How about Pokemon Emerald?
Already have it.
Do you own the Orange Box?
No.
This, theres one on the Wii called Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, definetly check it out.
And also if you do get a 360, check out Mass Effect, its a Squad shooter with some RPG elements that you might like. The actual story isn't that long but with sidequests it has a considerable length, and a sequel is supposed to come out in 2010 iirc.
I'll check out Fire Emblem, it's gotten four recommendations.
If you've got a GBA, try out a game Called Tactics Ogre (it's for PlayStation2 as well, iirc). Really great, even better than the FFTA games (especially the story).
The DS has a dual slot function. I'm looking up Tactics Ogre right now.
How good is your PC? For $10 you can be less bored.
Bioshock:
http://www.direct2drive.com/2/4645/product/Buy-BioShock-Download
Civilization 4:
http://www.direct2drive.com/4/309/product/Buy-Civilization-4-Download
I'd also highly recommend The Orange Box. Bioshock is much like Metroid Prime I would say. Amazing atmospheric shooter that falls closely into the action-adventure genre. Civilization just seems to be one of the most praised strategy games of all time. The Orange Box contains a shooter I've put 165 hours into as well as what is considered the #1 shooter of all time + Portal.
Edit: Bioshock demo -
http://store.steampowered.com/app/7710/
Bioshock sounds like a really good game; and I have heard a great many things about it.
About the Orange Box: Are you guys recommending the PC one or the 360 one? I'm assuming the latter currently, but I'm just wondering.
Idk if youll like it but KH3 ( Kingdom Hearts 3 or 358/2 Days ) comes out in 2 days for the DS/Dsi
EDIT: Its a really good game imo, would be good if you played the other two though...
KH 358/2 days actually seems really awesome for a DS game, I'm probably going to get it.
There are a load of great strategy games for computers. Specifically I would recommend Warcraft III, Diablo II, Plants vs. Zombies, and Braid.
Also the great thing about Wii is having Virtual Console. There are a ton of great turn-based strategy games and RPGs. I would suggest Super Mario RPG, Ogre Battle, Paper Mario, Shining Force, and the Metroid series.
Diablo and Warcraft are both good games according to some of my friends (they have some of the same game interests I do), and the PvZ and Braid I'll check out.
Oh, and you might enjoy Okami if you haven't got it already. FOr a general idea, imagine you're playing LOZ:TP. Now imagine it's like that, but you're the reincarnation of the sun god in a wolf, that bashes demons with floating giant mirrors and can also distort the very fabric of the world to make it a giant parchment to draw on. Now give it a gripping story with fantastic art direction and that doesn't finish when you think it's over, it just keep going on and on, with compelling characters and some RPG elements thrown into the mix. You're getting there.
Really, it's a must-buy if you enjoyed TP.
Sounds like a heck of a good game. The reviews I've read all say to buy it.
RTS: Age of Empires series. Best to start with AoE 2 and its expansion. Then Age of Mythology and its expansion. They have got some good campaigns which will take a while to complete. And finally Age of Empires 3.
Two recommendations for the same game are good, I'll definitely check it out. It'd better be good though, as all of what you said makes it sound like a pretty good game.
If you get a 360, I'd definately recommend Fallout 3, and Oblivion doesn't seem bad either, but I haven't played that much. COD4 would be an excellent investment as well.
And I'd recommend staying away from the Conduit. Not really that great a game in my book. It's a decent rent, but not something you want to own for full price.
EDIT: Also look into the music games like Rock Band/Guitar Hero. I've been addicted to Rock Band drumming for the last year and a half.
CoD4 is an amazing game (played it at a friend's house), and it's near the top of my list for 360 games.
I was leaning towards not buying the Conduit anyway; I've heard more negative things about it than I have positive ones.
Guitar Hero (not sure about Rock Band) is a cool game, but it only held me in place of my TV for about 2 or 3 weeks.
Since you have a Wii, check out past Legend of Zelda games on Virtual Console, specifically Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time. Both are a fair amount better than Twilight Princess, actually.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 is a pretty good DS strategy RPG, turn based.
Fire Emblem games also sound good (I would recommend playing Path of Radiance before Radiant Dawn, it's for the Gamecube, or simply Fire Emblem for GBA).
OoT is amazing, I don't know why I didn't mention having it in the OP. Link to the Past has gotten lots of praise, I'll look into it.
I've never actually played a Final Fantasy game before (*gasp*) so that's probably a buy.
As I said earlier in this long-winded post, FE sounds Excellent.
The Mario RPG's are quite good. I'd recommend all of them (Paper mario: Thousand Year Door for Cube and Superstar Saga for GBA are arguably the best, though the new Bowser's Inside Story seems great too).
If you have incredible patience and like geeky stuff you could try the king of the games, NetHack (which is freeware)
One of my best friends loves the Mario RPG's, and he talked to me about Bowser's inside story all day today after I asked him to recommend games to me.
Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Civilization 4 (you might want to look at
this site), Age of Empire II (make sure you have the Age of Conquerors expansion; there's one by the same title for DS but it gets boring and tedious), Command & Conquer games, Warcraft III, Rome Total War (and the
Europa Barbarorum mod), Morrowind, etc etc.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a kind of interesting and little-known RPG for PC if you like steampunk-type things.
And if you happen to have something to play GBC games, Dragon Warrior Monsters is a really excellent and underrated RPG that I highly recommend.
You guys really like FE. Sounds like a must-buy.
I haven't heard anything about any of those games besides Warcraft III and AoE II. It'll take me a while to look through all these games.
Sorry for some of the short responses people, I'm tired from school today and I don't have much to say. Painters have been at my house for a while, and it's been pretty hectic around here.
