You guys (Shin and Loli) have excellent tastes in RPGs and games in general, though I'd hate to admit that I've never actually beaten Grandia II.
I was surprised to see Skies of Arcadia and the Lunar games mentioned. I thoroughly enjoyed them, but I never felt the urge to beat them multiple times.
I've been meaning to replay Growlanser 2&3 for the alternate endings, but I'm usually lazy with that sort of thing.
Thanks. I try to get around and experience any games that are well renoun.
Growlanser is my shitttt! I wear the ring weapon that you get from the limited edition on my necklace. =D Getting the character specific endings in Growlanser 2 isn't really a big change though. It's honestly not really worth it unless you plan on importing the characters into 3 (which is pretty lol if you do). But really, 3 is way to easy since they give you access to the arena so early. I mass leveled super early and got to a point where I could just spam that fucking...I don't remember the name of it. Inferno or something? I dunno, but it was massive AOE and huge damage at the cost of all of your MP, but with max level MP drain (which was learnable through scrolls lol), you refilled it all back up for free anyway. It was just dumb. And somehow it could do more than the max damage, even though it didn't display it. I could one shot the final boss, yet he had more hp than you could deal in a single attack. That always baffled me. Anyway, the only really awesome variant endings that are must see are siding with Wolfgang and to a lesser degree siding with Max. Wolfgang path is surprisingly long and well made.
For me, FF Tactics and SRW games. Awhile ago I would replay Fire Emblem games a lot. But they've kinda died down on me
SRW! Man, I have to be honest with you guys. I liked Battle Moon Wars more than any SRW game. I guess I just love Type Moon way more than anything mecha.
LS - I still have my original Megadrive copies of Golden Axe and Altered Beast, complete with manuals.
FFFFFFFFFFFFucking awesome! Those were my favorite brawlers from back in the day, no joke. If I ever end up staying at your place somehow, we're gonna be bootin some midgets for sure. beepbeep
Which reminds me, Dragon Force. One of the best games for the Saturn ever.
Hardest metal known to man? Seriously though, the only Saturn game I know of is the Panzer Dragoon rpg. What's Dragon Force?
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Come to think of it, just about any of the "Metroidvanias" I've played and beaten more than once.
- Gunstar Heroes. Still good. So is the GBA remake, although I never really had any trouble except in Black's stage, which was even more sadistic than the original. It had a good joke about how there was a "Save Destroyer" that'd delete your save if it caught you, though. Sadly, this got axed in the US release.
- Tecmo Super Bowl. Back when my hometown team (The Buffalo Bills) didn't completely suck. At least in TSB, they'll always be gods, even if our quarterback is "QB Bills" instead of Jim Kelly.
Yo, am I a blasphemer for loving Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow the most of any Castlevania games? Also Gunstar Heroes was badass. Somehow I liked Metal Slug games more though (probably just cuz of the knifing. Shit's so fun go rambo and knife everything) Also lol techmo super bowl.
Let's see...
MMZ3, still attempting to get a 100% playthrough. Got about halfway.
Golden Sun if just to see those awesome graphics again.
Not really much else unless it has multiple endings.
Yo, do it. MMZ3's ending is GODLIKE. What a stellar story that series has (except MMZ4. just....don't play that one). Also, Golden Sun is another series I've always wanted to play, but I never did because handhelds give me hand cramps. =\
Grandia II is a very good game as well. If you get a chance, play it. Oh, and Millenia FTW
Finally, one game I failed to mention before that I go back to all the time for the lols of the story and the overall gameplay is Thousand Arms.
Millenia has one of the best personalities of any rpg character ever. What a memorable character. I've actually heard of and seen Thousand Arms before. The game seems kind of clunky in some ways, but I can see the appeal behind it. It was brought up to me by my best friend when all the hype was going on for Ar Tonelico. He was like "I don't get the hype. It's not like it's incredibly unique or something. Does nobody know of Thousand Arms?"
Donkey Kong is an Arcade game, I have not known it to be on any other platform... Which is really a smart business move on Nintendo's part; one installment of $40 or 10,000,000,000 installments of $0.25 and I think... 125... 625... multiply the 2, carry the one... yes, it's a lot more.
Oh, my bad. I thought it was NES for some reason. Shows what I know about DK.