10 Greatest JRPGs Of All Time

10. Skies Of Arcadia

One of the great victims of Sega spending all their money advertising Sonic The Hedgehog and literally nothing else at the time, Skies Of Arcadia is easily in the top three best games to ever come out of the company.

Skies Of Arcadia centres on Vyse, a member of the Blue Rogue Sky Pirates, an alliance of robin hood types who sail the skies messing with any authority they deem to be out of line.

When Vyse rescues a pretty girl in a white gown named Fina, he finds himself dragged into a world-spanning conspiracy involving not only the largest power on the seven skies, the Valuan Empire, but the history of this entire badass pirate steampunk fantasy world. With Fina's life on the line and the chance to explore the world and captain his own ship, Vyse sees no other choice but to carve his name into the pages of history.

Not only is the combat a fun and clever take on turn-based battles, but the key selling point of the game - the reason people are willing to pay "Wait, HOW MUCH?!"-levels of money for a copy - the ship battles are fun in a way that can hardly be described. Think Battleship mixed with Final Fantasy and you're almost halfway there.

If you've got a mortgage payment just kinda lying around, hunt down a copy of this game ASAP.