The Glade 4.0

Alright - pick your top 5 favorite, old school, console RPG's. You're limited to the systems SNES, Genesis, and earlier. No PC games - sorry.

Ready?

And begin...

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In no particular order:

Dragon Warrior I
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Star Tropics
Legend of Zelda - Link to the Past

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1. Dragon Warrior - first ever played. Broke me into the genre
1a. Dragon Warrior 2 and 3

2. Final Fantasy (NES) - Solidified my love of the genre

3. Final Fantasy III (SNES) - Still remember the feeling when when Kefka blew up the world. Most amazing gaming moment I remember from that era.

4. Final Fantasy II (SNES)

5. Crono Trigger

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1. Chrono Trigger
2. FFVI/III (very close second)
3. Secret of Mana
4. FFIV/II
5. FFV

Honorable Mentions:
Dragon Warrior
FFI
Earthbound
FFMQ (Don't hate me, I have my reasons)

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1.) Final Fantasy 1 (First ever RPG Played, beleive I was 9 years old)
2.) Final Fantasy 3, Probably still my favorite of the series
3.) Chrono Trigger
4.) Dragon Warrior
5.) Secret of Mana!! Was there a co-op RPG before Secret of Mana??

No particular order:
Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy IV, Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, Shining Force 2.

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Not many options when the ceiling is SNES, bro! Can we count GBA?

1. Secret of Mana
2. Legend of Zelda: LTTP
3. FF 3 (not 6)
4. Chrono Trigger

If we allow GBA:
5. Golden Sun

Yeah, this! The criteria pretty much limits you to three: SNES, NES, Sega Genesys. OK maybe Sega Master System if anyone else had one of those... Do pre-SNES handhelds count? Do all cartridge-based systems that connect to a TV count? (ColecoVision, Intellivision, Atari? TI-99/4A?)

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1. Lufia 2
2. Chrono Trigger
3. Final Fantasy 6
4. Breath of Fire 2
5. Secret of Evermore

Breath of Fire
Final Fantasy 4
Lufia 2
Phantasy Star 4
Shining Force 2

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I am limited only to JRPGs?

What about the PC from that timeframe and back?

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I've never played an "oldschool console RPG." Almost all gaming I've ever done has been on PC. Cannot participate.

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Some of the Ultima games would be valid, as would Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Might & Magic 3, and Bard's Tale as they were all on the NES. Ys books 1 and 2 were on the Turbo Grafx 16 (which competed with the Genesis and SNES), as well as on the NES and Sega Master System (I forget which one appeared on which system). Presumably you're not limited to JRPGs, just non-PC games from the 16-bit era and prior.

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1. Dragon Quest/Warrior III (even more awesome playing the super fancom re-release of it which i'm doing now)
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Phantasy Star 2
4. Crono Trigger
5. Final Fantasy I

Final Fantasy
Lufia 2
Dungeons and Dragons: Eye of the Beholder
ShadowBane
Super Mario RPG

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Ahhhh. GOD DAMMIT. Slipped my mind.

I never saw the appeal of Super Mario RPG. But, I hate all things Mario.

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I enjoyed Super Mario RPG a fair bit!

I put off posting in this thread for awhile for time to ponder but I'm not coming up with any luck.

Top 2, alternating depending on mood, are Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger.

I think Soul Blazer comes next at number 3!

After that I'm not sure.

Final Fantasy 4, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore. We'll go with 2 of those 3 to round out the top 5.

Honorable mentions for FF1 and Dragon Warrior 1 for pulling me in. I can still play and enjoy those games, but they were from a different, simpler era and not sure they compare too well to the rest. :p

I have. But ironically, I played all of them on a PC, using an emulator, years after the fact.

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A lot of the old school console RPGs I've played were on emulators. Mostly due to the fact that certain games were never even released here. Seiken Densetsu 3 being the prime example. I would have never played this wonderfully awesome game if it wasn't for the internet and emulators.

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I despise JRPGs in general, so I wouldn't have any concern over things that weren't released here.

Actually, I have to clarify, most of the "old school" RPGs i played were not on a traditional PC, either.

I played Ultima III & IV, The Bard's Tale I-III, Champions of Krynn, and probably others -- on the Commodore Amiga.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Ultima III and IV, along with one of the Bard's Tale games are valid!

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Final Fantasy IV
Dragon Warrior 1
Dragon Warrior IV
Ultima IV
And Everyone forgot Shadowgate!

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Shadowgate wasn't really a role-playing game any more than Zork was.

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I thought about that but people were counting Zelda (don't get me wrong Zelda rocks but I don't consider it an RPG

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"