[blueoceans]

whats the best role playing game youve played for a portable system, such as gameboy/gameboy color, game boy advance, nintendo ds, sony psp, etc.

for me, i hold final fantasy legend II, and breath of fire II in high regard...yeah, i know bof2 is a snes port, but its playable on the gba,.so it's considered by todays standards a portable game.

i heard golden sun is a good game, but i havent played it yet.

anyone play Final fantasy III on the ds, is it a great game?

This post has been edited by blueoceans: 31 January 2007 - 05:10 PM

[Spoon Poetic]

Golden Sun was great. Of course Link's Awakening, too. Those are probably my faves.

[Slade]

I'm partial to Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls for the GBA because they remade FF1 into a wonderfully fun old-school casual experience which is perfect for a hand-held game system. (I own FF1 for the NES, and played it for a loooooong time when I was younger.)

I'd also say Link's Awakening is the best, but that's more of a puzzle-action-adventure, not an RPGish one to my eyes.

[Gobbler]

Ohh, I cried my eyes out at the ending of Link's Awakening back when I was younger. And yeah, that would be the only RPGish thingy I played on said systems, so there.

[looktothesky]

Yeah, Gobbler, I hear you. that ending made me really depressed.

My favourite would have to be Final Fantasy 3. Though (don't make fun) Pokemon's good too.

[Gobbler]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! *poke*

There. >_> Well, I kind of liked it too, though I was possibly a tad too old when it came out and it didn't end with the whole world vanishing like in Link's Awakening.

[Spoon Poetic]

Yeah, don't feel bad. Pokemon was a very well-made game, especially for kids. Unfortunately, they just took it a bit far and it became trite and cheesy.

[Slade]

I loved the first two of the series of Pokemon. They were just good fun handheld RPGs with a good concept. Then came the rabid merchandising franchise.

[Spoon Poetic]

First two? You mean Red and Blue? There was nothing different between the two except that you'd get a handful of different Pokemon in each one, requiring you to trade... That kind of annoyed me. I could never collect them all because the only friends I had that were interested in the game had the same version I did.
Or do you mean, first generation = red, blue, yellow; then second generation = gold, silver, crystal? I never got into the second generation; it had already become trite and overrated and way too complicated and I just didn't like it anymore.
My little brother's playing my old Pokemon game on my mom's GamboyColor now, and we went out and got him used Red and Blue so he can try to get them all using my Gameboy and a link up.

[Slade]

I meant Red & Blue. They were pretty much the same game, but were two released at once. Maybe the confusion is a difference in language.

[blueoceans]

I loved the first two of the series of Pokemon. They were just good fun handheld RPGs with a good concept. Then came the rabid merchandising franchise.

you bring up an interesting thought regarding the merchandising aspect...its interesting how popular pokemon is. its relatively new, and pikachu & company can be seen on about everything from playing cards & baseball hats, to t-shirts, bubble gum and napkins,.....yet,.you take final fantasy which has been around twice as long and has spawned double the games,..and its nowhere to be found, save for a couple of plastic 3 inch figures sold at gamestop, perhaps.

dont get me wrong, i dont want final fantasy to be over-exploited,.then it would just wither away and dry up in the mainstream storm,..but it would be nice to see it marketed on more items.

My little brother's playing my old Pokemon game on my mom's GamboyColor now, aP

your mom has a gameboy color?..sweetness!,..but say,..with mother's day fast approaching, a nintendo ds or gba may make a great replacement for her.