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Some actual decent recommendations ITT.
I'll throw my vote towards SaGa series. Especially older ones. They're more or less open world/non linear affairs where you get given an overall goal and figure out how to achieve it yourself. RS2 and 3 are both pretty interesting games. SaGa Frontier is a personal favourite as well, there's 7 characters to choose from, though none are particularly manly. You can pick the robot though, and their story lines vary from totally freeform to very on-rails. SaGa has a very cool combat system too where you learn new skills in flashes of inspiration mid battle.
Breath of Fire 3 is a good game if you like exploration, with lots of cool ways to power up your party to find. It's generally not very difficult though, and you might not gel with a bunch of the characters. I'd give it a look at least, it's got one of the better stories for a jrpg. Pretty traditional though; story is totally linear with no meaningful choices to make.
For something not mentioned yet, I'll throw in Valkyrie Profile. You play as a valkyrie and roam around witnessing the final moments of various characters (heroic or otherwise) then recruit them. You can train them up a bit and then send them up to Asgard to fight in the war and keep the ones you like for your own party. It's got a unique combat system where your whole team gets their turn at once and you input their commands in real time to do combos and juggle enemies and such, has some fun platforming gimmicks, and a bunch of neat dungeons. Lenneth (the valkyrie) is a woman, obviously, but she's not a squeeky cute girl. She's generally either a hardass or occasionally motherly figure depending on who she's dealing with. I adore the english dub, it's hammy as hell. It's got a lot of long cutscenes, but they're broken up by long dungeons as well, so I think the pacing works out. You'll probably like the artstyle more than a lot of other stuff.
I'll throw my vote towards SaGa series. Especially older ones. They're more or less open world/non linear affairs where you get given an overall goal and figure out how to achieve it yourself. RS2 and 3 are both pretty interesting games. SaGa Frontier is a personal favourite as well, there's 7 characters to choose from, though none are particularly manly. You can pick the robot though, and their story lines vary from totally freeform to very on-rails. SaGa has a very cool combat system too where you learn new skills in flashes of inspiration mid battle.
Breath of Fire 3 is a good game if you like exploration, with lots of cool ways to power up your party to find. It's generally not very difficult though, and you might not gel with a bunch of the characters. I'd give it a look at least, it's got one of the better stories for a jrpg. Pretty traditional though; story is totally linear with no meaningful choices to make.
For something not mentioned yet, I'll throw in Valkyrie Profile. You play as a valkyrie and roam around witnessing the final moments of various characters (heroic or otherwise) then recruit them. You can train them up a bit and then send them up to Asgard to fight in the war and keep the ones you like for your own party. It's got a unique combat system where your whole team gets their turn at once and you input their commands in real time to do combos and juggle enemies and such, has some fun platforming gimmicks, and a bunch of neat dungeons. Lenneth (the valkyrie) is a woman, obviously, but she's not a squeeky cute girl. She's generally either a hardass or occasionally motherly figure depending on who she's dealing with. I adore the english dub, it's hammy as hell. It's got a lot of long cutscenes, but they're broken up by long dungeons as well, so I think the pacing works out. You'll probably like the artstyle more than a lot of other stuff.
