• 5Mar 09

  Just some random thoughts in this generation rpgs

  This generation of consoles the good rpgs are spread all over the three platforms. This is not the best time to be an rpg gamer, in the last generation, all you will ever need to play great rpgs was an ps2 and, if you really wanted to, a game cube. But this time around the rpgs are well spread and it is more difficult to chose a single plataform to own.

  I started this generation owning only a ps3, and for the first the first year that I had it, It had just 3 rpgs for me to play on, Folklore(if you call this an RPG in some boards you will get flamed, but for me its game-play is more like and rpg than an action adventure), Enchanted Arms and Oblivion. Then i decided to get a wii only to play Symphonia 2 (since I was a fan of the first one), but the library of rpgs in the wii is not that bright either... and after I heard of Vesperia and Star Ocean VI couldn't hold anymore and bought an 360.

  Now that I have all the consoles and a psp, I found that all the three of them have great rpgs, and being able to play all of them is great. But this made me think that its very difficult for a person that likes rpgs and only have money for one console. I still think that if could only afford one console, the best right now would be a 360 because it has the biggest library of rpgs and some great ones, like vesperia and Lost Odissey, but you would also be missing Valkyria Chronicles, Disgaea 3 and some others.

  but for the people that says that this generation is lacking of good rpgs I have to disagree, I just finished Tales of Vesperia and I have to say that it is one of the greatest in the series, and Valkyria Chronicles is my second favorite rpg of all time, just losing to Dragon Force. The problem is that both of them sold poorly in comparison to other rpgs that weren't that good (but weren't bad either) like Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remnant.

  • Posted Mar 5, 2009 6:53 am PT
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• 13May 08

  RPG nightmare

  I love my Ps3, but its RPG library is completely lacking quality and quantity now, I already have all the rpgs that are worth playing for it, like Oblivion and Folklore, I even bought Enchanted Arms, but after that the only RPG in the near future are Fallout and Valkyria no Battlefield. I think that´s the reason why the Ps3 is not selling so good in Japan, but I hope that things change with White knight Story, Last Remnant, Star Ocean 4 and all the Final Fantasy.

  But now I´m really thinking in buying an 360, first because the New "Tales of" game is going to be exclusively for it, and also because there´s a lot of RPG´s that I want to play in it, like Eternal Sonata, Infinite Undiscovery and Lost Odissey. I don't like Microsoft, after I bought the original xbox and they completely drop their support for it, and that really annoyed me.

  Well for the games I´m going to buy on the 360, I think the best version for me is the Arcade, since i´m not going to play online and will mostly play RPG´s on it.

  But seriously, if, in the past, someone told me that the next Xbox was going to get most of the JRPG´s, I would laugh at his face. I mean, the Original Xbox didn't have JRPG's, but the PS2 had hundreds.

  • Posted May 13, 2008 7:31 am PT
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• 5Nov 07

  In the end

  Well, I just ended buying a ps3, after the price drop, thinking about it, it would've been crazy from my part if I spend 500 dollars only in psp games.

  Now I'm a very happy ps3 owner, and with it I bought only two games, Oblivion and Motorstorm, and those kept me entertained for almost 3 months! Just a week ago I bought Warhawk, Resistance and Enchanted Arms, and I love all of them!

  For this Year I planning on buying Need for Speed: Pro Street, two more Sixaxis and, in january, Burnout Paradise, that should be enough for my summer vacations (south hemisphere)

  • Posted Nov 5, 2007 2:35 pm PT
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