I've never played a JRPG. Any good suggestions on games in the genre for newbies?

I've never played a JRPG. Any good suggestions on games in the genre for newbies?

Just play Chrono Trigger.
It's also the best JRPG ever so you don't need to bother with any JRPGs since none of them will live up to the bar that CT sets.

Depends on if you like turn-based, action-oriented or more strategic styled games really.

why not play american games u fuckin gook

Golden Sun
Trails in the Sky
Tales of Xillia

Dark Soul 3.

Nostalgia goggles : the post.

Terranigma
Lost Odyssey
Final Fantasy VI
Live A Live
Tales of Vesperia
Chrono Trigger

Go play Cookie Clicker while reading some fan fiction and listening to some chiptune. Basically the same experience.

Shitty genre for casuals.
Don't bother

This tho I wouldn't say none of the other JRPGs will live up to the name.

But I seriously think Chrono Trigger should be your first one

It's pretty much the opposite

Well, he's right about it being a casual genre-- it's basically very easy, butchered strategy games since you can just grind to avoid any kind of struggle and most fights in most games are just a matter of figuring out what your most deadly attack is while doing some very simple meter management.

There's a lot of JRPGs, they've very cheap to make at an acceptable quality for the genre (otaku got no standards), so it's not "casual" in the "it's very heavily marketed and beloved in the public eye" kind of way, but in the gameplay way yes it is very casual and simplistic. Overall.

That's a nice detailed reply and all but it's simply wrong

Start with the most well known ones (Practically any Final Fantasy, IV, VI and VII are usually recommended, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and so on) then if you liked those you can try the ones that usually get tossed around like Terranigma, Valkyrie Profile, Live a Live and SMT.

If you want more after that, Phantasy Star, Etrian Odyssey and SaGa are good choices, from what I understand.

Ha ha ha I'm glad you like it.

Well whatever. Pressing the feeder bar to get a treat of numbers going up so you can get more numbers to go up so the numbers get bigger so you get bigger numbers IS a casual endeavor, but it's a much better avenue for casuals than funding Call of Duty, Overwatch, or any MOBA. Those dumbed down games harm genres that have a lot more potential that JRPGs! I'm fine with weebs carving their own little OCD niche if it's better than ruining genres that were at one point good.

Final Fantasy X is a good place to start.

Dont trust these guys, Op. Chrono Trigger was good when you were a kid, but its unimpressive for adults. I stopped playing because it was boring.

What do you recommend, then?

This. Everything after this game is either contains too many unbalanced gimmicks, requires alot of grinding, and or/ is generic a fuck.

What about Terranigma or Xenogears?

Start with Chrono Trigger or Dragon Quest V as they are both easy and very friendly to people who have no experience with JRPGs.

Then I'd suggest playing all the Dragon Quest and Suikoden games (and Chrono Cross after playing Trigger). Then you'll have a good idea of what type of JRPG you want. Either you prefer games focused on story (Suikoden, Dragon Quest V and VII, Chrono Cross) or you prefer games focused on gameplay and items (Most other DQ games, Chrono Trigger).

>muh Chrono Trigger is da best RPG ever

Fuck off, Reddit.

But, it was crap

If you didn't figure it out, your opinion doesn't matter unless you like what isn't popular.

Except there are plenty of games where grinding doesn't mean shit. If you don't fuse in an SMT game, you can grind all day long and still get your ass handed to you. In Chrono Cross, character progression is tied to bosses defeated, so you can't grind in that one. Grinding in FF8 makes the game harder because enemies scale and have higher stat growth.

Which category would you put Mana Khemia into?

The SaGa games, including the Last Remnant, also punish grinding really fucking hard.

How do they punish grinding? I haven't played those RPGs yet,

Golden Sun 1+2, not 3

DONT play FF7, unless you play it on emulator with fast forwarding, random encounters turned down to 10% and x100 XP boost. Even then its fucking tedious, just watch the main story line cutscenes on youtube and read the wiki for how retardedly obscure some sidequests are. It might have been fun back when you were a kid and it was your only game that you played every day for years

>only play FFVII with a fast forward option
>Golden Sun is okay

You don't have set level ups, and the way you acquire new skills is somewhat random since you "spark" them in the middle of fighting. Basically, it's not worth grinding normal enemies, but it's still worth fighting them if you have to since you can get stat ups from them and even learn new skills, but bosses up the chance of your characters learning abilities in combat by a lot.

The reason grinding actually hurts the player is that the more normal encounters one fights, the higher the battle rank goes up and increases the difficulty of enemies.

Paper Mario
Phantasy Star 1
Dragon Quest 8
Final Fantasy 6

If none of those tickle your fancy, JRPGs just aren't for you.

Final Fantasy, obviously

DQ 1 to 5

Paper Mario: Sticker Star

As a huge DQ fan, nice joke. That's like telling someone to go play Ninja Gaiden Black as their first action game.

ff ix
ff vi
ff vii
ff x
pretty much any ff. i personally dont care for viii though. and xiii was kind of a mess too

Why the spoiler tag for X?

X is one of the best FFs

The only one I'd have an issue recommending is 2 out of those games, really.

>DQ2
Maybe if he wants to hate DQ he'll play that

Playing through dq 4, that is bretty good

If you want a modern JRPG that is extremely charming, though not too complex, I want to say that Ni no kuni is a great entry point.

But to properly appreciate a genre of video games (ignoring questions as to whether JRPGs form a genre), you should see its roots.

So, first start with an early edition of Dungeons & Dragons, to see what computer RPGs were trying to emulate. Then maybe an early edition of Wizardry, before starting with the primitive versions of DQ, FF, or PS.

Or skip all that, and start with Chrono Trigger.

