In the current climate of online gaming and MMOs, single-player PC role-playing games seem less and less common. There are exceptions to that generalization, such as pretty much any BioWare title (Mass Effect last year, Dragon Age this fall), CD Projekt RED's The Witcher, and even the recent Drakensang: The Dark Eye, but all together it's a far cry from the amount of content produced in this genre during the 1990s.
Over in the console space there are still quite a few offline RPG titles being released, a likely result of the platforms' control configurations and setups not mixing well with the often complex interfaces MMOs require players to manage. Yet that didn't stop Square Enix from shipping an Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XI in 2006. This time, the RPG giant is going the other way, bringing a console-style single-player RPG to the PC.
Many overlooked RPGs lie dormant in the catalogues of gaming, but players can pick up their swords and shields with these amazing JRPG hidden gems!
Game Rant - "From Star Ocean to Final Fantasy, there have been a number of JRPG's that have been unfairly undervalued by their Metascores. Here are 10 examples."
While I agree that the combat in Star Ocean 5's combat is pretty fun, saying that its story is more enjoyable than its predecessors is highly debatable. Also, it's not just the technical issues the game suffers from.
Completely disagree the games I played from the list all deserve their scores (Star Ocean, Nier, Tales of Zesteria, Type-0). While there are certainly people that love these games, they have flaws in many categories, that justify those scores.
Star Ocean especially bored the hell out of me. Lame story and face roll battle system (I finished the game anyway). These games are really niche and when rated by a broader public, fall short. In my opinion even in their own genre.
In this episode, we explore The History of The Last Remnant. A game the recently received a remastered release and had an interesting development cycle.
It's a good game, but the story is only okay. The gameplay is where the game really shines, but the game itself does an atrocious job of explaining it's own systems. Basically, you need to read a "what I wish I knew before I started" somewhere online, and then the game becomes great.