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On June 17 2007 17:36 Orlandu wrote:
I think most people here missed out on the truly great RPG games from the SNES era and were spoiled by the PSX with games like FF7 and FF8 and such (mostly because a lot of people here are still pretty young). In my opinion, no game from the PSX or after can hope to qualify for the best RPG of all time. SNES was where it was at.
QTF
I remember staying up for 48 hours straight playing Seiken Densetsu 3(Secret of Mana 2) on SNES. Awesome game play, and its a multiplayer action RPG on the console. FF5 and 6 were also very good for their time.
However, the "Best RPG of all Time" title has to go to Final Fantasy tactics for me (Super Robot Wars a close second). Awesome tactical RPG with difficulty and plenty of character customization. Plus, it actually has a decent storyline. Fantastic game.
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I always feel Lufia 2 deserves a mention.
Best?
Perhaps not.
But worth playing.
Most definitely.
I always have fun when I go through that again.
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My personal favorite RPG is Kingdom Hearts. Im sad still with that they did with KHII. A good game also but i dont personally believe that it lived up to the standard of the first game =(
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I liked Tactics a lot too, but I dunno if it can be considered a true RPG? I dunno, I guess that's debateable, but it's a good game either way.
And about Lufia 2, although it is an amazing game (with some surprisingly challenging puzzles at times), surprisingly not that many people seem to know about/have played it that I come across. I wonder why that is?
I'm always really surprised to see FF7 and FF8 on people's lists. I personally thought FF8 was pretty bad, kind of like FF7 but less original and less interesting. FF7 was a good game, but I think that so much of it's hype and what it's remembered for was that it was the first real RPG of the new generation back then, and it brought about a lot of new concepts, one of which being better graphics (which so many people seem to mistake for quality gameplay). I don't think in terms of actual storyline or gameplay though that it was anything too special or intriguing. I never had the feeling of going back and playing it twice, whereas there were countless SNES RPG's that I would play over and over again, and still sometimes do.
But I guess everyone has their own opinions, I just personally think there are a lot of good games that people missed out on when I hear FF7 and such being praised so highly.
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Fallout 2
How many games allow you to become a boxer/martial artist/mobster/porn star who happens to be addicted to drugs, get gay married and sell his husband into slavery, has metal implants in his skin and who donates sperm?
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Netherlands19141 Posts
On June 17 2007 23:04 Mindcrime wrote:
Fallout 2
How many games allow you to become a boxer/martial artist/mobster/porn star who happens to be addicted to drugs, get gay married and sell his husband into slavery, has metal implants in his skin and who donates sperm? Hear hear 
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I like FF7 too. Don't put it down because of the hype. It has great story. Only lacking was it was too ez. It's not that the FF series are unoriginal but many other RPGs were inspired from them (and therefore copied from them, not the other way round -.-).
FF8 has a good story too but the story telling technique is gets overly ambitious plus the draw battle system is boring and repetitive. The later FF series are just meh because nothing gets crazier or more powerful than a time travelling magically powered villain destroying the fabric of time and space. World destruction was already powerful enough with meteor in FF7. So they came up with Ultimecia and dump her in FF8.
All the later villains of the series were then sucky but they had to come up with something original hence the silly ambiguous endings. Every FF series have few things lacking preventing it from gaining a good all round high score in my book except for FF7. This does not include FFXI(MMO) and FFXII(not yet played).
LOL @ Mindcrime's post. True. True.
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Baldur's Gate series followed by Morrowind.
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fav is d2, i found baldur's gate 2 quite boring actually ><(no offense to ppl)
and WC3 is a RPS(Role Playing Strategy) not RTS or RPG
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i don't know the best RPG game i know just the best RTS game (starcraft)
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On June 17 2007 18:26 MYM.Testie wrote:
I always feel Lufia 2 deserves a mention.
Best?
Perhaps not.
But worth playing.
Most definitely.
I always have fun when I go through that again.
Oh god yes, thats my favorite SNES game (2nd would be Tales of Phantasia). Lufia II is so much fun, especially with the replay mode (4x gains), and especially with the Ancient Cave. On my last playthrough, I spent like 1/3 of my time in there just grabbing blue chest items.
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Deus Ex is the best rpg and best sp game on the pc.
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I liked monkey island 1/2. A bit old for most here I guess but its quite challenging and fun.
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ff6, chronotrigger, terranigma
all available as roms, use zsnes for emu
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btw i once had my game played through (lufia 2) and was doing the secret cave on my second playthrough,
got a bunch of blue items and was just generaly trying 2 get some everyday untill i could reach level 100.
then i come home one night and guess what....my sister saved over my game...
ye i was well pissed X(
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On June 16 2007 06:01 lightman wrote:
Does Zelda qualify as RPG ? I think not right ? because if it does then it's Ocarina of time. If not then it's a triple tie between FF7, Chrono trigger and fallout
OoT is JUST godly, even if it may not be an RPG ;>
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it's because games you played in a certain era of your youth you hold the most dearest. For me it's FF7.. i was like 10-12 back then and it flashed me completely.. others may have experienced that earlier with snes titles like chrono trigger, secret of mana.. whatev.. all subjective views.
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Planescape: Torment. Other good games that deserve a mention would be Fallout II, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI. But Torment is just a great great game.
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I really loved Ambermoon (for Amiga) and Albion. Other great RPGs were BG1 & 2, Planescape Torment of course, Amberstar, M&M6, Gothic, NWN.
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