damned PONR.

Still, it was missing...something from the GBA games. Sprite graphics? I don't know. It definitely felt different. And the plot kinda stroked out after the first part. And now I seem to be writing a piece against playing it.

Too bad it didn't sell well

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because that cliffhanger ending is almost certainly never going to be resolved.

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[Don Flamenco]

yeah these RPG prices remind me of trying to buy PS1 RPGs after the fact   

thankfully not too many are above retail yet.  and the used prices at gamestop are way better than the lowest on amazon for many of them.  But seeing how many are OOP, I think I should build the collection now before I get a 3DS.

[Human Snorenado]

yeah these RPG prices remind me of trying to buy PS1 RPGs after the fact   

thankfully not too many are above retail yet.  and the used prices at gamestop are way better than the lowest on amazon for many of them.  But seeing how many are OOP, I think I should build the collection now before I get a 3DS.

Yeah, I was managing a GS at the time, and we had 3 sealed copies of Suikoden II for like $20 each.  I bought them all and made some serious bank on ebay later on. 

I've come to the same conclusion.  I've decided that if it's around $30 or so and it looks interesting to me I'm just gonna buy it, I mean fuck it.  Managed to get a copy of Knights in the Nightmare in the original collector's packaging with the soundtrack for less than that today off ebay and was pretty happy.

[The Sceneman]

get Etrian Odyssey 3

[tiesto]

Radiant Historia and TWEWY were my favorite original games on the platform. Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume is one I'd definitely recommend - I thought was a really underrated game, a cross between VP combat and your typical Tactics Ogre inspired RPG, with multiple endings, a great localization, and the fact you can sacrifice characters to gain new abilities. The EO series never really clicked for me the way it does other people, and I still have to go through stuff like Nostalgia, Heracles, Sands of Destruction, Strange Journey, My World My Way, and the Devil Survivor games.

[Himu]

There's no point in getting any EO with EO4 out next month.

[The Sceneman]

 

[Freyj]

Radiant Historia and TWEWY were my favorite original games on the platform. Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume is one I'd definitely recommend - I thought was a really underrated game, a cross between VP combat and your typical Tactics Ogre inspired RPG, with multiple endings, a great localization, and the fact you can sacrifice characters to gain new abilities. The EO series never really clicked for me the way it does other people, and I still have to go through stuff like Nostalgia, Heracles, Sands of Destruction, Strange Journey, My World My Way, and the Devil Survivor games.

A grave mistake.

[Damian79]

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• Etrian Odyssey
• Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard
• Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
• Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
• Infinite Space
• Radiant Historia 
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

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• Dragon Quest IV: The Chapters of the Chosen
• Dragon Quest V: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride
• Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie
• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
• Inazuma Eleven
• Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard
• Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
• Suikoden Tierkreis
• The World Ends with You
• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

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• Contact
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
• Final Fantasy IV
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
• Solatorobo: Red the Hunter
• The Dark Spire

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• Final Fantasy III

Even though they're not ranked at the top I strongly recommend Infinite Space and Inazuma Eleven for originality. The story in the Inazuma games is made for kids and boring as hell, but the stylus controlled action parts of the game are excellent.

Edit: You know what. Feel free to dock a point from Etrian 2, 3, Devil Survivor 2, and Strange Journey since they're cheap rehashes.

I think that Strange Journey is definitely 5 stars.  I dunno why you think it is a straight rehash though, they older SMT games are nothing like them since they dotn have all the dungeon puzzles in them.  It felt liek wizardry meets smt for me which i loved.

[archnemesis]

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• Chrono Trigger

Fixed.  not even debatable, don't try

I've only played the SNES version running on poor emulators and the borked PS1 version, but sure, it might be worth five stars. Did the NDS version add anything except moving the UI to the second screen?

I think that Strange Journey is definitely 5 stars.  I dunno why you think it is a straight rehash though, they older SMT games are nothing like them since they dotn have all the dungeon puzzles in them.  It felt liek wizardry meets smt for me which i loved.

It felt like a re-skin of Etrian Odyssey with added MegaTen flavor. Maybe I'm just getting a bit burned out on the series.

[Damian79]

Oh, i see where you coming from then.  I actually didnt really like Etrian Odyssey games thoguh so i never got burned on them.

[Himu]

It felt like a re-skin of Etrian Odyssey with added MegaTen flavor. Maybe I'm just getting a bit burned out on the series.

Strange Journey is nothing like EO aside from being first person (something SMT did first) and turn based.

[archnemesis]

It also reuses graphical assets for things like maps.

[Fifstar]

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Out of interest, what RPG's would you consider 5 Stars?

[The Sceneman]

It felt like a re-skin of Etrian Odyssey with added MegaTen flavor. Maybe I'm just getting a bit burned out on the series.

Strange Journey is nothing like EO aside from being first person (something SMT did first) and turn based.

Well all the exploration and UI is identical. But yes the games are quite different gameplay wise

[archnemesis]

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Out of interest, what RPG's would you consider 5 Stars?

This list changes from day to day and I'm probably forgetting several older games, but here are some five stars RPGs that I can name off the top of my head. Some might be on there for the sake of nostalgia since it's been a while since I last played them.

• Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland
• Chrono Trigger
• Dark Souls
• Demon's Souls
• Diablo II
• EverQuest II
• Final Fantasy VI
• Final Fantasy IX
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
• Folklore
• Legend of Grimrock
• Mass Effect
• Mount and Blade: Warband
• Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
• Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
• Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
• Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness
• Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
• Suikoden II
• Suikoden III
• Suikoden V
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Valkyrie Profile
• Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
• Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
• Ys Origin

[Don Flamenco]

This list changes from day to day and I'm probably forgetting several older games, but here are some five stars RPGs that I can name off the top of my head. Some might be on there for the sake of nostalgia since it's been a while since I last played them.

• Atelier

this is where i stopped reading. 

jk, solid list otherwise, of the games I've played.

[archnemesis]

I recently discovered the Atelier series and it will probably be downgraded to four stars once I play a few more of them. What's really cool about them is that they offer a lot more freedom than your typical Japanese RPG.

[Human Snorenado]

I have a goofy way of grading things... to me, only one game in any genre can get a "perfect" score.  So, Planescape Torment has always been the only rpg worthy of 5 starts, 10/10, A+, whatever you want to call it.  Baldur's Gate 2 is a close second- a 9.99 or whatever.  I really like a lot of jrpgs but to me none of them ever compare as the tropes and cliches of the genre just don't do as much for me, and in a lot of cases will actively detract from my enjoyment.  The best jrpg I've ever played is probably Dragon Quarter.  It's all personal preference, but yeah.

[tiesto]

Yeah I think the reason why I can't get into western RPGs that much is that I'm not at all a fan of Star Wars/Lord of the Rings and their tropes/cliches. Usually the western RPGs I like tend to be ones that have a somewhat different setting (and preferably decent combat mechanics).