My Top Three Most Memorable RPGs - Robert Lashley at MMORPG.com

SBFord · February 2016

My Top Three Most Memorable RPGs - Robert Lashley at MMORPG.com

Creating a top 3 memorable MMORPG list wasn’t too challenging because the number of MMOs to choose from is so small. This week Rob’s back with an even more difficult challenge. Picking his top 3 RPGs.

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Nemesis7884 · February 2016

Agree with 2 but for the life of me i cant get the cult around zelda honestly...fair enough i never played it, but i just dont see it...but then again, i dont get excited about any nintendo games, never have

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Derros · February 2016

Ive always wanted to try planescape. I liked Bauldur's Gate 1 and 2 back when they were released, but after recently trying pillars of eternity and just not being grabbed at all, I dont think the gameplay would appeal to me any more.

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Distopia · February 2016

Personally this is a hard one for me. There are just so many Gems to pick from.

in no actual order I'd say..

1 Morrowind- This was the one that epitomized my idea of what an RPG experience could be.

2. for my "what is it?" choice (similar to the op's zelda choice) Shenmue, while it may not be an RPG as much as an adventure game, the interactiveness made that point moot to me..

3. Tie Between KOTOR and NWN2.. Kotor for it's story and lore, NWN2 for it's co-op +player-world play.

Honorable mention Divinity: OS I know it's not a classic, like most picks will be, but to me the Co-op experience is second to none.

Po_gg · February 2016

Yep, Zelda's spot is... peculiar

Planescape is great, Icewind too, but I think my list is still without them.
I'd put Bard's tale on the third place, NWN on the second, and Ultima IV (plus V and VI, or more like the whole series up till Ascension) on the first place. Still don't get how could Garriot dragged his own IP through tar, throw feathers on it then burn it to the ground with that craptard UO... he better makes it up with SotA

edit: wow, so many comments in a short time. Hi @blueturtle13 , fellow Bard's tale player as I see

thundercles · February 2016

1. Morrowind
2. Kotor
3. Shadowrun (SNES)/FF III (SNES)

Grakulen · February 2016

Shadowrun on the SNES was fantastic.

lemonhead78 · February 2016

I love Torment. It did not have the freedom of Baldur's Gate or Ice wind Dale, but had a really cool, dark, and sometimes funny story. Still have them all on my PC for occasional trips down memory lane.

Kyleran · February 2016

Not sure I could possibly pick 3....will have to ponder it some.

SlothnChunk · February 2016

I was always lukewarm towards RPGs until playing ESIV: Oblivion and got hooked. It's now my favorite and most played genre. I tried games like Morrowind years prior, but found it too difficult to get into at the time (enjoyed it since). Turn-based RPGs and JRPGs also never really did it for me. Oblivion had great graphics, voice-overs, first-person real-time combat, open-world to explore and spend tens of hours in.

My list of most memorable (not best):
1. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
2. Fallout 3
3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Best RPGs:
1. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
2. Fallout 3
3. Elder Scrolls Online

cameltosis · February 2016

1. FFVII - Absolute classic from my childhood, got me hooked on RPGs. I still play the game through once every 18months or so.

2. Morrowind - Open world exploration, fantastic setting, great guilds and my introduction to the modding scene.

3. Ocarina of Time

I've certainly played better RPGs over the years, but these three are my most memorable. Part of the memory is just that they were "first", so each seemed a massive leap forwards in comparison to everything else I'd played up until that point. Another part is that I was simply younger and so cared more about the stories and wasn't as aware of design flaws.

Mendel · February 2016

Having played CRPG games from Akallabeth on, I'm a bit surprised at the relative newness of the games on this list. I don't understand how WIzardry or Bard's Tale failed to make the list, and the lack of any of the Ultima games was a complete shock. Since this list is scaled for the age-deficient, where's KOTOR or Mass Effect?

The only one of the original list that hits the right buttons for me is Planetscape.

