Your Top 10 RPGs

[Feien]

Just make your personal top 10 rpg list, and maybe write why you like that game.

1. Final Fantasy IV (For me it has what every epic story should have)
2. Chrono Trigger (Awesome all the way)
3. Final Fantasy VI
4. Xenogears
5. Kingdom Hearts (Makes me re-live my childhood)
6. Zelda: A Link to the Past
7. Wild Arms (Havent played Alter Code, but the original was solid)
8. Breath of Fire II (Ryu and Randi ftw)
9. Zelda: Ocarina of Time
10. Kingdom Hearts 2/Final Fantasy X/Final Fantasy VII (Can't really decide which one i like best from the three)

[shattuck]

well, i dont see zeldas as RPG's so i'll leave them out

final fantasy vii - first game since link to the past to completely suck me in to the point where i wanted to spend every waking hour trying to beat it.

grandia - was the first rpg i played all the way through

final fantasy vi

Lunar: Silver Star

final fantasy ix

lunar 2: eternal blue

final fantasy v

breath of fire 3

super mario rpg - first rpg i ever played, hardly remember it since i only rented it for a weekend but i remember it being fun


i feel kind of cheated i never played the 2 biggies i always hear about, xenogears and chrono trigger. i must get around to them

[Millie]

Easy-peasy:

1) Final Fantasy 4
2) Xenogears
3) Final Fantasy Tactics
4) Final Fantasy 6
5) The Legend of Zelda
6) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
7) Chrono Trigger
8) Final Fantasy
9) Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest)
10) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

[dumdee777]

1. Valkyrie Profile (ps version)
2. FF7
3. Diablo 2
4. FFX
5. Super Mario RPG
6. Chrono Trigger
7. FF6
8. Kingdom Hearts 1, hated 2 though...

Never played Xenogears, but pretty sure it'd be up there. Took out the Zelda's ;p. CT and FF6 are lower down my list, because I've only played them last year on my comp and basically sped through the whole game with ~, so I cheapened the whole experience. Little patience these days.

Also enjoy the castlevania's, especially the ones on the gba and the ps1 sotn.

[Sean]

Zelda is not an RPG you heathen. It's an Adventure game by genre definition.

[Zehn - Vhex]

BUT YOU'RE PLAYING A ROLE!

In which case Sean's favorite RPG's would be this months lineup of anime tentacle rape hentai games.

But yeah, the only zelda which could come close to classifying as an RPG is Zelda2.

[NoStem]

1.Shenmue I
2.Diablo II / PSO / UO
3.Final Fantasy 7
4.Grandia II
5.Zelda OoT
6.Baulders Gate II
7.Final Fantasy 12
8.Skies of Arcadia / Suikoden III
9.Shenmue II
10.Star Ocean II (still haven't beat the last bosses at the very end)
Chrono Trigger
edit: forgot about Suikoden 3, which def belongs up there

I have yet to play Zelda TP and a few other major RPG's everyone jerks over, and have only played trigger on an emulator so I can only reconigze it's greatness as runner up.

[Delenar]

Lets see:

1) Secret of Mana (This is #1 by a significant margin, no love for this yet?)
2) Final Fantasy 2 (US)
3) Final Fantasy 3 (US)
4) Xenogears
5) Chrono Trigger
6) Dragon Warrior 4(?) The one where you could be a shopkeeper


I actually have to end my list here, adding the Zelda games would fill it out though. I've played countless others but none I'd recommend. Enchanted arms was meh. Xenosaga is zzzzzzzzz. I find every other Final Fantasy lukewarm at best, I'm not sure if I'll ever like an RPG game like I used to like these.

[Millie]

The best RPG possible would be if Elly from Xenogears teamed up with Celes from FF6 and Rydia from FF4 and Magus from Chrono Trigger to fight crime in Gotham City.

[Vorph]

1. Planescape: Torment (best story & best characters of any RPG by far)
2. Fallout 2 (SPECIAL is still one of the best rules systems created for any RPG)
3. Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (marred by horrible bugs when first released, but even then it was still the most fun I've had playing any game in any genre)
4. Baldur's Gate 2 (...)
5. Gothic 2 (first-person RPG, done right... see: anything by Bethesda for examples of the opposite of this)
6. Temple of Elemental Evil (what it lacked in story was more than made up for by the near-perfect D&D rules implementation--something no other game has even come close to matching)
7. Betrayal at Krondor (another classic, it's just too bad none of the follow-up games were worth a shit)
8. Ultima VII (the peak of the series)
9. Wizardry VIII (same)
10. Arx Fatalis (not quite up there with Gothic 2, but still an excellent example of a first-person game; the spell system was particularly interesting)

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

[Duppin]

I can't order them at all, nor do I think I have 10, but here goes. It's eerily similar to Vorph's:

-Gothic 2. Very alive-feeling world, good storyline, and challenging (read, you need to actually get good at the system) combat. As Vorph said, I'll take it over Morrowind or Oblivion anyday

-Shadowrun for Genesis. The decking system was <3, good storyline, and pretty sophisticated gameplay for an early console RPG.

-Final Fantasy: Tactics. The end boss was disappointing, and the storyline was a bit trite, but it had excellent tactical gameplay and the jobs system was amazing.

-Fallout 2. Great example that NOT EVERY FUCKING RPG HAS TO BE FANTASY (I'm looking at you, MMORPG makers), fun combat, and excellent theme.

-VTM: Bloodlines. The best horrifyingly buggy, half finished game I have ever played. If they'd had six more months to polish this baby and make a less-tacked-on ending, it could have been the greatest RPG ever, bar none. It was that good, even with some game-breaking bugs.

-Final Fantasy 7. Yeah yeah, I know; I have to say I like this game most for the Weapon enemies, the various summons, and the amusement park. But in all seriousness, it did a great job of creating a coherent-feeling world and making you really feel like you were shaping the world with your actions (even if you were somewhat on rails as far as the storyline went).

edit: How did I forget Torment? I still have yet to make it all the way through this game ever, but even as much as I've gotten through has the best storyline and best characters I've ever seen in any RPG.

[Kato Danzo]

Vorph,

On a scale of 1-10, how unbelievably excited are you that Bethesda Softworks is doing Fallout 3!?

On that note, I second Fallout 1 & 2 as being classics. It's sad such games will probably never be made again.

[Rezz]

1: Final Fantasy 6
2: Chrono Trigger
3: Final Fantasy 4
4: Final Fantasy 12
5: Planescape: Torment
6: Xenogears
7: Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals
8: Dragon Quest 8 (and 1, and 2, and 3... yeah everything but 7.)
9: Tales of Phantasia
10: Legend of Legaia

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Kato Danzo

Vorph,

On a scale of 1-10, how unbelievably excited are you that Bethesda Softworks is doing Fallout 3!?

On that note, I second Fallout 1 & 2 as being classics. It's sad such games will probably never be made again.

10, for sure. I'm so excited to soon be able to knock Deus Ex: Invisible War off the top spot on the Worst Sequels Ever Made list that I can barely contain myself.

[Duppin]

I don't know who I hate worse, now.

Kato Danzo for saying what he did, or Vorph for reminding me of Invisible War.