Best Games by Popularity
-
Final Fantasy VII
- Release Date: Sep 3, 1997
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Never before have technology, playability, and narrative combined as well as in Final Fantasy VII. Read the Review
-
Final Fantasy VIII
- Release Date: Sep 7, 1999
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Cast all fears aside: the latest Final Fantasy is the greatest game ever to bear the name. Read the Review
-
Final Fantasy IX
- Release Date: Nov 13, 2000
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Final Fantasy IX serves as a coda to the series as you know it - it's a summation of everything that players have enjoyed about the past ten years of Final Fantasy games. Read the Review
-
Chrono Cross
- Release Date: Aug 15, 2000
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Chrono Cross may not have had the largest budget, but it has the largest heart. Read the Review
-
Digimon World 3
- Release Date: Jun 5, 2002
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Even with its budget-minded pricing, Digimon World 3 is at best an average role-playing game that will appeal only to fans of the greater Digimon franchise. Read the Review
-
Azure Dreams
- Release Date: Jun 30, 1998
- Gentre: Role-Playing
With each successive RPG, Konami has gotten bolder and braver. Read the Review
-
Suikoden
- Release Date: December 1996
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Though Suikoden may not be groundbreaking, it's definitely good. Read the Review
-
Suikoden II
- Release Date: Aug 31, 1999
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Suikoden II brings nothing new to the genre, but it executes well enough that no one will really care. Read the Review
-
Xenogears
- Release Date: Oct 20, 1998
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Xenogears' reliance on story, subtlety, and mood make it Square's most anime-like RPG thus far, in many ways making the game one of its best. Read the Review
-
Arc the Lad Collection
- Release Date: Apr 18, 2002
- Gentre: Role-Playing
The Arc the Lad Collection is ultimately an interesting, varied, and rewarding experience that has a tendency to sometimes get bogged down. Read the Review
-
Diablo
- Release Date: 1998
- Gentre: Action Role-Playing
Blizzard's Diablo, winner of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year for 1996, has finally made it onto the PlayStation. Read the Review
-
Guardian's Crusade
- Release Date: Jan 31, 1999
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Guardian's Crusade never pretends to be anything besides an enjoyable RPG. Read the Review
-
King's Field II
- Release Date: Oct 31, 1996
- Gentre: Role-Playing
The first King's Field was an excellent game, and its like-minded sequel is even better. Read the Review
-
Koudelka
- Release Date: Nov 30, 1999
- Gentre: Role-Playing
Overall, Koudelka falls short of expectations in the gameplay department, but the beautiful CG work in the game's movies definitely makes the experience a memorable one. Read the Review
-
Parasite Eve II
- Release Date: Jan 12, 2000
- Gentre: Action Role-Playing
Parasite Eve II is a consistently good-looking action-adventure game that adopts its predecessor's cinematic style to an even more impressive effect. Read the Review


