The main Wild ARMs series ranked from worst to best! Intro theme by The Legendary Zoltan: / @thelegendaryzoltan9628 Please support my channel: / ericklandon
Wild arms IS underrated. I wish it has more recognition. Glad many people here love the series too. I can't stop playing wild arms since they have really annoying but intriguing dungeon... makes me curious of those dungeon and i feel happy sometimes that i can solve them without looking at walkthrough! XD
@@attackofthecopyrightbots And there is a reason why it's not called Wild Arms 6 because it's not part of the main series. Spin-off for smartphones that could have been on their portable console instead. Media Vision makes the original Wild Arms, Wright Flyers Studio is a mobile developer.
i would rather to remake wild arms 1 or 2 for ps4 or ps5 with modern graphics. OoO but i doubt ppl gonna like turn-based battle anymore. since now they more prefer to action hack-slash batlle than turn-based (not all, but most of it)
I HAVE PLAYED WILD ARMS, WILD ARMS 2 AND WILD ARMS 3. AT PRESENT I AM PLAYING WILD ARMS 5. WAY TOO MANY BATTLES IN THE GAME FOR MY LIKING AND NO TELEPORT ITEM AND NOT ENOUGH SAVE POINTS IN DUNGEONS AND NO EXIT A DUNGEON ITEM EITHER. VERY VERY FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU NEED TO TURN YOUR CONSOLE OFF AND YOU NEED SLEEP OR YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE AND YOU CANT BECAUSE YOU CANT FIND A SAVE POINT, ITS A VERY BAD THING IN A GAME NOT TO BE ABLE TO SAVE OFTEN.
As soon as i heard that WA2 battle theme, i got chills down my spine, that game is amazing and i put so many hours into it, it's my number one in the series followed by WA5, love Greg :) Great video Erick, i am happy to see people talking about this amazing franchise
How is Alter Code F? I bought it waaaaay back in the day but never played it aside from a few hours. I absolutely adored the original. I'm getting the itch to go back and play again. Is Alter Code F better than the original?
@@toolman4745 I believe in aftercode f (it's been over 10 years) they just run around visually - the battle is just turn based like the original. Again it's been a long time since I played - maybe ask a letsplay?
Along with Suikoden and Shadow Hearts, Wild Arms is one of my favourite JRPG series. 4 was the only one that left me a little flat. It’s not a bad game but the others are just outstanding.
Bro same, when he said 3 was 3 I was certain wild arms 2 was going to win, so imagine my surprise when the only main series I hadn't played, and didn't even know existed until a few weeks ago, was number 1. That being said, first game bias is a possibility, crash bandicoot 3 was my first and favorite and most die hards prefer 2
@@ShadowProclamation11 Have fun with that, they're ridiculously overpriced. They're going from anywhere between $125-$175 CAD which I have no problem paying for a game, hell I just paid $425 CAD for a mint copy of Suikoden II and $275 CAD for a copy of Valkyrie Profile just a couple weeks ago I just don't think Wild Arms 5 is worth it's price atm.
Same for me,2nd ignition was my 1st rpg for wild arms,so proud to finish any dungeon with puzzle with no walkthrough,after i finish it for how many years,i played it again and find some secret bosses that i ddnt encounter on my 1st play
I've only played 3, 4, and 5, but boy did I enjoy them. Put 3 as my favorite, loved the anime cutscenes they played every time you loaded your save, and they changed based on what point in the story you were at. I can't forget the soft song that played when you saved it and quit the game. I want to play Wild Arms 5 again since I never completed it, but I see its not on the PlayStation store, and I'm awaiting the day when it is so I can play it again
One thing I deeply respect about the Wild ARMs franchise is that there are no stinkers. Each game is good throughout the series. Erick puts it best in this one, even the "Worst" entry is still good and enjoyable. There aren't many series (if any) that can say that. I even loved XF but I feel like I might be in a minority there.
One of the top 5 (in my view) most underrated rpg/jrpg game franchises of all time. Same this never got over in the west more like some of the other well received series but the wild arms games were always so very well done to me.
Wild Arms 5 has some of the best singular battle music, like nightburn's theme, persephone's, fereydoon's. It's little things but it gives the antagonists so much more flair.
Interesting choices, I would swap 2 for 3 because I like 3 so much. WA5 is a slow burner to start with but stick with it and it delivers - the only WA where you get to play a drifter that actually drifts...
The PS1 Wild Arms has only Three Playable Characters. Altercode F adds: Blue Mage Style Ally "Elimina" a Scientist who discovers how to reanimate and recreate "Golems" Giant Mecha Vehicles- Calamity Jane a lady who secretly wants Rudy to be her toy and/or how to Maximize the effectiveness of her "ARMS" - AND Zed who wants to usurp Ziek but ends up protecting a blind child from Ziek and Alhazad. In the original Zed Surrenders a sword to Jack instead of helping Jack's Nighttime business slot,
So I have a funny story to share, 11 years ago I remember playing Wild Arms 3 demo on the Ps magazine issue 62 and I swear for many year I remember the battle theme, But never ever went back to it because I wasn't fond of rpg yet. I'm 21 years old , and happy to say to that it's thanks to the battle theme memory (10years ago), I barely remembered where I heard this theme. I swear I didn't even remember the title of the game, but I did heavy research and thank God i found it .Today, after many years I was able to find the name of this beautiful gem, I still have my ps2 so I will go find a copy one day to be able to fully play it. I actually typed and looked to every single demo disc one by one to try to find Wild Arms 3, it was the sly Cooper red disc demo games that is where I found wild west 3 for the first time 11 years ago.
Wild Arms is a beloved series I hold dear to my heart. I love them all, including Xfire. As for my order, it is so hard to choose. The HEX battle system is one of my favorite battle systems around. So 4 and 5 are actually my fave favorites. My next criteria is characters and how attached I become to them. While Arnaud and Racquel are 2 of my all time favorite characters I have to give the nod to 5 as far as characters go. So if forced to choose, I would say 5 is also my number one based on those things. However I really dont want to choose!! 🤣🤣
wild arms is one of my fave games next to final fantasy vii, the opening in the first game is still one of my fave animated intros ever. Wish theyd bring wild arms back ive only played 1 and 3 as its all i could get my hands on but they are awesome. sadly 2 never came out in the uk. and 4 and 5 where rare and hard to find and are silly expensive now. i always hoped theyd release a collection of them on modern consoles.
Did you play any rpgs before FF7. It seems to me most FF7 lovers played that as their 1st rpg, so they never exp all the much better rpgs that came out before it.
@@user-bj1mx2ip1c no I’d say 7 was my first I guess the only thing close would have been golden axe warrior on sega master system (I went straight from that to PlayStation) always wanted phantasy star but never could find it where I lived. I did However played all of the old final fantasy’s when they rereleased on ps1 except 3 as they didn’t release that until the pixel remaster. I played chrono trigger on the ds that was ace. Nostalgia plays a roll obviously in ff7 being a fave along with wild arms aswell grandia is another fave
I only played the first three and My absolute favorite is part 3! I love that you made a WIld Arms video. This franchise deserves more light shined on it.
