What's the Worst RPG you've played?

I could point that first line right back at you. Not liking Parasite Eve and Grandia? For shame. :smiley:

Honestly, Final Fantasy VII. I’d wager it isnt because of the gameplay or anything though. It was the world setting. I just couldnt really get into the game’s world as much as I did with previous games as well as those that I played after it. I think back and I don’t even realize how I forced my self to play through it anymore.

FF12. :confused:

Actually I doubt I’ll even play it hmm nevermind. :slight_smile:

Hey now, The Third Age is great fun Multiplayer (the only thing that saves it from being a dreary FFX clone really). Although I think it’s dumb they didn’t give an option for 3-players, considering you get 3 party members at a time. (It’s understandable on the two-port PS2 since not everyone has the adaptor, but on the GC and Xbox versions it seems weird to not have it.)

Oh I know it’s fun multiplayer and I do like it, but like I said it is the worst one I’ve played…simply because I consider every RPG I’ve played to be good.

What the fuck? Guys, I was just asking him about his taste in food. You’re all thinking way too hard. Personally I like strawberry cheesecake better, but chocolate truffle is great too.

I’m not the only person who thought Grandia wasn’t nearly as great as everyone though? Wow. Everyone was all “Dude, you think Grandia 2 is good? Grandia is SO much better!” Yeah. Right. I traded my copy of it to get Wild Arms 2 and don’t look back on it.

Aside from free games I found on the internet, I once played Summoner 2 on the PS2.
Only once. But that was enough.

FFX? Clone? Could you explain better please? Sounds very interesting…

The battle system works in very much the same way as FFX. You have the very same ‘Turn Order’ thing, that is sped up by various enhancements, and knocked down by various attacks. You also switch party members in the same way as FFX too. Although most of your party members have attacks that do the same thing as other characters.

To be honest, I hated ‘the Third Age’. It was very bland in story, the characters pretty much never interacted so you never really got to know them, and I got pretty far into the game before I got bored of it. But then the game tries to develop relations between the characters that have very little personality with single lines of dialog, so you never really know what’s going on. For example, with a minute long cut-scene, you learn that one character is probably in love with another even though they’ve only spoken to one another twice during the whole course of the game. That’s a bad example, worded badly, but if you’ve played the game, you’ll probably get my meaning. Oh, and then there’s some sort of plot twist in there based on the main character that has no impact on you at all, since the guy is just some 2-dimensional hero.

Also hated is the games combat system. You only ever fight monsters you see in the films. Think again about how many monsters are actually in the films, there aren’t really enough to fill an RPG, so you’ll just keep encountering stronger versions of stuff you killed before. Most of them have the same techniques too. Your own attacks that might actually do something worthwhile often delay your next turn by 3 times what it normally would be, which makes them pretty much worthless because they often cost a large fraction of your MP too. And you can slaughter most enemies by simply repeating attacks that delay your opponents turn again and again, so they never get to attack. And I never bothered to use item crafting, as I rarely used items.

Oh, and the game seems dead set on following the story from the film, they might well have called it ‘Stalking the Fellowship’.

What the heck does sweets have to do with me liking FF8 or not ? =P I just don’t like FF8, ok. You, on the other hand, like it. Ok fine, more power to you, I guess.

Actually, I didn’t like Grandia either. Those voice actors were horrible.

They were passable, so the average standards puts them way above the norm.

Also, do you guys want me to repost the PA comic about LotR or I just wait for TD to do it?

I liked Grandia better than Grandia II simply because I played all the way through it.

I liked Wild Arms III far better than Wild Arms II as well, but not nearly as much as Wild Arms (1).

And I’d have to disagree with Hades… Chocolate Truffles are far superior to Strawberry Cheesecake.

Not many RPG’s I really hate,but the ones I hate are:

Draken:I know many people already said it but,it just really sucks.

Ephemeral Phantasia:I really hated it I don’t know how to explain it,it just left me so clueless during the whole game.

Drakken

Drakken 2 is Dragon View, which is LOADS superior. For one, you actually control your character. And the storyline is good for being completely damned cliché.

BTW : Worst RPG ever is Tecmo’s Secret of the Stars. It’s the equivalent of Dragon Warrior graphics…on the SNES…with no redeemable difficulty, or story, or gameplay.

For some reason FFtatics bored me…

Heh. Yeah, it was pretty bad. It had great music, though.

Your first post has gravely upset me…

Welcome to the forums! :dancer:

It did have one original idea… you had the main party (of magic-blessed superkids, of course) and a secondary party (of adults with the usual RPG classes). Too bad Tecmo didn’t exploit this feature. Basically all the secondary party is good for is a few trivial powerups (like the very few MP recovery items in the game), and maybe an anywhere save point. Oh, so they’re required in one dungeon near the end of the game. Crap, now you gotta build them up.
Although I enjoyed it, it was probably because it was an RPG to play when I wanted a break from (the much-better games of) BoF2, CT, SMRPG, and Lufia 2, which was the cheapo rental stores entire lineup (yeah, I was like 12 at the time and had limited allowance to rent games but lots of time to play them).