Non-sanctioned RPG Codex Top 50 Console RPGs - Vote thread only

Since Jaesun is doing his PC-only cRPG Top 50, I think it's only fair to show the other side of the coin and see which are the Top 50 console RPGs ever.

This is "non-sanctioned" to avoid interfering with Jaesun's mojo; his list is the official face of Codex, so we can bash IGN, gaming journalists, newfags and be smug about everything. This one is especially for those of you that felt bad about not listing Dark Souls, FFT, SMT:Nocturne or the likes at Jeasun's thread... Unleash your inner decline here!

Shameless copy of the rules:

1. Any RPG ever released on a console/arcade/handheld comes here. That means games like Morrowind, Deus Ex:HR and Kotor can be placed on both lists.
2. Try keeping this thread for votes only, use this one to rant about codexian decline, how me & my user name are retarded and how hardcore you are. If you really need to rant walls of text, hide it with spoilers.
3. Make only ONE post with your list. When I collate the data and votes, if I see your name twice or more and a list of games, I will completely ignore it and all your votes. Simple. I would recommend you make a bookmark to your post if you want to change/edit it later. OR delete your original post and make a new one.
4. Retards and shitposter's votes will be ignored (I know who you are).
5. THE ORDER DOES NOT MATTER. Just list your games.
6. This poll will remain open until January 31st 2013 10:00 PST.
7. List 25 console games YOU consider a RPG as your favorites. If you list more than 25, all your votes will be ignored.
8. You do NOT have to list 25. If you can only think of a list less than 25, that is fine.
9. Failure to follow any of the above, all your votes will be ignored. Period.

So get with it. What 25 console RPG's are your favorites?

 

Ma WIP list:

Demons Souls
Dark Souls
Final Fantasy Tactics
Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis
Disgaea
Valkyria Chronicles
Shining Force 2
Chrono Cross
Chrono Trigger
Dark Cloud 2
Pokemon Gold & Silver
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII - Zodiac Job System
Etrian Odissey III
SMT: Devil Survivor
SMT: Persona 4
SMT: Nocturne
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
E.V.O: Search for Eden
SaGa Frontier
Breath of Fire III
Parasite Eve

 

Catlevania? Seriously? Anyway...

SMT: Nocturne
SMT: Strange Journey
Golden Sun / Lost Age / Dark Dawn
Breath of Fire 2
Disgaea 2
FFTA2
Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis
Etrian Odyssey
Trolololo vote: Zelda: Link's Awakening DX

Any other console RPGs were either shit or I don't remember playing them (so they must have been shit)
And this thread will either die after two replies or is going to be outstanding

 

Dark Souls
Demon's Souls
Castelvania: Symphony of the Night
Resonance of Fate
Folklore
Nier

 

Done, I think.


SaGa Frontier
Uncharted Waters 2
Shadowrun (Genesis)

Dark Souls
Demons Souls
Azure Dreams

Breath of Fire 5
Secret of Evermore
Legend of Mana

Record of Lodoss War
Phantasy Star Online
Star Ocean 2

Suikoden
Chrono Trigger
Lufia 2

Breath of Fire 3
Final Fantasy 5
Brigandine

Final Fantasy Tactics
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen
Shining Force 2

SMT: Nocturne
7th Saga
Phantasy Star 4

Valkyrie Profile

 

SMT Nocturne
Persona 4
Draqon Quest 3

 

Let me play all of them first and then I'll make an objective vote.

 

You would need to play all games at the same time though, to prevent nostalgia issues... Err, will my post be moved?

 

This is hard, damn. And I must be forgetting a lot of them.

Dark Souls
Final Fantasy Tactics
Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis
Disgaea
Chrono Cross
Chrono Trigger
Beyond Oasis
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy XII - Zodiac Job System
SMT: Persona 3
SMT: Persona 4
SMT: Nocturne
Shadow Hearts 3
Golden Sun
Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Destiny 2
Tales of Abyss (Even with the retarded 'plor twist'.)
The Last Remnant
Valkyrie Profile 2
.hack//G.U (All three count as one, since it's one story, right?)
Dragon Quest VIII
Treasure of Rudra
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis
Xenogears
Secret of Mana 3

 

Vagrant Story
Dark Cloud 2
Parasite EVE
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Suikoden IV
Orphen: Scion of Sorcery
The Bouncer
Chaos Legion
Knights of the Old Republic 1
Knights of the Old Republic 2
Morrowind
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance

 

Final Fantasy Tactics
Shadowrun (Sega)
Shining Force 2
Shining Force 1
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
Valkyria Chronicles
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Demon Souls
Final Fantasy 7
Chrono Cross
Phantasy Star 2
Final Fantasy 8
Ogre Battle
Final Fantasy 6
Breath of Fire 3
Shining in the Darkness
SaGa Frontier
Parasite Eve
Final Fantasy 2
Final Fantasy 1
Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 9
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Ogre Battle 64

I really struggled to find decent games I played to fill a top 25 list. The first half on this list are great and I would play them again. The second half of the list were alright and I'm glad I played them. But boy I've played some crap on consoles. Final Fantasy 10, 10-2 and 12 all traumatized me to the point that I can't see myself playing an FF title ever again.

