/vr/ - Retro Games

Try SaGa Frontier, Romancing SaGa 3, or if you want a remake of a retro game Romancing SaGa.

Though they handle adventuring differently than other JRPG's, you have to wrest it from the game and be willing to get stomped many times over, but if you continually explore and experiment you will be rewarded. Just because you got easily obliterated in one adventure doesn't mean you have to keep pursuing it, there are many quests of varying degrees of difficulty.

Personally I have yet played a video game that has given me the sense of adventure Romancing SaGa has. Trying to find quests, trying to figure out where to go and what to do to complete the quests, over coming the bosses, no other game instilled that amount of adventure to me since most just lead you around by your nose.