I'll never forget that a PlayStation magazine company sent me a free copy of Wild Arms 3 because they sense a demo disc that erased everybody's memory card who played the demo disc
The first Wild Arms was released the same year as Final Fantasy VII, so it didn't get a lot of recognition. I'm surprised that it received as many sequels as it did.
My first Wild Arms was the third, but I also knew the first and second from watching my big brothers' playing. So it's kinda upsetting to see the fourth's departure from its usual atmosphere. Never played the fifth, maybe I'd try someday :D
WA2 has been my #2 favorite game of all time, second only to Legend of Dragoon. The music, BRAD, the story, everything is there. Just gotta look past some bad localization lol
I will always have Wild Arms 3 as the top in the series. It's where the story, battle system, and gameplay all hit it's high note. Everything from wandering around the world map looking for stuff, to the encounter system, to the battles all works ideally. It's also the game in the series that really nails the wild west aesthetic the best. The music and the world really all go deep with the wild west aesthetic in nearly every way, in contrast to WA4 and 5 which... really don't have it that much. Not to mention WA3 having the best intro in the series hands down. I'd also definitely rank Alter Code F as a massive improvement over the first game that it remakes. It basically just takes WA1 and puts it in the same system as Wild Arms 3 with some battle gameplay changes to accommodate how everybody in WA1 didn't have an Arm. I'd put Alter Code F just under Wild Arms 3 in quality generally, with WA5 bringing up the rear and WA2 just above it with WA4 in the middle. Tbh I didn't care much for the grid system in WA4 and 5 but it worked while WA5's story was just plain terrible. Especially the plot twist at the end. SPOILERS: A time loop story? Seriously? The only time a time loop story actually works is when the loop that the story takes place in is the one where the loop breaks. Avril gets stuck in a time loop for all eternity and she and Dean will never be together for real. It makes the whole game feel completely pointless. Everything you're doing has happened already and will happen and there's nothing you can do about it. Really, I put WA5 at the bottom in large part for this one plot point alone.
In other words, WA4 and 5 pulled a FF8. Why can't JRPGs just leave the sci-fi to Mass Effect? Mass Effect and Fallout are the only successful sci-fi RPGs that sell out millions of copies while getting a broad audience. FF13-2 did time travel too and now nobody cares anymore.
@@luciusirving5926 To be fair, the whole series always had sci-fi elements. The problem is that they took away the wild west elements that made the series so enjoyable in order to lean into those sci-fi elements more and more and did a bad job with those sci fi elements in the bargain. Mass Effect and Fallout worked as sci-fi RPGs because they were designed as sci-fi RPGs from the outset. On a side note, the only thing really all that wrong with FF8 was how it was built on it's godawful junction system.
for me it's a triple draw 3, 2, 5, i remember long nights and i mean REALLY LONG NIGHTS doing side bosses one after the other, it's hard nowdays but i wish Sony take this one back
Great Video By the way!!! It is something worth noticing how you manage to cram so much content in just about 8 minutes!! So to awnser your invitation let me discribe my list!! 1 - Wild Arms 5th Vanguard!! (This one was actually the second one, but just about recently I've manage to play till a bit after the first boss.... And Dude! That first boss music!!! Amazing full of emotion and epic proportions that brings tears to my eyes!! I've never heard a boss music with such a imponent epic and cinematrografic proportion!! And overall the soundtrack in this game as well as in all the games in the franchise. Are top notch!! Another thing that grab my attention is to the detailed they put on the facial expressions! Almost as good as Kingdom Hearts in thar regard! Avril dor example, has an amazing array of facial expressions and conquered me instantly!! I thing this games is one of the most impressive looking games on the PS2 and the art style choosen by the time, still stands charming and appealing to this day!) 2 - Wild Arms The 4th Detonator!! (This one was actually my fave alltime game in the series!! I for one am a sucker for a good esemble of antagonists and bosses with voice acting!! And this game has tons of it!! It is very exciting to engage in a fight with a foe who has something to say and is backing up with a personality of his own, istead of smack some big ass giant slime pallet swap!! Also the music is good too and the anime feel grabs me too! It lost its former position because I notice that some of the drawing NPCs has almost the same facial pattern! It has that "fanzine" edge to it that rubbs me the wrong way! Even women has the same facial pattern as male npcs! And this is something that bothers me.... But the rest is highly stunning for me!! 3 - Wild Arms Aler Code F ( up to this point I've never actually played any other game in the series, mostly because I am not too keen on the graphycs on these! Alter Code F stands out the most, because I very much aprecciate the movement the charcaters have on battle and the camera work! Also the music stands great!! 4 - Wild Arms 3 (Charming Cel Shading and awesome music as always! However I can not see myself playing it in the near future..) 5 - Wild Arms 2 ( Sprite work and aesthetic western convey some appeal to me! However The polygons on battle.... Dear God! I can not fantho, PSX polygonal graphics this days!! Few are the ones that could make me play the game!! Chrono Cross, Xenogers on the gear battles.... Vanguard Bandits (For some reason I "accept" plygonal psx graphics when it comes to mechas or machines and scenarios in general, but when it comes to HUMANS... yeah, it is a hard pill to swallow!!) 6 - Wild Arms (Ok here it goes even further!! It is umpleable for me! It requires a level of abstraction to hard for me to tap! It may be as well my own fault! But The in battle graphics with those ballonesc polygonal floating big ass heads characters fighting is umberable to me!! Outside battle, pretty charming 2d aesthetics. And Yet we have the opportunity to play the remake Alter Code F witch is a huuuuuuge improvement! They even maintan the top quality soudtrack! So.....
Wow! Wild Arms 5 is by far the worst of all and the first one is definitely the best. I played all of them in order and it's so curious how the quality of the series decreased over the years..
Hard to not agree with you in there, i have only played 1 and 3 and while i do like old sprite style WA3 really looked good when it came out(it still looks good in 2020 due the style they used back then,shellshade or whatever it was called). And after a decade i now realize that pretty much all JRPG's have awesome soundtracks including Wild Arms series along many others(Grandia oh my god so good!).
@@criticalmass3993 I hope the successor, Armed Fantasia, brings back the magic to this series after being off the radar for so long. I miss old title franchises like Wild Arm and Grandia. Wild Arm 3 did the turn based just well for me. But I want try the hex battle style of 4 or 5 to see how different it plays.
I finished only the first one. Other I started but I got bored pretty fast. One thing what I enjoyed most on first one was the music. Even there were good songs on others as well but first was always the first that had just best ones.