It would be good if the AI wasn't retarded.

Not him. Propably because baby's first ff and you aren't allowed to like or recommend it on Sup Forums. But then he would spoiler 7 as well.
X also has many annoying flaws.

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I don't disagree. And if he's okay with difficulty, Dragon Quest is a great place to start. But just saying that most people wouldn't like it and something like Dragon Quest V or VIII might be a better starting point.

Dragon Quest is my favorite series in gaming. But even I balked at it the first time, since I started with Dragon Warrior on NES. It wasn't until I tried Dragon Quest VIII years later that I got hooked.

But Ni no Kuni is basically Dragon Quest VIII with all the good things removed.

>baby's first ff
That's literally what the thread's about

>But Ni no Kuni is basically Dragon Quest VIII with all the good things removed.
Maybe.
I played DQ 8 back in the day, but I just can't stand the Dragonball artstyle.

Persona 3/4
FF 1,4, X, XII
SMT Nocturne
DQ8
Chrono Trigger

different user but Ni No Kuni is alot the the KH games if you consider that your allies will waste all their items and mp but the MC is OP enough to survive without them save a couple of mid-late game boss fights.

pretty sure i wrecked the entire mid-end game with that giant star spell and just having esther keep healing.

Golden Sun has the WORST intro in history. I remember playing Golden Sun and liking it as a kid but when I came back to revisit it as an adult I was amazed at how much DIALOGUE and EXPOSITION was flooding throughout the intro of the game. This is enough to turn anyone new to the genre off from RPGs forever, just forget about Golden Sun. It's only good if you were playing it when the GBA is out at the time.

None of you are considering the pitfalls of RPGs when listing your personal favorites. Actually recommend shit that would ease people in like Paper Mario or something.

Chrono Trigger, though many say it's overrated, I'd say it's a good entry point into the genre because it's quite short, fun, and quite easy.

Lufia 2

Xenogears is a brilliant game, but a terrible entry point into the genre imo. The amount of reading would probably be a turn off for newcomers.

Dragon Quest 4, 5, 7(3ds ver.) and 8.
Mother 1 (Earthbound Beginnings), 2 (Earthbound) and 3.
Mario & Luigi series.

Although figuring out the clues for saving Luca's mother was tricky with the PS1 version, when the clues were given using the Nintendo button labels. (Googling is cheating on such things.)

Sean Megumin Tenchi 3

Golden was actually my first RPG and I loved it.

Not too bad until the second disc.

Radiant Historia

There you go OP.

I recommend not taking advice on jrpgs from someone who couldn't stick with chrono trigger.

Chrono Trigger is really good for newcomers but it's not the endallbeall

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Holy shit, stop talking and let me move the characters! This one conversation could have been one line long!

You are a clueless retard, please do not talk about things you don't understand. Everything about all your posts is completely wrong.

I suppose, but disc 2 is certainly not something a newcomer should ever touch. I actually didn't mind disc 2. Emeralda's side quest was great.

This, but there are other good games too.

Chrono Trigger is objectively a masterpiece and always will be, age has zero bearing on it. You obviously gave up before the game even got started due to your ADHD.

So much autism in such a short post.

Phantasy Star

I'm about to start playing Xenoblade Chronicles, what should I expect?

Live a Live is actually a pretty good choice for someone knew with how it presents multiple short scenarios

This is a good start, but is replace golden sun with Xenogears for now. Trails in the Sky was simply amazing.

i concur, but Sup Forums shits on it religiously and i didnt want to derail the thread

Final Fantasy VI

It starts off very simple and introduces mechanics slowly so as not to overwhelm you. It's also pretty easy and has a really addictive story to follow

Live a Live is probably a bit too hard for a newbie

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I dont like Dragon Quest because of the artstyle.

Paper Mario
Grandia
Final Fantasy 6 or Final Fantasy 7

I hear Dragon Quest 8 is the best one of those games, although I've not played that one myself.

Okay. I don't like Xenosaga for the same reason.

Fucking sidequests all day every day, the timed quests will kill your will to continue. Incredible characters and music, good world design and battle system, stupid agility bumps that keep you from killing stuff stronger than you.

In other words, incredible game with all the downfalls of a bad MMO. But you'll keep playing. You'll do all the fetchquests, all for Colony Siss

FF1, where else?

An excellent time.
>Excellent OST
>Decent combat
>A good story with a few twists and turns
>Good art design
>Good voice acting
>Fun exploration
>Reyn memes

How're you playing it?

A singleplayer MMORPG but good. Also, fun characters.

Bought the 3ds version yesterday, coming in the mail soon

enjoy your nofps

Trails in the Sky is a fucking drag with a boring world and far too much dialogue, well-written though it is. That's the slowest RPG I've ever played. Go play something with a detectable pulse instead.

FFIV, FFVII, and Chrono Trigger are all good candidates for babby's first JRPG, I'd say start with those

Why would you play the inferior version?

Pshh, Trails in the Sky is for total loser baby kids. Now, if people want a real man's game, they'd want to play Trails of Coldsteel.

May as well say fuck video games altogether and just play Tetris

I go back and forth between houses and don't have a computer/wii at one of them so having the portable version is most convenient

Super Mario RPG for SNES.

Dragons dogma was good. Monster hunter too.

While it is the worst version available, it is by no means unplayable. The trade-offs for the game being portable aren't too bad. I'd honestly recommend playing the game on Dolphin with a HD texture pack and some post-processing effects, it really adds some needed oomph to the graphics. I hope you have a good time with the game, user.

Attack and heal

Neither of those are RPGs

Thanks m8, I will

>I've only played 2 jrpgs
>chrono trigger was my favorite