Your Favorite Rpgs

[8th lutz]

Turn Based:

Dragon Warrior 3

Dragon Warrior 4

Phantasy Star 1

Phantasy Star 2

Phantasy star 4

Final Fantasy 1

Final Fantasy 2

Final Fantasy4

Final Fantasy 5

Final Fantasy 6

Lunar 1

Lunar 2

Chrono Trigger

Luffia

Luffia 2

Grandia

Grandia 2

Dreath of Fire

Wild Arms

Wild Arms 2

Stratedgy rpgs:

shining force 1

Shining force 2

Final Fantasy Tactics

Vandel Hearts 1

Arc the Lad 1

Arc the Lad 2

Arc the Lad 3

Arc the Lad:twilight of the spirts

Action RPgs

Landstalker

Crystalis

Y's

Golvellius :valley of doom

The Twisted Tales of Spike Mcfang

Alundra

Edited December 14, 2005 by 8th lutz

[+remowilliams]

Hmm. There's quite a bunch. Short list that springs immediately to mind:

 

First off - one word - NETHACK

 

"Modern"

Neverwinter Nights

Fallout 1 & 2

Arcanum

Baldur's Gate (and the sequel, expansions)

Planescape Torment

Morrowind

Daggerfall

Gothic II

 

Old school:

Bards Tale

Ultima I-VII, IX

Dungeon Master

Shadow Run

Wasteland

Wizards Crown

Eternal Dagger

SSI AD&D Goldbox series

Tunnels of Doom

[Artlover]

I've always wondered how exactly FPS's fit into this. Is not Doom an RPG as well.

 

Neuromancer (c64)

Manaic Mansion (c64)

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (n64)

 

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (c64)

Day of the Tenticle (pc)

D2 (dc)

Paper Mario (n64)

Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door (gc)

Luigi's Manion (gc)

Legend of Zelda: Windwaker (gc)

Evolution 2 (dc)

Resident Evil (gc)

 

 

Top 3 being my favorites. Either way, I sure seem to be in a totaly different league then everyone else who's replied so far.

[+remowilliams]

I've always wondered how exactly FPS's fit into this. Is not Doom an RPG as well.

982275[/snapback]

Depends on how far people want to define it. I tried a real narrow approach list. Doom does not fit my perception of an RPG - it's an FPS shooter.

 

There are many games that cross boundaries as well. If FPS sort of stuff, then a whole bunch - System Shock I&II, Theif (all of em), Bioforge etc.

 

And I didn't even factor in any console stuff (i.e. Resident Evil series)

 

List is just too long. I've been gaming for quite some time now.

 

And Neuromancer kicked ass, though I'd say it was more "adventure"

Edited December 14, 2005 by remowilliams

[JB]

I've always wondered how exactly FPS's fit into this. Is not Doom an RPG as well.

982275[/snapback]

Depends on how far people want to define it. I tried a real narrow approach list. Doom does not fit my perception of an RPG - it's an FPS shooter.

Doom's a first-person shooter shooter?

 

 

 

 

My favorite RPGs(defining the term as a game with random effects{such as, but not limited to, damage dealt/received} based on character stats that change with experience) include

Valkyrie Profile

Lunar: Eternal Blue

Parasite Eve

Grandia 2

Chrono Trigger

Crystalis

Symphony of the Night

[Lord Helmet]

Short list off the top of my head:

 

Chrono Trigger

FF 6,7,,9,10

SW KOTOR (the second one is ok too, but not as good as the first)

Baldurs Gate DA

Lunar: Eternal Blue

Zelda 3

 

Note: I don't play PC games, except for the Age of Empires games, so all of the RPG's I listed are console.

 

To me, Doom is a FPS

Also, Resident Evil is Survival Horror, but I guess you could classify it as an Action/Rpg as well.

[Spoon]

Bards Tale

Ultima I-VII, IX

Dungeon Master

Shadow Run

Wasteland

Wizards Crown

Eternal Dagger

SSI AD&D Goldbox series

Tunnels of Doom

 

You, sir, have impeccable taste.

 

Mine is reflected in the list above although I would remove Ultima VI and Tunnels Of Doom and throw in Bard's Tale II, III, Questron II, Moria, and Phantasie I & III.

[birdie3]

Dungeons and Dragons

Marvel Super Heros

War Hammer

 

 

Oh. Wait a minute..

 

[Ze_ro]

Nethack

Wasteland

Ultima III, IV, V, VI, & VII Part 1 and 2 (The rest were kinda iffy)

Dungeon Master

Black Crypt

The Dark Heart of Uukrul

All the SSI Gold Box AD&D Games, although the Forgotten Realms games were better than the Dragonlance ones

Trade Wars (BBS Door Game)

Usurper (BBS Door Game)

Record of Lodoss War (Dreamcast)

Grandia II (Dreamcast) (Probably the only Japanese style RPG I've really enjoyed)

 

I've always wanted to give Planescape: Torment a try, since everything I've heard about it makes it sound like exactly the kind of game I'd love, but I've never gotten around to it unfortunately... If you ask me about my favorite RPG's in about 5 years, this game will almost certainly have made the list.

 

--Zero

[Smiley]

Chrono Trigger; Earthbound; and link to the past (snes)

 

there haven't been many rpgs as of late that I enjoy playing on the new consoles

[Pinball Wizzard]

As not harcore RPG`er, I`ll, this time I`ll stop on two

The Legend of Zelda (NES)

Shining in the Darkness (SMD/Gen)

[Smiley]

And I've never considered any of the legend of zelda games an rpg, seeing as ninty themselves call them action/adventure games.

