RPG backlog

[namzep]

Quite a few, actually:

Disgaea (both DS and PS2)
Disgaea II
Dragon Quest IV (DS)
Elder Scrolls III
Etrian Odyssey II (was playing it and got sidetracked by Disgaea DS)
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Final Fantasy IV (SNES)
Final Fantasy VI (GBA)
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Grandia II (DC)
LOTR: The Third Age
Magna Carta
Shenmue
Shenmue II
Shining Force Neo
Tales of Symphonia

and a ton more, too. I just never seem to have the time to play RPGs much anymore.

[carlcarlson]

Elder Scrolls III

If you get into this even a little bit then you're screwed.

[Lady Jaye]

Way too many games for me, but here goes (some are simply unfinished, others are games that I've had for a few years and still haven't played). My Mac gets the bulk of that backlog...

Final Fantasy V Advance
Final Fantasy IV Advance
Dragon Quest 8
Neverwinter Nights + Expansion packs + premium modules
KOTOR
Neverwinter Nights 2 + 1st expansion pack
Baldur's Gate 1 + expansion pack
Baldur's Gate 2
Fallout
Fallout 2
Freedom Force
Icewind Dale
Paper Mario 2
Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (although I'm almost finished with it)
Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Zelda: Ocarina of Time (plus Master Quest)
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Zelda: Wind Waker
Zelda: Twilight Princess

[jdc]

It's really funny, but I never get the urge to play RPGs until the autumn thru winter months, then I crave them. I have the usual ton of backlogged RPGs. Wasted time? How about having 30 hours into Baten Kaitos recently and then hitting a very vile nasty glitch that would not allow me to progress any further in the game? I had no choice but to erase my file. (i'm usually a one-file type of gamer)

Right this moment I'm playing The Last Airbender on Xbox, also available on Wii, PS2 and Cube. (YEP...it's a light, fun full-blown RPG with variable stats and magic and equipables!!!) I'm also FINALLY playing Chrono Cross and I'm finding it to be annoyingly vague as to what to do/where to go next. It pisses me off when an RPG "forces" you to buy or consult a guide in order to play it. After that I'll MAYBE try yet again to play Chrono Trigger. I found it boring and bailed on it.....but a million gamers can't be wrong.

Next will be the Cube version of Twilight Princess, since I didn't care for it control-wise on the Wii and abandoned it. Then Final 8 since I never DID beat the end boss when the game first came out. After that are the two Baten Kaitos games and Virtua Quest on Cube, hopefully with better luck this time around. Then there are various RPGs across all consoles from the NES to the PS3.

[Sudo]

Quite a few, actually:

Disgaea (both DS and PS2)
Disgaea II
Dragon Quest IV (DS)
Elder Scrolls III
Etrian Odyssey II (was playing it and got sidetracked by Disgaea DS)
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Final Fantasy IV (SNES)
Final Fantasy VI (GBA)
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Grandia II (DC)
LOTR: The Third Age
Magna Carta
Shenmue
Shenmue II
Shining Force Neo
Tales of Symphonia

and a ton more, too. I just never seem to have the time to play RPGs much anymore.

Magna Carta is terrible, don't even bother with it.

[kainemaxwell]

I find myself constantly torn by the desire to finally play Final Fantasy VI and some strange compulsion to play through the first six Final Fantasy games in sequential order. And so I end up playing none of them.

The other thing I particularly regret is not finishing Torment. One of these days.

Yeah I want to get back into FF6 too, just finding building up the Espers so slow. lol.

So anyone add to, or been able to knock anything off their backlogs?

[shopkins]

Yeah I want to get back into FF6 too, just finding building up the Espers so slow. lol.

So anyone add to, or been able to knock anything off their backlogs?

I finished a couple. But also bought about 30 more RPGs. So, yeah, moving farther away.

