Favourite RPG created?

[galraen]

As it happens I think Wiz8, out of the box, was, in many ways, a better game than Morrowind, but

Wizardry 8's game world is much more seamless

just isn't accurate.

What you have is a choice of seams, either a seam that prevents you from looking out your window and seeing a small piece the world outside, or a seam that stops you seeing down the road outside say, Arnika. Also Wiz 8 isn't really more interactive IMO, just different.

You can travel from Vivec all the way to the end of the world and hardly notice any loading (unless you have a very low spec PC). Travelling from Arnika to Bayjin on the other hand entails several loading phases, although nowhere near as bad as Dragon Age; but just try looking at the map on the Arnika-Trynton road!!

Day and night cycles don't seem to change the game world in Morrowind at all.

Weird that, and one of the reasons why I think M&M 6 was a better game, but a bit naughty to start out comparing Morrowind with one game then switching to another because Wiz 8 has exactly the same problem.

[SDxBrandimus]

Very little into PC Gaming, kind of really just started getting into it but have like 3 games and that's Diablo 2 LoD, SC: Broodwar, SC2.

Mostly been an Xbox/Xbox 360 Gamer but my fave RPGs are the following in no particular order:

SW: KotOR I & II, Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Oblivion, Mass Effect 1&2, DA: O, Morrowind.

[Annette]

Planescape: Torment, Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines, The Witcher, Deus Ex, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. Baldur's Gate 2 would make the list if not for the infuriating pathfinding in dungeons (I always use a party of 6, and everyone gets in everyone's way.)

[Majorman]

I'd say Planescape: Torment. Great story, great atmosphere, great characters and everything is carefully balanced. It's the apogee of the infinity-engine era.

And since many people list more than one game, I would list everything in which the guys at Troika Games took part as close second. Fallout is a standard of what a CRPG should look like (it's still hard to come by a game as unlinear as it), while the Troika-era RPGs suffer from the lack of testing time. Unfortunately Troika's resources were too scarce to allow them to clean and polish their games.

[Viperswhip]

Planescape and the Baldur's Gate Trilogy. Really, you can get the whole game for really cheap on GoG and merged into one package makes BG1 even better and BG2 somewhat more meaningful as you know and appreciate a couple of your NPCs quite a bit more.

Planescape was fantastic...well, if you like reading, which I do. There was a large yet fantastic novel size of lines in that game. You actually got more exp for avoiding fighting in lots of cases and the biggest rewards typically came from conversation (here's looking at you Ravel). Then Wizards of the Coast murdered the Planescape setting and the game didn't do so well commercially either I think.

The best works of art and artists are not appreciated until they are gone. We will never get BG3 and we will never get another Planescape game. I haven't played anything close, just other good games.

Frankly, to be a good RPG you just need to have some memorable NPCs. I don't know how many of you have played Starcraft 2 but there is almost as much meaningful character interaction as in ME2 so you can see how far we have fallen.

[zerovisionvlad]

I like star wars: knights of the old republic 1 and Fable 1. I'm not sure if spore is considered an RPG, if it is, then it is one of my favorites too.

[endboss]

Morrowind. At first I loved the concept of the game but just couldn't get into it. Once I gave it another chance, I spent sooooo many hours just exploring the world and reading all the books, going on pilgrimages, and searching for artifacts. I heard it described as a hiking simulator once and that is certainly how I found the most enjoyment out of it - as opposed to a "game". Thankfully I'm not a power-gamer or whatever so the game never felt that broken to me balance-wise (I didn't become ultra-powerful or abuse the alchemy system for example).

Icewind Dale. Just loved this game's setting. The pacing was messed up towards the end but ehhhhh everything can't be perfect. I found the combat and character progression more fun than in Baldur's Gate. The story was pretty predictable but worked. Actually reading that last paragraph over it makes it seem like a mediocre title... but I loved it.

Arcanum. I love the concept and the world, but the game is pretty damn flawed gameplay and story-wise. I love it, but it's a huge disappointment.

Chrono Trigger. Even though it was a whole lot more restrictive in what you could do than other games I'm used to (but more open than other JRPGs at least), it seriously had the greatest story, and you at least felt like you were making unique and important choices. The characters, setting, and music were all amazing. Western RPGs often lack in great narratives, and that's basically what CT excelled in. Not to mention it was seriously so fun and I could not put it down.




Anyways, I'd go with Morrowind as my favorite.

[Stworca]

I have to toss in Mass Effect to my favourites. At first it wasn't much better than any other RPG's, and there are many, MANY terrible ideas implemented in the game.. Mako, Resource searching, Mako, 20 enemies charging in with immunity power and shotguns, Mako and Mako to name a few..

But the last hour or so of the game just blew me away.. It was worth to endure everything, to just see the ending..
"All alliance ships hold formation. Wait for the shot at ..... Nothing else matters. I repeat, nothing else matters" (yeah, i've picked THIS ending, and it's one of the top RPG endings imo, right next to fallout1 ending.)

And then i played ME2 and each every choice i've made in ME1 did matter.. Or will matter in ME3. Now ToEE was a perfect example of picking options and facing consequences, but ME will be a whole trilogy.. With all it's terrible flaws, extremely easy combat and the god damn mako.. Its would be a sin not play it.

ME2 was average, but had its strong points aswell, and if ME3 will go the way i wish it will.. I predict a GoTY for it for sure.

Both parts had realy sad, realy funny and realy f'd up elements.. with no warnings. A great plus for that

So i'm going with Morrowind, ToEE, and ME (series!). After some thought i don't even like BG2 that much it is an awesome game however, and a topper for almost a decade.

[Tricky]

Deus Ex, probably the first CRPG I ever owned. I have played it to pieces.

[Curry]

For me, Baldur's Gate 1 is the rpg that got me hooked. It's still a good game, and I love the story and writing. Didn't like the sequel as much.

Gothic 1 & 2 are very good too. The learning curve is steep though, so a lot of people who are used to dumbed down games such as Dragon Garbage won't like them though.

Out of the new games released recently, I like Mass Effect 2 and Fallout New Vegas a lot. Both are definitely worth playing. ME2 is more of a shooter than RPG though, but still a good game.