Decades:
Genres:
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Tabletop RPG, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, MMO, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Point and click, Indie, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Horror, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Mobile Phone, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Sports, Idle, Trivia, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.
I'm assuming turn based strategy will be a later one, I'll dump tactical RPGs there, since it's probably my favorite subgenre. Also I've realised I really don't like a lot of RPGs that I really enjoyed when I was younger cause the combat generally no longer does it for me, so most of this is about if the story can make up for it.
Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals is probably my GOAT. It's got it all, Zelda style puzzle dungeons, monster raising, decent degree of character customization, a 99 floor randomly generated Roguelike style dungeon AND a good story. This game is like, crazy good and doesn't get nearly the praise it deserves.
The rest are classics that I'm sure others will post
Mother 3
Earthbound
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 6
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
And since I don't really know where else to put it, Tales of Symphonic. It's a turn based RPG in all ways except it isn't turn based. Battles play like a 2d fighting game with the x plane changing based on which enemy is being targeted. You can set party AI as well as pausing to make them cast spells when need be. The story starts off pretty typical anime (and stays super anime) but it twists hard around the 1/4 point. Character building is unique and interesting. It's also really really long, like took me about 70 hours to beat the first time through and I missed a lot
I got to play Tales of Symphonia with some friends on gamecube was alot of fun, I loved the monk guy who was chained.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention the multiplayer angle. Monk guy is like the Jeff Bezos of that world but waddaya do?