Game Informer's "Top 10 Rare RPGs you need"

I was reading through my new issue of Game Informer and I found a little tribute list to lesser known rpgs(At least lesser known then Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior). The list is as follows

10. Shadow Hearts (Playstation 2)
9. Ys BOOK I&II (Turbo Grafix)
8. Tactics Ogre (Playstation)
7. Valkyrie Profile (Playstation)
6. Suikoden II (Playstation)
5. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (Playstation)
4. Dragon Force (Sega Saturn)
3. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Playstation 2)
2. Earthbound (SNES)
1. Panzer Dragoon Saga (Sega Saturn)

I have Valkyrie Profile, Dragon Force, and Disgaea myself. I can easily agree that those belong on there and I doubt anyone will argue that Valkyrie Profile doesn't belong on the list.

So... RPG Forum what are your thoughts on this list?

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Originally Posted by GoldfishX

Dragon Force is funny...I think it deserves to be played by more people than it did, but I couldn't take anymore of the repetitive battles about 35 hours into it. I kept getting pissed because my best soldiers kept deserting me for no reason.

And a good old W00T for Earthbound.

Titles I think could be subbed in are:
Tactics Ogre for SNES (which I've never seen a physical copy of)
Dragon Slayer Legend of Heroes for Turbo Duo (ditto)
Suikoden 1 (HTF nowadays...Required playing for RPG fans)
Shin Megami Tensei 3 (man, this one dried up fast...I haven't seen a used one in ages)
Magic Knight Rayearth (last Saturn game...Great overhead action-RPG)
Growlanser Generations (a bit HTF now, might jump in value in a few years).
Shining Wisdom (always wanted to try this one, could never find it)
Shining The Holy Ark (ditto)
Shining Force 3 Part 1 (ditto again...Saturn Shining titles are rarities)

I don't believe that Tactics Ogre for the SNES was released over here. I remember reading about it in Nintendo Power but that was one of their what I call a "Ha ha stupid american look at this cool game you can't play" moments like when they told use everything about Secret of Mana 2 even though it wasn't going to get released over here.

Shining Force 3 was good but it would have been great if we had gotten the whole game.

BTW I don't know if you still have Dragon Force, but if Generals kept leaving you it was because either you didn't give them awards they earned or they were greedy generals. You don't have to worry about keeping any of the Monarchs starting generals happy but the ones you actually have to capture to recruit, you do. Either by giving them items or awards that someone who already has max troops earned. I know way too much about Dragon Force because it's pretty much the only reason I still have a Sega Saturn. Well... that and Guardian Heroes.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

Actually, this thread's title is off. The Top 10 list in the recent Game Informer is "Top 10 Rarest RPGs" or something to that extent. It was listing off the top 10 RPGs that have become the hardest to find.

Needing them's got nothing to do with that list.

Actually the title isn't off, I was looking right at the magazine when I posted this and I'm looking at it right now. This is the issue I just recieved yesterday. It's not rarest rpgs because right before the list they even said "Keep in mind that these are not the rarest of the rare, but rather a sample of hidden gems that are well worth hunting down."

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

Originally Posted by Qwarky

Seems to me like another pretentious "this will make us seem hardcore" list that so many American game mags like to make.

I wouldn't be surpised, they screwed up and said Lunar was originally for the Saturn when it was originally for the Sega CD

Originally Posted by Kostaki

Sure it is, considering most B&M stores no longer have copies of PS1 games. Any sap can get on eBay and get any of these games if they wanted to really. It's a hell of a lot better than Disgaea, too.

I don't think you can really call anything that made it to greatest hits rare.

Originally Posted by Kaelin

I remember some of the characters were much less loyal than others. A couple of rogues/thieves in that game were especially bad. There was Rock, who got pissed off no matter what you gave him. Big crybaby IMHO. Then there was Bastion who would desert you automatically if the enemy had any female generals in a battle. I guess they're true to character, but boy were they annoying. I always stuck those two far away from the battle lines whenever I got them.

Yeah it was hard to get Bastion to fight just about anyone, but to his credit inspite of that he was the toughest rogue character in the game. I had him kill plenty of Dragon Men at the end of the game. I remember Rock was a crybaby too, but from what I remember if you got someone up to 100 troops they would quit whining and wouldn't desert after that.

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