Top 5 RPGs of all time

[Bright Shield]

This is pretty difficult for me. However, I've narrowed it down to these 5.

1. Odin Sphere
2. Lunar 2
3. Suikoden II
4. Persona 4
5. Mother 3

[Bolivar]

I think the best 5 are probably Ffix, dqv, xenogears, fftactics, and chrono trigger.

My favorite 5 are tactics ogre, shining force ii, valkyria chronicles 2, dq8 and final fantasy vii

[Pike]

My favorite five that I've actually played a great deal of and/or beaten:

1. TES 3: Morrowind
2. Deus Ex
3. Super Mario RPG
4. World of Warcraft
5. Pokemon Gold

I have a lot on my backlog that I need to finish :( On the priority list are Fallout 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate II, System Shock 2, the next two Deus Ex games (those are happening next) and Planescape Torment.

[Dr. rydrum2112]

unordered

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy X
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Star Ocean TtEoT
_____ reserved for the games I have not played but need too- most notably Chronotrigger.

[Karifean]

Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X

What?

[Bright Shield]

Mario RPG was mentioned. Nice. I haven't played that game in many years. I should really start it up again soon.

[Omni-Odin]

No order really:

Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VII
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy Tactics

Lol my RPG range isn't as wide as I thought it was.

[Bright Shield]

Well this is a Final Fantasy forum, so I expect the FF games to dominate most of the lists.

[Jowy]

- Chrono Trigger
- Suikoden II
- Earthbound
- Secret of Mana
- Dark Souls

I do love me some Super Nintendo games.

[Bright Shield]

^You ever play Mother 3? If you like Earthbound that much, I'm almost certain that you'd love Mother 3 as well.

[Jowy]

I made it about halfway through before my old computer bit the dust; never got to copy the save over. I will eventually finish it.

[Bright Shield]

It gets extremely emotional towards the end. The final boss battle is my favorite of all time. It's just so sad.

[Pheesh]

Kingdom Hearts (either 1, 2 or BBS, can't pick just one)
Final Fantasy X
KotOR 2
Mass Effect 2
Xenoblade Chronicles

[I Took the Red Pill]

Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy X
Chrono Cross
Suikoden 2
Star Ocean: The Second Story

Not in any specific order

[Laddy]

In no order...

-Final Fantasy VI
-Baldur's Gate II
-Fallout 2
-Planescape Torment
-Xenoblade Chronicles

[maybee]

1 Chrono Trigger
2 Final Fantasy IX
3 Final Fantasy IV
4 Final Fantasy VI
5 Final Fantasy VIII

Aaaaaaand I need to play more non- SE RPG games.

[Pete for President]

1; Dark Souls (no doubt)
2; FFX
3; Vagrant Story
4; FF Tactics
5; Deus Ex:HR (if that counts as RPG)

[The Man]

Final Fantasy VI
Chrono Trigger
Suikoden II
Dragon Quest V
Final Fantasy IX
That sounds like a good list. Though I really consider #1 and #2 to be on the same plane, and #4 and #5 are roughly on the same plane as well. Honourable mentions to Final Fantasy V, Chrono Cross, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, and Super Mario RPG.

I need to play Mother 3 one of these days. Also I just realised how old-school this list is. There is nothing from a system past the PlayStation on this list.

[[M] Mom – Host]

1 Chrono Trigger
2 Final Fantasy IX
3 Final Fantasy IV
4 Final Fantasy VI
5 Final Fantasy VIII

Aaaaaaand I need to play more non- SE RPG games.


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:love:

EDIT: Also, the relative lack of WRPG's is making me sadddd. :(

[Depression Moon]

Final Fantasy IX
Dragon Quest VIII
Final Fantasy IV
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Threads of Fate

[Madame Adequate]

FFVII
FFX
Baldur's Gate 2
Suikoden II
Planet Escape: Tournament

[Pike]

FFVII
FFX
Baldur's Gate 2
Suikoden II
Planet Escape: Tournament

>no Morrowind
>no Deus Ex

do i even know you anymore

[Madame Adequate]

How can I pick only 5

Okay okay remove FFVII and replace it with Morrowind

DX I class as a shooter more than RPG so I'll keep that off

[Laddy]

I think it's fair to consider Deus EX an RPG, in my opinion. It's a ShootPG, but there is character advancement and player choice more in-depth than more "obvious" RPG's so I'd count it.

