Your RPG System

[Blackbird VIII]

I checked to see if this topic existed, but I didn't see anything, so delete it if there is. This topic is fairly simple. In your opinion what system that you own or have played has the best library of RPGs.

My pick is the Playstation 1 (the system that created my love for the RPG). The system couldn't miss with the what are possibly the best FFs ever made. Final Fantasy 8 is still my most favorite game of all time. It also had Legend of Dragoon, Vagrant Story, and Crusaders of Might and Magic which have become some of my favorites.

[Meier Link]

The SNES would have to top my list.

I don't need fancy graphics, sure they are nice, but with the lack of graphics publishers were forced to focus on story and not eye candy. It also let you play more on your imaginative side, giving sprites real faces and making them more relateable to ones self.

Crono Trigger was amazin, of course there was FFMQ, FFIV, FFVI, SoM, LoZ Link to the past, and quite a few more that I am intentionally failing to mention.

[Ragtime]

It'll be the snes and then PS1 cos i grew up on that console

[Blackbird VIII]

I don't need fancy graphics, sure they are nice, but with the lack of graphics publishers were forced to focus on story and not eye candy. It also let you play more on your imaginative side, giving sprites real faces and making them more relateable to ones self.

Well said, I think that that's why some of today's RPG market tends to fail with veterans of the genre. Hell, the main reason that I got in to video games as a kid was because of the imagination. However, if something can be "made better" or "updated" the bastards are gonna do it.

[Megatron0000]

PS1 for FF7, FF8, FF9, FF Anthologies, FF Origins, Chrono Trigger remake, Legend of Dragoon, CV: SotN, Vagrant Story (Iwish they'd have made a sequel), FF Tactics, I have to throw Chrono Cross in their even though i hated it others liked it, Front Mission 3, Parasite Eve 1 and 2, RE 1-3, and Xenogears. There ya go

[smurphy]

In terms of quality the PS1( FF VII, VIII, IX, Vagrant story, LOD, FF Tactics and a few others) but in terms of quantity the PS2( FF X, X-2, XII, Persona 3, 4, Dark Cloud, Dark Chronicle, Star Ocean: Til the End of Time, Dragon Quest VIII, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 and theres quite a few others). For the sheer fact that FF VII and VIII are my favourite games respectively and for sentimental value, for me the PS1 just beats the PS2.

[GypsyElder]

My pick is PS2 since I can play both PS1 and 2 games on it, the majority of the RPGs I like are for one of the Playstation systems.

[Jin]

I don't need fancy graphics, sure they are nice, but with the lack of graphics publishers were forced to focus on story and not eye candy.

You know I love me some old school, but I completely disagree with this assertion. Go back and look at the stories of older RPGs. Really look at them. At best, they're just as cliched and predictable as they are today. There are exceptions, naturally, but overall, storytelling in games has improved with technology, not the reverse.

Back to the topic, PS1 for sure. I was a genesis kid, I never owned a SNES. All the SNES Square games I had were via the PS1 remakes, as well as the many RPGs made for the platform itself.

That is, of course, unless PC counts. If that were the case, I have a back catalog of 20 years to account for.

[Dodie16]

Hmmm... I have a lot of fond memories of the SNES era of gaming (and a few of the RPGs I played still make my top games list), but I think my favorite would fall with the PS1 and PS2 games, but I'll go ahead and say just PS2 because Gypsy makes a good point. You can play PS1 games on a PS2, so it counts like that.

[SeaAlchemist]

PS2 it has kick butt RPGS

[SuperSabin]

SNES all the way. I can think of very many games and games translated only that I enjoy very much and would play them again, and again, and again. You guys should already know the games I like.

[Xanatos]

I didn't play many RPG games on the earlier systems, actually the first time I showed any interest for RPG at all is after playing Final Fantasy IX and VIII, so I guess I'll go with PS1. I did play few good RPG games on PS1 besides Final Fantasy, Legend of Dragoon and Vagrant Story for istance, also Parasite Eve 2 but not sure if that counts since it was survival horror game with RPG elements.

[Rocky]

PS2 has some rocking rpgs out for it, so I'll go with that one. SNES is a good second place contender with the amount of rpgs that it had as well, but sadly Nintendo didn't port some of their finer games over to the US.

[Pendulous]

I would go with the PS2, but that would also include some PS1 games. Hmm...maybe it actually is the PS1. Or 2. Ugh, I don't know. Let's say 2.

[KainsBro]

SNES, loved all the games mentioned, plus Illusion of Gaia and Super Mario RPG played those games a lot! PS1 and 2, is my second place.