 

Faxanadu
Chrono Trigger
Secret Of Mana
Secret Of Mana 2
Tales Of Phantasia
Lufia 2: Rise Of The Sinistrals
Breath Of Fire
Earthbound
Romancing Saga 3
Shadowrun (SNES)
Shadowrun (Genesis)
Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei II
Shin Megami Tensei III
Persona IV
Star Ocean
Zelda : A Link to the past
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Xenogears
Dragon Quest V
Dragon Quest VI
Vagrant Story
Shadow Hearts

 

Chrono Trigger
Parasite Eve
Final Fantasy 4
Final Fantasy 5
Final Fantasy 6
Castlevania SOTN

 

Legends Of Mana (world building and item crafting and multiple weapon styles oh my)
Chrono Cross*
Parasite Eve 2*
Front Mission 3
Valkyrie Profile 1

Romance of Three Kingdoms X*
Samurai Warriors 2 Empire
Valkyria Chronicles
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 8

Harvest Moon
Recettear An Item Shop's tale
Chrono Trigger
Romance of Three Kingdoms 6
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empire


***To be completed***

Link to my reasonings

Also fun fact: I never own a console. Either emulators on PC, or borrowed some time on PS3.

 

We can count Romance of the Three Kingdoms X? Shit. Good call on that one.

 

I played most of these games and i can't even remember most of them, jesus.

Anyway WIP:

Tactics Ogre
Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis
Hiouden - Legend of the scarlet king
Der Langrisser
Xenogears (sue me)
Majora's Mask
Metal Max Returns (open world jrpg... more or less)
Romancing Saga 3 (crazy disjointed game... entertaining because it's so fucked up)
Shin Megami Tensei 1 (played one; played them all)
Bahamut Lagoon (not sure)

I don't like adding action rpgs like symphony of the night to a jrpg list.
Yes i'm aware that Majora's Mask is probably hypocrisy.

Honourable mentions:
Golden Sun
Parasite Eve 1 (too many random encounters, and derpy plot)
Valkerie Profile 1 (good combat, some good vignettes, unimpressive platforming, horrible music, horrible main char development).
FF 6
FF 7 (ehhh)
FF 8 (entertaining mini-game, possible to break the game over your knee and disable random encounters at the same time - terrible plot, terrible chars)
Darklaw (strange...)
Front Mission 1 (too easy)
Tales of Phantasia (another broken plot game... i don't even know why everyone is fighting the un-moe giant, but it has all the elements of a FF6 clone)
FFTactics - like Tactics Ogre... only with multiclass system (broken)
Symphony of the night - yeah, fuck the rule
Illusion of Gaia. Memorable bosses, ok platforming. A bit bizarre at times
Energy Breaker. Last i played... unique, even if it falls apart. Too much backtracking. Good SJPG combat.

 

Demon's Souls
Dark Souls

Shining in the Darkness

Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy IV original Japanese version
Final Fantasy IV DS remake (they're different enough; this one is even harder)
Final Fantasy V
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy IX

Etrian Odyssey I
Dark Spire
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

SMT: Nocturne
SMT: Persona 2: Innocent Sin (NOT the PSP version; they actually cut out the canon gay romance even though it was the "intended" pairing. FUCKING CENSORSHIP)
SMT: Persona 4

Breath of Fire II
Secret of Mana


Nier

 

Final Fantasy Tactics
Shining Force 2
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Morrowind

 

I wouldn't play that if i were you Jaesun... i don't think a game more tuned to enrage you exists, probably. Maybe that ultima remake.

 

FF12
FFT
Etrian Odyssey 3
Langrisser (all of them)
Fire Emblem (forgot which ones)
Shining Force 1&2 (maybe more, it's all a blur)

and uh

Dark Souls I guess although it feels wrong for it to be on the same list

 

Final Fantasy 2 (Famicom)
Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (SNES)
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)
Pokémon Gold/Silver (GB)
Paper Mario (N64)
The Legend of Zelda (NES)
Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (NES)
Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Zelda: Link's Awakening (GB)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
Ultima IV (NES version). It sucks, but is good enough for consoles.
Pool of Radiance (NES)
Wizardry 1 (NES)
Morrowind (XBOX)

 

FF1
FF6
FF7
FF8
FF9
FF10
Dragon Warrior (DW) 1
DW2
DW3
DW4
Chrono Trigger
Shining Force 1
Tatics Ogre
Breath of Fire
Star Ocean
Grandia
Xenogears
Secret of Mana
D&D: Warriors of the Eternal Sun

 

Dark Souls

 

Short list, maybe edit later (actually, outside of some SMT I like almost nothing in this category enough to vote for it).

SMT: Strange Journey
SMT: Devil Survivor
SMT: Persona 3
SMT: Nocturne
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Guest 4
Dark Spire
Langrisser
Shining Force 2
Shadowrun for Sega

Might think of more later.

 

EDITED MY LIST.

1.FFVIII (yeah, fuck you Spoonyone, it's my favorite. Problem?)
2.FFVII
3.FF Tactics
4.FFIX
5.Breath of Fire IV
6.Wild Arms 2 (I am one of the few who actually considered it better than original, I guess)
7.Tales Of Phantasia
8.Baldur's Gate
9.Dragon Quest VIII
10.Persona 2
11.Vagrant Story
12.Chrono Trigger
13.Front Mission 3
14.Vanguard Bandits
15.Digimon World 3
16.Grandia
17.Parasite Eve
18.Dragon Quest VII
19.Chrono Cross
20.Alundra
21.Suikoden
22.Diablo
23.Saga Frontier
24.Legend Of Mana
25.Dragon Quest VI

P.S. Yes, I don't really like PS2 JRPG's and further gen JRPG's (even though Ni No Kuni looks sweet, and Disgaea is not bad as a time waster).