I've only played the first one and I really liked it. A nice and simple yet charming pick up and play JRPG with a solid yet simple combat system. Honestly, I think the game visually has aged pretty well when it comes to the aesthetics. Lot more than a lot of 3D games at that time. I didn't try out the remake. From the first glance, it looks like a low budget 3D JRPG with stiff animations and it kind of loses the aesthetic charm of the original. Few things that I wasn't fond of in it was a needless take of the main protagonist having no dialog whatsoever since other two protagonists that you can control as well are a talkative bunch and they didn't really capitalize on wild west elements enough. I really want to try out Wild Arms 3 at one point, mostly because it's more accessible to purchase compared to the rest of the series. Maybe I should try out WA2 as well, but on epsxe instead of the standard procedure.
1-Wild Arms 3 2-Alter Code F 3-Wild Arms XF 4-Wild Arms 2 5-Wild Arms 5 6-Wild Arms 4 I'm a bit bitter with Wild Arms 5. The copy I had always froze at the beginning of the first boss battle with the frog. It was a step in the right direction after that awful WA4. The world map design was like WA3 but made to scale.
Watched Video Only played WA 1, but loved it See number 5 ranked high now buying number 5 Also subscribing, because every time i am looking up ol' school rpgs you appear from the shadows.
I've played WA 1-4, never played 5 before but my list is the same with the first four. 2 is my favorite, with 3 being my 2nd favorite. I would love to play WA5, maybe Sony will re-release it on PS5 at some point
This past week is the first time I'm hearing some people didn't like 2. What a shock cause it was great for me. 1, 2, and 5 are the best in the series. And that's a pretty good batting average. Since 3 is still decent. ANd haven't played 4.
Wow, your number 4 (or one of them) is my favorite WA game. The 1st on PS1 is my all-time favorite - not the remake, tho. It has armor and seems more RPG-like than the newer ones, besides WA2. My faves from best to least. 1. Wild Arms (PS1). 2. Wild Arms 2 (PS1). 3. Wild Arms 3 (PS2). 4. WA: Alter Code F. (PS2). 5. WA5. And I agree, my #6, my least favorite is WA4. 4 is by far the one I like the least.
I ignored this series when it first came out, but it's been in my backlog for a little while now. I plan to play it, but it will probably still not be for a couple of years.
Wild Arms my favorite series, waited forever for Alter Code F to come out. And yes I miss used the grow apple trick like you wouldn't believe, game never got old, I still like going through and playing 1 thru 5 and Alter Code F. If I remember right Wild Arms had the misfortune of coming out at the same time as Final Fantasy 7, I think. While the rest of the world went nuts with FF, the chosen few got their hands on the uniqueness of Wild Arms.
honestly, i love all wild arms and i cannot really rank them. they are unique in their own way! i am in the middle of playing WA 2 and it has a really good story, really, i even think it is better than 4 and 5. after 2, i will play 3 and alter code F. Looking forward to it!
The original is still my favorite. But i played it when it originally came out,, so im hugely biased. But yea, the original is the only one i replay more than once. I like to occasionally replay it every couple years. Its a true masterpiece imo.
As someone who loves this series its almost criminal that I have not played the 4th one yet but of not including that one my list would be. Wilds Arms 3 is my least favorite, I really wasn't very fond of all the characters except for Virginia and the game dragged on a bit to long for me. I still loved this game don't get me wrong but to me it suffered like so many series did in the transition to the PS2 era. Wild Arms 5 is next on my list, I can't really say anything bad about the game as it was really good but unlike the next two on my list nothing really stood out to me either storywise and had my heart racing. I think the perfected the world building of a 3d wild arms in this game as the world map and places were fricken amazing that is by far its best quality and I did like the battle system. Wild arms 1 is one of my favorite games of all time, I could see if you went back and played this game instead of playing it when it first came out how that might effect your perspective. But at the time its atmosphere felt so original with awesome music, I use to crank the volume of the begging movie every time heck I still go back and listen to it from time to time haha. The story might be a little generic at first as you don't have much of a purpose then like so many RPGs bad thing happens in said area and you quell the bad thing. But it really picks up later in the game and has some really great moments plus the music did I MENTION the music!! Wild Arms 2 is my favorite people who think this one wasn't all around better then the first one are crazy. Other then the music the story, character building, dungeons, battles, and other gameplay were vastly improved. I could understand if all you care about in a game is how wild west it feels and nothing else matters that this one might be considered worse. I can even understand if you avid Tim hater like myself and think he is sole thing wrong with the game since he is thrown in strictly for plot convenience. But if you didn't get chills when some of the main story plots were revealed and your heart pumping during other parts plus the end I just don't understand. I am not going to spoil anything but this is one of the few games that makes you feel like your main hero is actually a hero and not just some random generic story dude with overpowered stats who gets the girl. I think one of the best things about this game is you go in thinking its just another Wild Arms game almost exactly like the first one but it shows you it isn't as the game progresses.
Given there's a pretty solid mobile game (called Million Memories) that uses the cast from Wild Arms 1/ACF, 2-5 and even XF.... I'm hoping they do eventually make a Wild Arms 6 Plus it'd be interesting to see what could be done on modern hardware.
Wow, am I ever late seeing this video but here we go. My personal favorite is the first Wild Arms, I remember getting that right after it was released and immediately fell in love with it. That intro is a solid hook and I remember picking Jack first. His little intro into his beginning arc is priceless. Hanpan for the win. I have both soundtrack collections for this game to, best music in any game I've ever played, past and present. Next best to me was Wild Arms 3. Only flaw in my opinion was who the hell designed the Abyss dungeon? My god, 100 floors of random battles with no floor skips or save points. Toss in several bosses on the way down to the all famous Ragu Ragla (name changes slightly in every game but he's there in each) and he's a royal pain in the butt. Knock him out to finally go back to the beginning floor just to immediately fight him again to, but he's stronger. This guy can kill you easily, have those element wards is all I have to say. Personal tip I use, I go through that dungeon at the point in the story when there are no random encounters anywhere in the entire game, this includes The Abyss, makes going through the 100 floors only take a few hours instead of all day. And if you ever leave the dungeon, you have no shortcuts, you have to do all 100 again. Third favorite is WA2. Loved the ability to transform along with a solid crew. Forth goes to WA5 and last to WA4. These two were very similar in my opinion but 5 just polished up the new hex system better than 4, which is what gives it the edge.
i love wa4 & 5 hex battle system. Truly one of a kind. I still havent manage to finish altercode f & 5 yet though. your video makes me want to finish them, thanks
I got into wild arms when my buddy and I played it on the PS mini. I never played a wild arms game even during the ps2 era, and honestly didn't know there were other guys in the series.
Played Wild Arms 5 and the ending had me bawling and staring at the TV for a while feeling sad because the story and its characters had ended. I want nothing more than to forget that I played Wild Arms 5 and replay it for the first time once again.
Great video! Going forward, would really appreciate more detail (without spoilers) as to why you ranked the games that way though. For instance, you didn't mention the music AT ALL from what I could tell, and maybe music may not be that important for you, but for me and many other gamers it's almost as important, if not equally important, as the story, battle systems, etc. Also, since Alter Code F is so expanded from the original WA1, I feel like you cheated a little by giving them the same ranking. If you had to seperate them, what would the respective rankings of ACF and WA1 be?