[8th lutz]

And I've never considered any of the legend of zelda games an rpg, seeing as ninty themselves call them action/adventure games.

984112[/snapback]

Agreed. The closest Zelda is Zelda 2 for being an action rpg.

Edited December 17, 2005 by 8th lutz

[JB]

Ahhh, sanity. I love you 2.

[ninjarabbit]

Dragon Warrior 3

Final Fantasy 1, 4, 7, and 10

Balder's Gate 1 and 2

Neverwinter Nights

Anything from the Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre series

Final Fantasy Tactics

Super Mario RPG

[+remowilliams]

You, sir, have impeccable taste.

 

Mine is reflected in the list above although I would remove Ultima VI and Tunnels Of Doom and throw in Bard's Tale II, III, Questron II, Moria, and Phantasie I & III.

982482[/snapback]

Thanks

 

I actually meant all the Bard's Tales, but I forgot to add the numbers there. Phantasie was great as well. I remember loving it on the ST. I suppose I could throw in Roadwar 2000/Europa too. Possibly Moebius and Windwalker as well. And Sundog (another "sort of an RPG") - one of the all time best games.

 

And I didn't add any console stuff in there - but SW KOTOR I&II absolutely rocked

 

But in the end Nethack is the one I always come back to. Hail to the king!

[Jess Ragan]

My list is a whole lot shorter.

 

Suikoden

Suikoden II

Grandia

Grandia II

Final Fantasy (original)

Paper Mario

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Panzer Dragoon Saga

 

Yeah, that's pretty much it right there. I don't care for RPGs, but these ones were good enough to transcend the genre and impress even me.

 

Suikoden and its sequel have tons of play value thanks to the 108 characters you can discover and add to your party. By the end of each game, you'll fill a small town with your party members, and each one contributes something different to your cause. One character even lets you compete in an Iron Chef-esque cooking contest... you can't beat that with a wire whisk!

 

Grandia and its sequel are the games Lunar SHOULD have been. Instead of shrinky-dink characters running around generic landscapes, you get large, detailed heroes exploring vast, interactive polygonal playfields. Instead of a dull, unappealing battle system, you get a brilliant bridge between real-time and turn-based combat. Grandia's combat system remains one of the best ever used in an RPG.

 

Final Fantasy was an incredibly impressive game on the NES, and was a far superior alternative to the plain, paint-by-numbers Dragon Warrior. The graphics in the game were beautifully detailed, and they've remained that way throughout the entire series. There's little about the battle system that seperates Final Fantasy from other RPGs, but it's fast and intuitive, unlike the cluttered, drawn-out mess in the Playstation sequels. You won't find any five-minute long spell cut scenes here, no sir!

 

Paper Mario is, above all else, loaded with personality. The artwork is bright and endearingly cartoony, and the gameplay really brings you into the action, with a combat system that requires more from the player than merely picking options from a drop-down menu. The battles tend to drag on a little longer than necessary (the reason that Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga didn't make the list), but the hilarious storyline makes it all worthwhile.

 

Panzer Dragoon Saga hasn't aged gracefully, but back in 1999, it was a mindblowing experience. It brings life, energy, and motion to what is normally an inert genre of games. You're sent into the sky on the back of a massive dragon for every battle, turning to face every airborne enemy before sending a barrage of punishing laser beams streaking their way. The graphics look pretty awful these days, which is why the game badly needs to be remade on the Xbox 360. Hell, even the Revolution would be a big, big improvement... and it would be a lot more fun to fly with its motion-sensitive controller.

 

JR

[NovaXpress]

Arcanum was my best video game adventuring experience since the original Apshai series. After finishing it I was hungry for more and moved onto Divine Divinity. It was such a letdown that I havent played an RPG since. And now I'm boycotting PC games altogether so my swordfodder days might be over.

[JB]

One character even lets you compete in an Iron Chef-esque cooking contest... you can't beat that with a wire whisk!

Star Ocean 2 lets you do it WITHOUT any specific character.

 

Granted, SO2's version consists alrgely of mashing the OK button over and over, but...

 

Grandia and its sequel are the games Lunar SHOULD have been. 

And had they been possible on a SegaCD, Sega would likely be the dominant market force right now.

 

But Grandia 2 is a hair away from being a Lunar 2 remake anyways.

 

 

 

Instead of a dull, unappealing battle system, you get a brilliant bridge between real-time and turn-based combat.  Grandia's combat system remains one of the best ever used in an RPG.

The addition of a time feature(the only real diffrence between Lunar and Grandia's combat) was the major thing I'd always felt was lacking from the Lunar engine.

The 2D battlefield demanded the ability to enter commands close to when they'd be executed. Especially with the area effect spells introduced in Lunar 2. They were larely useless because you couldn't do anything more than blindly pray the enemies would be clumped when they went off, what with Lemina being the slowest party member and everything.

Edited December 18, 2005 by JB

[liveinabin]

I loved Panzer Dragoon Saga far more than any other RPG I've ever played, there's nothing else remotely like it.

 

Aside from that, I liked KOTOR (the first one, 2 was a bug ridden mess), Final Fantasy VII (a popular choice but hey.. , Xenogears (although I'm hating Xenosaga)and I'm currently loving Chrono Trigger - never played it before and it's brilliant.

 

I find most RPGs are great for the first 1/3 to 1/2, after which the plot just dies and you're just battling bigger and bigger enemies -dull. Golden Sun on GBA is a prime example. The first 1/2 of that game was superb, but it just kinda fell apart.

[liveinabin]

..oh yeah, Pokemon was great when it started too. I loved Yellow, I never felt they improved on that.

Edited December 18, 2005 by liveinabin