Best Plot/Story Rpgs of recent time

Final Fantasy games generally have an okay story. I don't agree that Final Fantasy VII is the "monster of all storylines". I think it had it's moments and was okay, but not fantastic. The thing that turned me off Final Fantasy VII like all most games was the fact that Sephiroth was, to me, just the token all-powerful, messed-up crazy guy. It was okay, mostly because a lot of games have taken that approach to the bad guy.

I think Final Fantasy VI holds the title for best storyline...of a Final Fantasy game. There are games out there that have way better storylines than any Final Fantasy. FFVI, even though it's been done before, looked deeply at war and what people do for power, but besides that the characters were actually characters I cared about. That's important in both Television shows and Video games to me. I have to care about the characters. Most characters (granted there were a few random ones...Gogo being one) had some big goal or point in their story. Relm mostly comes to mind with the fact that her mother died, her father abandoned her and left her with Strago. FFVI really felt more like a novel at times than it did a video game.

Also Final Fantasy Tactics deserves a big nod with it's kind of medieval plot involving feuding families and clans. The initial conflict between Delita and Ramza and the betrayal by Algus was very interesting and that was only within the first chapter of the game.

Anyway, there are some games out there that are way better in terms of story or plotline. Chrono Trigger has always been fantastic and fascinating with the time traveling plot and averting major catastrophe. Plus it was one of the first games to feature multiple endings so that was fun to play out and see which was the best. Xenosaga Ep 1 was definetly something interesting and very mature in it's plotline. I loved how it has the issue involving the realians being regarded just as things and then KOS-MOS comes along and doesn't realize any difference between a human life and a realian.

Anyway, that's just a small list, there are still many I'd love to play and experience. A lot are saying good things about Shadow of the Colossus and I've yet to play it, so I might give it a go.

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