This series clearly has strengths and weaknesses all over the place so it's hard to rank. Probably ACF and 5 are the best all around. Actually, ACF would be one of my premier choices for a starter RPG recommendation except for one huuuuuuge flaw (there are a few balance issues, but I digress). It's that the weather vanes (or whatever they're called in that game) do NOT protect against back attack style ambushes. The encounter rate is tuned way up because you can cancel- but you can't cancel ambushes... so all the other stuff gets canceled or blocked by the weather vane and you're left being constantly back attacked over and over and over. But as good as 5 is, the story and lead aren't very good. And while 4 is the black sheep, it more or less does the hex system better by making movement a little harder overall. Still, WA3 gets the Western influence down properly. I think while it has lots of issues in practice, it has the most potential.
I haven't played 5 or ACF, so my order of the other four would be 1. Wild Arms, 2. Wild Arms 2, 3. Wild Arms 3, and 4. Wild Arms 4. The original Wild Arms is one of my top JRPGs of all time, and one of my favorite video games of all time across all platforms and genres. Two has some fond memories for me, but three and four lost the magic of what made the original special, imo, and I truly began to lose interest when 3 took the sharp turn toward the western theme. I'm really not a western fan, and the original Wild Arms only had a slight western aesthetic. I liked that Rudy and Jane were the only ARM users, then you got more ARMs in 2 and then 3 everyone has ARMS, and it was just too much for me. I am more of a sword and sorcery fantasy fan, no gun powder, which just adds to why I appreciated the first the most.
This series is quite a messy Jrpg, in my opinion. It's a good series, just a bit... "Wild"... A combination of Fantasy, old west, some medieval, and somewhat adventure
Wild Arms 3 is my favorite in the series. It captures the feel of the wild west better than any other in the series and Virginia is a great female lead. She feels like a person rather than the generic "strong female lead" with no personality of her own.
Erick Landon RPG The chaos rings games are practically traditional turn based RPGs that happen to be phones that got PS Vita ports in Japan. They are not gachas like Fire Emblem Heroes or Final Fantasy Opera Omnia. Most of the games follow the premise of couples being taken to a ark arena to do battle and having their bonds tested. There was gonna be a Crossover game with all games characters together called Chaos Rings Sigma, but was cancelled and there hasn't been a Chaos Rings game since CR3, which fans labeled it a black sheep for not being set in an ark arena for once.
Me encanta esta saga. Me fascino el uno en su momento, que tengo que rejugar porque no recuerdo la historia, y me ha gustado mucho el 4, que jugué recientemente.
very interesting, I didn't know there were a bunch of wild arms games until recently. I had the first one as a kid, but I remember being really put off by the in battle graphics, and just putting the game away. Well I recently got a used copy, and am excited to check out the game again! Will be a long while before I get to all the others though :P
He’ll yeah for Wild Arms 2nd Ignition grabbing one of the top spots! Real recognize real! Not only is WA2 my favorite WA game, it’s one of my favorite PS1 games of all time. I even have an official poster of WA2 from its Versus Books strategy guide book and have it framed. I’m definitely a Wild Arms 2 fanboy.
For me it's : #5 - wild arms 4 #4 - wild arms 3 #3 - wild arms alter code: f (but not the original since i didnt finish the original) #2 - wild arms 2 #1 - wild arms 5
The first Wild Arms have one of the best intros I've seen in a rpg.
When Rudy struggles to climb the cliff and his friends are there waiting for him.. tears for young me.
Yes it so awesome! The first one is the best wild arms for me! XDDD
Agreed, I bought the OST back in the day just for that song and it's on all of my playlists.
True
I like to better though, both 1st and 2nd cd ops are wild
Wild arms IS underrated. I wish it has more recognition. Glad many people here love the series too. I can't stop playing wild arms since they have really annoying but intriguing dungeon... makes me curious of those dungeon and i feel happy sometimes that i can solve them without looking at walkthrough! XD
Yup, pretty underrated series.
dude, same feeling here with the dungeons XD
Overlooked during the glut of jrpgs and the golden age of square. Now that the dust has cleared Wild Arms stands among the greats.
Wild Arms 6 for the PS5, make it happen Sony!!!!
Definitely wish for it!
@@attackofthecopyrightbots And there is a reason why it's not called Wild Arms 6 because it's not part of the main series. Spin-off for smartphones that could have been on their portable console instead. Media Vision makes the original Wild Arms, Wright Flyers Studio is a mobile developer.
Let first release Wild Arms 5 as playstation 2 classic on ps4.
I'd be happy with that or Legend of Dragoon 2 to be honest
i would rather to remake wild arms 1 or 2 for ps4 or ps5 with modern graphics. OoO but i doubt ppl gonna like turn-based battle anymore. since now they more prefer to action hack-slash batlle than turn-based (not all, but most of it)
AAHHHHHH!!! No one hardly ever talks about Wild Arms, I love that series. 👍🥰
I HAVE PLAYED WILD ARMS, WILD ARMS 2 AND WILD ARMS 3. AT PRESENT I AM PLAYING WILD ARMS 5. WAY TOO MANY BATTLES IN THE GAME FOR MY LIKING AND NO TELEPORT ITEM AND NOT ENOUGH SAVE POINTS IN DUNGEONS AND NO EXIT A DUNGEON ITEM EITHER. VERY VERY FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU NEED TO TURN YOUR CONSOLE OFF AND YOU NEED SLEEP OR YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ELSE AND YOU CANT BECAUSE YOU CANT FIND A SAVE POINT, ITS A VERY BAD THING IN A GAME NOT TO BE ABLE TO SAVE OFTEN.
As soon as i heard that WA2 battle theme, i got chills down my spine, that game is amazing and i put so many hours into it, it's my number one in the series followed by WA5, love Greg :)
Great video Erick, i am happy to see people talking about this amazing franchise
The original Wild Arms (and the Alter Code F) is truly the bet.
How is Alter Code F? I bought it waaaaay back in the day but never played it aside from a few hours. I absolutely adored the original. I'm getting the itch to go back and play again. Is Alter Code F better than the original?
@@toolman4745 No voice is the only bummer!
It's fun to see the entire game recreated, and you get more characters. Pretty much the same as the OG.
@@anderxale1 Yeah but doesn't it do the thing from Wild ARMs 3 inb attle where they run around taking forever?
@@toolman4745 I believe in aftercode f (it's been over 10 years) they just run around visually - the battle is just turn based like the original. Again it's been a long time since I played - maybe ask a letsplay?
I love all Wild Arms games. They need to be remade.
as long they cut out unecesssary stealth sections
What a great series.
I dont think 4 is as bad as they say, but it is a noteworthy departure.
oooo man, I've never played WA and this video gave me a TON of insight on where to start. Thankyou a ton!! Keep rockin brotha!
