In existence.

Pretty much. I think in my subconscious I got a ps3 and psp so I could remote play this puppy. It's too bad it's "successors" were unable to maintain it's spirit.

I just started to reply it, amazing man...

Pokemon Red & Blue

It is one of the best along with the Chronos :P

i got smacked by a kid once after calmly explaining how this game was superior in story to final fantasy 7. lemme tell ya no matter how much you love this game it doesn't justify a 24 yr old getting into a fistfight with an eleven yr old.


i totally whooped him too. bwahaha! ok, i take it back. it was totally worth a night in jail and the summary restraining order. Long live the Id!

Pokemon Blue, yes yes, Pokemon Blue Version.

Man I wish I didn't lose my Xenogears... been playing a bunch of classic games recently and I'd be down to play this again.

xenogears is awesome

One of the Final Fantasy. 

one damn amazing game, I will always charish it :-D..

LOL shoulda saw Xenogears in the forum name. So...second best is...

Thousand Arms

Explicit Lesbianism at its finest.

Oh and you fight save points.

In terms of story, I'd say Xenogears is one of the best games ever made. The gameplay is somewhat flawed at certain points though, and certain characters are pretty uninteresting. It's still a great game either way, though. Tough to find games anymore with real stories.

gotta say I am playing Final Fantasy IV for the first time ever on the DS and its a pretty damn solid JRPG.

Probably Final Fantasy IV.

Greatest RPG. The term JRPG makes me a sad panda because whenever I hear someone use it it always sounds like some sort of derogatory term.

I probably am very biased since I have been playing it since 1998 and still play it (although I haven't recently since I lent my playing copy to my brother, and no way am I going to open my sealed original US release copy).  Been a few months now and I am having withdrawal symptoms.

" Probably Final Fantasy IV. "

Wow.  A fourteen-month-old thread got bumped.  Oh well.
 
A friend of mine that's really into Xenogears lent me her copy of the game a few years ago.  I didn't get more than maybe five or six hours into the game before giving up, and a large chunk of that was running around in a dungeon I found impossible to navigate because I was constantly losing my direction and a strong distaste for the jumping mechanic that they put in.  There's a lot of reasons why the game deserves praise, but there are some aspects that are just too outdated to let me enjoy it.

I prefer Xenosaga myself.  It's like Xenogears, but better.  Don't see why someone who likes Xenogears wouldn't like it.

" I prefer Xenosaga myself.  It's like Xenogears, but better.  Don't see why someone who likes Xenogears wouldn't like it. "

" @Hailinel: Ah, I've never played the second one.  I got most of the way through Episode 1, but got stuck on a boss since I was way underleveled.  I should play back through it sometime... "

I have a tough time remembering Xenogears since I played it about 8 years ago, but I do remember liking it a lot.  It was getting old even then, however (a PS1 game in the PS2 era) and I recall primarily that it under-utilized its anime cutscenes, so that some pretty epic things would happen in-engine and look terrible.  It's my long-standing opinion that despite the fact they're more recent than many of the RPGs being remade, it is PS1 RPGs (Xenogears, FFVII, Suikoden II, maybe Chrono Cross, though I didn't personally care for that one) that need the treatment the most.  They were trying to utilize new technology for things that weren't really possible to pull off until the next console generation. 
 
Edit: Regarding Xenosaga, I also enjoyed the first and blew through it in less than a week, though I don't think I really liked any of the characters, and unlike my favorite RPGs, I went to no effort to collect ultimate weapons and the like, just went straight through the story.  I picked up 2 out of a feeling of obligation but wasn't particularly excited for it for whatever reason and though I was mildly interested in the story, I couldn't maintain that through the combat sections, though.  They seemed totally disjointed from the narrative, and I stopped playing a few hours in.

Chrono Cross / Chrono Trigger... and it's not even close.

" Chrono Cross / Chrono Trigger... and it's not even close. "

" @Blair said:

" Chrono Cross / Chrono Trigger... and it's not even close. "

I disagree.  I just can't bring myself to like Chrono Cross.  The gameplay is all right, but the storyline is just terrible. "

" @Hailinel said:

" @Blair said:

" Chrono Cross / Chrono Trigger... and it's not even close. "

I disagree.  I just can't bring myself to like Chrono Cross.  The gameplay is all right, but the storyline is just terrible. "

To each his own, however popular opinion is that it has a fantastic storyline. "

I'm not diving into a discussion concerning the validity of Chrono Cross' great storyline.
 
If you don't appreciate it, that's fine, I happen to disagree immensely.
 
It's my favorite game of all time for a multitude of reasons, including its storyline.
 
JRPG's in general, are ludicrous, nonsensical and meander so far from coherency that it's silly to fault this masterpiece for those reasons.
 
The point is, we have differing opinions and neither of us are going to change the others stance.
 
No need to delve any further down this path.

Best Game of all time IMO.

I disagree, it's very good game but it loses it's luster in the third act where it's all story and gameplay is nonexistent.  
 
I say Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI tops Xenogears because they have an excellent balance of fantastic gameplay and superbly written stories.

I still prefer FFVI overall, but cannot deny Xenogears was one of the greatest jrpgs. It had it all - amazing soundtrack, fantastic storyline, great characters, fun battle system.