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I dont recommend playing Last Remnant  on anything less than dual core and 3gb ram with a decent graphics card.

As a guide on my laptop i have an ati rad 3450 hd 512mb, 3gb ram and 2.1 dual core x64 and it still doesn't run as well as I would like.

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I'd reccomend Yggdra Union on GBA or PSP - It's stupidly addictive!

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An alternative to the blueprint for strategy role-playing games, Yggdra Union is strange, complicated, interesting, and charming

http://uk.gamespot.com/gba/rpg/yggdraunion/index.html?tag=result;title;1
 
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If you don't mind action RPGS then Soul Blazer on the snes is the best ARPG. Slightly dated graphics aside, anybody disagrees i'll fight you!
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I dont recommend playing Last Remnant  on anything less than dual core and 3gb ram with a decent graphics card.

As a guide on my laptop i have an ati rad 3450 hd 512mb, 3gb ram and 2.1 dual core x64 and it still doesn't run as well as I would like.

I've got a desktop with Intel Core2Duo E6750 @2.66Ghz x2, 2 gigs of ram and 512MB Geforce 8800GT and it runs easily on highest settings for me. No AA though.

edit: there however is some bug with high quality shadows that makes the game sluggish in combat so might want to turn down the shadow settings to medium or minimum, there's really no difference in shadow quality either way.
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yeah I have beaten Suikoden 1 and 2.should I try last remnant I have a computer with all the right settings a 512 graphics card,2 gb ram and 3.0 giga hertz but that computer does not have agp acceleration  would it still work because final fantasy 11 does.
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I doubt it if you have an integrated graphics card. Those really aren't made for modern 3D games. There's a demo of Last Remnant on Steam so might want to try it.
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edit: there however is some bug with high quality shadows that makes the game sluggish in combat so might want to turn down the shadow settings to medium or minimum, there's really no difference in shadow quality either way.

Maybe my shadows are on high, i'll turn 'em down. Thanks for the tip.
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Just wait till Final Fantasy XIII comes out.
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Im playing Tales of Phantasia now for the second time but PSX version on PSP .Will get last Remnant after I add 2 gigs of ram on my computer for only 45$ (Used to think it cost like $200 man was I clueless).
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Not A huge fan of dark stories but I really like Shin Megami Tensei DDS might check them out after I finish 1 and 2.

P3 and P4 don't have dark stories, so you're in luck.
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Tales of Eterna!

If you play the original version (I think the rest are simple ports) play this one.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn273/Nidiox/TalesOfDestiny2Cover.jpg

not to be confused with this one http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/561922_27326_front.jpg

I hate the Tales series just as much as the next guy but Tales of Eternia was fantastic.
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I hate the Tales series just as much as the next guy but Tales of Eternia was fantastic.
Why would you hate Tales of' so much.I'm actually finding them allot more enjoyable then most RPG's except maybe a few turn based one's.Anyway I was planning to play Tales of Destiny or Last remnant next.I'm just finishing off my really old loaded game I only got like 8 hours  left in Phantasia.
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I remember playing Skies of Arcadia Legends on the Gamecube and really enjoying it. So I suggest that.
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Why would you hate Tales of' so much.I'm actually finding them allot more enjoyable then most RPG's except maybe a few turn based one's.Anyway I was planning to play Tales of Destiny or Last remnant next.I'm just finishing off my really old loaded game I only got like 8 hours  left in Phantasia.

Because every single game follows the same basic formula and the only thing that ever really changes are names and haircuts?!?

To me Tales of Eternia (Destiny II for PSX in the US) was the only one that stood out, though it's still familiar territory if you've played any other game in the series. I've heard that Tales of the Abyss stood out as well but I haven't played it myself (lost my PS2 before I was ever interested enough to try the game out)
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EarthBound, Mother 3, Tales of Symphonia, The World Ends With You, Rune Factory (actually its a fantasy/rpg harvest moon game but you'd probably like it)
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Because every single game follows the same basic formula and the only thing that ever really changes are names and haircuts?!?

To me Tales of Eternia (Destiny II for PSX in the US) was the only one that stood out, though it's still familiar territory if you've played any other game in the series. I've heard that Tales of the Abyss stood out as well but I haven't played it myself (lost my PS2 before I was ever interested enough to try the game out.

I hear Tales of Legendia stood out as well. Apparently a lot of Tales fanboys hated it, maybe it's good then. I've read the plot premise and seen the character designs and it does look pretty different from usual Tales stuff.

By the way, I recommend Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions due to good gameplay (hate those pseudo-random battles from which you can't escape though!), great plot (much better than anything you'll ever find in Tales) and beautiful cel-shaded, storybook-esque cutscenes!

Lost Odyssey is also good but it doesn't really add anything new to the genre. Most characters dress ridiculously, there's some slight slowdown on some parts and the plot and world could've been better. The world felt really empty when compared to what Kaim's memories (short stories presented in a visual novel fashion which describe memories from Kaim's past which he remembers along the game) described. To me the memory segments were definitely the game's highlight plot-wise, I just wish the guy who wrote those short stories could've written the game's plot as well. The game also has some excellent music (especially during the memory segments) although there ares some tracks that I just can't listen to.
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I'm probably gonna finish off Tales of Phantasia in a day or two.I'll probably download the Last Remnant demo now to see if it works on my computer at good speed and if it does I'll buy it if not I'll probably play Tales of Eternia.
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Both Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean and Baten kaitos Origins are pretty good.  The first one has some pretty bad VA work, but everything else is pretty awesome.  Origins definitely had a much better localization effort (probably because Nintendo did the localization, I don't remember who did Eternal Wings' localization work) and was pretty good too thought he battle system was made less complex this time around.
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Damn! Wasted a whole gigabyte for nothing The Last Remnant Demo comes up with a windows error right after the banner.Oh well I'll finish up Tales of Phantasia
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Has anyone played Little King's Story?  It looks like a really interesting game.

I really like the narrator's voice on this trailer.
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