![]() ![]() It seems like the Dungeons & Dragons franchise always makes it onto best RPG lists one way or another. Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun While the Genesis remake Pirates! Gold is a bit more of an action game, it’s also just enough of an RPG to make this list. And despite PC ports of the era were usually known for being quite inferior when they made it to console, Pirates! Gold actually looks much better on the Genesis than its home computer counterparts.ħ. Who among us hasn’t dreamt of commanding a galleon to sail the seven seas, plundering loot and living the life of a pirate? Sid Meier’s Pirates! has made that dream a reality for decades now with its open-ended mix of sailing, swashbuckling, and dueling, as you and your crew attempt to complete the Ten Great Pirate Quests. Landstalker is the much less linear game that the Zelda series wouldn’t evolve into for years to come.ĭespite strong critical acclaim and good sales at release, Landstalker never received a proper sequel, though several members of the development team went on to create the spiritual successors Dark Savior for the Sega Saturn and Alundra for the original PlayStation. Yes, you’re an elf with a sword going on an epic adventure, but that’s about where the comparisons end. Landstalker has also received its fair share of comparisons to The Legend of Zelda, but in some ways is a much more innovative game, thanks to its isometric perspective and more open world design. Is that such a bad thing? Not entirely in this case.Ĭrusader of Centy isn’t going to win any awards for originality, but the gameplay holds up well (it’s even a little faster than Link to the Past), making it one of the more enjoyable Zelda clones of the era, even if it is on the short and easy side. Many of the enemies, levels, and even the HUD have more than a passing similarity to Nintendo’s classic franchise. Squint a little bit, and you might just mistake Crusader of Centy for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. ![]() That turned out to be a gross exaggeration (think maybe 20 hours or so), but it’s still one of the lengthier and more unique RPGs of the early ‘90s. When Sword of Vermillion launched as one of the first RPGs on the Genesis, Sega claimed that it offered a whopping 300 hours of gameplay. It’s just a shame that the series never really caught on with a wider audience, and a 2012 reboot completely abandoned the series’ RPG roots. ![]() The Genesis version of Syndicate doesn’t quite hold up as well as the PC version, but is still pretty darn enjoyable. Along with the unique setting, Syndicate distinguished itself with more action-oriented shooting gameplay, as you controlled a team of cyborgs. While most RPGs of the ‘90s explored Tolkien-esque fantasy settings, Syndicate was one of the first to explore a very different type of world, a cyberpunk dystopia where megacorporations vie for global dominance. This is also one title where the Genesis version soundly trounces the SNES port, thanks to a superior translation, higher quality music, and even slightly better graphics. It’s not the longest or best written RPG for the Genesis but does offer several hours of very solid side-scrolling action. The long-running Ys series has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years with a couple of top tier new releases, but for anyone curious to see the series’ more humble beginnings, Ys III is an excellent place to start. While there have been several attempts to resurrect the Gauntlet franchise since Gauntlet IV, none have really captured the pure, unadulterated joy of firing up this classic with a friend and slaying hundreds of baddies in an afternoon. This Genesis sequel originally started life as a fan made port of the original game, but soon grew into something bigger, adding a dedicated quest mode with leveling system, death match, and a new arcade mode that keeps track of progress via password. The Gauntlet series has inspired numerous action, hack and slash, and loot fests since its inception in the 1985. These are the 15 best Sega Genesis RPGs: 15. In fact, it even had a few RPGs that are at least as good - if not better - than what could be found on the SNES. That doesn’t mean the Genesis lacked excellent role-playing adventures, though. Thanks to early SquareSoft classics like Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, the SNES is still viewed as the definitive RPG machine of the era. The SNES excelled at platformers and RPGs. The Genesis had better sports and fighting games. In the midst of the 16-bit console wars, the Sega Genesis and SNES appealed to different types of gamers. ![]()
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