Recommend some console RPGs please

[schild]

The ring is MUCH MORE distinct in 2. We're talking hard edges and more vibrant colors across the board.

[Rasix]

The ring is MUCH MORE distinct in 2. We're talking hard edges and more vibrant colors across the board.

Yes, so far is it MUCH easier to see.  Thank the risen Yuri.

This game so far is beautiful, polished and deep.  I am excited.

Does using the technical ring make a tremendous difference?  I hate having 2 attacks being negated because I missed the third target area.

Edit: combos frighten me.

[Yegolev]

I am waiting until I finish Atelier Iris 2 before restarting SH2, so not 100% sure.  When I originally started SH2, I remember the normal ring required slight adjustments to my SH1 skillset, and I never moved up to the Tech ring other than to try it.  After a few total misses, I dropped back down a bit.  Hitting consistently is better than inconsistently, of course.

Edit: Combos are interesting but of course require practice.  I think I should try to get good at them, since extra turns are very good.

[Riggswolfe]

Enchant Arms is a terrible piece of shit actually. Unfortunately I'm going to have to bite the bullet and just buy it because I want a lot more RPGs to come out for the 360.

Have you played the Japanese version or something? Can you tell me what you didn't like about it?

[Riggswolfe]

I played the demo to nintey nine nights, which is SORT OF rpgish, that seemed fun.

OK, it's stretching, it's not really RPG at all. :/  It was cool, though.

I was interested in this until I found out it didn't have coop. What I love about the Dynasty Warriors games (which this resembles) is the mindless fun with a friend you can have.

[schild]

Most of it's heresay. Just people who played it and thought it was generic trash. No one had anything specifically bad to say about it because there's nothing special about it. I, however, am always willing to struggle through the first few JRPGs of each generation. It's sort of like a self-inflicted hazing ritual.

[Riggswolfe]

Most of it's heresay. Just people who played it and thought it was generic trash. No one had anything specifically bad to say about it because there's nothing special about it. I, however, am always willing to struggle through the first few JRPGs of each generation. It's sort of like a self-inflicted hazing ritual.

Sounds like we have that in common Schild. I constantly bitch about JRPGS, the monotonous random battles, the cutesy animal character that usually shows up, the stereotypes most of them have, the feminine male characters...

Then I go buy the damn things anyway.

[Trippy]

Dark Cloud 2 is good fun (hey, you get to pilot your own steampunk "mech", what's not to like?). Still has the best fishing mechanic I've played in an RPG.

If you like the Action RPG genre there's the Kingdom Hearts series.

The Xenosaga series is a strange beast. The game plays more like a semi-interactive movie with oodles and oodles of cutscenes. If you are really into deep stories it might be worth slogging through.

If you like SRPGs there is, of course, Disgaea (like schild mentioned).

Front Mission 4, though it is an RPG (with mechs!), is really all about the tactical combat. If you don't enjoy long drawn out battles, don't bother with it -- the story isn't all that interesting.

The Shadow Hearts series is good as well, as other people have mentioned. The stories are darker and more mature than your typical JRPGs released in the West so they are a nice change of pace.

Star Ocean 3 is not good. Stay away from that.

Since you have a GC I recommend Tales of Symphonia as well. The real-time combat is fun and the characters are reasonably interesting (except for the main character, of course). The complexity of the story is along the lines of the more recent FFs (and rips off many elements from them).

[Triforcer]

Chrono Trigger is pretty overrated IMO. Still a great game, but not really in the calibur of FF6.

Crack.  You smoke it.

[schild]

Dark Cloud 2 is good fun (hey, you get to pilot your own steampunk "mech", what's not to like?). Still has the best fishing mechanic I've played in an RPG.

Steambot Chronicles > Dark Cloud 2.

Skip Darkcloud 2 and if you must play a game by Level 5, wait for Rogue Galaxy this fall.

[geldonyetich]

Dark Cloud 2 is a fairly good and deep game, but it drags on a bit long.  Like, here's 200 dungeon levels to trample through, and please repeat each level a dozen times to cash in on all offered incentives and to rebuild the cities 100%.  I gave it away knowing my life span likely would not be sufficient to complete 100% of what the game offered.  Well, at least you can find it a lot cheaper than Steambot Chronicles, which I've yet to play, but looks fairly orgasmic.  Rogue Galaxy desire has erected a small shrine in my frontal lobe.

[voodoolily]

GC - If you don't have a Gamecube, it's not worth getting for the following though IT is good):
Baten Kaitos (2nd one coming out soon)

I was gonna say that, but for god sakes turn the voice acting off! It is fucking terrible. The game is pretty though. And the card battle thing is tricky to get used to but fun once you do.

[Riggswolfe]

These Suikoden games are not good for me. I get obsessed with finding all 108 Stars of Destiny. In V I just screwed up and missed one and now I'm considering losing my 50 hours of gameplay to restart it so I get her this time around.

Damn.

I put it down for awhile and played some Dark Cloud 2. It's fun so far, though I suspect I'll get obsessed with the camera and trying to make inventions. I don't like how so far at least I just have to make random guesses (unless the invention is needed for the plot) about how to invent things with my "ideas".

I am going to look at some of these others. I have Zenosaga 1 but haven't been able to make myself play it. Something keeps holding me back.