a-guitarist Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I'm in the buying mood, and I'm looking for an old game system to play with decent games. More aimed at the RPG aspect, but what would you guys suggest? I've never really played RPGs on any system other than the PC, minus the PlayStation for FFVII, which I never finished. Games I did enjoy: The Sonic the Hedgehog series, Rocket Knight adventures (I think this was the title. you played some kind of critter wearing knight's armour and a jet pack. Was a sega genesis game), Legend of Zelda games that I did toy around with, and such forth. I do own a PlayStation, and I'm not really looking to spend more than 50ish dollars on a system. (Got a great used game store near me) I am looking at this rather interesting setup that has come out now that Nintendo lost the patent on their system designs that allows you to play both regular NES and SNES games on the same machine. Generrally, I'm looking for decent games that aren't too hard, but not too easy, and I can enjoy playing whether they be arcade style, rpg or not. a-g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Child Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 Playstation 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iyorvin Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I say SNES. Got a lot of good final fantasy games to play on it, breath of fire series, and some other good ones. Never bought one myself, just used emulators on my comp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfdude Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 PS2 has the greatest selectiong of RPG games fo sho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-guitarist Posted June 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 thanks for the info. But PS2 is a little out of my price range. a-g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elfdude Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 yea, man its probably at around 40 bux right now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inscribed Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 if you already have a ps1, you already have access to quite a few rpg classics. xenogears, final fantasy tactics, vagrant story, final fantasy anthology (ffv-vi), final fantasy chronicles (ffvi & chrono trigger), etc. due to demand for these titles, they may be hard to find though, short of heading to ebay. luckily for you, i may just have copies of these games for sale. as far as buying a different system, snes is definitely the way to go, but again, you won't be able to find most of the classic rpg's unless you head to ebay and plan on spending a lot of money. emulator's are your best route, and are free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raargant Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 PS2 can be got for around 50-100 bucks, tops, right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iyorvin Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 if you already have a ps1, you already have access to quite a few rpg classics. xenogears, final fantasy tactics, vagrant story, final fantasy anthology (ffv-vi), final fantasy chronicles (ffvi & chrono trigger), etc. due to demand for these titles, they may be hard to find though, short of heading to ebay. luckily for you, i may just have copies of these games for sale. as far as buying a different system, snes is definitely the way to go, but again, you won't be able to find most of the classic rpg's unless you head to ebay and plan on spending a lot of money. emulator's are your best route, and are free! How much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackwilly21 Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 SNES is the way to go, but it is almost as expensive as a PS2 now, same with NES. Atleast the old school models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBwillie Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 SNES fo sho! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackwilly21 Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 I've been playing Super Mario All Stars lately. Wicked game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantangel Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 If they've got a system that can play both NES and SNES games, get it. Both systems had some great games on it, the only problem with a lot of those older games on the NES the memory unit is starting to go on them depending on how often they were played and how well they were kept, and from what I heard they stopped making those memory units/batteries for them so you'd be having to be willing to risk to go plastic surgeon on some games to remove them from one and place it on another. And if you've never played Tetris Attacks, do so, that game is really fun when you have a second person playing and even when in the 1 player mode. Otherwise though PS2 is getting cheaper, if you buy one used you can probably catch it for around $60 or so, but a brand new one is only twice as much and you can play PS1 games on it as well. So you have twice the library of games at your disposal as well as new games coming out still (God of War 2). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Voodoo Doll Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 AG - Emulators man. if you already have a ps1, you already have access to quite a few rpg classics. xenogears, final fantasy tactics, vagrant story, final fantasy anthology (ffv-vi), final fantasy chronicles (ffvi & chrono trigger), etc. due to demand for these titles, they may be hard to find though, short of heading to ebay. luckily for you, i may just have copies of these games for sale. as far as buying a different system, snes is definitely the way to go, but again, you won't be able to find most of the classic rpg's unless you head to ebay and plan on spending a lot of money. emulator's are your best route, and are free! xenogears for sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsestomp Posted June 5, 2007 Report Share Posted June 5, 2007 SNES. Chrono Trigger, Old FFs, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario World, Street Fighter, Doom, Breath of Fire 3, Legend of Mana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Super Nintendo - mario and the legend of the seven stars. best graphics i've seen on the system. i especially like legend of gaia, though