Your Top-Five RPGs

[DJZen]

Zelda is considered an Action/RPG or Action Adventure game depending on who you talk to. The fact that there's no experience system or form of character development, stat-wise, is reason some won't consider it an RPG. I think the fact that it has HP and and MP (in the form of hearts and a magic meter, respectively) is reason enough to consider it an RPG.

The battles, instead of fought by means of a turn-based system, are in real time, putting it in the Action/RPG subgenre. Turn-based RPGs are generally thought of to be "traditional" RPGs.

I actually have something to add to that. In the Zelda series you have direct control over your character, while RPGs have a more command driven system. That's why Kingdom Hearts is more of an Action RPG than Zelda, because you actually use a menu to control your own actions. In Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, you select actions from a menu. In Diablo, you issue commands by clicking the mouse. Fallout gives you a sort of combination of the two. In Zelda, you just press A to slash. It's always been considered an adventure game. Zelda II had more RPG elements; while in the overworld you would encounter monsters and then enter a "fight", you got experience from fighting that led to level ups which could increase your attributes, and magic was actually used via a menu. However, dungeons were done in the style of a side-scroller, and jumping around and using various moves (upper thrust, downward thrust, etc.) were a big part of winning fights. You really couldn't call it an RPG in the purest sense of the word.

[Dreddz]

Top Five RPG are..........


1. Final Fantasy VII

2. Alundra

3. Final Fantasy VI

4. Grandia

5. Dark Cloud 2 ( even though I aint completed it)

[Jack]

1)Final Fantasy VIII
2)Wild ARMS
3)Alundra
4)FF Legend III
5)FF Tactics

[strawberryman]

Actually- RPG's are short for role playing games. Which probably means playing the role of a character in a set story. So, unless you were specifieng on the more FF turn-type RPG's, then Zelda technically is a role-playing game.

A typical answer.

[Black Mage FF1]

1. Final Fantasy 1
2. Final Fantasy 6
3. Chrono Trigger
4. Earthbound
5. Super Mario RPG

[edczxcvbnm]

Actually- RPG's are short for role playing games. Which probably means playing the role of a character in a set story. So, unless you were specifieng on the more FF turn-type RPG's, then Zelda technically is a role-playing game.

A typical answer.

By that logic ANY game is an RPG. Gran Turismo is an RPG because you role play a race car driver on the racing circuit. Super Mario World is an RPG because you control mario on his quest to save the princess.

So when you talk about games that means that RPG talk about FF type games. Not ALL games. So technically Zelda, Mario, Rez, Frequency, The adventures of Jerry the porno addicted monkey are ALL RPGS!

[Doc Sark]

Final Fantasy VII
Shadow Hearts
Final Fantasy VIII
Star Ocean 2
Chronotrigger

I should probably stress that these are in no particular order.

[Jebus]

Suikoden II
Suikoden I
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VI
Suikoden III

[Strider]

1. Final Fantasy VI

Actually, let's just stop there.

[udsuna]

By that logic ANY game is an RPG. Gran Turismo is an RPG because you role play a race car driver on the racing circuit. Super Mario World is an RPG because you control mario on his quest to save the princess.

So when you talk about games that means that RPG talk about FF type games. Not ALL games. So technically Zelda, Mario, Rez, Frequency, The adventures of Jerry the porno addicted monkey are ALL RPGS!

And by a seperate interpretation of that logic: none of those are RPGs because you have no true control over the character. They follow the scripts created and programmed in. A Final Fantasy style game is more like an animated, interactive story than a Role-Playing Game. Can't be role-playing if you don't get to play the Role how you wish.

That being said, my favorite "RPGs" are:

1. FF 7- because it made me cry.
2. Legend of Dragoon- because it actually surprised me
3. FF 8- because the Ragnorock was awesome
4. FF 6- I've played the ending repeatedly because killing kefka is a hobby of mine.
5. Chrono Trigger- and it's only last because the competition was THAT GOOD.

[Flamethrower]

1) Final Fantasy VII
2) Chrono Trigger
3) Earthbound
4) Final Fantasy IV
5) Final Fantasy VI

[edczxcvbnm]

And by a seperate interpretation of that logic: none of those are RPGs because you have no true control over the character. They follow the scripts created and programmed in. A Final Fantasy style game is more like an animated, interactive story than a Role-Playing Game. Can't be role-playing if you don't get to play the Role how you wish.

I didn't say I agreed with what RPGs are commonly referred to as but I still follow it for the sake of communication.

[Cless]

In no particular order:

Tales of Phantasia
Final Fantasy 6
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 10

Contenders: Crono Trigger, Disgaea, Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean:'Til the End of Time.

How boring am I!? Four of my top five RPGs are Final Flaming Fantasies! Oh well, I guess I can't help my fanboyish ways.

[Matthew]

I find it insulting to RPG's to put them in lists placing them above the rest. So I will resign my self to love and treat all RPG's equally.

[Destination0]

FFVIII
chrono cross
FFT
xenogears
suikoden