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Yaecan
France9 Posts
- Chrono trigger - Final fantasy 6 - Tales of phantasia - Secret of mana - Secret of evermore In my opinion, they are really since they have a really good storyline and different fight systems. Even if you can't choose you're way, you can't say that there are not RPGs :D | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
It's pretty awesome. This guy has set himself the mad challenge of playing every crpg ever made (not including console games) from the 80's up until present day and blogging about them! BTW- I think Ultima IV was/is the Best roleplaying game ever.  | ||
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
Very little story involved in it. If you're looking something to be a lot funner and more demanding and mean, definitely Demons Souls. I always thought Atlus made good RPG games without murdering it too much. Trying to think of some others that no body hasn't said yet... It's too bad I can't say the newest installation of Golden Sun was great like the others. | ||
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ProfessorCold
United States41 Posts
But other excellent ones (that I've played) include FF Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem (GBA), FF9, and of course, the fan favorite... POKEMON BLUE | ||
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Zanzabar Haberdasher
United States510 Posts
So many games to discuss.. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
I've also found that Morrowind and Oblivion, while originally horrible, tend to be kickass RPGs when loaded with the best community mods for each. You have to deal with the occasional crash and compatibility issues, but it's so worth it. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
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LolnoobInsanity
United States183 Posts
Ah how I miss the days of "playing pretend." And no, I won't grow up. so  | ||
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
On March 03 2011 00:46 ProfessorCold wrote: Chrono Trigger is definitely the best, it would be hard to top it. But other excellent ones (that I've played) include FF Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem (GBA), FF9, and of course, the fan favorite... POKEMON BLUE On March 03 2011 00:56 Zanzabar Haberdasher wrote: Chrono Trigger, Shining Force 2, Phantasy Star 2+, Live and Live, Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together, Sukoden 2, FF3. So many games to discuss.. You read the OP? those two posts don't seem to many many, if any Games that I would say have a minimal amount of RP content to be called an RPG. + Show Spoiler + On March 02 2011 17:00 Neverm0re wrote: With RPG I don't mean game where you build your hero, but roleplaying game. For example, in Diablo I can't chose path of my character, wheter is he good or evil and stuff like that. But for example in Dragonage or mentioned Fallout, I can dio with my character nearly everything. On March 02 2011 23:55 Yaecan wrote: I like the old-school SNES's RPG like : - Chrono trigger - Final fantasy 6 - Tales of phantasia - Secret of mana - Secret of evermore In my opinion, they are really since they have a really good storyline and different fight systems. Even if you can't choose you're way, you can't say that there are not RPGs :D I can easily say those are not RPGs. What would I call them? turn-based combat action-adventure, for instance (or just action-adventure). There are many good ways (as opposed to popular/current) games can be categorized. However, the biggest issue with such a system I can can think of is whether it's important to include information regarding the leveling/gearing-up of the character or not. I'm leaning towards it not being important. Anyway, on topic, Baldur's gate 2 is my favorite game that could pass as an RPG. Overall though, PC/video games tend to not have much RP aspects to them unless it's just a kinda a sandbox MMO. BG2 definitely isn't a high RP content game, but I would say it's the best that has at least minimum RP content. For most RP games I'd have to go with MMOs like Entropia Universe, Second Life, Planeshift (free), not that it's a complete list, but includes the more popular ones. | ||
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Ian Ian Ian
915 Posts
On March 03 2011 09:26 Xapti wrote: You read the OP? those two posts don't seem to many many, if any Games that I would say have a minimal amount of RP content to be called an RPG. + Show Spoiler + On March 02 2011 17:00 Neverm0re wrote: With RPG I don't mean game where you build your hero, but roleplaying game. For example, in Diablo I can't chose path of my character, wheter is he good or evil and stuff like that. But for example in Dragonage or mentioned Fallout, I can dio with my character nearly everything. I can easily say those are not RPGs. What would I call them? turn-based combat action-adventure, for instance (or just action-adventure). There are many good ways (as opposed to popular/current) games can be categorized. However, the biggest issue with such a system I can can think of is whether it's important to include information regarding the leveling/gearing-up of the character or not. I'm leaning towards it not being important. Anyway, on topic, Baldur's gate 2 is my favorite game that could pass as an RPG. Overall though, PC/video games tend to not have much RP aspects to them unless it's just a kinda a sandbox MMO. BG2 definitely isn't a high RP content game, but I would say it's the best that has at least minimum RP content. For most RP games I'd have to go with MMOs like Entropia Universe, Second Life, Planeshift (free), not that it's a complete list, but includes the more popular ones. Your an idiot. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
