Favorite RPG Of All Time

Destinasi · Post by **Destinasi** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:58 am

The Magic Candle.

The first one I ever finished. Hooked on RPGs ever since.

TinSaladin · Post by **TinSaladin** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:19 pm

Philosophy

Planescape: Torment

I was very very young when i picked up PS:T and at the time it was the first time i heard philosophical chant and actually though that it wasnt about a whole bunch of barmy sods pushing elemental water to the clueless

It made the philosophical ideas shown somehow relevant to the situation of TNO and by association, to me. It has lead to far more navel gazing in my life than previously expected by anyone who has ever met me, including myself. Though not just the ideas that are brought up in PS:T but also broadened my horizens to all kinds of bizzare ideology, im even thinking of getting a Zeta scan.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:29 pm

[QUOTE=Destinasi]The Magic Candle.

The first one I ever finished. Hooked on RPGs ever since.[/QUOTE]

Great game, that. I think we may be the only two on this board who recall it. I only wish Ali Atabek had remade it with better graphics years later--but he seems to have vanished a few years after joining Interplay and developing a couple of interesting strategy games.

JFSOCC · Post by **JFSOCC** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:22 am

quest for glory 5:dragon fire, too bad it's latest platform where it's playable is windows '98, because i'd play it again just now ifi could, this game had a great feel of ancientness around it, you were a great mage if you had just a few dnd cantrips, the fact that even though the area around you was loaded with epic magic, when just minor things become great i get a feeling i'm really in a role playing game, not just a hack and slash (although that was a great part of it) but best were the area's which had great graphics for the time, and had a mystical sphere...
i could go an and on about this game, fact is, i love it.

TonyMontana1638 · Post by **TonyMontana1638** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:20 pm

@Xandax: Your comments on Diablo are a little extreme, I'll admit, as very few people would go so far as to call Diablo anything but a CRPG, but I couldn'tagree with you more...
And yes, in Deadalready's direction, I do blame people's shortening attention spans for alot of things; why literature is all but dead, why games that take over 60hrs to complete (except Elder Scrolls) are extinct and why Americans need people to tell them how to feel about politics (Spin this Bill O Reilly... eat it sean hannity)....
But wait this in an RPG forum

, I'll stop.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:28 pm

@Xandax: Your comments on Diablo are a little extreme, I'll admit, as very few people would go so far as to call Diablo anything but a CRPG, but I couldn'tagree with you more...

I was at E3 when Diablo was first being shown. Nobody except the Blizzard personnel and especially their PR department believed it was an RPG. But the PR folks started hammering away, with a huge number of ads in stores and magazines.

Blizzard simply wanted to hit two huge markets, action games and RPG players. They knew Diablo was an action title that would sell itself to that market based on features. They had to convince the RPG audience that "black" is "white," and they did so with enough money.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:09 pm

[QUOTE=fable]<snip>

I was at E3 when Diablo was first being shown. Nobody except the Blizzard personnel and especially their PR department believed it was an RPG. But the PR folks started hammering away, with a huge number of ads in stores and magazines.

Blizzard simply wanted to hit two huge markets, action games and RPG players. They knew Diablo was an action title that would sell itself to that market based on features. They had to convince the RPG audience that "black" is "white," and they did so with enough money.[/QUOTE]

Excatly, and they won a couple of "RPG game of the year" (or something) awards they could use use in marketing, and spawned a long succession of Action games which have been part in convincing the gameing communities that RPG is killing everything in sight with speed-clicking, as long as you have some skills to assign.

Why oh why couldn't they combine the Adventure genre and the CRPG genre into one (oh yeah, it is cheaper to build a speed-clicking hack*fest). Recently played an Adventure game the other day I hadn't heard of - was not terrible goo, and so very liniar. Imagine combining the tradionally adventure games with the more openness of the CRPGs. Now tha would be nice. But it seems many gamers don't want challenges (other then 10 monsters instead of 5 at the time, and call it an expansion), so that ship has sailed

Sarg · Post by **Sarg** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:55 am

[QUOTE=Xandax]
Why oh why couldn't they combine the Adventure genre and the CRPG genre [/QUOTE]

Resident Evil, anyone???