[SpaceHarrier]

Final Fantasy Tactics - Not too far into this one
Final Fantasy 6 - Opera House
Final Fantasy 9 - Desert Palace
Dragon Quest VIII - outside some market town where a house burned down
Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door - Big-boobed ghost girl's place, I think
Chrono Cross - saved out at sea, no idea what I'm supposed to do.. I'm considering starting over
Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood - right at the beginning
Lunar: Silver Star Harmony - Kyle and his bandit's hideout
Skies of Arcadia - Right after the Red Gigas
Persona 4 - The first dungeon.. I want to punch that bear in the face

[heybtbm]

3 years later:

I've officially abandoned just about every JRPG I've purchased since my first post in this thread. I could probably count on one hand how many I've finished since then. I stopped buying them completely earlier this year. It's just recently that I've been able to finally accept the fact that I don't have the time or interest for JRPG's anymore. I most likely never will again. It's sad because Disgaea 4, FF13, and Tactics Ogre PSP all look like fun (collecting dust on my shelf).

That being said...western RPG's are still my thing. Loved the ME's, Oblivion, and Fallout series. Totally plan on sinking every minute of free time I have into Skyrim. 5 1/2 years of waiting and only 4 days to go!

[kainemaxwell]

Persona 4 - The first dungeon.. I want to punch that bear in the face

I've wanted to punch the bear in the face the moment it talked in the Persona 4 anime.

[Rickstilwell1]

My new way of doing things makes it so there will never be any abandoned save files. I'm recording the footage of what I am doing. If I wait too long and forget what I was doing, all I have to do is go back and watch my gameplay footage till I remember.

[kainemaxwell]

Anyone able to knock off some from their rpg backlog since we last met?

[Press_Start]

If anyone's curious (or desperate) to try out, here's my method for handling my huge RPG backlog:

Step 1: Pick 20 games. Number them 1-20.
Step 2: Take a 20-sided MtG die and roll it 5 times.
Step 3: Place all 5 numbered games into one pile. Put the rest away.
Step 4: Play them!
Step 5: Rinse, lather, repeat.

Here's the rules I follow:
Rule 1: Never play any other "NEW" RPG.
Rule 2: Wipe away any or all existing unfinished save files and start over at the beginning. (This one's a personal rule. It help keep focus on the story easily since I find harder to enjoy a game when trying to catch up on 10+ hours of forgotten story and item collecting but that's just me.)

Numbers and preferences may vary but to each their own.

[kupomogli]

I've finished Star Ocean First Departure. I've got a few PSPs since my original post. I've added plenty games since, finished some, but my backlog is much larger. Nothing really old is on my backlog as all have been completed, but new titles have been.

Persona 3 FES(sealed.)
Digital Devil Saga 2(stopped halfway through.)
Wild ARMs 5(sealed.)
Grandia 3(sealed.)
Jeanne D'arc(sealed.)
Suikoden 3(stopped after each character met up. I've made several new files that I've ended up stopping around this point.)
Suikoen 5(couldn't stand the game. stopped after 12 hours.)
Star Ocean 3(couldn't stand the game. stopped about 5 hours.)
Final Fantasy 12(couldn't stand the game. stopped after 10 hours.)

Added games and games I may not have added previously.

White Knight Chronicles 1 played from White Knight Chronicles 2. I stopped this one half way. It's a good game and one thing I like they have a star that shows you exactly where you need to go next, except at this one part where they want you to talk to everyone in the town to find whoever. So I talked to literally everyone and can't find where to go. After going back and forth repeatedly talking to everyone in that town wasting about two hours I saved then quit. I'll go back to it, because I liked the game, but damn if that part wasn't stupid as hell.

Star Ocean the Last Hope. Didn't get very far into this at all. Graphically it's a downgrade from Star Ocean 3, but the gameplay itself is fortunately much more enjoyable. The boring storyline at every turn is what had me set it down.

Eternal Sonata. Sealed.
Astonishia Story. Sealed.
Hexyz Force. Sealed.
Persona Portable Sealed.
Persona 2 Innocent Sin Portable. Sealed.
Persona 3 Portable. Sealed.
Lunar Silver Star Harmony. Sealed.
Riviera the Promised Land GBA and PSP
Yggdra Union GBA and PSP. GBA version sealed.
Legend of Heroes Prophecy of Moonlight Witch. Sealed.
Legend of Heroes Song of the Ocean. Sealed.
Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky
Ys 1 and 2 Chronicles. Sealed.
Valkyria Chronicles 2. Sealed.
Final Fantasy The Four Warriors of Light. Sealed.
Dragon Quest 6. Sealed
Dragon Quest 5. Sealed.
Black Sigil Blade of the Exiled. Sealed.

