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« on: 13 Jun 2005, 09:51 »

subject title speaks for itself...whats your favourite RPG?...personally its arcanum for the sheer diversity of everything you can do...the technology-versus-magic thing is kinda cool too...^_^
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« Reply #1 on: 13 Jun 2005, 09:54 »

btw if offended by my often colourful language...i'm sorry...i'll just think nasty thoughts about you instead...like you being a kitten getting slapped upside the head by an especially huge mouse....mmmm is it ironic???....do i care????
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« Reply #2 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:01 »

Man.  This one is actually pretty tough.

It's a toss-up between Morrowind, KotOR (1 over 2, but 2 was still good) and NWN.

Morrowind: Expansiveness, infinite modability, high customization value
KotOR: Incredible storyline.  Lightsabers.  Force powers.  Fairly high customizability.
NWN: Good story, very high customization factor, familiar system

The downfalls?  Morrowind crashes too much, KotOR2 had a slightly shoddy ending, NWN's toolset is very annoying to learn to use.

However, there's one that takes the cake over any RPG I've ever come across: Fallout.  Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk RPG that's high-tech/lo-tech and extremely innovative.  The only thing it was missing was cheesey Japanophilic ads and messages and it would've been the perfect cyberpunk game.
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« Reply #3 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:02 »

I've never played an RPG that's held my attention the same way as Final Fantasy 7.

I LOVED that game!
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« Reply #4 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:13 »

Not really a big fan of the FF series.  It's all a bit overrated IMO.  I could never get into them as much as some other games.
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« Reply #5 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:23 »

I'm going to have to go with Tanka, except with a tad variation: Fallout DOS. It's seriously way better.
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« Reply #6 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:25 »

Fallout DOS?  Do you mean BOS?  Unless you mean a Fallout game on MS-DOS, of which I didn't know existed and I'll have to get and use with DosBOX.  (Ugh.  Run-on sentence.)
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« Reply #7 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:26 »

I loved NwN, but I can't get it to run properly on my new PC. I'd love to play KoToR2, but that won't work either. I've been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Fallout. I've also got Morrowind somewhere, but I'm not so keen on it - I don't like that I can aim perfectly at something, fire an arrow into it, and randomly miss. ESPECIALLY if the thing I just shot is so big it fills half the screen AND I saw the arrow pass straight through the creature model.

At least Elder Scrolls IV is changing that - no random hit/miss, and no random shield blocking - if your aim is good, you hit, and if you press the "block" button at the right time, then you ward off a blow with a shield. much beter.

To be honest, there hasn't yet been an RPG that has really met my standards for a really good game... the ones that come closest are horribly buggy sadly, and NONE of them have had the kind of graphics I'd want to see...
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« Reply #8 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:26 »

Dos. Spanish for Two. as in the sequal.
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« Reply #9 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:34 »

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I loved NwN, but I can't get it to run properly on my new PC. I'd love to play KoToR2, but that won't work either. I've been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Fallout. I've also got Morrowind somewhere, but I'm not so keen on it - I don't like that I can aim perfectly at something, fire an arrow into it, and randomly miss. ESPECIALLY if the thing I just shot is so big it fills half the screen AND I saw the arrow pass straight through the creature model.

At least Elder Scrolls IV is changing that - no random hit/miss, and no random shield blocking - if your aim is good, you hit, and if you press the "block" button at the right time, then you ward off a blow with a shield. much beter.

To be honest, there hasn't yet been an RPG that has really met my standards for a really good game... the ones that come closest are horribly buggy sadly, and NONE of them have had the kind of graphics I'd want to see...

Yeah, that does irk me in Morrowind.  I'm glad to hear they're changing that in Oblivion.

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Dos. Spanish for Two. as in the sequal.

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« Reply #10 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:38 »

FFIX is, in my opinion, the greatest game ever. i just loved the carachters and the story. and i'm the sort of RPG nut who plays anything i can get my hands on.
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« Reply #11 on: 13 Jun 2005, 10:46 »

fallout 2, arcanum, nwn and planescape: torment
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« Reply #12 on: 13 Jun 2005, 11:02 »

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I've never played an RPG that's held my attention the same way as Final Fantasy 7.

I LOVED that game!