[Madame Adequate]

shut up i can't sacrifice anything else from the list

[Laddy]

This is why when I made this thread a few months back I did 10. :colbert:

[Pike]

shut up i can't sacrifice anything else from the list

you know you want to

you know

you want to

2gNOBvpytXU

[Laddy]

Depends what he sacrifices. :roll:

[Pike]

Depends what he sacrifices. :roll:

We all know you want him to sacrifice FFX and the funny thing is that he never will! :monster: An expert rusemaster, that one.

[Laddy]

​Nor Suikoden II. It's either BG or Torment... :(

[Pike]

Huxley.

1b-bijO3uEw

You.

Know.

You.

Want.

To.

[Madame Adequate]

OKAY FINE

HERE'S THE NEW LIST

YOU ASKED FOR IT :mad2:

Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy XII
Earthbound
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Fallout 3

:colbert:

[Laddy]

I will fail to make comment on the first three because it's Huxley.

The last two are just unforgivable.

[Madame Adequate]

I knew when I wrote my list of terrible RPGs there would be people who agreed with it :cry:

[maybee]

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Uhmm no thanks. I don't like W RPGS at all.

[Pike]

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Uhmm no thanks. I don't like W RPGS at all.

You should give them a try sometimes, even if you don't normally like them, you're missing out on some GREAT stuff!

[maybee]

^ No thanks. They're just not my personal cup of tea. They all have that Matrix or WOW/ Dungeons and Dragons feel.

[Bolivar]

Planescape and Fallout deviate a little from those templates, but if you read Fantasy/Sci-Fi, they probably don't deviate enough for you.

I don't really like WRPGs either but I really got into The Witcher and Oblivion.

[Laddy]

I am disappoint. :( What is it about WPRG's do you not like?

[maybee]

I am disappoint. :( What is it about WPRG's do you not like?

They all have this WoW and Dungeons and Dragons feel to them. I hate those games.

[Laddy]

I won't comment on WoW because I think it has valid reasons to prove alienating to people. Your comments are interesting and it's similar to some other things I've observed.

I never understood why RPG's with a D&D "feel" to them are unappealing to some. D&D is the origin of role-playing, and still to this day is one of the most flexible RPG systems standing, with a huge variety of settings and types of narratives available for a player to experience and undergo. Even a JRPG series like Dragon Quest, Tales, or Final Fantasy draws heavily from D&D and its various settings, and the major differences in style is more visual than anything. D&D gives profound flexibility in character and world building, and some of the most satisfying and, interestingly enough, original stories I have played were in D&D sessions.

I notice a lot of JRPG fans are turned off by WRPG's. Mayhaps they appear too stat-based, or too dark and cynical, or mayhaps it's the non-linear narrative giving an impression of a lack of resonance or emotional weight or complexity. Maybe it's the relatively formulaic settings. Yes, this is a subgenre known for its staggering reliance on numbers, stats, and variables. It is a genre that tends to use fantasy tropes well-established in fantasy conventions. It is a genre with open-ended narratives.

However, WRPG's have, especially in the late-90's to early 2000's, have provided us with some of the most thoughtful, engaging, and unique stories in gaming and, I would argue in some cases, all of fiction.

Take Planescape: Torment, one of my favorites. This is a game that is at least give or take 70% dialogue and exploration, arguably more of an adventure game than an RPG. The character advancement is surprisingly simple, if very open-ended. This is a game that you can progress not at all underleveled without ever technically entering combat. The Planescape setting is incredibly interesting, with the game's central location of Sigil being quite twisted, with an immensely well-developed cast of characters both magical and macabre.

The story in this game is incredible and doesn't sacrifice anything by being non-linear. In fact, the non-linearity actually serves to reinforce the game's themes. The story is that you play a man who awakes in a mortuary grotesquely covered in scars and tattoos, with no memory of who you are or what your name is. Whenever you die you just wake up just as you were. You must search for your lost memories and your identity. What you find is fascinatingly haunting, as your past incarnations run the gamut and have had some powerful and almost unimaginable effects on the game's world and the people in it.

