Yessssss, its from Power Rangers! Can’t believe I forgot! Was it the Green Ranger’s robot? All I remember is MegaZord. BTW - any of y’all Facebook?
Just to catchup with this thread
Mario RPG is the best RPG I ever played. Mario RPG is the only RPG I ever played. But I did try Chrono Trigger and did not like it. :arazz:
DK2 is one of my favorite SNES games.
Actraiser 2 was the most difficult game I beat.
And getting all Gold trophies in Gran Turismo license tests was the most difficult execution task I accomplished.
Mario RPG was a great game, and the only RPG I’ve ever liked too.
The Gran Turismo license tests were totally bogus. As soon as I got the bronze trophy, I was done with that shit.
All of them were called zords:
I am genuinely surprised for the support SMRPG is getting over here! I still hold its not because of the game or story but because of the characters… and the fact that Square made them awesome but to each their own.
Oh my gosh, on the hardest games list of all time, Ghouls’ N’ Goblins! UH OH!!! That stuff is CRAZY hard. Like stupid hard. But you know what? I think we can use some more games that are hard… that don’t just let people do everything at once, that require effort… oh I shouldn’t crap talk SF4 anymore…
So, based on the opinions here I went and got DKC2 and started playing it… I’m just not having fun with it… I can’t explain why, I feel iike I SHOULD be having fun… but I’m not…I will say this though, the soundtrack is better than I remember and the music really does fit the environments and theme of the game well…
In terms of console RPG games the one i most fondly remember is Grandia.
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God i love that opening music.
Place me in the DKC games are over-rated camp. They were more like graphics demos than actual games. Every Mario game every made > DKC games.
Speaking of Mario, I think I’m the only one who really loved Super Mario 2 (yes, I know it was another game in Japan that they added Mario characters to and released here). Maybe that was because I learned how to time the Slot machine at the end so that I could get 3 cherries in a row for 5 extra lives almost every time. I ended up with so many extra lives by level 3 I couldn’t help but beat the game, LOL.
Someone mentioned Battle Ogre as best RPG, that’s a strategy RPG, whole different catagory (Siver Rain and me all ready went over the sub-catagories of RPG’s, LOL). I still like Final Fantasy Tactics the best, dispite the story, and Tactics Ogre is actually much better than Battle Ogre, if you can actually find it.
Beating a game actually meant something back in those days, when games were much harder. Remember the original NES Ninja Gaidens? Battletoads and Ghosts and Goblins have already been mentioned.
Final random thought, LOL: I love the NES. I still play Contra, Bionic commando, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, Zelda, and Zelda 2 on it every now and then. Amazing how well some of those games still play today.
Damn all this talk about old school games makes me want to hack my iphone.
Grandia is good. I actually have really fond memories of Grandia 2 on the Dreamcast… there was hardly any story to speak of but combat was really fun.
Super Mario 2 is fun. It’s different, but it is fun. How can you not enjoy a game where you can finally give Luigi and Toad their due? I too would take FFT over Ogre Battle, but Ogre Battle on the SNES was kina RTSRPG where FFT is Turn Based SRPG, I think though that the story and the way you could come up with so many different endings in Ogre Battle was really cool. And there’s something really rewarding about a well timed tarot card turning the tide in your favor…
Tactics Ogre is probably better competition in the FFT space, but FFT is just so freakin’ fantastic… I’d love to see a true sequal to that too… Man, all this talk about Square is going to tick me off, no real CT sequel, no FFT seuqel… That does not make me a happy camper!
Talk about a game which kept its difficulty! Ninja Gaiden! Whew! Ninja Gaiden / 2 / 3 / XBOX 1 / XBOX 2… all tough… and completely unforgiving… that’s a series that deserves some respect. Where’s Chris Hu when we need a “I respec Dat!”? (Also, just as a commentary, nice job by the FGC to pony up 20K for him and his family… good stuff to everyone who donated!)
Those NES games you mentioned are really masterpieces and hence stand the test of time… and of course a reason to come back to these games 10 years later is their difficulty… you have to see if you’ve improved enough to get it done!
All about the swordless Zelda run.
Swordless? This I have to see!
Honestly, not that hard, and you do need the sword at the very end.
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I felt Langrisser/Warsong was vastly superior to Tactics Ogre in every regard.
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Has anyone played any of the Final Fantasy Tactics games for the GBA or DS? I’d like to see a “real” sequel on a console, I still pop in FFT and play it a bunch as well. The job system and all the customization you can do to your party really is fun in that game (though you can’t really beat a leveled up Knight or Squire that has a Ninja’s ability to hold two swords. High HP and super high damage output).
Don’t forget Shining Force! Great for it’s time on the Genesis, I never got to play the Saturn SF3 (of which I think the last 2 parts were never localized for the US).
Ahh Grandia. That was easily the most overhyped/overrated game of the late 90s. I remember when it came out on the Saturn in Japan and people were saying it was a FF7 killer. Then two years later we finally get it on the PS1 stateside… Wow. Trash. The voice acting was horrible. The characters were retarded. The story was complete non-sense (I have to become an adventurer!). I remember getting a little bit into the second disk before saying “fuck this” and going back to Final Fantasy Anthology.
I hear Grandia 2 was nice though…
See, I think this is what I was most interested in. How would you beat Ganon at the end without a sword? But since you need it at the end… eh…
I played FFT Advance on the GBA. It was good. It wasn’t FFT but it was good. It was a little too colorful, a little too happy kid like for me…
Shining Force is amazing! Domingo is the most broken awesome character in SF. SF2 is also amazing. I would love to play SF3 but you are correct in that chapters 2 and 3 were never released outside of Japan. I could go play some Shining Force for hours!
I have SF1 and 2 on a compilation disk somewhere, I might just have to find it and play some SF tonight, LOL.
I heard that SF3 was amazingly good, really wish I could play it (all three chapters).
Last two thoughts:
- Best.Thread. Evar.
- We are all huge nerds, LOL.
I said it once and I’ll say it again. This is quickly (if not already) turning into a thread of the year candidate… the best example of thread derailment EVER! Complete with mathematical references and appropriate international nerd dicussion ranging from sports to battletoads… I mean really… how awesome is it to have in the same thread discussion of World Cup Soccer (example) to Battletoads?
I would love to play SF3. Unfortuanately since its not really a rom there’s no way to get in there and get a good fan translation… or is there? If there is one out there… please let us know.
Oh and Possum, you’ve been so cool, you make me want to come down for Power Up… I’m actually going to have to consider it now… DARN YOU! Actually since I can’t play on a PS3 pad and don’t have a PS3 stick I’m not going… but it made me do a double check… Now if I had a place to stay…
I have a PS3 stick and a PS2 stick with a PS3 adapter, I can let you borrow one for the tourney, no problem. Can’t help with the place to stay, my house is already a little crowded, LOL. If you go I’ll have to bring FFT or an NES or something, LOL.