Recommended Games & Favorite Genre, Lets share! Options

[Rui L'cie]

I'm sure everyone here has played lots of different games, from awesome games to horrible ones that you dont even want to remember again.

So, what games do you recommend people to play? or is there any must play games? Tell me about your favorite games genre too!
* lets exclude Final Fantasy, because I'm sure everyone play this already..and Its way to well known to the world.
and also Harvest Moon from the list of recommended games.

For me, I love RPG and Tactics, most of the game I played came from those two genres.
And here are some games that I recommend people to play.

-Star Ocean series
-Atelier Mana series
-Gensou Suikoden series
-.hack series
-Fire emblem
-Disgaea
-Galerians (I think this game is extinct, because the first series if PS1, that was released more than 5 years ago, and I had difficulties to find the sequel for PS2)

[Nurse Fin]

My favorite game genre is RPG, and I've been a die-hard Xeno Freak since age 12. So obviously I recommend the Xenogears and Xenosaga series... I've never come across any games with such an in-depth universe. It takes hours upon hours to read through XS III's full database alone.

I can't say too much about the plot without giving away spoilers... but the story of Xenogears still feels groundbreaking, even though it's been over 10 years since its release. I really wish they'd re-release it for the PSN Network like they did in Japan, and finally make it available in Europe too.

And I grew so close with the cast of Xenosaga, after following them around and getting to know them over the course of 3 full-length games. I was so sad when the series finally ended, it was like saying goodbye to a close friend. I still play through the games at least once a year. Even with some of the notorious drawbacks to the gameplay (yes, even as a fan I admit the cutscenes are very long, the first episode especially seemed slow-paced, and the aesthetic differences between episode I and II are jarring, and turned a lot of people off... and while I loved the battle systems, I's especially, some people felt it required too much thought and strategy *cough* like that's a bad thing... but the 3rd episode was so incredibly epic that it made up for any faults the first two might have had)... I've never been so captivated by a video game before. There were parts that moved me to tears, anger, and parts that I found pretty creepy, and I'm not so easily creeped. And hey, the protagonist is female. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/monster.png) (though I loved Jr. and KOS-MOS way more than Shion)

The game didn't fall victim to making the plot a sugar-coated field of flowers in order to please everyone; and while I'm sad that not everyone's story is "happily ever after", because I really wanted to see all the characters succeed, and make it through to the end, and get what they want, and etc (except for Dr. Yuriev *cough*), it also made the game that much more powerful. Man, I'm feeling so worked up thinking about it that I feel like I'll have to go play now. Oh, and the mechas are awesome and their pseudo-science is thorough and pretty believable, considering.

On top of that, the dubs for Xenosaga I & III are pretty fantastic... and the translations doubly so... I like the dialogue in English waaaaaay better than the Japanese version, since they make so many references to things that have more grounding in the English language. For example, Revelations is more epic in English than it is in Japanese.

I could also go on explaining all the odd allusions and references to Gears that were in Saga, but it would be long-winded, spoilerific, and would probably seem like moonspeak to anyone that hasn't played the series. So... I'll stop now.

[/fangirl gushing]

(In comparison the Xenosaga anime was just awful though, don't watch it. The plot got all weird and messed up. Virgil... seriously...? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaeyes.gif) )

And yeah, Chrono Trigger follows the Xeno series; it's awesome... I really loved Cross too, but I have trouble associating it as a direct sequel to Trigger. It felt more like an alternate-dimension kind of thing... it was so dark compared to Trigger.



Also~ Seiken Densetsu 3~ that was my favorite installment of the Mana series. It's just plain fun to play.