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Final Fantasy has consistently been the only RPG (series) i have been able to play without being bored to tears. It oozes playability, amazing storylines, beautiful landscapes (instead of the monotonous browns and grays of others), and is just all round awesome. And Final Fantasy 7 was the best.
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« Reply #13 on: 13 Jun 2005, 12:08 »

ahahahhahaa, no no no.

Final Fantasy 6 was the best.

Then 8, then 7

BG2 is also very good.
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« Reply #14 on: 13 Jun 2005, 12:35 »

No no no.

Final Fantasy 6 is indeed best, but then X, then 7.

Chrono Trigger is the best RPG ever though.
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« Reply #15 on: 13 Jun 2005, 12:36 »

D'oh!  How could I forget my beloved Planescape: Torment?  Such an awesome, awesome game!
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« Reply #16 on: 13 Jun 2005, 12:39 »

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Chrono Trigger is the best RPG ever though.


Played through that again about a month ago.

So, so goooood. Out of all RPG's ever, that'd come 3rd.

1.FF6
2.FF8
3.Chrono Trigger
4.FF7
5.Xenogears

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« Reply #17 on: 13 Jun 2005, 13:53 »

FF7
FF6
Chrono Trigger
Disgaea
Chrono Cross

(that's my top 5)
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« Reply #18 on: 13 Jun 2005, 14:25 »

FF6
FF7
FFX
Illusion of Gaia
NwN
Dungeon Siege


In that order
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KID

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« Reply #19 on: 13 Jun 2005, 14:28 »

Damn i feel left out. oh well
FFIX
FFVII
Chrono Trigger
Okage: Shadow King
FF
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« Reply #20 on: 13 Jun 2005, 15:59 »

Chrono Trigger > pretty much any other RPG
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« Reply #21 on: 13 Jun 2005, 16:40 »

Pens and papers and dices.  And a DM (GM) always helps.
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« Reply #22 on: 13 Jun 2005, 17:16 »

i used to play one called jade cocoon was quite good but easy to complete. The FF series has to have it though.
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« Reply #23 on: 13 Jun 2005, 17:35 »

I just got my hands on the english translated version of the first Star Ocean game in a ROM, and that game is pretty kickass. I'm going to have to go play SO2. The Lunar games have a special place in my heart as well.
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« Reply #24 on: 13 Jun 2005, 17:38 »

I have never met a FF game I didn't like. Except FFVIII. It was alright, but not SUPER FUCKING AWESOME like FFVII was.

FFVII
Xenogears
FFII
Arcanum
Legend of Legaia
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« Reply #25 on: 13 Jun 2005, 17:42 »

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Legend of Legaia


oh man, how could I forget that.

I had so much fun playing the first one, but when the second game came out it was just... meh...
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« Reply #26 on: 13 Jun 2005, 17:53 »

Oh man I <3 the button combo combat systems. "UP UP LEFT DOWN RIGHT PWNED"

And Xenogears. "TRIANGLE TRIANGLE SQUARE X PWNED"
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« Reply #27 on: 13 Jun 2005, 18:00 »

I'm trying to remember other RPGs with combat like that, and I keep leaning towards Legend Of Dragoon, but I think that was more of just timing the buttons right.

But seriously; who else cried when Lavitz died?


I wouldn't shut up about it for a few days. I'd be walking around the house screaming "NOOOOOOO LAVITTTZZZZZZZZ."

Then my parents made me sleep out on the lawn.
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« Reply #28 on: 13 Jun 2005, 18:15 »

I haven't seen any others that did it well. Some others have done it, but none of them PWNED it like Xenogears and LoL did.
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« Reply #29 on: 13 Jun 2005, 21:24 »

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Pens and papers and dices.  And a DM (GM) always helps.

Oh shit I forgot about D&D, which I don't even know how to PLAY but I already love.
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« Reply #30 on: 13 Jun 2005, 22:05 »

Ultima V.  No question.
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« Reply #31 on: 13 Jun 2005, 22:11 »

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I'm trying to remember other RPGs with combat like that, and I keep leaning towards Legend Of Dragoon, but I think that was more of just timing the buttons right.

But seriously; who else cried when Lavitz died?


I wouldn't shut up about it for a few days. I'd be walking around the house screaming "NOOOOOOO LAVITTTZZZZZZZZ."

Then my parents made me sleep out on the lawn.



The loss of Lavitz shall plague us all...

