Easy RPGs That Are Still Amazing

[alienjesus]

Okage, Jade Cocoon 2 and Magic Pengel for PS2 were all great games and pretty easy as well. Has anyone played Opoona for the Wii before? It looks like it would be a great game for the entry level RPG player like my 7 year old daughter.

I have heard that Opoona is deceptively hard. I have also heard that it's pretty easy. I've heard that its really good, and that its awful too. It's probably one of the games I've seen the most mixed reviews of, I guess you just have to try it for yourself to have any idea.

[corn619]

Okage, Jade Cocoon 2 and Magic Pengel for PS2 were all great games and pretty easy as well. Has anyone played Opoona for the Wii before? It looks like it would be a great game for the entry level RPG player like my 7 year old daughter.

I have heard that Opoona is deceptively hard. I have also heard that it's pretty easy. I've heard that its really good, and that its awful too. It's probably one of the games I've seen the most mixed reviews of, I guess you just have to try it for yourself to have any idea.

Yeah, the reviews are the reason why I was just wondering if anyone had any first hand experience with the game. Does anyone know firsthand if its good and kid friendly?

[flamepanther]

Panzer Dragoon Saga, Legend of Mana, and Chrono Trigger are three of the easiest console RPGs I have played. They are also the least boring I have played. Both of these may have something to do with why they are the only three I have bothered to complete.

[ZeroAX]

It looks like it would be a great game for the entry level RPG player like my 7 year old daughter.
Does anyone know firsthand if its good and kid friendly?

1 word dude. Pokemon. I think the RPG genre ows a lot to pokemon for expanding its target audience. Think of how many kids played FF or WoW just because they had played pokemon before and had some experience with the genre.

[Pulsar_t]

I'd play more role-playing games if they offered the option not to level-grind

[ZeroAX]

I'd play more role-playing games if they offered the option not to level-grind

Then they'd have to fill it with meaningful gameplay and that takes, you know, money and an imagination and shit.

[MrEco]

Well, I consider the Zelda games to be part RPG, I mean you still play the role of someone and you gain new "skills" with items you find.

In that case Super Mario Brothers is an RPG. You play the roll of Mario, and you gain skills by collecting mushrooms/flowers.

I hate it when people misunderstand what an RPG is. I've heard people call God of War, Sly Cooper, Rachet and Clank, and Dead Space RPG's. Bull. The Zelda games are no different. They have no actual RPG elements, just some exploration elements.

EDIT:
Anyways, in an effort to stay on topic, my favourite easy RPG's would have to be The Bards Tale (The PS2 version - not the original roguelike ones), Kingdom Hearts II, Lord of the Rings: The Third Age and Fallout 3.

[flamepanther]

Zelda II: Adventure of Link could be considered an RPG, but it is by no means easy and doesn't belong in this thread.

[ZeroAX]

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age .

Is that the JRPG game which had dwarfs casting magic, which got every Tolkien fan's panties in a bunch?

How deprived of imagination was EA at the time?

[optmusprimenumber]

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age .

Is that the JRPG game which had dwarfs casting magic, which got every Tolkien fan's panties in a bunch?

How deprived of imagination was EA at the time?

I had fun w/ that game... until I got to the double elephant-thing fight, I'm not turn-based-strategic enough. Same thing w/ Final Fantasy 10 when I got to one of the mutations of the main boss, just couldn't hack it.