The majority of console RPG’s aren’t RPG’s.
Lack of roleplaying elements = Not an RPG.
I dislike a lot of classically based RPGs that more or less stick to the old, basic formula or doesn’t expand on it too much. Or even hate, sometimes (Dragon Quest epitomises this) and the best of them I find to be only mediocre.
So…Suikodens except Tactics, Chrono Trigger, a lot of the Final Fantasies, all Breath of Fires except Dragon Quarter, and others still, are all not loved. Or even liked. Or even tolerated (DQ…ugh).
Also, even if the game does have great innovations, if it’s more level up oriented more than anything, I’ll probably dislike it. Goodbye MMOs and NIS!
After reading the last few posts it took me a while to realize DQ does not mean Dairy Queen…
That…was unbelievably funny to me.
“Dairy Queen 9 has reverted back to its roots, as it always does!”
I hate Kingdom Hearts. Seriously. And I’ve tried so hard to get into it.
Every single video game ever created is a RPG.
I also can’t stand Kingdom Hearts. I would have hoped a game that starts Disney characters would easily be one of my favorites. Too bad the game is repetitive like a mothafucker.
Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door > All other Mario RPGs
I thought Kingdom Hearts was a good game. The thing that pressed me onward was wanting to see who would show and how they played a role in the whole thing…but to each, their own.
List the srpgs that’re better. (SRPGs in the U.S. that is. I know Japan’s spoiled with a few decent SRPGs that’ll never see the light of day here.)
FFT’s story is the highlight for me. Gameplay’s good too, so long as you don’t break it. (No one but yourself is to blame for using Orlandu or Calculators or other shit) Music’s fucking great too.
It’s probably been said before, but FF7 is not the best RPG ever. It’s not 1997 anymore.
Not really a unpopular opinion…however there’s still many people who honestly believe the game’s the best.
I find a lot of popular and award-winning games of the past 5 years to be completely overrated. A few…
Gears of War - A not-so-amazing game that was given ratings out of complete hype. The singleplayer is an absolute borefest. The entire game is the Duck, Peak, Shoot, Progress. To make it less iterative, they’d throw in a few shallow boss sequences and a bad driving sequence. Another problem is the difficulty. It’s too damn easy. I played on Hardcore or whatever the hardest option you’re given from the start. Didn’t die more than once per Act. The multiplayer is full of tards and isn’t that fun either.
Rainbow Six : Vegas - It’s a good game for sure. But I don’t know one person who even touched this game’s single-player. Even if I’m playing online coop with all my friends, we just can’t stand the singleplayer. It’s a clone of Gears of War except everyone dies in less hits and theres no bosses. Terrorist Hunt is a lot more fun, or just the multiplayer in general.
Bioshock - Another good game. It’s your typical action FPS with a somewhat broken RPG system tacked on. Definitely not worth all the 100% ratings it has received. The game is done in 3 days, and has no replayability because you’ll experience everything to be experienced in one game.
Twilight Princess - Yet again, another good game. Despire this, it’s probably my least favorite Zelda in the series. Maybe the crappy and imprecise Wii controller was to blame.
Elderscrolls 4 : Oblivion - I’m very disappointed in this game. I hyped the hell out of it. The day it came out, I went out and bought the Collectors Edition early in the morning. At first I was having a lot of fun. But soon enough I realized that the game was shallow and boring. Too many things irked me; Level Scaling, Rewardless Dungeons, Low number of Skills, No Levitation, Small-feeling world, Fast Travel, Bad Plot, Few Guilds, Awful Ragdoll.
If anything, Oblivion reminded me of how amazing Morrowind was - so I went back and played that for another 100 hours.
All RPGs, western or japanese, become Monkey Island games without fun combat systems.
No game developed by Sqeenix in their history has had either innovative or skill-based combat. All you have to do, 99.9999% of the time, is level up the right skills, magicks, materia, whatever. This includes Kingdom Hearts, in which bashing your opponents over the head repeatedly was almost always more effective than magic.
