Chrono Trigger, that game is so good even the fattest and cutest of fat cute seaotters stand in awe of its awesome.
Be cool to people, and try and stay cool that way you never have to regret making someone feel bad. Don't take what ya got granted because some people never get to feel happy. We get to play these great MMOs and surf a good site. Be thankful for what ya got and next time ya feel down imagine a fat sea otter waddling with a pillow and a night cap. Bam! smiles!
For me, Baldurs Gate 2 and its expansion. Its sad they don't made games of that epic scope or that kind of quality anymore. You could tell lots of passion was put into that game. I admit when I first got the game and tried to play it, I was really put off by the clunky, old-school interface it felt awkward to use. But I kept hearing good things about it and re-tried 6 months later. Boy oh boy, just amazing. It's the only RPG I played where it felt like an experience, like I had finished an epic movie where you are the star. Nothing else has come even close, except probably Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
DAoC hands down...PvP(RvR) awesome and I thought the "rest of DAoC" was great. Wish they came out with a DAoC2 to update the graphics and all.......Waiting on WAR
I couldn't decide which ones would be on the very top, i've played and loved so many but..
Top 10 would be...
-- Final Fantasy Tactics
-- Star Ocean - The second story
-- Grandia( 1)
-- Xenogears
-- FF7
-- FF8
-- FF9
-- FF10
-- and FF11, been playing for 3-4 years, can't stop, doubt i'll ever really, truly quit.
-- But Diablo 2: LoD takes the cake for most addictive semi-almost-but not really-mmorpg ever...
Maybe i have since lost my hardcore RPG gamer attitude but these are probably the only games i've played through multiple times and have ground out the extra hours to complete all the endgame sidequest stuff in.
I even stopped playing FF12 cause i'm too lazy to find the way to get to Omega in the great crystal -_-
i've gotta be forgetting some, but the old PS1 rpgs have a special place in my heart xD lol
and a major agreed! to the guy who sent Kudos to Baldurs Gate 2. I'm glad that game doesnt count real life hours cause it'd be depressing how long i played that game lol.
This game was so much difficult, and the story was different than others RPG, it was more dark and more bizzare. Too bad it did not receive enough marketting, could have been much more popular.
A close game would be FF6 (3 in the US). Story was great, especially when the world explodes, lol. And that ninja guy, Shadow. I remember when he is introduced : ''He'd kill his mother for a nickel''. Good times
Well, today I think the problem is that we the definition of computer RPGs is that you have character advancement. To me an RPG is a game where you get to immerse into a character and make choices for him or her that may have differed from the choices you yourself would make. An RPG is the chance to play someone that not only leads a significantly different life than yourself, but that maybe even has entirely different values and a different way to look on the world than you.
That being said, Planescape: Torment is the best one out there (that I have played). The immersion into the story and how choices affect your character and the people around you are quite amazing. Volumes of well-written dialog and a spectacular world brought to life not just with name-dropping and flashy graphics but with an actual story about people. That is good roleplaying.
Today RPG is applied to any piece of junk that has a stats system. I do not consider any of the MMORPGs out today a proper RPG in the true sense of the word (as I perceive it).
I would pay double monthly rates to play on an RP server that had properly enforced RP and serious GMs, providing the core mechanics of the game were good (i.e. less like WoW/LOTRO/EQ and more like UO).
Yeh, I have tried playing it again but I have not been able to get very far, not because of the somewhat aged (but still very pretty) graphics, but because it can never measure up to the first time...
Pen & paper: Rifts by Palladium books. Hands down the most creative, immersive, RPG I've ever played or run. After that, Exalted by White Wolf. Anime fantasy at it;s best.
Online: World of Warcraft - So much to do, so little time.
Yeh, I have tried playing it again but I have not been able to get very far, not because of the somewhat aged (but still very pretty) graphics, but because it can never measure up to the first time...
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Be cool to people, and try and stay cool that way you never have to regret making someone feel bad. Don't take what ya got granted because some people never get to feel happy. We get to play these great MMOs and surf a good site. Be thankful for what ya got and next time ya feel down imagine a fat sea otter waddling with a pillow and a night cap. Bam! smiles!
My Best Single Player RPG's: Legend of Zelda Link To the Past and Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Best MMO: Dark Age of Camelot ( Nothing Else is Better)
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Emilia_Emi Lvl 56 Witch
Now Playing : Black Desert Online
"America is not at war, the US Military is at war, America is at the mall."
