With so few good new titles being released these days, especially by major studios, I figured I'd make a thread for everyone to share your favourite classic or older games, especially if they're lesser-known titles that others might have missed at the time.
I'll open with The Saboteur (2009), Mercenaries (2005) and Saints Row 2 ( The 2008 original)
Legend of dragoons for me, I replay that every few years. Story is fairly typical of the time, voice acting is.....also typical of the time.
But the addition system just goes so well with the jrpg formula. Magic being more limited where it's either by way of items or by turning into a dragoon also gives a nice sense of how special the transformation are.
Decent spread of characters for the team and has a fan made release that modernises it a bit so things look a bit better (I've downloaded it but haven't tried that version yet)
Legend of Dragoon is one of those rare games that actually got better with age. At the time, I remember being pretty disapointed in the game after the hype for it, found a lot of it to be pretty boring and cliche. The big unique thing about it, the active timed hits, was done in mario rpg. But then I played it again recently, and all the cliches just felt like a nice nostalgia blanket, same with the voice acting. The annoying hype has long-since died and I could enjoy the game just as a game. And the villians being called Winglies always makes me laugh, I don't know why. Great game for an RPG gamer.