What should my next Master System game be?

[kamiboy]

Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap.

That game is a 8-bit masterpiece and I am not saying that lightly. Without it your Master System collection is not so much incomplete as it is none existent.

[PunkicCyborg]

Golvelius is a must own.
Lord of the Sword is ok but not too engaging.
Rastan is fun and a lot better then Rastan II.
Laser Ghost is so f*cking cool you have to get it and a light gun NOW. It wasn't released here so you might have to get it from ebay uk or something but it is just so badass. I don't know why you never hear about it.
Wanted is another awesome light gun game.
Quartet is also pretty cool but the arcade version blows it away

[majors]

I'll 2nd R-Type and add Golden Axe to your "should buy next" list.

Damn, you got Master of Darkness and Sagaia already. Two awesome titles there. Power Strike is on your list already, another keeper.

I have dupes of golvelius, rtype and double dragon all complete

Get on this! DD and Golvellius are good. I was suprised how much I enjoyed Valley of Doom.

[Tatsujin]

Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap.

That game is a 8-bit masterpiece and I am not saying that lightly. Without it your Master System collection is not so much incomplete as it is none existent.

And also don't forget to get dragon's curse / adventure island on the TG16/PCE

[Tatsujin]

My ever fav SMS games:

Hang On (such an excellent game)
R-Type
Wonderboy in Monsterland
Wonder Boy III -  The Dragon's Trap
Fantasy Zone II
Aleste / Power Strike
Rastan Saga
Vigilante
Shinobi

[futureman2000]

Phantasy star 1 is one of my favorite games on any console. Dunno if it holds up without the nostalgia, though. But Wonderboy 3 is fantastic as well, and a must have if you don't have the turbo version.

[Tatsujin]

having both is even much better. especially when played on a jpn SMS/markIII (w/ FM unit) for the nice FM sound's sake alone.

[Arkhan]

CYBORG HUNTER.

f*ck.


also, Dragon Crystal is pretty tits

and Ultima IV

and the Zillion games

[kamiboy]

Phantasy star 1 is one of my favorite games on any console. Dunno if it holds up without the nostalgia

It doesn't, I played it for the first time last year and it is rubbish in my opinion. Perfectly encapsulates all the reasons why over the years I have come to find the RPG genre so intolerable.

[Arkhan]

It doesn't, I played it for the first time last year and it is rubbish in my opinion. Perfectly encapsulates all the reasons why over the years I have come to find the RPG genre so intolerable.

First person dungeons, smoothly animated.

Space ships.

Chicks.

Cats in your party.

Dragons.

Whats probrem.

[Tatsujin]

Damn, Galaxy Force had the best FM ever heard on any 8-bitter. even 10x better than the frowsy mega Drive version.

[kamiboy]

First person dungeons, smoothly animated.

Space ships.

Chicks.

Cats in your party.

Dragons.

Whats probrem.

Same problem as with almost every other tabletop template RPG really, trite, uninspired awfully designed, none engaging gameplay.

Press X to win for 30-150 hours. At least the original Final Fantasy broke up all those pressings of X with the occasional "pay a little attention now" boss battle every few hours or so. As someone who appreciates good game design playing an RPG is like going to work, only there is no paycheck to prevent suicide at the end.

As for the first person dungeon parts, those are actually my vision of hell. No christian visions of imps eternally poking your balls with triforks for me, no sir, to me hell is being stuck in an endless drab labyrinth of uniform square corridors.

Then again my longstanding impression of RPG fans has been that they play those types of games for reasons not relating to gameplay. Only to my mind that is a loony proposition.

[PunkicCyborg]

I'd do other trades BTW if you are looking for those, just hit me up sometime.

[Arkhan]

Same problem as with almost every other tabletop template RPG really, trite, uninspired awfully designed, none engaging gameplay.

Press X to win for 30-150 hours. At least the original Final Fantasy broke up all those pressings of X with the occasional "pay a little attention now" boss battle every few hours or so. As someone who appreciates good game design playing an RPG is like going to work, only there is no paycheck to prevent suicide at the end.

As for the first person dungeon parts, those are actually my vision of hell. No christian visions of imps eternally poking your balls with triforks for me, no sir, to me hell is being stuck in an endless drab labyrinth of uniform square corridors.

Then again my longstanding impression of RPG fans has been that they play those types of games for reasons not relating to gameplay. Only to my mind that is a loony proposition.

All I got out of this is "Hello, I have no imagination".

You're like that kid that plays D&D for the dice rolling combat portions, and complains when anything else is happening.

'WHO CARES ABOUT THIS STUPID NPC LETS JUST KILL SHIT IVE GOT AN AXE LETS GO"


What's wrong with the gameplay?  You're adventuring around, piecing together a great story.  Would you rather it cut to a Marioesque style game every time you walk out of a town? lol

[vestcoat]

Same problem as with almost every other tabletop template RPG really, trite, uninspired awfully designed, none engaging gameplay.

Press X to win for 30-150 hours.

I hear what you're saying and I make fun of the ChronoTrigger/FF7 kids for the same reasons. Part of it's nostalgia, but I'm more sympathetic with older games like PS even though the style is the same. BITD, there were only a handful of games like this and after countless hours of testing my reflexes on the standard fare, JRPGs were a nice change of pace.

Finally, before you throw all RPG's in the same waste bin, it's really important to make a distinction between JRPGs and the old computer-based westerns. The graph-paper-mapping, non-linear-problem-solving Might & Magic/Ultima/Wizardry diehards are nothing like the kids who disappear into their parents' basement with Final Fantasy for two weeks and press "X" to beat the game.