[PS2] Must Own PS2 Games, or how many middling JRPGs can you suggest?

Shin Megami Tensei 3 - Hands down, the best RPG on the PS2. If anyone tells you otherwise you can feel free to slap them, their mother, their sister, or their brother. The game is extremely well balanced and constantly rewards the player for their time investment, rather than merely advancing the player toward one bland end game. Extremely customizable, a decent difficulty, and several systems that allow players to customize and control their experience without feeling cumbersome.

Combat utilizes the press turn system, preventing this game from becoming a "press A to advance" affair for the lazy.

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter - Contesting the number 1 RPG spot of the RPG above (Oh, I guess it's not hands down?), Dragon Quarter is a post apocalyptic adventure, set below the surface of the earth. The game involves reaching the surface with the Dragon Powers of the series making their eventual return... with a twist. As you gain those powers, they begin to kill you. Each step you take and use of those Dragon Powers will accelerate you toward an inevitable death (or a trip to Gamefaqs).

Introducing the Scenario Overlay system (and not sucking at implementing it like a certain Dead Rising zombie game I guess I'm not being subtle), the game allows the player to break it quite easily straight out of the box, at least once they understand what it entails. The game's combat is a turn based, strategy RPG affair, with players utilizing AP to move throughout the playing field and then commit to various attacks depending on what AP is left. Very deep and will also not allow the lazy to commit to a "press the A Button to advance" affair. At least not until they understand and then break the game.

High replay value, worth coming back to time and again.

God Hand - It's a game about punching people and it's very hard. If you need anything more than this, you're a woman and should probably go play Okami.

R-Type Final - While not as tight of a game experience as Gradius V, R-Type Final deserves to be owned for the massive amount of customization available to the player. Over 100 ships, capable of being fitted with various Wave Cannons, Forces, Bits, and Missiles from games throughout Irem's Arcade history. With many ships being tributes to other games Irem has made, each playthrough can be drastically different from your last.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by valiant

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Shin Megami Tensei 3 is Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
Basically a turn based RPG where you can recruit demons and fuse them to make new ones. Basically retards have called this a mature and significantly "darker" version of Pokemon. However, the gameplay is far more entertaining as it requires a bit more strategy regarding the turn based system. When exploiting the enemy's weakness you are able to get an extra attack, visa versa with the enemy attacking you. Overall, it was the best RPG for the ps2 for me.

Take note that these people are retarded because Shin Megami Tensei predates Pokemon.

((Edit: Not worth your time, Pang?))

There's nowhere I can't reach.

((Protip: Zone of the Enders sucks and the only way Zone of the Enders is worth a shit is if it's followed by the number "2"))

If you can't get 2, don't even fucking bother with 1.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's 2008, not 2001.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Tails

Your point?

You apparently missed it, yes.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Leprenigger

His point is that you're a dumbdumbhead, and he'd be right.

Please go ahead and defend a mediocre game like Zone of the Enders 1. Seriously.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SCHWARZE-4

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

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