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![]() I don't like MMOs and I think they should be in a different category than single player RPGs, but maybe that's just me.
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Favorite RPGs are: Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, Star Wars The Old Republic (1+2), Might & Magic VI The Mandant of Heaven, Dragon Age Orgins and so on. The worst? Hm for me it was Dragon Age 2, not because the game was that bad, but because it was such a let down after the first one. They changed like the whole game mechanics to something that I don't like and even the people looked different (strange in the elves cases for example). |
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![]() My roleplaying group is in the final chapters of Carrion Crown AP, which is an adventure path designed by Paizo for their Pathfinder Dungeons & Dragons system. Once this adventure has been complete, assuming the group survives the end boss(es) we will begin playing an old-school Dungeons & Dragons system called ORSIC. This old-school system has its roots based from 1st edition D&D however it has been published as free content for anyone to use. It will be interesting to see how the rules changed affect the speed and flow of things like combat, exploration and interaction with NPC's.
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![]() In regards to RPG MMO's I use to dedicate many hours each day to Guild Wars which was a free alternative to World of Warcraft. This was while I was single, without a career and no mortgages, etc. At the beginning, the game was fun, you could team up with a group of people and go explore the lands surrounding the city. However as you levelled up and gained more powerful skills, abilities, equipment, etc this shifted away from random raiding parties to larger more organised guilds. Guilds provided structured battles between other guilds which brough the game to a whole new level of competition and team work. The whole team would have to discuss tactics, including the selection of individuals skills and abilities to create certain builds that could shutdown and counter other guilds team builds out there. Of course the South Koreans dominated the top tier guild wars however with a few clever builds and good co-ordination over Vent or Team Speak we owned the Sth Koreans every now and then. The game was fun for a few years at least until they released an expansion pack which made a majority of the previous classes and skills redundant. There was alsmost no reason why you would play several of the old classes over the new ones available in the expansion pack. Now I understand they must do things like this in order to cover there expenses however it wasn't as balanced as it could have been. It really frustrated many old school players including myself who had invested over 1000+ hours into developing the strongest characters available. By the time the third expansion pack had been released I had lost interest and sold my four high level characters for $3000 to some random rich kid who wanted every item and skill unlocked without having to spend months getting them. Selling my account was one of the more difficult choices I have had to make especially with a guild of over one hundred who depended on your elite gaming skills to get them through some of the toughest PVP matches out there.
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![]() I can't really say I'm well versed in RPG games, but the only series I had been very well ingrained in, was Pokemon. My very first Pokemon game was Stadium for N64, which was a strategy game. At the time, I had a friend who was across an alley from my house, who played Pokemon games back when Gameboy Color was the thing. He'd show me his skills or whatever when playing the Pokemon GBC games. He had them all: Silver, Gold, and Crystal. Pokemon was a staple of my childhood as during that same time, I had watched the Pokemon show religiously on Kids WB (it spread to Cartoon Network, which was my favorite channel at the time). When I was 10 or 11, my grandma got me Pokemon Yellow for GBC. Gameboy Advance and SP were out during this time, but I only had the former at first. So I played that, thus Yellow being the first Pokemon RPG I owned and played. Still having Pokemon Stadium (to this day), I plugged the game into the N64 through the controller accessory that allowed you to play GB and GBC games. Stadium had a feature that would let you play Pokemon games, at a faster speed (if you beat the Gym Leaders, Elite Four, and the 4 Pokemon Cups).
As the impatient boy I was, I relied on Stadium to play Yellow as the game, even in the "fast" text setting, was too slow for me. Still, it was a lot of fun. Newer games out, as the fresh generation was the Hoenn series. I got Pokemon Ruby (still do, but a different cartridge) first, and had gotten a SP. It was an NES design one, got it for Christmas, happy time. Then my former best friend stole that and the game, from me. ![]() Things peaked when in 2006, I got Pokemon Emerald. It still was pretty new or whatever. So getting back on topic, Emerald's the best RPG I ever played, and it's the best Pokemon game of the couple I've played. The music, the graphics, double battles, stuff that started with Ruby and Sapphire, were upgraded a bit. My love for it wasn't really with those already established, but nice, features. It was the Battle Frontier. What put it above all the games before was the exciting challenge the 7 Battle Frontier facilities offered, that extended the overall game time for it. I know I spend more time trying my hand at those 7 challenges than the actual adventure portion of the game. That and training a lot. My favorite of them all was Battle Factory, as you had to use rental pokemon. A lovely flashback to Pokemon Stadium would ensue as a result. Somehow, a classmate in Freshman high school persuaded me to trade my Emerald, and blue SP for a GBA (I still own it) and some non-Pokemon games, and Pokemon FireRed (great game, somehow I lost it though). Maybe this is too strong a statement, but I regret that. I acted on impulse, and had a bad habit of saying "yes," all the time (something that could still happen today). Since then, I've mostly played an online Pokemon game (I still do), and use emulators. On the latter, the last time I did that was for Pokemon Diamond and Platinum. I used cheat codes on Platinum to immediately get to their Battle Frontier, which had Battle Factory! I think I went too off topic, but I think the fact I gave a history of the RPG franchise of Pokemon, shows how it's been an integral part of my happiness as a kid. At one point I could rattle off all names of the Pokemon. The entire franchise engulfed me in its creatures and entertaining competition. The RPG games tested patience and strategy. The music of a lot of the games have been burned into my mind, the ability to nickname your pokemon left for some cool names (on Ruby, I called my Latios, "Dream," because I caught him on MLK day). I never caught 'em all. |
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![]() Eh. The newest console that I have owned and enjoyed, is the Wii. I would definitely enjoy it more if I ever got to indulging in its Virtual Console feature. This brings me to my hat throwing in here. Being in a rather poor family, I was always behind the curve in terms of the new hot gaming console. Either that, or I just never had new games for a console of the time. The first console I owned was an N64, and the only games I owned were Pokemon Stadium, Mario Kart 64, Banjo Kazooie, Cruise N' USA, NBA Hangtime, and Star Fox 64. Everything else was rented from Blockbuster/Hollywood Video. One of my cousins lived with us for a long time, and he had a Super Nintendo. I had it in my room, and I've played Super Mario World on it. I vaguely remember playing other games, the closest to memory is Street Fighter 2 Turbo. I actually did have a Playstation, but for a cup of coffee. I played NES at one of my other cousins' house. Super Mario Bros. 3, they had NBA Jam on Genesis too.