I wuv KOTOR, Morrowind, and LoD.  Although nothing beats good ole D&D.
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« Reply #32 on: 13 Jun 2005, 22:27 »

I've never finished FFIII/VI, but it the parts I've played have been really good. I think I prefer Chrono Trigger. The beginning of that game is so... perfect. And returning there between different segments just... it's such a diverse game.

I loved KotOR. One of my favorite games. It was amazingly immersive - so much so that I was unable to play as evil - I felt bad and eventually lost interest trying to play it through again.

Generally, I find RPGs aren't polished enough for my tastes. If it has a level-grinding element without an action element I get bored (for example, Diablo 2 entertained me for a while because it had action and wasn't JUST an RPG) . That's why I liked KotOR - you were powerful enough just from doing all the quests. I only wish it had been done with the PC interface in mind from the beginning, or that it had been more carefully ported.

Deus Ex is one of my other favorite games, and I consider it at least as much of an RPG as any FF game.

RPGs that everyone liked but I couldn't get into:
Baldur's Gate
Planescape: Torment
Morrowind: Something (whichever one was on the XBOX, my brother had it.)
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« Reply #33 on: 13 Jun 2005, 22:44 »

Change "Arcanum" on my lift to "Wild A.R.M.S" The first one.
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« Reply #34 on: 14 Jun 2005, 03:00 »

FF7
FFIX
Disgaea
Morrowind
FFX

I have played all the FF series, i think they are all good. Except X2, which i don't consider to be part of the FF series. Cuz it sucked.
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« Reply #35 on: 14 Jun 2005, 08:02 »

In no order
FF IX
Tales of Symphonia
Skies of Arcadia
Golden Sun (both)
Final Fantasy
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Pokemon (when i was little it was awesome, lay off it)
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« Reply #36 on: 14 Jun 2005, 08:03 »

Morrowind. By far. I got so lost in that game. It had the single most in depth world I've seen in any game (and a lot of book series). It's probably the game that's taken the most of my time and I still haven't finished the main storyline.
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« Reply #37 on: 14 Jun 2005, 08:15 »

Word. Morrowind is the best game I've played, as well as the best RPG. It feels like a real world you're running around in, and it seems like Oblivion is going in the same direction. Excellent.
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« Reply #38 on: 14 Jun 2005, 14:09 »

I've said it before.... Tales Of Symphonia!

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« Reply #39 on: 14 Jun 2005, 17:14 »

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Pokemon (when i was little it was awesome, lay off it)


Damn skippy. I should probably TRY another RPG sometime in my life, but my slavish Nintendo devotion isn't conductive to that course of action.
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« Reply #40 on: 14 Jun 2005, 17:43 »

STAR OCEAN: THE SECOND STORY.

> you.

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Edit: Honorable mentions are Morrowind, Pokemon, FF games, Dragoon, etc yadda yadda yadda, but SO2 gets the cake.
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« Reply #41 on: 14 Jun 2005, 20:07 »

Legend of Zelda for SNES
X-Men Legends
Sam and Max Hit the Road (If any of these count.)

The Might and Magic series was also entertaining when I played it.

Final Fantasy could never hold my attention due to it being turn based rather then real time.
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« Reply #42 on: 14 Jun 2005, 20:49 »

Neverwinter Nights, baby. Maybe FF III/VI.
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« Reply #43 on: 14 Jun 2005, 22:54 »

The Baldur's Gate series.

I loved the gameplay in Icewind Dale II, but it was far too linear for me :(.

I'm hoping that Dragon Age is going to be awesome. As well as next The Longest Journey game, I hope that's cool.
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« Reply #44 on: 15 Jun 2005, 05:03 »

Dungeons & Dragons v3.5
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« Reply #45 on: 15 Jun 2005, 06:17 »

Man, if you think D&D is freedom...  Wow.  Try Shadowrun.  No classes!
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« Reply #46 on: 15 Jun 2005, 17:28 »

Final Fantasy VI
Knights Of The Old Republic (I and II)
Earthbound
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« Reply #47 on: 15 Jun 2005, 18:00 »

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Man, if you think D&D is freedom...  Wow.  Try Shadowrun.  No classes!


Or Rifts! Be a transformer or a taco salesmen! woo!
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« Reply #48 on: 15 Jun 2005, 19:57 »

Ugh, Rifts.  I've heard so many bad things about that; I don't even want to poke its cover.
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« Reply #49 on: 15 Jun 2005, 21:01 »

Oh, and Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi = fun things.
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