What's a good RPG for the PS2?

The Xenosaga series is good: the first one has an easy system, but the second one can get complicated... however, the third one has the best of both, and the storyline across the board is quite great.

EDIT: FML, totally forgot about Persona 3 and Persona 4. They are a must-play sometime.

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Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-revis and Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy are pretty good.

Mana Khemia

Its made by Gust so it has to be good.



Mana Khemia 2

Persona 3
Persona 4 (Highly Recommend this one)
Suikoden IV
Grandia II (much better than the 3rd one in my opinion)
Grandia III
Soul Nomad (Gig is the reason you should get this)
Disgaea
Disgaea 2
Makai Kingdom (never played it but Zetta is too badass to pass up)
Atelier Iris series (there are 3 of them)
Ar Tonelico
Ar Tonelico II

I was gonna say the Mana Khemia series, but guess I was beaten to it. They're my favorite series too. And should this go under the "Request" section?

I would recommend the Shadow Hearts series, part 1 is a good game to start while part 2: Covenant was considered one of PS2's best RPGs. Also, if you're a Tales of fan, Tales of the Abyss is a MUST play.

persona 3 (like most of the others said).

and if you like tactics rpgs, you should try la pucelle tactics

There's bloody hell alot of good rpgs to play on PS2 what the guys above listed is just a starter :D

U could give valkyrie profile : silmeria a try.

Theres always Vagrant Story and Dark Cloud.
At least I remember it being an rpg.
Everyone else mentioned whatever else I would of said anyways...

Honestly, the better question would of been, "What are bad rpg's for the PS2", you'd have a smaller list to sift through that way.

vangrant story is on the ps1...

Nobody mentioned Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2?

Could have sworn it was on the PS2...
well either way, that was a good game.
Get it anyways.

well.. from wat i can tell alot of same opinion here... odin sphere is nice as well.. not sure is a RPG or not.. but nice game also...

well since alot of ppl pretty much cover all the nice game 2 get... I guess I should say.. the game tat u should not buy.... 1st of all is magna carta... dun let the cover of pretty girls fool u... is a very dull game... i spend months playing it.. but still havent finish cos I always close the game after 30min of gameplay

I personally really enjoyed the Growlanser series of games that were brought over during the life of the PS2. They're a good break away from normal RPGs and play a lot like Final Fantasy tactics. They involve you having sets of characters that you build up, and then the "fights" you get into often have specific mission objectives you have to meet, like protecting a convoy or killing a particular enemy within a certain period of time.

I also enjoy the series because the character designer is Satoshi Urushihara - the famed hentai artist.

Working Designs released Growlanser 2 and 3 as a set, "Growlanser Generations";



And then Atlus themselves released Growlanser 5, "Growlanser - Heritage of War";



You would probably have some serious difficulty locating Growlanser Generations. Customary to standard Working Designs protocol, they released two versions of the game to drain gamer's money. The first was a "standard edition" which was just the two games. And the second was the "deluxe edition," which included many extras. The deluxe edition demands a higher price among collectors.

You do have to put up with rather lack-luster graphics - even by PS2 standards. These are games that could have been on the PS1. Growlanser 2 is much easier than Growlanser 3, and most critics agree that the later is the better of the two. I personally like Growlanser 2 because of all the ridiculous possible endings you can get, including a few were you're the enemy.

Growlanser Heritage of War only saw one release by Atlus and it was a collector's edition. It wasn't printed for a very long time and garnered some average to bad critique. It's a lot better graphically-wise than the prior Growlanser games in that the series went 3D. However, the battle mechanics can be a bit quirky. It in all honesty plays a REAL lot like FF7, except battles are real time. Also like it's predecessors, the battles are often objective-based.


If you want something seriously different, might be something to explore.

dude try Final fantasy 12! epic exploration, excellent graphics, great MMOish gameplay, and fucking underrated it pisses me off. it took me 70 hours to finish the story and another 80 to finish everything else and when my memorycard got corrupted I played it again for another 150 hours just fucking epic

The Xenosaga series
Persona 4
Shin Megami Tensei III - Nocturne
Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 1 & 2
Final Fantasy X
Kingdom Hearts (well, if action-RPGs counts :P)
Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia

I would also mention Shadow Hearts, but I still have to play it (bought online today :D), though seeing it on Youtube gave me a very good impression.

Persona 3 an Persona 4. Those are the only ones that's storyline I LOVED. It kept me wanting to know what happens next. Longest game i've ever played as well. Tales of the Abyss might be longer. I don't know, but persona 4, that game I spent 5 days straight playing from 12 noon to 3 AM for all 5 days. It is my 3rd favorite game. Mana Khemia 2 being the second and Mana Khemia being the first.

i guess final fantasy x part 1 is pretty good. its the only rpg ive played on ps2 but the game has so much u can do like side quests and collecting celestial weapons and fighting arena monsters. Its a good 80-100 hours of gameplay

If you like it old-school and don't mind grinding, Dragon Quest VIII is quite fun.

Final Fantasy XII was bullshit. Seriously FF goes downhill after VIII except for X, they're just using the FF name, The original creator Sakaguchi already left the company and started his own work named Mistwalker seriously FF went downhill after he left.

Here are a list of some damn good RPGs.

Persona 3: FES - This game combines the elements of RPG and a Dating sim game. Very moving game.

Persona 4

Final Fantasy X-2

Final Fantasy X

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts II

.Hack series

That is all.