13 Best Super Nintendo Role Playing Games - SNESdrunk

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  @SNESdrunk · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

  After over 1300 comments, I thought I&apos;d pin a &quot;Frequent Comments&quot; post up here. <br><br>1, &quot;zelda is an RPG and ur stupid lol, u have illusion of gaia on here but not zelders??&quot; Yes, in the most uselessly pedantic and strict definition of &quot;role playing game,&quot; Link to the Past is an RPG. You&apos;re playing as a role, and that role is Link. However, under this definition, absolutely any game can be a role playing game. Even stuff like Bill Laimbeer&apos;s Combat Basketball. So, when it comes to video games, the context changes of how &quot;role playing game&quot; is used. You need to make the character grow, not just by items (like in LttP) but by getting stronger and learning new abilities, usually through experience points. Will in Illusion of Gaia and even Albert in Front Mission Gun Hazard utilize this. Their characters grow through combat. That&apos;s what make those games role playing games. Link is a static character. The only way Link gets stronger in LttP is by collecting a shitload of items, most of which are used to solve puzzles. (Or, in other words, what you do in a typical action-adventure game.)<br><br>2, &quot;Chrono Trigger is better on DS and by your own rules, should not be on this video.&quot; I put 30something hours into the DS version, and the extra content is not worth exploring, and it&apos;s definitely not essential. I even prefer the original SNES translation. It&apos;s still best experienced on Super Nintendo.<br><br>3, &quot;Where is [Bahamut Lagoon, Fire Emblem 4, Secret of Evermore, Dragon Quest, etc?]&quot; Elsewhere.

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  @xCrossBite · 6 years ago

  For me, this was a 14 minute reminder of how good Squaresoft was in the 90s.

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  @savigy1301 · 6 years ago

  Chrono Trigger is a damn masterpiece. &nbsp;One of those things you wish you could experience for the first time again.

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  @jessemercurio4849 · 5 years ago

  FFVI and Chrono Trigger are still my 2 all time favorite games ever. Even though I have played through and completed them dozens upon dozens of times, they never get old.

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  @MicrowaveHotdog · 5 years ago

  Chrono trigger wasn&apos;t just one of the best RPG games it was one of the best games to exist in general

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  @Kylora2112 · 6 years ago

  Earthbound is definitely the most RPG RPG story...&quot;Your bus got delayed on your way home from grocery shopping, now you must slay God.&quot;

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  @TheShoe1990 · 6 years ago

  I remember getting introduced to Chrono Trigger in middle school by a friend who showed me the PSX port.<br><br>Flash-forward to 2019, I now do a completion run of CT probably once a year (I tracked down an original SNES cart &amp; play it on original hardware).<br><br>CT is the game that all game studios should REQUIRE their employees to play. It&apos;s nearly perfect in every catagory: art/graphics, story, gameplay, music, &quot;fun factor&quot;, etc.<br><br>Anyways, have a wonderful Thanksgiving, SNESDrunk, &amp; thank you for yet another quality video. You rock

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  @sauce777 · 6 years ago

  I will still be able to remember Kefka&apos;s laugh when im 90 years old.

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  @gmumper · 4 years ago

  Lufia 2 was one of the greatest games ever made. So much depth...

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  @jcam.hart8 · 6 years ago

  The SNES is the greatest &nbsp;gaming console of all time.

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  @Allas_Thor · 6 years ago

  At the beginning I didn´t like rpg&apos;s, but then I played Chrono Trigger. That game is the reason why I love rpg&apos;s.

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  @83jbbentley · 6 years ago

  The golden age of RPGs...it’ll never be like that again.

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