The games below are shit and aren't going to be completed.

Resonance of Fate
Final Fantasy 13
Glory of Heracles

I think that's about it.

[Jorpho]

This is the year I think I will finally get around to Torment! Just as soon as I finish Phoenix Wright 3. And the Binding of Isaac expansion coming out this month, maybe.

[DigitalSpace]

Still far too many for a full list, but here are a few that I own that I'd really like to get around to playing one of these days:

Crystalis (NES)
Willow (NES)
Secret of Mana (SNES)
Earthbound (SNES)
Final Fantasy II (SNES)
Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
Paper Mario (N64)
Record of Lodoss War (Dreamcast)
Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast) or Skies of Arcadia Legends (Gamecube)
Kingdom Hearts (PS2)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)

I'd also like to play through Chrono Trigger again.

[Opti]

About All i play is RPGs with the very occasional exception.

Ive only ever beaten a handful of RPGs, all other games I have a strong need to beat them, when I play an RPG I can always find something else to do like a hidden boss or max out a characters stats, and so I put of beating them.

Ive beat most of the final fantasies on friends save files, the first 4 Breath of Fires (favorite series and even forced myself through most of 5).

I actually have a hard time going into that last boss even if I am so ridiculously overpowered it will be easy, its hard to end something Ive got over 40 hours into.

Current backlog,
Skyrim - Final part of main quest but I am currently trying to max every skill, all I have left is a few magic skills.
Oblivion - havent even started
Morrowind - Couldnt get into it, wandering around with no aim getting lost got old for me
Tales of Symphonia - Abandoned save file
Star Ocean (Xbox360) - Havent started
Dragon Age - Havent started
Lost Odyssey - Not very far
FF13- got bored after about 15 hours
FF8- havent started
FF9 - Started over about 20 hours in
FF12 - gave it a second chance and just got into it
Skies of Arcadia - about 2 hours in
Disagaea - Way too much time wasted and I get back into it about every 3 months
Grandia Extreme- Havent started
Suikoden 3 - abandoned save file
FF7 Crisis Core - played it just for the back story and hated it
Suikoden 2 - a few hours in
Rogue Galaxy - Cant remember where I left off.

Im missing quite a few im sure, Im running into the problem of finding RPGs I actually like lately. Seems like in the PS1 day I like everything I could get my hands on and almost as much so with PS2 and outside of skyrim I havent found anything on the last generation I really enjoyed.

[Ryudo]

Wild Arms 3
Rogue Galaxy
Kingdom hearts
Star Ocean The Second Story
Star Ocean Til the End of Time
Final Fantasy IV 20th
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Final Fantasy X
Phantasy Star
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star III
Phantasy Star IV
Blue Dragon
Vagrant Story
Lunar (PSP)

[JSoup]

Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist Of Arland
Blue Dragon
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
Breath of Fire
Cthulhu Saves the World
Dragon Age: Origins (and that giant pile of DLC as well)
Final Fantasy XIII
Hyperdimension Neptunia
White Knight Chronicles
White Knight Chronicles II

And a handful of PS1 RPGs that I don't have listed or near me at the current moment. Was having trouble getting them to play, so I moved them to my "need to fix" pile. Think it had Saga Frontier 1 & 2, Chocobo's Dungeon 2 and Wild Arms.

[SEGA_Queen]

The only RPGs I finished since my first post are Solatorobo and Lunar the Silver Star Harmony.

I have been slowly working on few more:

Pokemon Red Japanese Version

Magical Starsign

Tales of Destiny

[Press_Start]

Here's an update of games I've vanquished recently:

Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes
Devil Survivor 2
Digital Devil Saga
Dynastic Hero
Destiny of the Emperor
Great Greed
Monster World IV
Brain Lord

And here's my current backlog batch of 16-bit goodness:
Breath of Fire
Lagoon
Paladin's Quest
Sailor Moon Another Story (repro)
Skies of Arcadia