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Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:16 pm
by alienjesus
Exhuminator wrote:All three are action-RPGs, where you can level up your character and converse with NPCs and such. All three are listed under the action-RPG genre at GameFAQs, GameRankings, and MobyGames.
Out of curiousity, would you classify the original Guardian Heroes as an Action RPG too?
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:25 pm
by Exhuminator
I haven't played it enough to make that distinction.
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:31 pm
by eggman
Updated to reflect suggestions above after a little research. I am going to keep this as a list of games with RPG like qualities, so a loose interpretation.
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:43 pm
by Sarge
Exhuminator wrote:I think it'd be safe to add these to the list:
Advance Guardian Heroes
CIMA: The Enemy
Car Battler Joe
Dokapon: Monster Hunter
Justice League Heroes: The Flash
Kien
Mazes of Fate
Medabots: Metabee
Medabots: Rokusho
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
Yu-Gi-Oh! - The Sacred Cards
Zoids: Legacy
Some of them are action-RPGs. All got USA releases.
Pirates is a bit more Metroidvania, if memory serves. Advance Guardian Heroes has RPG elements, but they're light at best.
Flash definitely doesn't belong, it's just a brawler. I think one could make a case for
Car Battler Joe for sure. I vaguely remember those
Medabots games, but I can't remember how they play!
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:44 pm
by Exhuminator
Sarge wrote:Pirates is a bit more Metroidvania, if memory serves.
I consider the GBA and DS Castlevania games to be action-RPGs. I mean you gain experience and level up throughout all of them, for starters.
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:48 pm
by Sarge
I was actually thinking of a different Pirates game, Dead Man's Chest.
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:49 pm
by alienjesus
Exhuminator wrote:Sarge wrote:Pirates is a bit more Metroidvania, if memory serves.
I consider the GBA and DS Castlevania games to be action-RPGs. I mean you gain experience and level up throughout all of them, for starters.
Yeah, your idea and mine of an Action RPG are pretty different.
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:50 pm
by Sarge
If we are including the Metroid-likes as ARPGs, then add the two Shaman King games.
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:50 pm
by Exhuminator
alienjesus wrote:Yeah, your idea and mine of an Action RPG are pretty different.
What would your criteria be?
Re: Complete GBA RPG List
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:56 pm
by alienjesus
Exhuminator wrote:alienjesus wrote:Yeah, your idea and mine of an Action RPG are pretty different.
What would your criteria be?
That;s an interesting question, and I think I'd need to spend some time to truly define it. I certainly don't think that just having a level up system defines something as being an RPG though. To me that definition is way too broad and includes too many games that play very differently from each other.