And yeah, Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross were really magical. For some reason, I don't really like playing JRPGs these days, I beat FF13 (blegh,) Star Ocean 4 (BLERG,) and Lost Odyssey (less blegh) but really had to force myself to finish them. | ||
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braammbolius
179 Posts
On March 02 2011 22:03 plated.rawr wrote: No, I'm describing the character progression elements, while you make a sweeping generalization of gameplay mechanics. Two widely different elements. My point is that a set of mechanics and character progression without telling a story isn't an RPG, it's a dungeon crawler. Computer or no. Edit: It's obv debatable what would/should/could qualify as a "story" but you get my drift. | ||
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plated.rawr
Norway1676 Posts
On March 03 2011 11:44 braammbolius wrote: My point is that a set of mechanics and character progression without telling a story isn't an RPG, it's a dungeon crawler. Computer or no. Edit: It's obv debatable what would/should/could qualify as a "story" but you get my drift. I disagree. Console and computer-based RPGs stem from pen and paper tradition, but limitations and coding focus with the electronic gaming platforms obviously makes humanized elements such as story adaptation and spontanity very difficult to simulate. Therefore, while electronic RPGs do have a tradition of a strong story to carry the player's interest, the most unmodified element brought from pen and paper has been the gameplay mechanics - combat systems, leveling systems, stat systems and so on. "Dungeon crawler" as genre is more a child of electronic RPG, and as thus cannot supercede RPG as a category. A game can be a RPG dungeon crawler, but not a dungeon crawler without at the same time being a RPG due to the mechanics it borrows from the pen and paper tradition. And, If I'm not mistaken, the entire "dungeon crawler" genre was not made untill there had been at least some successful RPG adaptations from pen and paper to electronic format. | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
On March 03 2011 07:12 LolnoobInsanity wrote: Apart from DnD, I don't think any of the games mentioned in this thread are actually roleplaying games. But for the best roleplaying experience, all you really need is some weed, some friends, and a sense of adventure. Ah how I miss the days of "playing pretend." And no, I won't grow up. so Why do you think Ultima IV isn't a roleplaying game? | ||
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
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Juddas
768 Posts
same thing with Pokemon but really FE, FESS, FE path of radiance, radiant dawn, shadow dragon i guess(meh) are all really awesome games and there is nothing better than a weekend speed run on a good rom at x4 speed | ||
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curreh
Australia265 Posts
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
On March 03 2011 12:58 curreh wrote: Great thread, thanks for all the suggestions I've been wanting to play some rpg's lately : ) I really enjoyed stuff like FF9, Final fantasy tactics advance, Fire emblem on the gba, could anybody suggest something that i might thoroughly enjoy? :D the new Tactics Ogre game for PSP seems right up your alley Probably Golden Sun/Lost age as well and if you're a superhardcore FE fan, try playing ChinaFE also lol@4x rom runs, those have almost starcraft levels of apm, cept pokemon, where i have play at 1000% + just to prevent falling sleep | ||
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Juddas
768 Posts
On March 03 2011 12:58 curreh wrote: Great thread, thanks for all the suggestions I've been wanting to play some rpg's lately : ) I really enjoyed stuff like FF9, Final fantasy tactics advance, Fire emblem on the gba, could anybody suggest something that i might thoroughly enjoy? :D any of the fire emblem series especially the japanese ones if you can understand them. i realllly like sacred stones tpp | ||
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curreh
Australia265 Posts
ahaha I know i can't play pokemon anymore at normal speed, without holding that spacebar for the vba it's just not the same lol I loved sacred stones! I think I played the first one, just plain fire emblem and never finished it because i sucked at it, but I loved the hell out of sacred stones, what are the best fire emblem games? | ||
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