The characters that can join your party are all extremely detailed, developed, and original, with some truly heartbreaking moments between them and The Nameless One (your main character). The game's incredible writing (one advantage the WRPG has is it is written in my native tongue so there are rarely spotty translations unless it's German or something), haunting atmosphere, and great voice-acting serves to enhance the sheer power of mood this game possesses.

So, if you ever try one WRPG in your life, try Torment. It's a philosophical, metaphysical gaming experience. There is truly nothing like it, and is a game that, unfortunately, JRPG's have yet to include something quite like in their ranks.

[Iceglow]

hmmm here goes in no order:

Final Fantasy VIII
Vagrant Story
Front Mission 3
Breath of Fire 4
Mass Effect (series, hard to pick one game out of the 3 since they all rely on one another)

I know everyone will bitch about FFVIII (well maybe Locky will agree with me but thats about it) but since it was the RPG what first got me really in to RPG gaming I feel it deserves it's mention on there, plus without VIII I would never have first joined EoFF and met you fine rubes. Plus Triple Triad is amazing.

Honorable mentions:

Remaining FF games
Fallout series (including tactics and 3, though I'm yet to play NV)
Baldurs Gate 2
Never Winter Nights
Diablo 2
Dragon Age Origins
Deus Ex

There's probably some I've forgotten to mention.

[Bolivar]

I know everyone will bitch about FFVIII (well maybe Locky will agree with me but thats about it) but since it was the RPG what first got me really in to RPG gaming I feel it deserves it's mention on there, plus without VIII I would never have first joined EoFF and met you fine rubes. Plus Triple Triad is amazing.

F those haters sonn!

We needed you in Neo's thread earlier... :mad:

[maybee]

Hey I love FF VIII too ! :jess:

Not as much as FF IX or FF VI but it's up there.

[Iceglow]

The biggest issue I had with IX and the main reason VIII went in the list of the top 5 and not IX; is they took the idea from VIII of the card game which was awesome because let's face it Triple Triad was ultimately independent enough to be a card game in it's own right (they missed a marketing ploy by not making it a legit real life card game too imho with decks on sale in stores and so forth would've been something to rival Pokemon Cards even!) and then they fucked it up. Tetra Master was overly complicated, with the way it worked out the card strength the fact that the cards had randomized attack options (literally I once got an amazingly awesome early game, card in terms of numbers/power with 0 attack arrows :\ fucking douche of a game) and even how the rules played out. I had believed after a great deal of time reading up online and playing the game that I had a good grasp of it only for some random bullshit to crop up and destroy my supposed knowledge of the game. It turned a fun minigame in to something of a chore for me. I don't want a minigame to be so complicated it feels like a chore, I want it to be easy and fun to play. That's why VIII's Triple Triad is amazing; simplicity combined with the fact that nothing was definitive; dislike the random rule if you use some basic tactics it is no more. The only minigame I remember coming close to this (aside from those in VII because there's too many to get in to here) was Blitzball, it was a sports sim yes, but it was relatively simple and still had enough depth that you could lose an entire day just playing the minigame without ever feeling like you had to do anything but. That's why my best FFIX file had somewhere like 200 hours on it when my best FFVIII files got close to 500. My best X file is technically still ongoing ;)

[Zeiferxx]

1. Tales of Symphonia
2. Final Fantasy VIII
3. Final Fantasy X
4. Suikoden III
5. Radiata Stories

[Wolf Kanno]

This question always throws me off, largely because my list tends to fluctuate. I was going to just repost from the last Top Ten RPG list (http://home.eyesonff.com/general-gaming-discussion/145470-your-top-10-rpgs-though-you-all-still-top-10-rpgs-p.html) but giving it a once over, I kind of wanted to bump the two FF games back a bit. Maybe its because I've been playing Suikoden and MegaTen a lot lately so those games are on my mind more.

[ljkkjlcm9]

Jrpgs:
The World Ends With You
FFVI
Xenoblade Chronicles
Lost Odyssey
Tales of Symphonia

Otherwise Dark Souls is up there too.

THE JACKEL

[DanielCLFFF13]

For me : (I don't know if the games that I choose Including a RPG) :confused:

1. Upcoming Final Fantasy Versus 13
2. Final Fantasy 13 Type-0
3. God Of War 1,2 and 3.
4. Maybe Prototype 1 and 2
5. Infamous 1 and 2

Yap those are the games that I choose :)