Along with Suikoden and Shadow Hearts, Wild Arms is one of my favourite JRPG series. 4 was the only one that left me a little flat. It’s not a bad game but the others are just outstanding.
Agreed.
4 was bad hated the side scrolling
I love Wild Arms 2. However, I have yet to play Wild Arms 5... Going to fix that soon thanks to your video.
Play it. The ending had me bawling
Bro same, when he said 3 was 3 I was certain wild arms 2 was going to win, so imagine my surprise when the only main series I hadn't played, and didn't even know existed until a few weeks ago, was number 1.
That being said, first game bias is a possibility, crash bandicoot 3 was my first and favorite and most die hards prefer 2
Also, playing 3 atm, trying to get a copy of 5
@@ShadowProclamation11 Have fun with that, they're ridiculously overpriced. They're going from anywhere between $125-$175 CAD which I have no problem paying for a game, hell I just paid $425 CAD for a mint copy of Suikoden II and $275 CAD for a copy of Valkyrie Profile just a couple weeks ago I just don't think Wild Arms 5 is worth it's price atm.
I've always loved this game(and all it's sequels) but my most favorite is WildArms 2nd ignition.
Same for me,2nd ignition was my 1st rpg for wild arms,so proud to finish any dungeon with puzzle with no walkthrough,after i finish it for how many years,i played it again and find some secret bosses that i ddnt encounter on my 1st play
The 1st is still in my heart and memories.
I've only played 3, 4, and 5, but boy did I enjoy them. Put 3 as my favorite, loved the anime cutscenes they played every time you loaded your save, and they changed based on what point in the story you were at. I can't forget the soft song that played when you saved it and quit the game. I want to play Wild Arms 5 again since I never completed it, but I see its not on the PlayStation store, and I'm awaiting the day when it is so I can play it again
One thing I deeply respect about the Wild ARMs franchise is that there are no stinkers. Each game is good throughout the series. Erick puts it best in this one, even the "Worst" entry is still good and enjoyable. There aren't many series (if any) that can say that. I even loved XF but I feel like I might be in a minority there.
One of the top 5 (in my view) most underrated rpg/jrpg game franchises of all time. Same this never got over in the west more like some of the other well received series but the wild arms games were always so very well done to me.
Wild Arms 5 has some of the best singular battle music, like nightburn's theme, persephone's, fereydoon's. It's little things but it gives the antagonists so much more flair.
Interesting choices, I would swap 2 for 3 because I like 3 so much. WA5 is a slow burner to start with but stick with it and it delivers - the only WA where you get to play a drifter that actually drifts...
i really love the plot story of Wildarms 2
if you can finish this game, you'll understand what i'm talking for..
Dude after watching some of your vids I insta-subscribed. Thank you so much for reviewing and doing videos of some of these classic RPGs!
The PS1 Wild Arms has only Three Playable Characters. Altercode F adds: Blue Mage Style Ally "Elimina" a Scientist who discovers how to reanimate and recreate "Golems" Giant Mecha Vehicles- Calamity Jane a lady who secretly wants Rudy to be her toy and/or how to Maximize the effectiveness of her "ARMS" - AND Zed who wants to usurp Ziek but ends up protecting a blind child from Ziek and Alhazad. In the original Zed Surrenders a sword to Jack instead of helping Jack's Nighttime business slot,
So I have a funny story to share, 11 years ago I remember playing Wild Arms 3 demo on the Ps magazine issue 62 and I swear for many year I remember the battle theme, But never ever went back to it because I wasn't fond of rpg yet. I'm 21 years old , and happy to say to that it's thanks to the battle theme memory (10years ago), I barely remembered where I heard this theme. I swear I didn't even remember the title of the game, but I did heavy research and thank God i found it .Today, after many years I was able to find the name of this beautiful gem, I still have my ps2 so I will go find a copy one day to be able to fully play it. I actually typed and looked to every single demo disc one by one to try to find Wild Arms 3, it was the sly Cooper red disc demo games that is where I found wild west 3 for the first time 11 years ago.
They remastered it on ps4
That's actually the only demo disc I have and ended up loving Wild Arms 3 for the same reason. 🙂
@@comet8256 I finally found a copy of wild arms 3. It took a while to find but was so worth it.
EVERY Wild Arms game has a SUPERIOR soundtrack. WA5 was my absolute favorite!
Wild Arms is a beloved series I hold dear to my heart. I love them all, including Xfire. As for my order, it is so hard to choose. The HEX battle system is one of my favorite battle systems around. So 4 and 5 are actually my fave favorites. My next criteria is characters and how attached I become to them. While Arnaud and Racquel are 2 of my all time favorite characters I have to give the nod to 5 as far as characters go. So if forced to choose, I would say 5 is also my number one based on those things. However I really dont want to choose!! 🤣🤣
Same here! I’m currently using my channel to try and draw attention to it and other under-appreciated games!
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Wild Arms 2 would still my favorite
2 was my childhood. Ff vii got me in to jrpgs. Wild arms 2 made me fall in love with them.
Ditto!
im currently playing 3 and loving it. i like the characters and the rivalries so far. only at the eternal sparkle part.
Finally a little love for Wild Arms 2. Horrible translation aside a definite forgotten gem for me.
wild arms is one of my fave games next to final fantasy vii, the opening in the first game is still one of my fave animated intros ever.
Wish theyd bring wild arms back ive only played 1 and 3 as its all i could get my hands on but they are awesome. sadly 2 never came out in the uk. and 4 and 5 where rare and hard to find and are silly expensive now. i always hoped theyd release a collection of them on modern consoles.
Did you play any rpgs before FF7. It seems to me most FF7 lovers played that as their 1st rpg, so they never exp all the much better rpgs that came out before it.
@@user-bj1mx2ip1c no I’d say 7 was my first I guess the only thing close would have been golden axe warrior on sega master system (I went straight from that to PlayStation) always wanted phantasy star but never could find it where I lived. I did However played all of the old final fantasy’s when they rereleased on ps1 except 3 as they didn’t release that until the pixel remaster. I played chrono trigger on the ds that was ace. Nostalgia plays a roll obviously in ff7 being a fave along with wild arms aswell grandia is another fave
Wild arms 3.
Just in the opening fmv, it blows everything else.
That legendary opening theme from the first game ❤️
I love Wild Arms V, but II is still my favorite. V definitely has the best endgame of the series though. Man I logged so many hours into it.
Love this series, and i agree that Wild Arms 5 is the best. My list is pretty similar to yours, but i ranked them 4, 1, 2, 3, 5 from worst to best.
I only played the first three and My absolute favorite is part 3! I love that you made a WIld Arms video. This franchise deserves more light shined on it.
Thanks
I'll never forget that a PlayStation magazine company sent me a free copy of Wild Arms 3 because they sense a demo disc that erased everybody's memory card who played the demo disc
The first Wild Arms was released the same year as Final Fantasy VII, so it didn't get a lot of recognition. I'm surprised that it received as many sequels as it did.
