Best RPG Genre

[Jasonese]

Definitely a real-time RPG. Nothing better than having an active battle where you have to be on your toes for any unsuspecting monsters who have the nerve to interfere.

Action RPGs are a close second. I love the tales and star ocean series.

Of course the other genres are all great, those two are just my favorites.

 

[mcr619619]

This in only my opinion

Traditional Turnbased RPG (eg Final fantasy series, Dragon quest series)
Pros: Menu base, easy to learn, usually has epic stories, lots of unlockables,sidequests. large worlds

Cons: Gets repetitive, mostly lacks character exclusives (you know, characters can be easily replace, sorry for bad explanation ) usually battle takes too long, and the most famous, ENORMOUS random encounters back in the days, still use today, for hardcore gamers. and requires too much grinding.

Strategy RPG (eg Final Fantasy tactics, Disgaea, Advance Wars)

Pros: Easy to learn but hard to master, some has great storylines, gives challenges to the player bec it requires strategies, Usually has wide customizations of characters/units.

Cons: Sometime too hard and requires to much grinding with one battle takes to long to finish. some has epic-fail stories,

Action RPG (Tales of series, The world ends with you)

Pros: Battle system is so fun, usually not just button smashing, not-always to make some grinding, has good to epic stories. ARPG's battles are not always in Random

Cons: Sometime gets repetitive.

 

[easycrashing]

Whatever the FF games (5>13, excluding 11) are, I've never played any other rpgs except wow.