The RPG Completion Quest

[VolCanon]

If you -WANT- a decent Dragon Warrior (It's really Dragon Quest but whatever), play the two releases for SNES and the remake of DQ4 for PS. Only problem is they are in Japanese. I think there are translation patches for the two SNES ones (I don't need em, never bothered to get them). They are at least on par with FF games. I found DQ6 to be a lot better than FF3 cuz:

1) It's actually hard
2) Every character can learn almost every ability, but fighters will still suck at using magic (whereas in ff3, shadow 1-shot KO's kefka with 8 consecutive ultima's)
3) Most importantly, you can recruit monsters to your party (this was BEFORE pokemon). In my file on DQ6 I have 4 slimes, all over Level 40 (Slime, Hoimi(Heal) Slime, King Slime, Slime Knight). There's a slime arena where you can pit ur slime against other slimes for prizes.