The hardest Boss I ever fought in a turn based RPG was that very long end boss fight in Wild Arms 3 ;)
This video made my day, thank you Erick!
No problem, thanks for watching!
Wild Arms 5 is amazing
My first Wild Arms was the third, but I also knew the first and second from watching my big brothers' playing. So it's kinda upsetting to see the fourth's departure from its usual atmosphere. Never played the fifth, maybe I'd try someday :D
WA2 has been my #2 favorite game of all time, second only to Legend of Dragoon. The music, BRAD, the story, everything is there. Just gotta look past some bad localization lol
I will always have Wild Arms 3 as the top in the series. It's where the story, battle system, and gameplay all hit it's high note. Everything from wandering around the world map looking for stuff, to the encounter system, to the battles all works ideally. It's also the game in the series that really nails the wild west aesthetic the best. The music and the world really all go deep with the wild west aesthetic in nearly every way, in contrast to WA4 and 5 which... really don't have it that much. Not to mention WA3 having the best intro in the series hands down.
I'd also definitely rank Alter Code F as a massive improvement over the first game that it remakes. It basically just takes WA1 and puts it in the same system as Wild Arms 3 with some battle gameplay changes to accommodate how everybody in WA1 didn't have an Arm. I'd put Alter Code F just under Wild Arms 3 in quality generally, with WA5 bringing up the rear and WA2 just above it with WA4 in the middle. Tbh I didn't care much for the grid system in WA4 and 5 but it worked while WA5's story was just plain terrible. Especially the plot twist at the end.
SPOILERS: A time loop story? Seriously? The only time a time loop story actually works is when the loop that the story takes place in is the one where the loop breaks. Avril gets stuck in a time loop for all eternity and she and Dean will never be together for real. It makes the whole game feel completely pointless. Everything you're doing has happened already and will happen and there's nothing you can do about it. Really, I put WA5 at the bottom in large part for this one plot point alone.
In other words, WA4 and 5 pulled a FF8. Why can't JRPGs just leave the sci-fi to Mass Effect?
Mass Effect and Fallout are the only successful sci-fi RPGs that sell out millions of copies while getting a broad audience.
FF13-2 did time travel too and now nobody cares anymore.
@@luciusirving5926 To be fair, the whole series always had sci-fi elements. The problem is that they took away the wild west elements that made the series so enjoyable in order to lean into those sci-fi elements more and more and did a bad job with those sci fi elements in the bargain.
Mass Effect and Fallout worked as sci-fi RPGs because they were designed as sci-fi RPGs from the outset.
On a side note, the only thing really all that wrong with FF8 was how it was built on it's godawful junction system.
for me it's a triple draw 3, 2, 5, i remember long nights and i mean REALLY LONG NIGHTS doing side bosses one after the other, it's hard nowdays but i wish Sony take this one back
Great Video By the way!!! It is something worth noticing how you manage to cram so much content in just about 8 minutes!!
So to awnser your invitation let me discribe my list!!
1 - Wild Arms 5th Vanguard!! (This one was actually the second one, but just about recently I've manage to play till a bit after the first boss.... And Dude! That first boss music!!! Amazing full of emotion and epic proportions that brings tears to my eyes!! I've never heard a boss music with such a imponent epic and cinematrografic proportion!! And overall the soundtrack in this game as well as in all the games in the franchise. Are top notch!! Another thing that grab my attention is to the detailed they put on the facial expressions! Almost as good as Kingdom Hearts in thar regard! Avril dor example, has an amazing array of facial expressions and conquered me instantly!! I thing this games is one of the most impressive looking games on the PS2 and the art style choosen by the time, still stands charming and appealing to this day!)
2 - Wild Arms The 4th Detonator!! (This one was actually my fave alltime game in the series!! I for one am a sucker for a good esemble of antagonists and bosses with voice acting!! And this game has tons of it!! It is very exciting to engage in a fight with a foe who has something to say and is backing up with a personality of his own, istead of smack some big ass giant slime pallet swap!! Also the music is good too and the anime feel grabs me too! It lost its former position because I notice that some of the drawing NPCs has almost the same facial pattern! It has that "fanzine" edge to it that rubbs me the wrong way!
Even women has the same facial pattern as male npcs! And this is something that bothers me.... But the rest is highly stunning for me!!
3 - Wild Arms Aler Code F ( up to this point I've never actually played any other game in the series, mostly because I am not too keen on the graphycs on these! Alter Code F stands out the most, because I very much aprecciate the movement the charcaters have on battle and the camera work! Also the music stands great!!
4 - Wild Arms 3 (Charming Cel Shading and awesome music as always! However I can not see myself playing it in the near future..)
5 - Wild Arms 2 ( Sprite work and aesthetic western convey some appeal to me! However The polygons on battle.... Dear God! I can not fantho, PSX polygonal graphics this days!! Few are the ones that could make me play the game!! Chrono Cross, Xenogers on the gear battles.... Vanguard Bandits (For some reason I "accept" plygonal psx graphics when it comes to mechas or machines and scenarios in general, but when it comes to HUMANS... yeah, it is a hard pill to swallow!!)
6 - Wild Arms (Ok here it goes even further!! It is umpleable for me! It requires a level of abstraction to hard for me to tap! It may be as well my own fault! But The in battle graphics with those ballonesc polygonal floating big ass heads characters fighting is umberable to me!! Outside battle, pretty charming 2d aesthetics. And Yet we have the opportunity to play the remake Alter Code F witch is a huuuuuuge improvement! They even maintan the top quality soudtrack! So.....
Wow! Wild Arms 5 is by far the worst of all and the first one is definitely the best. I played all of them in order and it's so curious how the quality of the series decreased over the years..
Wild Arms 5 is so good!
Those boss duels in Wild Arms 5 was one of the best for me. Especially the duel between Chuck and Fereydoon
Thank you man truly appreciate this. Pts 1 and 2 are my favs but no one really covers them
wild arms 5 is my fav, and one the reason because the opening song by mizuki nana it so banger lol
Wild arm 3 was my only entry to this game and I loved the gameplay plus soundtrack!
Hard to not agree with you in there, i have only played 1 and 3 and while i do like old sprite style WA3 really looked good when it came out(it still looks good in 2020 due the style they used back then,shellshade or whatever it was called). And after a decade i now realize that pretty much all JRPG's have awesome soundtracks including Wild Arms series along many others(Grandia oh my god so good!).
@@criticalmass3993 I hope the successor, Armed Fantasia, brings back the magic to this series after being off the radar for so long. I miss old title franchises like Wild Arm and Grandia. Wild Arm 3 did the turn based just well for me. But I want try the hex battle style of 4 or 5 to see how different it plays.
I finished only the first one. Other I started but I got bored pretty fast. One thing what I enjoyed most on first one was the music. Even there were good songs on others as well but first was always the first that had just best ones.