Zendai · February 2016

This one is very difficult as I have been playing RPG's for many years. If we are going to go by the most memorable then I think I have a list:

1.) Final Fantasy VIII - I know most people really like VII and choose it as the best story, but the tale of Squall and the orphan children was one of the most intricate tales they have ever spun. I spent hundreds of hours on this game, and still remember it as one of my most played RPG's to date.
(Honorable mentions because I want to add other games than FF here, is Final Fantasy XII. XII had the best combat and leveling system of the whole franchise in my opinion characters like Balthier and Basch were very well developed and some of the most memorable)
2.) Knights of the Old Republic - What can I say, it was a masterpiece and was the first Star Wars game that really created something new to the Star Wars universe. The Old Republic is one of the best time frames for the story, and it's only gotten better over the years. I loved Kotor 2 even though it was Obsidian and not Bioware, as well as SWTOR, my most played and most beloved MMORPG of all time.
3.) Diablo 3 - I have to say this was my choice out of a very good list of memorable RPG's. It wins basically because if I really think about it, there are few RPG's I have spent more time in. I have played Diablo since the original, and I beat it in co-op mode with my friend on the PS1 when we were kids. I then spent many hundreds of hours on Diablo 2 and the expansion. However I played the beta on Diablo 3 and I have never really put the game down. The story was even more robust, the action and game systems were the most polished they have ever been. There is no doubt that Diablo 3 has had the most staying power of almost any game I have played to date.

Other memorable RPG's I couldn't put in my top 3, but really, really wanted to.

FFVII
FFXII
FF Tactics
TES: Morrowind
TES: Oblivion
TES: Skyrim
Fable
Fable 2
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age: Inquisition

rojoArcueid · February 2016

my 3 most memorable RPGs

-Suikoden 2
-The Witcher 2 (haven't finished 3 so it doesn't count)
-Still debating between Suikoden 1 and Skyrim

I didnt include FFVI and VII because i got stuck under-leveled and stopped playing instead of grinding levels to catch up.

Nemesis7884 · February 2016

i wish i played kotor 1 and 2 since they always get top scores and i havent played them, now i just cant get into them

syriinx · February 2016

FFVI is easily #1 by a wide margin. Years later I would throw my controller down in shock at the end of FFVII's first disc, but that didnt have even half the impact of Celes's reaction to Cid's death

SimonShagrath · February 2016

My top 3 singe player RPG's of all time:

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Final Fantasy X
3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Amsai · February 2016

Didnt mean it to turn into a SE fanboy list but....

1. Xenogears

2. FFIV

3. Parasite Eve

And Honestly most of the runners up would all be SE games as well. The one that is not SE that most comes to mind would be Wild Arms (space western jrpg). And cant really forget Mario RPG either.

That being said these represent my most memorable games growing up. My tastes have changed because I cant make myself play a JRPG these days. Not when I have Dark Souls 3 coming!!!

Alomar · February 2016

This is such a difficult question to answer and list to come up with. There's simply been too many fantastic, great, and good games to sort through over such a long period of time. I'm sure I'm missing/forgetting a lot but off the top of my head:

1) Kotor
2) Morrowind
3) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / Fable 2 / Dragon Age: Origins (1)

Roin · February 2016

You all are better people then I am. Picking just 3 out of my entire gaming history would be impossible. My Top 20 seems to change from month to month.

Sovrath · February 2016

Morrowind
Neverwinter Nights
Skyrim

Simply put, because I played the heck out of these games, played them for several years; heck, still playing Skyrim and Morrowind.

Wighty · February 2016

Pool of Radiance
Ultima V
Wizardry 7

Honorable mention:
Demons Winter

I never got the JRPG craze... for me it was C64 for life!

SSI, Origin and Sir-Tech were RPG Gods of their time.

Azira30 · February 2016

Can Parasite Eve be considered an RPG? If so than PE2 has my top pick.

If not, then Zelda (like, all of them) I love the whole series. I can't really say I love one more than the other (okay maybe not the adventures of Link) 'cause I often return to play them time and time again.

I liked FF8 better than FF7

Is Zork considered an RPG?

gervaise1 · February 2016

RPGs - so I suppose that rules out Monkey Island, Manic Mansion, King's \quest and Return to Zork! Or does it?

Wizardry 6 - first colour instalment giving the edge over W5. (Sir-Tech indeed!)

Baldur's Gate (+ SCL) - Divinity, Planescape etc. contender's for sure.

I suspect that the likes of Civ, AoE and AoW are ruled out as well but Sid Mier's Pirates I think fits the bill.

If it is though I would probably jump forward to .... Morrowind probably. And yes there is Daggerfall, Oblivion and Skyrim but I think Morrowind.

It is tough though.

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