that's got crappy graphics, it's a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 SNES has Chrono Trigger. Nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantangel Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 If you can find it, you can get Chrono Trigger and such and run them on emulators. I had Chrono Trigger, A Link to the Past, Earthbound, Final Fantasy 6 in german and a few other ones. Was almost done beating Earthbound and Chrono Trigger, but I broke my computer so I can't get them again because they have since been taken down from a lot of ROM sites. But you can still find them if you look hard enough. Still nice to have a hard copy though and play various other games lesser heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 I still have a Chrono Trigger rom, Tant, if you want a new copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantangel Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Once I run out of games to play I'll hit you up, I've got about two and a half months left before I have to be back to work and I only had enough material for about three months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crucial Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 get the Nomad if you can find one. Take it anywhere and play any sega genesis game on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crucial Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Once I run out of games to play I'll hit you up' date=' I've got about two and a half months left before I have to be back to work and I only had enough material for about three months.[/quote'] What did you do to get that much time off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatic Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 He's closing in on the end of his maternity leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantangel Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 I ****ed up my back in January '06 which caused my spine to not only curve off to the left, but at the same time instead of having a gradual curve to your back like you're supposed to the first foot of my lower back or so is perfectly straight up and down causing an assload of pain from about the middle of my back straight down through everything. So I went in for surgery on April 19th figuring I'd be good to go back to work on June 7th or possibly the 19th at the latest. About three weeks after the surgery I decided that I was going to become really active in my sleep and jerked around apparently hard enough to reherniated my disc that was just operated on. Basically I'd been working since December with a hernia after I knew something bad happened when doing something on my own that should've been done with someone helping me. So after going through the surgery and having everything fine aside from inflamation (which I was on steroids to reduce it which helped a ton). On the last night I was taking the steroids though I did something in my sleep that caused everything to go ****ed up again so they had me do an MRI and it showed that the disc was out again and that there was more inflamation then than there was before so I had a few options. I could get injections of steroids once a week every week until they see fit that I'm good to go again without them. Get some epidural block done which is only temporary and I'd end up having to redo surgery in a few years anyways or do the surgery and hope that it works this time. So I wanted to redo surgery because I've had these same options given to me by doctors in the past (which I went the fourth route, do nothing and hope it corrects itself). I finally got fed up with the pain and told my Manager at the beginning of the year that I was going to do the surgery no matter what because the pain was starting to get intense at times (hurt to breathe in from time to time). Originally I planned on doing it during the Summer so I could be done with school since I'm trying to go back again. I called up one of my doctors who I hadn't spoken to in a year and asked for the names of the doctors she gave me the year prior and the following Monday I was getting calls from another specialist saying to come in on this date. Now here's the kicker, I knew something was funny at the beginning of the year when my right leg was steadily getting weaker compared to what it was (after the December issue with trying to do something alone) and basically shrugged it off. I walk into the doctors office and the first thing he tells me when he comes in, after he has me trying to walk on my heels without much success, if I don't do surgery soon I'm going to lose loss of my right leg within the next decade. I'm basically floored because I'm only 22, I should be out and able do do most things that 40 year olds used to be able to do and then some. Right after blowing my back out in 06, I had already lost most strength in my right leg along with most flexibility. I worked myself up to be able to gain strength back but I was still majorly hurting and made them release me to go back to work. I go back to work and some guy tosses an empty cardboard box at me and it catches me at the ankles nearly making me fall down. I just got stronger from there and decided that I'd be good to go. Now a year later someone's telling me by looking at my MRI from the year before that I'm going to eventually lose loss of my right leg. He even went over a few of symptoms I was having from it as if he were living my life for the last year. So I went with the surgery. Now I'm looking at surgery #2 on June 20th, and my work leave is approved for 8 more weeks after that. If it doesn't hold this time around I have to go in a third time have them remove the disc entirely and fuse the next two in line together so that it doesn't do it again. I was looking at a 15% chance of reherniating the disc after the first surgery and I did it within the first three weeks. This time it'll be a 25% chance and the third surgery doesn't sound fun. So I'm stuck here for 10 more weeks from now and since the 360 broke that cut off a game from my list of things to do, so I decided to pop in here for a while. So I wish it was maternity leave but it isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Oasis, for the sega was one of the most bad *** games ever. Awesome rpg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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