TonyMontana1638 · Post by **TonyMontana1638** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:14 pm

With all due respect, I don't think Resident Evil falls in that category... It was an action/horror game with alot of puzzlesolving through-and-through, and I fail to see the RPG elements in their at all.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:59 am

[QUOTE=TonyMontana1638]With all due respect, I don't think Resident Evil falls in that category... It was an action/horror game with alot of puzzlesolving through-and-through, and I fail to see the RPG elements in their at all.[/QUOTE]
Well, hardly suprise, because there aren't any...

But have to agree with the point that Diablo or D2 has never even seen true RPG, not even thinking those are such.
And it's quite sad in what directions RPGs has gone recently. That's why in my top10 is almost only old games, excluding BG2 ToB.

asdfjklsemi · Post by **asdfjklsemi** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:01 pm

I think Neverwinter Nights is pretty amazing just in terms of the community that's sprung up around it--that you can actually play other people's D&D modules with it. I've had outstanding, true RPG experiences with that game playing amateur mods downloaded from Neverwinter Vault.

As a Diablo-hater as well (its formula ruined the potential of Lionheart, to name only one big-name game), I think it's also too easy to be cynical about. The Elder Scrolls games are still coming out and are still incredible RPGs. And regarding a previous comment about mixing adventure and role-playing (which, after all, is the definition of classic D&D), I'd note the Icewind Dale games did just that. 'Twas Diablo with brains, that series was.

Like nearly everybody else, I'm still a Baldur's Gate series guy. SOA remains the best-written CRPG (maybe overall RPG period) I've ever seen.

Lasher · Post by **Lasher** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:56 pm

Baldur's Gate II, for me... followed closely by FF7. Though with the new FF7 coming out on PS3, things might change, as I've never played a cooler storyline

qwertitus · Post by **qwertitus** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:30 pm

For me it comes down to what game can I play the longest time with that game still being fun and original. Nothing fits that better than Morrowind.

Keltoi · Post by **Keltoi** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:13 pm

My absolute favourite was Arcanum. Everything was great: Story, setting, features, handling,... wow!
My second fave was Arx fatalis because of the magic and alchemy system, the setting and that it stays solvable, no matter what you do.

Greetings
Keltoi

me0w · Post by **me0w** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:41 pm

God, the order I couldn't think of.

But its gotta be:

Baldur's Gate (series, although the progress to two was just incredible)
Fallout (^^)
Planescape:Torment (the story was fantastic)

And now, I think I might be adding Fable.
I'm very late at seeing this RPG, but christ, so far (3 hours in) and I'm in love.
I've Rollplayed the Evil path, and already, about 4 quests in I have horns, aloepechia and a red aura (not forgetting the pasty skin and black viens).

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:21 am

my first rpg was icewind dale and i loved that at the time but now my faves have got to be baldurs gate 2 (SOA and TOB) and neverwinter nights. i find neverwinter nights so much fun to play. its not got as good a story as baldurs gate series and there are big chunks of it i would improve if i had any programming skills or input into a games development lol but i still find myself spending hours at a time just messing around on it, trying different characters and classes. love the expansions too.

Eric V · Post by **Eric V** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:28 pm

my favorite old rpg was the dragon warrior I, III the were on NES. they were very fun and i think part III was fun because u could make ur own party that was cool. my favorite of all time is morrowwind for XBOX because of its huge area and the freedom to do want u want.

Damuna_Nova · Post by **Damuna_Nova** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:20 pm

Icewind Dale and The Elder Scrolls lll: Morrowind.

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:45 am

[QUOTE=TonyMontana1638]Pick one RPG that has changed your life (or was just alot of fun) and tell us all why.
[/QUOTE]

That would be Baldur's Gate. Before that game the RPG-Genre was mostly unknown to me. And since then it's been my favorite genre.

Andrey · Post by **Andrey** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:45 am

My reason is same as Monolith's.Only in my case its Fallout 2.