Top 3 JRPG that must be revived by a sequel

immortal84 - 162 days 2 hours ago

Skies of arcadia is one of the best JRPGs i have ever played , hope sega consider making a sequel.

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Nuri - 162 days 2 hours ago

@immortal84: I agree, I probably should re-buy it again since I loaned it to a friend in the past and haven't seen it since then. Hopefully Gamestop has it.

@Spoony: Is it? Looks like I'll have to borrow my mother's DS now :/

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immortal84 - 162 days 1 hour ago

Square soft before they came square-enix used to deliver a ton of quality games during ps1 & ps2 era,so there is something wrong. They are the main company responsible for the downside of jrpgs nowdays.

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Kigmal - 162 days 1 hour ago

List fails for not including Legend of Dragoon.

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BLuKhaos - 162 days 1 hour ago

I'm disappointed that Xenogears isn't on that list.

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Foxgod - 162 days ago

Indeed, xenogears and Crono trigger deserve a sequel the most.
Skies and vagrant where just borefests.

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hi6hli6ht - 162 days ago

needs moar legend of dragoon

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Millah - 161 days 20 hours ago

Wheres Xenogears? Not even a sequel, how about just a remake and finally give us disc 2 like it was meant to be.

*sigh* i get depressed thinking of the glory days. what happened?

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Chimerhazzard - 161 days 19 hours ago

but instead a prequel, explaining better that "Wingly Empire vs Humans" history. Possibily playing with the original Dragoons like Dart's Father, Rose and the like.

Just give the sequel/prequel decent voice-acting this time around and some better story-telling and I will be happy :)

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zlatko - 161 days 19 hours ago

Legend of Dragoon 2
Suikoden 6
Lunar 3
Wild Arms 6
Persona 5
Chrono Sequel
Secret/Legend of Mana
Dark Cloud 3
Brave Fencer Musashi(Sequel after the first)
The rest of Xenosaga to fill in the blanks up to Xenogears

Plenty more. Square isn't the only company who's lacking in the RPG department as you can see from the list.

My favorite RPGs as of late have been Crimson Gem Saga and Persona 4. Highly recommend checking out Crimson Gem Saga for PSP(I bought my PSP just to play it), and it plays similar to Lunar back on PS1. The PSP has a lot of great RPGs to tap into.

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rockleex - 160 days 21 hours ago

Imagine playing them in HD with cell shading graphics like the one in Xenogears' CG intro! >:D

I don't want a sequel because they'll probably change too much stuff.

A remake is good because they can keep everything the same while improving the graphics, adding stuff that were missing, and adding new content. ^_^

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immortal84 - 162 days 2 hours ago

Square-Enix is one lazy company,all they are doing is porting remakes from there best games in the past.

Regarding Chrono Trigger/Chrono cross 890k is enough to justify a sequel, peoples are sick of remakes give us something new.

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SpoonyRedMage - 162 days 1 hour ago

I just listed a bunch of their best portable titles and none of them are remakes or ports. Then there's stuff like Ring of Fates, Chocobo Tales, Chocobo's Dungeon, Children of Mana, Heroes of Mana, Mario Basketball, Valkyrie Profile: CotP, Revenant Wings, Tactics A2 and that's just the DS.

They do release a lot of ports and remakes but they've also released a lot of original games this gen.

Chrono Trigger has released 3 times in 14 years. Once on the SNES the original version and then on the PS1(which was garbage and was capatialising on their new found popularity) and then on the DS which mixed the best of both.

Now 890K is better than all the HD JRPGs released right now but FFXIII and Versus should do better than that. However FFXIII and Versus have massive budgets and the AAA teams working on them. Would you rather have a Chrono game with the budget of The Last Remnant or Final Fantasy XIII? Who would you expect to work on it, Kitase(FFXIII), Tokita(FF Gaiden) or Takai(The Last Remnant)? Would you want it on home consoles or portables?

Because with those sales it would either have to be a relatively low budget titles(like the HD JRPGs so far have been) or a portable title to make a profit. Also we'd expect SE's A Team to work a new Chrono game but they're currently working on other big porjects that are guarenteed to sell(like FFXIII).

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immortal84 - 162 days 1 hour ago

Square soft before they became square-enix used to deliver a ton of quality games during ps1 & ps2 era,so there is something wrong. They are the main company responsible for the downside of jrpgs nowdays.

