/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7236938
Super Mario RPG

Try something new that you think looks fun

>>7236938
Play the best ones first or you'll not get into it, but then at the same time the best will ruin the rest.

ff7

chrono trigger

ff9

super mario rpg

parasite eve 1 and 2

golden sun 1 and 2

xenogears

lunar legends

legend of dragoon

honestly there's like 50 of them on the psx alone that tons liked, another was

grandia

and odd one is

riviera the promised land

etc etc

oh, can't leave out pokemon games

Valkyrie Profile

persona

the battlenetwork megaman games

etc etc

>>7236942
This. If an RPG doesn't grab you on its own and you only play it after having it recommended you probably won't like it.

be aware that final fatasy tactics is different than other ff games.

also, some final fantasy games are not really rpgs. Though tactics is, ff adventure or legends for the gameboy would not be if I recall, and one was actually a first, the real first, secret of mana game. USA first was on the snes though. Then there's a third for the usa, but we never got it, so it'd be two to us when really threee. But they're not turn based thingies so it doesn't count. If they did, my next post is 'rpg elements' games list if I were lazy posting I'd post that. I better not.

>>7236938
it's all the same shit read a wiki on the nonsense plot

>>7236938
start at ff7 (the first rpg) and work your way up

>>7236980
It's more art and ambiance than great plots. It's about escaping your world. That's why they are so otherworldly. Do you want to star in a comfortable adventure or in a Hannibal Lecture novel?

Think about it. It's a game, not a book. You play the role, you self insert into a life more than story. Grinding even makes it fell like work. The level system, the battles drawn out, it makes it take longer than normal games. It's like a life.

I would rather be born into a magnificent world than be a well drawn character in a well drawn story for the gods to laugh at. It's not a sim game but a rpg.

Get it?

Well, the people that make/made them and play them do get it.

>>7237040
Pretentious cunt

>>7236938
ff7/pokemon

>>7236950
I've only played the beginning of chrono trigger, the beginning of ff7, and like halfway through a pokemon game I get stuck because I have no idea how to level my pokemon to the point they need to be leveled to. The irony is, I hoard roms and especially rpgs like the apocalypse is in an hour, but for some reason I just never seem to stick to them.

pic related because my ape brain just likes platformers and roguelites

Pokemon red/blue
Skies of arcadia

>>7236938
chrono trigger is a good game to start with since the pacing is excellent and it isn't difficult to complete.

>>7236938
> I wanted to get into the RPG genre
You think you do, but you don't. If you haven't been conditioned since childhood to enjoy the slow paced grindy gameplay and retarded story tropes then you never will.

If you must, then go with Chrono Trigger. It's OK, at least for an RPG.

>>7237256
>> If you haven't been conditioned since childhood to enjoy the slow paced grindy gameplay and retarded story tropes then you never will.

I say something similar about sexual and romantic endeavors to people on the Internet but they always delete it as pedo apology.

>>if you must, go for the least mature that is pretty and sounds nice

XD

>>7236938
Chrono Trigger.
And Moraff's World.

>>7237089
>roguelites
if you can play roguelites , i don't see how you can't beat pokemons. unless you have a very special kind of ADHD for furryshit.

Whatever you do know that there is absolutely no shame in speeding up turn based battles with an emulator and using save states to avoid failing and having to repeat shit. You're time is valuable, use it wisely, ignore purist pseuds.

Final Fantasy VII, Pokémon Red/Blue and Chrono Trigger are the most historically and culturally important JRPGs in history. If you cant enjoy and get through those don't even bother with anything else retro and try the modern stuff like Dark Souls instead.

>>7237384
>Final Fantasy VII, Pokémon Red/Blue and Chrono Trigger are the most historically and culturally important JRPGs in history.
kys

Looking at the image you uploaded, the original Fallout.

>>7237394
it's true, it by no means implies they are the best, they just had the largest impact on the collective conscious of humanity.

>inb4 people saying it's the og final fantasy, dragon quest, etc for the sake of being pioneers or whatever
You wouldn't claim rupestrian cave paintings to be the absolute most historically and culturally important paintings

Oh and I just realized OP was referring to rpgs in general, not just jrpgs. that does change things a bit but it seems like the entirety of the thread is exclusively discussing jrpgs.

>>7236938
>Rape sux!

>>7236938
Damn, bitch, you live like this?

Don't listen to these faggots. Play Phantasy Star IV or Breath of Fire 1.

>>7236938
Fallout 1

Visual novels are better, no retarded grinding and bullshit

>>7237873
wrpgs are better

>>7236938
Play Ff7 or smth

>>7236938
If you go into a new genre you always start with the best.
For cRPGs that would be Planescape Torment.
For action RPGs it's Gothic 1. Unless you want first person perspective, then it's Arx Fatalis.
If you want something that controls like an action RPG but isn't one, it's TES Morrowind.
Then there's Deus Ex which technically is an RPG but it's also so much more and it's the best game in this post.

That's a total of 5 RPGs that will serve as a good introduction to the genres. I didn' include any jRPG because I don't play gay shit but some anons praise Kingdom Hearts if you're into this shit.

>>7237421
They were when it got good, not when it's culturally important and a new development.

They are peak, and ruin the rest for you infact like I already told OP that what is good will kill it.

Wizard created random battles, that really old shit. That was culturally important.

zoomer

you implied that it got better or even on part with ff7/chrono/trigger/etc post retro days and thus should fuck off to /v/

>>7236938
i believe the most accessible and also one of the very best is final fantasy 7. it will give you the real experience of an rpg, and you'll find out wheher that;s your cup of tea or not. but you also don't have to struggle with it, it's not really hard at all yet it's super fun and the story is really involving. it's just the right blend. and i say that as someone who has played many rpg games. not just trying to give you a title for beginners. it just happens that the very best games are often accessible to all players. and rpgs often are not. they did a great job with ff7. it's a mainstream title but it's really deep, yet never to the point that someone who doesn't 'get' an rpg can't play it.

>>7236938
dodonpachi