Recommended RPG's
Hello,
Please help me find some more good RPG's for me to play =-)
Games I like;
SWKOTOR (best rpg ever..for me)
NWN
NWN2
Pool of radiance
Mass effect
Mass effect 2
dragon age
Any suggestions welcome, thank-you.
Please help me find some more good RPG's for me to play =-)
Games I like;
SWKOTOR (best rpg ever..for me)
NWN
NWN2
Pool of radiance
Mass effect
Mass effect 2
dragon age
Any suggestions welcome, thank-you.
Replies
Fallout I & II
Baulders gate is good, but a bit dated (and didn't really age well).
You might like Oblivion and the Elder Scroll series.
The Witcher is also a great game.
I see what you did there
Havn't played baldurs gate,will checkit out. Also planescape,interesting
About 10 years ago I played runescape..12 hrs a day, jesus I was so addicted to that :P
The Witcher
Zelda
Airborn well not yet, ehem
As far as non Jrpg's go..
I think everyone has listed the good stuff.
but seriously try Valkeryie Profile: Silmeria.. it was pretty badass and hasn't been mentioned, of course its also pretty old at this point.
Risen
To be fair, Arcanum's combat isn't much fun and it has too many dungeons, but it's well worth a try regardless.
Did it? I might be a bit biased since it's one of my favourite games, but I've been replaying it a couple of months ago and it's as good as ever. In fact, I have yet to play a recent RPG that surpasses it in terms of depth. It's worth a mention that there's a widescreen fix that makes it easier to play on modern PC's.
Honorary mention goes to Oblivion - I just love the atmonsphere and the huge open game world. The story is kinda meh though.
If you have Dungeon Siege, I recommend the Ultima V Lazarus fan mod - this thing is absolutely superb and epic, and the soundtrack is just awesome. And it's free too!
edit: since someone mentioned it, Vampire... Vampire Bloodlines is nice too, but it feels really more like an adventure game, even though it has stats'n'stuff.
It ain't the type of game you want to play if RPG means to you that "there's a whole world out there to explore".
Mind you, the line that seperates RPG / Adventures nowadays is kinda blurry anyway as more and more Adventures include RPG elements and vice versa. After all, the first CRPGs (e.g. Nethack, Akalabeth) had (almost) no story at all.
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions on PSP is updated with more olde timey style of speaking and a couple of new classes. I prefer the original though.
And I also recommend Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines.
There's the Squaresoft Super Mario RPG game for a bit of an oddity.
Oh and the Super Paper Mario games are sorta RPGS.
I haven't tried anything but sword/shield combo though.
would recommend it, addictgive.
-Crono trigger
-Secret of Mana
-Final Fantasy 6 (or was in 3 in america...whatever one has kefka, and terra and no Gay cloud and bad plot holes in the story)
-Final Fantasy Tactic (good game play + story!)
-Seventh Saga
-Lunar
And surprisingly
-Super Mario RPG
Thats not a RPG that's a dungeon crawler :P
I think everyone knows about it but it was overshadowed at the time because of FF7 I think it's still a great game though and Ubisoft did a great job with it.
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I loved this game so much when I was a kid, it never got enough love, it was the only game I ever took an entire week off from school (faking sickness) just to play and beat, good times with that game, good times.
I'm willing to try anything old and new.
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/game/LastScenario
I played through it, and some parts may be a little sluggish, but overall it's really quite good overall.
there are also various versions of disgaea that offer similar gameplay, not quite my cup of tea tho. the best J-SRPG i remember playing is clearly level 5's 'jeanne d'arc' on PSP. modernized usability and combat compared to FFT.
anyway, my recommended RPG's however totally unlike the original poster's preferences they might be:
'persona 3 FES' (and portable) and 'persona 4'.
they rock imo, best games i played in the last years for sure. currently playing thru 'persona 3 portable'.
JRPG's with turn-based (tho very much streamlined) battles: yes - tedious grindfests with cliche androgynous characters, stupid dialogue, random encounters and totally linear gameplay: nope.
a more action oriented one perhaps worth a look is 'odin sphere', i found it charming and unusual but too difficult for my liking.
108 character to recruit , very epic 40+ hours story (even with minimum grinding), your own castle that grows. your decision will influence your ending.
a game formula that cant simply be imitated by current gen consoles.
Mass effect - for those who think Rpg is all about medieval and magic, thing game will break the myth, its sci-fi game at its finest.
final fantasy 7 - normally people play final fantasy 7 because of cloud , aeris , and story line, ok, it has good CG but i think thats not the strong part, even the storyline is kinda mediocre.
what makes me looooove this game is their gameplay content. numerous enemies, secret mountains, Gold saucer amusement park, Chocobo breeding, other minigames. the world is just really huge, from little village to very large Midgard city.
it just made FInal fantasy XIII just simply hack and slash arcade game
http://www.kings-bounty.com/eng/
It's a sort of open-world quest/mission based tactics game. Worth a shot if you're not interested in the typical melodramatic jRPG.
Arcanum is on sale for less than $6 on gog.com until Monday.
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura
I just played it xD
Man...I wish in the early 80's so I could play these old legendary games and understand them
In addition to the ones already posted, like Suikoden(2), Final Fantasy (7,9,6 + Tactics in particular) and Grandia there's more PSX titles that people who like the classics should definitely give a try:
Xenogears. If you like the good old FFs you definately HAVE to play it. To me it's story is second only to FFVII, if at all.
Chrono Cross, Breath of Fire 3+4, Valkyrie Profile.
On PS2 my Vote goes to Valkyrie Profile Silmeria as well, and Kingdom Hearts
On GC I'm all for the Baten Kaitos Series and Tales of Symphonia...
On 360 I'm in love with Lost Odyssey as it's one of the few "new" games that kinda feel a bit like the good old FFs (which is awesome, at least to me) but successfully bring it to HD. This is easily my favorite RPG of this era: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-07-lost-odyssey/25302
So yeah most of these are JRPGs, if you hate them feel free to ignore them, if not, make sure to play them