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Wiimaniac - 162 days ago

I think you're missing the point @SpoonyRedMage. Here nobody cares about portables. Handhelds are for girls and little kids...

We just want to enjoy our games lying back on a couch playing on ours 42 plasma/LCD with great sound, not on a 2 inch screen changing batteries.

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97gsx - 161 days 22 hours ago

The problem is simple square-enix used to be about making good games even if they went broke doing it. They used to take risks just to do things no one else had. Then WADA took the helm and everything is profit profit profit. I dont mind playing on my portable once in the while but damn I cant play a 40-60 hour game on it.

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SaiyanFury - 161 days 21 hours ago

I'm forced to agree with Wiimaniac. 40-50 hour RPGs are better enjoyed while lying back on your couch or seat of choice and relaxingly going through the game rather than crouching over a portable console for equal amounts of time. It's uncomfortable for the most part. For on-the-go gaming portables are certainly the way to play, but for at home play I still prefer my PS2 to my PSP.

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Millah - 161 days 20 hours ago

redmage, do you truly honestly believe that any handheld RPG Square has made this generation even comes CLOSE to matching their games from their glory days?

Shame on you.

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immortal84 - 162 days 1 hour ago

OverWorks is the same company that developed skies of arcadia and Valkyria Chronicles

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mastiffchild - 161 days 22 hours ago

Parasite Eve 3 was announced for mobiles BUT they changed tack as it was going so well and started instead on a PSP version. The trailer for the Third Birthday was cool as anything but we didn't get a hent of gameplay so I've a feeling it was gonna be pretty much an action game, not sure mind.

Since then (earlier this year/late last) though, I've heard little more so maybe they changed their minds again?

There's tons of great jrpgs on the two handhelds right now-I think TWEWY is one of the most under appreciated games in a long time on the DS(or anywhere!)and I've nly just finished Crisis Core for PSP which was also excellent. They're hardly alone with plenty of new IP, spin offs and full blown sequels(DQ for eg)plastered all over PSP and DS-prolly cos it's much cheaper than risking poor sales on the gome and HD consoles, no?

And Spoony's right; would we want many more lower budget jrpg on PS360Wii? The ones we've had haven't been as good, in the main, as those for the handhelds or even Persona3 and 4 for PS2 have they? Unless there's gonna be a FF or KH type budget it's much more likely that you'll get more, and better all round, games for the portables-without even thinking about all the good quality remakes they keep getting (FF3,CT, PSP, SO1 and, hopefully, 2, Persona1 etc, etc).

I'd love a LoD reignition but would the money be available to make it as good as the games we remember? With the way jrpgs have, or haven't, been selling I think it's unlikely as even big players like SE find it's a very big risk(though not even having a single PS3 game out at this syage is very bad form after almost pushing FF fans into buying the console for a couple of years!)and not one worth taking.

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SaiyanFury - 161 days 21 hours ago

There was a rumoured PS2 game called Chrono Break that was supposed to have been released, but sadly it never saw the light of day.

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bankai - 161 days 9 hours ago

yeah, thats because the chrono trigger team was working hard on FFXI

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SpoonyRedMage - 162 days ago

I think that would be best, rather than potentially messing them up, they should just give people the chance to appreciate them again.

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BigMassacre - 161 days 23 hours ago

I can see certain games benefiting greatly by being released on PSN/XBL. For one, Capcom said that they don't plan on making a new Breath of Fire anytime soon, because of budget/sales/small team, whatever. Why not put together a few of the key people who made the older ones with a small team, and release it as a downloadable title? Makes some sense to me.

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immortal84 - 162 days ago

we know that chrono cross is the sequel of chrono trigger and we love to see a sequel for one of them. Regarding it's impossible to continue the story, let them make a new story with new characters but give me the same gameplay and the same feeling.

final fantasy is the oldest JRPG square have, and ff team always changing, have you forgotten that Sakaguchi left square and formed Mistwalker? so they can start the game with a new team, this is not a problem at all.

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BigMassacre - 162 days ago

You're not understanding Wiimaniac's point. The sequel you hope for, crave for, could end up a pile of steaming garbage. Even if they're not, they probably won't have the same charm.

You just sound like you want a sequel just to have it. You have no idea of the consequences that can appear.

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immortal84 - 162 days ago

I got your point, but if they put a good effort like they do with all final fantasy games i guarantee to you we will have a good game.

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