When I was 10, a friend dumped his old games onto me. Sega Genesis, the first non Nintendo console I owned for a long period of time. With that, he gave me at max, 10 games. The ones I played the most, and still own, are Sonic 1, Sonic 2, and Street Fighter 2: Special Champions Edition. The Genesis console he gave me was a model 2. I seriously don't remember how, but I actually own a Genesis 3 model. It's in my closet right now, along with the Genesis 2 model. A few months later, we got Nintendo Gamecube. Similar to N64, owned less than 10 games, rented more. We got a Wii in 2007. So more or less, I'm a Nintendo guy. Not feeling skilled enough to tout the specs of a game console, and be some big gamer critic, the best platforms for me that I owned, are SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, and Genesis. The ease of the pick up and play games, the fun challenges in said games, the older and more classic music, and the more engaging video game characters do it for me. To clarify, Wii and Gamecube don't really exhibit those traits, but other positive stuff. Observing the gamer talk in school and playing with friends here and there in the past, I noticed that the PS and Xbox games were more focused for the younger adult/adult audiences. XBox 360 I think has had a bevy of shooter games; FPS being pretty big I believe. I've read Nintendo being slammed, especially with Wii, of being too family friendly. Whatever the case, I'm biased for Nintendo and Genesis as the former had Mario and Pokemon games (and later Sonic games, some of them are in the other consoles), and Genesis had Sonic games. Those three franchises are my favorites, with more preference for the older games. There's emulators, but that doesn't count in this discussion. However those are good to keep a vested interest in retro games, for free. I'm more likely to play Revenge of the Shinobi (Genesis), rather than Assassin's Creed 3. |
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![]() I don't like MMORPGs and I'm no fan of western RPGs either. I love good JRPGs and platformer though:
Last edited by Cadirai; 1st March 2013 at 21:16.
In terms of JRPGs: Final Fantasy III till X, Shadow Hearts 1 and 2, the Star Ocean Series, the Suikoden Series, the Shin Megami Tensei Persona Series, Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner, (if you deem it a RPG) the two Drakengard-Parts, the Dragon Quest Series, Rogue Galaxy, the Xenosaga Series, the Valkyrie Profile Series, Eternal Sonata, Okami, Ni No Kuni and of course Pokemon In terms of Platformer: the Fallout Series, Borderlands 1 and 2 and probably a lot more... |
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![]() The old consoles: SNES, N64, PSX, PS2
Reason: The gaming-industry was a niche-industry in the past, which doesn't need to care about economical factors that much. They were able to experiment and to use their creativity. Nowadays, the gaming-industry is far too mainstream, majorly releasing pre- or sequels, whose quality sucks bad, at least in my opinion. |
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![]() Baldur's Gate 2 followed by a little remembered gem Microprose released in 1992 called Darklands.
Last edited by tmage; 2nd March 2013 at 16:49.
Bioware showed they were years ahead of their competitors in terms of strong, well written, characters, engaging stories and they had integrated the rules and mechanics of 2nd edition seamlessly into the background, providing an authentic AD&D experience while leaving the "dice rolling" to the PC DM - common now but not 15 years ago. Darklands on the other hand is ridiculously realistic. Your character ages as you play and will eventually have a noticeable and permanent effect as you get slower and weaker. There's no quick travel - the world is a map of medieval Germany (1:1 scale) which your characters would traverse *in real time*. Each city had its own local economy which you affect via trade (or crime) and those affects would slowly spread and could affect multiple cities (or, if the most extreme case, the entire map). The game has that level of detail - it wouldn't appeal to casual RPGers but among hardcore types who could spend 3 months on a tabletop game just building a world with so much detail that he's actually done that world's planetary system so he has a good idea of season effects and tidal cycles, it was nice. |
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