What Is Your Favourite RPG Series?
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83 responses to “What Is Your Favourite RPG Series?”
Oi? Dragon Age? Vampire the Masquerade? They both pwn Mass Effect.
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See David’s discussion just above. 🙂
Went with Final Fantasy, almost purely for the PS1 era.
Mass Effect, Fallout and TES wouldn’t be far behind.
I also loved Suikoden, but only have the first two.
Gah… FF or Fallout? *headdesk*
You forgot the Shining Force series. That’s my favourite, but from the choices above it has to be Pokemon!
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Shining Force is my pick too! Easily the best game out of all the above.
SSI AD&D gold box series is probably the best. But Questron and it’s scattered but direct Ultima inspired lineage is the series I played most.
Out of th eoptions up there, it’s a tie between ultima and might and magic, but where’s the Gothic option!?!?! I love gothic!!! such an awesome series of games!
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Added!
It would easily be fallout for me if it was only the first 2 games, but i just couldn’t get into 3 no matter how hard i tried (and this caused me great anguish)
Hmmmm… I guess i’ll go Ultima, had a good time with those games when i was a youngun.
I loved mass effect, but i havent started ME2 yet so it doesnt quite get there for me.
Damn you fallout 3!!!!!!
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A friend of mine thought the same way as you, I thought the exact opposite. I loved Fallout 3, but couldn’t stand the original 2 games
I still find Baldurs Gate character creation screen to be the most enthralling gaming experience I’ve ever had. I poured endless hours into creating different chars
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I hear that! Think I spent nearly more time on that screen then the actual game.
Zelda just isn’t an RPG. Great series, but it doesn’t fit any of the numerous definitions for the genre aside from the ridiculously broad “it’s a game where you play a role” which basically covers everything from Dr Mario to Neverwinter Nights.
I went with Mass Effect. I’d have gone with Baldur’s Gate but I actually tried to play it again and realised that without several mods it just isn’t as fun as I remembered. So, by virtue of being great out of the box, Mass Effect gets the nod.
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The player in RPGs controls one or several adventuring party members fulfilling one or many quests. The major similarities with pen-and-paper games involve developed story-telling and narrative elements, player character development, complexity, as well as replayability and immersion
Zelda: Check
Players explore a game world, while solving puzzles and engaging in tactical combat. A key feature of the genre is that characters grow in power and abilities, and characters are typically designed by the player.
Zelda: Again check
Just because you don’t level up or gain a party in Zelda doesn’t not make it an RPG
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“The player in RPGs controls one or several adventuring party members fulfilling one or many quests. The major similarities with pen-and-paper games involve developed story-telling and narrative elements, player character development, complexity, as well as replayability and immersion”
Practically all modern games with a narrative fit this description. Is Tomb Raider an RPG? How about Portal?
“Players explore a game world, while solving puzzles and engaging in tactical combat. A key feature of the genre is that characters grow in power and abilities, and characters are typically designed by the player.”
Devil May Cry fits this description a lot more closely than Zelda does. So do the Resident Evil games.
Zelda is a story driven Action-Adventure game. That’s not a bad thing, but that doesn’t make it an RPG.
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The Legend of Zelda as a RPG? Seriously?!?! o_O;
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The thing is, if I hadn’t included it, these comments would be full of people saying “Where’s Zelda?!?!?”
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Well those people would need to hear one of ElPrez’s famous ‘What constitutes a RPG’ rants… On second thought, if he did that then half the list of games there would be wiped off. <_<;
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No, no… I’ve sworn off the RPG rants. Doctors told me that constantly typing in forums to educate people about the genre was giving me carpal tunnel. 😛
You have no idea how much I’m resisting the urge though. 😉
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With my vote SMT is up to 1.8% for shame! How can you not love a series that gives you games allowing you to shoot yourself in the head to summon demons and date high school girls?!
Hrmmm Mass Effect is polling pretty well.
I haven’t played it yet, need to finish downloading it. My brother started though and when I asked him what he thought, his response?
“It’s no KotOR”
This was a VERY, VERY tough decision!
Fallout 3 and TES IV: Oblivion have sucked so many hours out of me, it’s not funny. Their huge immersive worlds really drew me in. However, I didn’t really enjoy their prequels all that much, so that counts them out.
Pokemon may have a tired and true formula, but I play every damn game through from beginning to end. Every generation adds enough to the formula to warrant a playthrough, and Black and White looks to be adding the most we’ve seen in a while. Pokemon was my childhood… so it was hard to NOT vote for this one!
Zelda has been fairly hit and miss for me. I loved twilight princess, but disliked ocarina of time (shock and horror i know! Please don’t attack me) I adored the two DS Zelda’s (spirit tracks and phantom hourglass) but hated most of the gamecube ones. I love parts of Zelda, not the whole series.
