Contemporary JRPGs for the PC

[DaFool]

Right now I've been trying out the ff

Shin Megami Tensei Online http://megaten.aeriagames.com/
The Last Remnant http://na.square-enix.com/remnant/pc.html

I want to know if there are any other Japanese RPGs (not Korean / Chinese please) playable in english for the PC platform? (Well yeah, ideally I should just get a console -- even a used PS2, BUT... I don't want to incur more junk around the house, and old consoles do gather dust after their use).

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Ramidel]

One thing you could do is get an emulator, if you don't mind being a bit on the gray-market side.

You can then play classic SNES, Genesis, Playstation, what have you games on the PC.

[gekiganwing]

I want to know if there are any other Japanese RPGs (not Korean / Chinese please) playable in english for the PC platform? (Well yeah, ideally I should just get a console -- even a used PS2, BUT... I don't want to incur more junk around the house, and old consoles do gather dust after their use).

A used PS2 is dirt cheap now (though that might depend on where you live). Sadly, my console has trouble playing the few games which were on CD-ROMs, such as Chulip, RPG Maker 2, and Taito Memories.

Falcom's RPGs (and action RPGs) have existed on PC for years. But their translated versions are much easier to find on consoles -- such as Legend of Heroes, Gurumin, and Ys.

Anyway... if you search around, there's always Utawarerumono and Tears To Tiara. Neither got an official release in English, but you can purchase them from sites such as Eroge Shop, or services which will help you use Yahoo Auction Japan.

I haven't played the more recent H RPGs from J-List. I tried Brave Soul, and it was okay...

[lordcloudx]

Old games, but these are kinda traditional 3D jrpgs for the pc. These are ports of the dreamcast/ps2 titles

Grandia II
Skies of Arcadia

And the older FFs starting from 7 up to 9

And yeah, emulators
Try out Rudora no Hihou for the Snes (One of the best music and sprite animations I've seen on a 2D jrpg and it was never released outside Japan)
-Tales of Phantasia (comes with an opening song)
-Star Ocean
-Chrono Trigger (who hasn't played this one? )
-The mana series

and then there are all those dos and pc98 titles but most are in japanese with no translation

edit: you might also wanna try some of these
http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppe ... g-cons.htm

[mikey]

If you don't mind going the translation path, there is this translation patch for two beautifully-looking PC JRPGs, Y''s 1 & 2, this would definitely be my suggestion.

Many screenshots (untranslated - but both games are fully translated):
http://www.ysutopia.net/translations/ys ... Shots.html

Patches:
http://www.ysutopia.net/translations/yscomplete/

I don't know how the game is, but it looks so pretty, it almost doesn't matter.

[elmedir]

I'm several days too late posting this, aren't I? Anyway there's also Breath of Fire IV. And how about Septerra Core and Anachronox? They are actually western-made but are considered JRPGs by some due to their style.

[DaFool]

Nope, not too late. You've given me more items to google, thanks.