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PUBLISHED by Sqeenix, DEVELOPED by Tri-Ace) is a good example of a battle system that’s fun AND skill-based. If you suck, YOU WILL DIE, many times regardless of level. If you get surrounded by enemies, you can get STUN-LOCKED AND DIE. And if you’re a masochist, you can fight post-game bosses WHO CAN KILL YOUR ENTIRE PARTY IN ONE SHOT WITH NO WARNING. In order to defeat the tough enemies, you must attack at the right times and with the right attacks or THEY’LL EAT YOUR ASS.
special note: It’s possible to survive “party killers”, but you must be perfectly equipped, and only on Normal. Star Ocean 3 also has Easy, Hard, and Ball-Crushing difficulties. On Ball-Crushing, the first enemies you meet can kill you in two (and sometimes one) hits.
Statistics just sounds like you dont like rpgs. People play rpgs cause there fun, I will always play Dragon Quest games even though part 8 doesnt take that much skill, still though dragon quest 2,3,5,6,7 all take skill to play. Doesnt matter what level you are in most Dragon Quest games you still will die. The only reason im replying is you said Sqe-enix. Most people have no idea what there talking when it comes to rpgs they think the FF games are the only rpgs made.
Wait what? Star Ocean Till the end of this shitty plot is someones basis on an arguement point? Especially when 2 owned it in every concievable fashion including battle system.
I’ll agree that 3 had a shitty story and that 2 is a lot better overall.
(Speaking of which, can’t wait for the PSP remakes of 1 and 2 later.)
SO3 also seemed to catch the main-character’s-a-whiny-bitch syndrome that Final Fantasy X started.
I happen to like 3 better for a few small reasons, some of which probably hold no significance some players:
- Scene skip. OH GOD scene skip.
- Post-game is a tad easier to level up in.
- MP kills. Nice to know there’s two outs for every enemy.
- Stackable Bunny Shoes; try putting 4 or more on a weapon for laughs.
SO3 may have been skilled-based in some areas, but when the only hope of defeating Galaxy-difficulty (or whatever the hardest difficulty was) hidden bosses was crafting repeated stun/damage grenades, I stop considering that “skill-based.”
Not to say the game wasn’t fun for a while. Except the first half of disc 1. PEOPLE DON’T STOP TALKING! But at least, unlike Xenogears, I could skip all that dialog by RAPID-TAPPING X UNTIL MY THUMB IS SORE WHY ARE THEY STILL TALKING!!? :tdown:
… Albel was cool. Maybe not top tier enemy killing cool, but still cool.
All the Star Oceans after 2 were shit.
Real time/Turn based battle systems fucking suck.
Despite that, Vagrant Story is the best Final Fantasy game ever made.
American movie screenwriters are better than Japanese scriptwriters.
Well, if I didn’t cover it before—> that old 6-player Xmen arcade game. It was just “ok” to me, even at the time. I had much more fun with TMNT and Streets of Rage 2. The Xmen also looked stupid to me back then, since I was more familiar with their look from the later comics and the early 90s cartoon on Fox.
Mutant Storm was greatness, and it saddens me that Mutant Storm Empire apparently just disappeared from existence.(I recall MSE was supposed to be out by the end of 2006. Fast forward to now, and there’s nothing…no news, previews, nothing. I googled it, and the most recent news I found of it was from June 2006.) Nobody else ever gave a shit about the game, so I figure that fits here as an “unpopular gaming opinion”.
*and I still despise turn-based “action” in any video game. I always have to get a little cheap shot in on that, of course. I recently looked up a few battles from Dragon Warrior on youtube, just to laugh at how crappy that bullshit is. What a pile of dookey…ugh, terrible.
I prefer Super Castlevania 4 over SOTN. Can’t count how many times I’ve been chewed out over that 
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Ico is the most overrated underrated game ever…if that makes sense
I actually thought Quest 64 was a decent game. The spells were imbalanced as fuck, but I actually liked the battle system.
as_crazytank is funner than any other CS map. Screw you guys that play nothing but Dust and Aztec 
Turn based combat is amazingly boring.