Ahhh Bioware. Dave, if you had put ‘Bioware’ as an option, I probably would have picked that instantly. Of the Bioware series, my favourite GAME was KoToR easily, which was unfortunately followed by the lacklustre KoToR 2. Mass Effect had a fantastic storyline, but flawed gameplay mechanics (at least for me). Baulder’s Gate was a classic, but it will never hold a candle to…
THE DIABLO SERIES! I’ve probably spent more time in Diablo 2 than every other video game combined. The first Diablo came out when i was ten years old, and because we only had the one computer, I would simply WATCH my older brother play for hours on end… and still enjoy myself! When I got a bit older, I started getting into it myself, but soon after that Diablo II came, and that is where most of my Diablo memories lie. My brother and I must have killed Diablo (and later Baal) a hundred times together, trying every combination of all of the classes.
It was a hard choice, but I think it’s the right one! Sorry for the essay length post, I’m getting nostalgia all over the place!
Definately should have been an Other opition. Shining Force is missing. Evolution is missing. Sacred is missing.
Geez, could I whinge any more?
Shin Megami Tensei got my vote, but only because I couldn’t vote for Shining Force.
Baldur’s Gate.
Not only a fantastic series in it’s own right, but that it also spawned my actual #1 favourite:
Planescape: Torment
I voted Knights of the Old Republic, but what this list really does is make me realise how many well-regarded series I’ve never played!
I don’t know.
Bioware wins either way.
I loved KOTOR… like in an unnatural way, but I don’t know if the game by itself, without star wars, makes it better than the rest.
I’m still playing ME one and two… so that’s another one.
Although it’s not listed, Dragon Age is up there too.
It’s all too hard.
Planescape: Torment should be up on the list, It is far an away my favourite RPG.
Its had to pick between some of the others, but had Planescape been up I wouldn’t have had to even think about it
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Planescape: Torment may well be the greatest RPG ever made, but it is not a series.
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Sigh, I know, but there was for quite some time the hope that it might be.
Such a shame that it never was.
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So many great games, but I think I’ll go with might and magic, specifically 1 & 2, because they were my first taste of delicious rpg goodness
Not that it was my favorite, but this list is missing Star Ocean.
Hahah, I’d have to go with an RPG-7. Followed by Elder scrolls and mass effect.
Zelda for all time. But favourite modern RPG – Mass Effect. Zelda’s last few years have been nothing but disappointing. Nintendo’s desire to shoehorn in touchscreen controls was the dealbreaker for me.
Absolutely the worst Zelda decision ever. Controlling Link via stylus, having to switch out individual items every time you want something else, and having to use the stylus for BOTH camera and aiming is as painful as it sounds.
Ironically, Nintendo could have just done the same thing they’ve done for decades: D-pad controls and ability to set 1:1 button/items and they’d have made me very happy.
Nostalgia makes me pick Kingdom Hearts.
I really wanted to vote for Shin Megami Tensei, but as clichéd as it is, I had to go with Final Fantasy. I just love it 🙂
I used to love the FF series when i was a kid, but after attempting recently to replay FFVIII, ive realised just how little time i have nowadays to put up with grinding, random battles, and long, drawn out, turn based boss battles… So mass effect wins for me, but only because i havent played enough of the zelda games to honestly say its my fave :\
Elder Scrolls was my choice. I just love the lore and environment. Oblivion was a bit of a shame, but hopefully V will be better.
Also, no Neverwinter Nights David? NN2 was so good.
Thats… a lot of games.
By my count there is at least 140 games represented by these series. With an average playtime of 40 hours (I’m guessing here), that’s over 5500 hours. So if you played for 2 hours every day, that’s around 8 years of your life.
So… who’s played all of them?
This poll could maybe have been improved with an option to tick off all the games series’s you’ve played, and then select your favourite. That way, fanboys/girls of a particular series who refuse to touch another series will have their votes moderated, while those who’ve experienced a wider range make a more meaningful contribution.
PS: My fav = FF 🙂
This was hard to answer, but for me it was Ultima. I remember when I first played Ultima 6 on my 386 PC and was amazed by how huge and open the game world was. Sadly it was all downhill come Ultima 8, but there were some great moments prior to that (especially Ultima Underworld 2).
Lufia series from the super nintendo
lufia 2 rise of the sinistrals was awesome
Ultima invented the concept of Computer RPG as we know it today. The depth of the story told throughout the series has a hard time being compared with any other. Sure, it is dated, and there have been a lot of prettier games since, with more features. But that is not what this is about.
Role-playing games put you in the moment with the character. They put you into the story. And no other game series has managed to do that like Ultima
Where is the love for Phantasy Star? Probably one of the best things Sega ever did.
Where’s kingdom hearts? Sqeenix game with cute disney stuff which is great as a game and as a trip back into your childhood?
Not my fav, not sure if it’d be anyone’s fav. But it was worth a mention.
Final Fantasy,
SIMPLY because of Final Fantasy IV.
what an epic game,
great storyline, excellent characters, and insane music,
and of course, that spoony bard.
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