I've only played the first one and I really liked it. A nice and simple yet charming pick up and play JRPG with a solid yet simple combat system. Honestly, I think the game visually has aged pretty well when it comes to the aesthetics. Lot more than a lot of 3D games at that time. I didn't try out the remake. From the first glance, it looks like a low budget 3D JRPG with stiff animations and it kind of loses the aesthetic charm of the original. Few things that I wasn't fond of in it was a needless take of the main protagonist having no dialog whatsoever since other two protagonists that you can control as well are a talkative bunch and they didn't really capitalize on wild west elements enough. I really want to try out Wild Arms 3 at one point, mostly because it's more accessible to purchase compared to the rest of the series. Maybe I should try out WA2 as well, but on epsxe instead of the standard procedure.
1-Wild Arms 3
2-Alter Code F
3-Wild Arms XF
4-Wild Arms 2
5-Wild Arms 5
6-Wild Arms 4
I'm a bit bitter with Wild Arms 5. The copy I had always froze at the beginning of the first boss battle with the frog. It was a step in the right direction after that awful WA4. The world map design was like WA3 but made to scale.
Watched Video
Only played WA 1, but loved it
See number 5 ranked high
now buying number 5
Also subscribing, because every time i am looking up ol' school rpgs you appear from the shadows.
I've played WA 1-4, never played 5 before but my list is the same with the first four. 2 is my favorite, with 3 being my 2nd favorite. I would love to play WA5, maybe Sony will re-release it on PS5 at some point
Great video! Subbed and liked!! Keep it up man!!
This past week is the first time I'm hearing some people didn't like 2. What a shock cause it was great for me. 1, 2, and 5 are the best in the series. And that's a pretty good batting average. Since 3 is still decent. ANd haven't played 4.
Good content. Agree all the way. Subscribed!
Wow, your number 4 (or one of them) is my favorite WA game. The 1st on PS1 is my all-time favorite - not the remake, tho.
It has armor and seems more RPG-like than the newer ones, besides WA2.
My faves from best to least. 1. Wild Arms (PS1). 2. Wild Arms 2 (PS1). 3. Wild Arms 3 (PS2).
4. WA: Alter Code F. (PS2). 5. WA5. And I agree, my #6, my least favorite is WA4. 4 is by far the one I like the least.
I ignored this series when it first came out, but it's been in my backlog for a little while now. I plan to play it, but it will probably still not be for a couple of years.
Did you play it already?
@@gerardo49078 Nope. Replaying the whole Suikoden series, right now.
for me wild arms 2 still hold dear to me. i mean, who cant resist that knight blazer and his theme
I havent played Wild Arms 5 yet but my favorite of the 4 I played is Wild Arms 2. It has deep character like Kanon which started out as an antagonist
Agree with you about Wild Arms 5. And, hell yeah! Avril is my top 5 of my favourit female characters in my list, too
Wild Arms my favorite series, waited forever for Alter Code F to come out. And yes I miss used the grow apple trick like you wouldn't believe, game never got old, I still like going through and playing 1 thru 5 and Alter Code F. If I remember right Wild Arms had the misfortune of coming out at the same time as Final Fantasy 7, I think. While the rest of the world went nuts with FF, the chosen few got their hands on the uniqueness of Wild Arms.
"the characters of wild arms 5 were originals" they seems to be largely inspired by the skies of arcadia trio
are you forreal? 2 OVER 1????? the first one was way better than the second
That's just your opinion, man. Remember that this is mine.
I often see many people prefer the first one as well, but personally I liked 2 more than 1.
@@ErickLandonRPG bad taste
@lifeloverNorris I didn't hate 2 but I strongly prefer 1 and 3.
It all comes down to opinion. There are enough people who prefer 2 over 1 (myself included)
honestly, i love all wild arms and i cannot really rank them. they are unique in their own way! i am in the middle of playing WA 2 and it has a really good story, really, i even think it is better than 4 and 5. after 2, i will play 3 and alter code F. Looking forward to it!
3 and Alter Code F are similar engines, while ACF's gameplay is a mix between the original and 3. I say go for it if you are loving the franchise.
Wild Arms 2 was my favorite. Followed by 3. Need to go back and finish the others.
I like alter code f which is the remade original wild arms, than 2, 3, 5, and 4. I love every wild arms but that's my order.
The original is still my favorite. But i played it when it originally came out,, so im hugely biased. But yea, the original is the only one i replay more than once. I like to occasionally replay it every couple years. Its a true masterpiece imo.
The only WA that call my atention is the third one, it looks pretty good, great video man
Thanks.
I only played WA 1 on PSX. and I loved it. great game, like Suikoden 1.
now I have a PS3 and PS4, and will play the other games in these series.
As someone who loves this series its almost criminal that I have not played the 4th one yet but of not including that one my list would be.
Wilds Arms 3 is my least favorite, I really wasn't very fond of all the characters except for Virginia and the game dragged on a bit to long for me. I still loved this game don't get me wrong but to me it suffered like so many series did in the transition to the PS2 era.
Wild Arms 5 is next on my list, I can't really say anything bad about the game as it was really good but unlike the next two on my list nothing really stood out to me either storywise and had my heart racing. I think the perfected the world building of a 3d wild arms in this game as the world map and places were fricken amazing that is by far its best quality and I did like the battle system.
Wild arms 1 is one of my favorite games of all time, I could see if you went back and played this game instead of playing it when it first came out how that might effect your perspective. But at the time its atmosphere felt so original with awesome music, I use to crank the volume of the begging movie every time heck I still go back and listen to it from time to time haha. The story might be a little generic at first as you don't have much of a purpose then like so many RPGs bad thing happens in said area and you quell the bad thing. But it really picks up later in the game and has some really great moments plus the music did I MENTION the music!!
Wild Arms 2 is my favorite people who think this one wasn't all around better then the first one are crazy. Other then the music the story, character building, dungeons, battles, and other gameplay were vastly improved. I could understand if all you care about in a game is how wild west it feels and nothing else matters that this one might be considered worse. I can even understand if you avid Tim hater like myself and think he is sole thing wrong with the game since he is thrown in strictly for plot convenience. But if you didn't get chills when some of the main story plots were revealed and your heart pumping during other parts plus the end I just don't understand. I am not going to spoil anything but this is one of the few games that makes you feel like your main hero is actually a hero and not just some random generic story dude with overpowered stats who gets the girl. I think one of the best things about this game is you go in thinking its just another Wild Arms game almost exactly like the first one but it shows you it isn't as the game progresses.
Given there's a pretty solid mobile game (called Million Memories) that uses the cast from Wild Arms 1/ACF, 2-5 and even XF.... I'm hoping they do eventually make a Wild Arms 6
Plus it'd be interesting to see what could be done on modern hardware.
You gotta clip the strings on that Cort there brother!
Wow, am I ever late seeing this video but here we go.