Return to Krondor
Link to the Past
Ocarina of Time
EQ
Harvest Moon (snes)
and Breath of Fire series (snes)
FFX
1. UO
2. FF3
3. FF7
been playing a couple recently I'm enjoying: Shenmue and Vagrant Story, also NWN but not keen on that really.
XENOGEARS!! lol that game totally rocked. i have probably played it 8 times.. 70+ hrs each time.. 2 much time on that game.
2nd is ff7 played that about 5 times its a good one
earthbound .. of course and a bunch of others but those 3 are the top of the rpg list for me
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Single player:
Dungeon Master
Chaos Strike Back
Ultima 4
Ultima Underworld 1
Ultima Underworld 2
(best of those Dungeon Master and Ultima Underworld 1)
Multiplayer:
Ultima Online
well.. nothing else come even near to it. I liked DAoC too, but it wasn t really a RPG, but fun TeamPvP.(the rest of DAoC sucked)
Top 10 would be...
-- Final Fantasy Tactics
-- Star Ocean - The second story
-- Grandia( 1)
-- Xenogears
-- FF7
-- FF8
-- FF9
-- FF10
-- and FF11, been playing for 3-4 years, can't stop, doubt i'll ever really, truly quit.
-- But Diablo 2: LoD takes the cake for most addictive semi-almost-but not really-mmorpg ever...
Maybe i have since lost my hardcore RPG gamer attitude but these are probably the only games i've played through multiple times and have ground out the extra hours to complete all the endgame sidequest stuff in.
I even stopped playing FF12 cause i'm too lazy to find the way to get to Omega in the great crystal -_-
i've gotta be forgetting some, but the old PS1 rpgs have a special place in my heart xD lol
and a major agreed! to the guy who sent Kudos to Baldurs Gate 2. I'm glad that game doesnt count real life hours cause it'd be depressing how long i played that game lol.
This game was so much difficult, and the story was different than others RPG, it was more dark and more bizzare. Too bad it did not receive enough marketting, could have been much more popular.
A close game would be FF6 (3 in the US). Story was great, especially when the world explodes, lol. And that ninja guy, Shadow. I remember when he is introduced : ''He'd kill his mother for a nickel''. Good times
Multi: World of Warcraft (not joking either)
Planescape: Torment
Dragon Wars
Questron I & II
Knights of the Old Republic 1
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Dark Earth
That being said, Planescape: Torment is the best one out there (that I have played). The immersion into the story and how choices affect your character and the people around you are quite amazing. Volumes of well-written dialog and a spectacular world brought to life not just with name-dropping and flashy graphics but with an actual story about people. That is good roleplaying.
Today RPG is applied to any piece of junk that has a stats system. I do not consider any of the MMORPGs out today a proper RPG in the true sense of the word (as I perceive it).
I would pay double monthly rates to play on an RP server that had properly enforced RP and serious GMs, providing the core mechanics of the game were good (i.e. less like WoW/LOTRO/EQ and more like UO).
[DTE]
This is the truth.If you haven't played it, you should.
i wish there was some styx water to forget the experience just to be able to re-experience it. Those who didnt play, how i envy you
I need more vespene gas.
[DTE]
For Sci-Fi their was a genisis game called Star Fury or something like that, that RPG rocked.. i think i forget the name
"nobody puts baby in the corner"
Pen & paper: Rifts by Palladium books. Hands down the most creative, immersive, RPG I've ever played or run. After that, Exalted by White Wolf. Anime fantasy at it;s best.
Online: World of Warcraft - So much to do, so little time.
Best RPG PnP, Easy to Learn: AD&D or D&D 3.5 - homebrew rules [class based]
Best RPG PnP, Difficult: Runequest/Traveller amalgam - homebrew rules [skill-based]
Best CMPG: "Old School" - anything by SSI [so called "Gold Box" series; Eye of the Beholder series; DarkSun games]
Newer - Fallout series, Planescape, Elder Scrolls series
Best MMORPG: skill-based - Saga of Ryzom [probably only because I never played UO]; class based - currently LOTRO
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Best I played on a console was Finaly Fantasy 7, with Knights of the Old Republic honorable mentioned.
Best I played on a PC was Planescape Torment, the Baulder's Gate series second.
Best MMOG I've played was Earth & Beyond, with City of Heroes/Villains a close second.