I was wondering if yall could help me out. I'm wanting to get some new rpgs for the ps2 but so far the ones I have bought just havent been that great. So far I have FFX, Shadowhearts, BG: Dark Alliance, Wild arms 3, and Summoner 2. I dont really want to blow 40-50 bucks on sub par games so any input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks alot

FFX was substandard for the Final Fantasy series, but still not what I would call sub-par. Wild Arms 3 was good also good so I'm trying to figure out your issue. Perhaps the inability to adapt to other styles of RPG gaming? At any rate Summoner 1 was far from it's true potential so I wouldn't have expected much better from it's sequal. If you were looking for RPG in Dark Alliance, you were sorely mislead. Shadowhearts I can neither agree nor disagree with your views on that game.

NOW!! to the useful stuff. If you can hold out a little bit longer, StarOcean: Till the End of Time will be out soon, and if you know anything about console rpgs you know that the StarOcean series is THE BEST.

At anyrate it all depends on what you're looking for in an RPG. But from your dislikes listed above, you make it sound like it doesn't exist.

Any of these take your fancy ;)

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Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse
Dark Cloud
Deus Ex: The Conspiracy
Dragon Quest VIII
Drakengard
Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes
Ephemeral Fantasia
Eternal Ring
Evergrace
EverQuest Online Adventures
EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers
Fengshen Yanyi: Legends of Gods and Heroes
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XI: Vision of Ziraat
Final Fantasy XII
Forever Kingdom
Grandia II
Grandia Xtreme
Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland
Jade Cocoon 2
King's Field: The Ancient City
Legaia 2: Duel Saga
Lilie no Atelier
Lunatic Dawn Tempest
Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color
Monster Rancher 3
Monster Rancher 4
Nobunaga's Ambition Online
Okage: Shadow King
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
PoPoLoCrois: Hajimari no Bouken
RPG Maker 2
Sega Ages Vol. 13: Phantasy Star II
Sega Ages Vol. 14: Phantasy Star IV
Sega Ages Vol. 1: Phantasy Star Generation 1
Seven: Molmorth no Kiheitai
Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts 2
Shadow Tower Abyss
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Skies of Arcadia
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Suikoden III
Summoner
Summoner 2
Sunrise Eiyutan
Tales of Destiny 2
Tenshi no Present: Marle Oukoku Monogatari
The Legend of Alon D'ar
Times of Trouble
Tsugunai: Atonement
UNLIMITED SaGa
Warrior Blade
Warriors of Might and Magic
Wild ARMs 3
Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose
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[ 07-28-2003, 08:41 AM: Message edited by: GokuZool ]

Thanks for the help. I actually worded my question wrong because I didnt mean to come off unpleaseable, I guess I'm just a little disappointed in the PS2 RPGs so far as it seems they are putting more effort in just making a pretty game rather than a game full of depth an substance. FFX was a decent game but was just so easy it was ridiculus, Wild Arms was a good game but it was more a Zelda type adventure game than a RPG an oddly enough Summoner 2 was pretty fun. Shadowhearts is a good game, its like a dark mature FF game in my opinion. I guess I'm hoping they will come out with an rpg for ps2 that was as great as FF6 was on the SNES.

Are you forgetting that you can play all the old PS games on a PS2?
There are some really fun games in that catalog.

The Suikoden series, I&II being ps1 and III being ps2 are a great rpg series, with many minigames, 108 npcs to find to join your party, and multiple stories/endings. Great stuff, 100's of hours of entertainment.

I don't blame ya. most PS2 RPG comes from the Japan and not many westeners can adapt to easterners style of rpgs.

btw, playing PS games on PS2 may cause DRE problem. not recommeded.

I don't blame ya. most PS2 RPG comes from the Japan and not many westeners can adapt to easterners style of rpgs.

btw, playing PS games on PS2 may cause DRE problem. not recommeded. </font>[/QUOTE]Changing the "Disc Read Speed" in the PS2 Browser can fix any read errors.

PSone RPG's (compatible with PS2, don't listen to Kakero :D )

Alundra
Alundra 2
Arc the Lad
Arc the Lad Collection
Arc the Lad II
Arc the Lad III
Bealphareth
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Breath of Fire III
Breath of Fire IV
Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon
Chrono Cross
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest IV
Dragon Valor
Dragon Warrior VII
Eithea
Elder Gate
Final Fantasy Anthology
Final Fantasy Chronicles
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Front Mission 3
Grandia
Guardian's Crusade
Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu
Kartia
Khamrai
King's Field
King's Field II
Legend of Dragoon
Legend of Legaia
Legend of Mana
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Parasite Eve
Persona
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Persona 2: Innocent Sin
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
RPG Maker
Saga Frontier
Saga Frontier 2
Shadow Madness
Star Ocean: The Second Story
Suikoden
Suikoden II
Tales of Destiny
Tales of Destiny 2
Tales of Phantasia
Thousand Arms
Threads of Fate
Too Human
Torneko: The Last Hope
Vagrant Story
Valkyrie Profile
Vandal Hearts
Vandal Hearts II
Volfoss
Wild Arms
Wild Arms 2
Xenogears

That`s quite a looong list you got there GookuZool. [img]smile.gif[/img] FF series is great. [img]smile.gif[/img]