My personal favorite is the first Wild Arms, I remember getting that right after it was released and immediately fell in love with it. That intro is a solid hook and I remember picking Jack first. His little intro into his beginning arc is priceless. Hanpan for the win. I have both soundtrack collections for this game to, best music in any game I've ever played, past and present.
Next best to me was Wild Arms 3. Only flaw in my opinion was who the hell designed the Abyss dungeon? My god, 100 floors of random battles with no floor skips or save points. Toss in several bosses on the way down to the all famous Ragu Ragla (name changes slightly in every game but he's there in each) and he's a royal pain in the butt. Knock him out to finally go back to the beginning floor just to immediately fight him again to, but he's stronger. This guy can kill you easily, have those element wards is all I have to say. Personal tip I use, I go through that dungeon at the point in the story when there are no random encounters anywhere in the entire game, this includes The Abyss, makes going through the 100 floors only take a few hours instead of all day. And if you ever leave the dungeon, you have no shortcuts, you have to do all 100 again.
Third favorite is WA2. Loved the ability to transform along with a solid crew.
Forth goes to WA5 and last to WA4. These two were very similar in my opinion but 5 just polished up the new hex system better than 4, which is what gives it the edge.
i love wa4 & 5 hex battle system. Truly one of a kind. I still havent manage to finish altercode f & 5 yet though. your video makes me want to finish them, thanks
Wow your list similiar as mine. My list from worst to best was 4,3,1,2,5.
I got into wild arms when my buddy and I played it on the PS mini. I never played a wild arms game even during the ps2 era, and honestly didn't know there were other guys in the series.
Played Wild Arms 5 and the ending had me bawling and staring at the TV for a while feeling sad because the story and its characters had ended. I want nothing more than to forget that I played Wild Arms 5 and replay it for the first time once again.
this is mental illness
5s story and characters were idiotic
Great video! Going forward, would really appreciate more detail (without spoilers) as to why you ranked the games that way though. For instance, you didn't mention the music AT ALL from what I could tell, and maybe music may not be that important for you, but for me and many other gamers it's almost as important, if not equally important, as the story, battle systems, etc. Also, since Alter Code F is so expanded from the original WA1, I feel like you cheated a little by giving them the same ranking. If you had to seperate them, what would the respective rankings of ACF and WA1 be?
This series clearly has strengths and weaknesses all over the place so it's hard to rank.
Probably ACF and 5 are the best all around.
Actually, ACF would be one of my premier choices for a starter RPG recommendation except for one huuuuuuge flaw (there are a few balance issues, but I digress). It's that the weather vanes (or whatever they're called in that game) do NOT protect against back attack style ambushes. The encounter rate is tuned way up because you can cancel- but you can't cancel ambushes... so all the other stuff gets canceled or blocked by the weather vane and you're left being constantly back attacked over and over and over.
But as good as 5 is, the story and lead aren't very good. And while 4 is the black sheep, it more or less does the hex system better by making movement a little harder overall.
Still, WA3 gets the Western influence down properly. I think while it has lots of issues in practice, it has the most potential.
I haven't played 5 or ACF, so my order of the other four would be 1. Wild Arms, 2. Wild Arms 2, 3. Wild Arms 3, and 4. Wild Arms 4. The original Wild Arms is one of my top JRPGs of all time, and one of my favorite video games of all time across all platforms and genres. Two has some fond memories for me, but three and four lost the magic of what made the original special, imo, and I truly began to lose interest when 3 took the sharp turn toward the western theme. I'm really not a western fan, and the original Wild Arms only had a slight western aesthetic. I liked that Rudy and Jane were the only ARM users, then you got more ARMs in 2 and then 3 everyone has ARMS, and it was just too much for me. I am more of a sword and sorcery fantasy fan, no gun powder, which just adds to why I appreciated the first the most.
I've only played wild arms 3 and love the charm of it but...now I believe I'll start looking for a copy of 5 on ebay. Thanks Erick!
No problem. 5 is expensive, so good luck on that!
5 is amazing. I emulate it it's not like the publisher is going to make money if you get it on eBay.
This series is quite a messy Jrpg, in my opinion. It's a good series, just a bit... "Wild"... A combination of Fantasy, old west, some medieval, and somewhat adventure
wild arms 1-3 were epic and i loved each one but 1 and 2 were my favorites respectively
Wild Arms 3 is my favorite in the series. It captures the feel of the wild west better than any other in the series and Virginia is a great female lead. She feels like a person rather than the generic "strong female lead" with no personality of her own.
Virginia was the best.
Glad my favorite game is getting it's series ranked. Only played 1 so far
your rankings are good, you should probably work on your mic and mic volume equalization
Wild Arm 1 has best opening among them all. Fuck the guitar it just sick and hell with whistle never grow old hearing about it
Think you can do a "What the hell happened to the Chaos Rings series"?
I have never played them (plus, I don't do mobile series, sorry).
Erick Landon RPG The chaos rings games are practically traditional turn based RPGs that happen to be phones that got PS Vita ports in Japan. They are not gachas like Fire Emblem Heroes or Final Fantasy Opera Omnia. Most of the games follow the premise of couples being taken to a ark arena to do battle and having their bonds tested. There was gonna be a Crossover game with all games characters together called Chaos Rings Sigma, but was cancelled and there hasn't been a Chaos Rings game since CR3, which fans labeled it a black sheep for not being set in an ark arena for once.
4 is my favorite and 5 is the worst for me.
When I was a kid I didn't know that this is so controversial.
a wild arms list where the 'worst of the series' is still considered pretty good is the best way to make a wild arms list.
you forgot Wild Arms XF though. and i'd probably swap Wild Arms 3 with 2 on the list
Btw, Wild Arms 3 is for $7.94 atm on the ps store.
Me encanta esta saga.
Me fascino el uno en su momento, que tengo que rejugar porque no recuerdo la historia, y me ha gustado mucho el 4, que jugué recientemente.
Todos son buenos.
very interesting, I didn't know there were a bunch of wild arms games until recently. I had the first one as a kid, but I remember being really put off by the in battle graphics, and just putting the game away. Well I recently got a used copy, and am excited to check out the game again! Will be a long while before I get to all the others though :P
I only played the 5th game n i really loved it, so i decided to play all of them, im currently at the end game of WA remake
Sick clan of xymox shirt 💥
He’ll yeah for Wild Arms 2nd Ignition grabbing one of the top spots! Real recognize real! Not only is WA2 my favorite WA game, it’s one of my favorite PS1 games of all time. I even have an official poster of WA2 from its Versus Books strategy guide book and have it framed. I’m definitely a Wild Arms 2 fanboy.
For me it's :
#5 - wild arms 4
#4 - wild arms 3
#3 - wild arms alter code: f (but not the original since i didnt finish the original)
#2 - wild arms 2
#1 - wild arms 5
I love Wild Arms 5.
i only played 4&5,didnt know that the first one battle system is different...i hope they still make it hex system if theyre ever gonna make 6th
Wild arms 2 was the first jrpg i ever played