Best RPG ever.

I liked KOTOR alot, but I wouldn't say it is a true RPG.
It doesn't allow you the freedom to chose your own adventure.

In a way you do. You choose your own fate; light or dark?

Would you consider the final fantasy series to be an RPG then? You don't really get to alter the storyline--the only decisions you get to make are trivial ones like, "say yes or no", and even then, the end result is the same. The only altercations in the storyline are silly things like "Turn Right" or "Turn Left", not letting you choose some of the more weighty decisions like who your alliances are with and such.

Not to say FF is a bad series, it's just not as much of an RPG as some other games.

I'm surprised not many people have mentioned Fallout. They are known as some of the best pure RPG gaming you can experience.

Does Zelda😮carina of time count as an RPG??

I guess FF isn't an RPG just a set drama....
And i haven't played fallout but i do remember what i heard of it being like buldur's gate play... which is definetly RPG

Lunar 2 or Legend of Mana..LoM is terribly complex/deep in its story..and L2 is just such a joy to play!pitty L2 costs so much,i lost my copy and im heartbroken

I agree Lunar 2 is a great RPG, the first Lunar as well is great. I think Dark Cloud is a good RPG

KOTOR

the lunars are great rpgs, i totally forgot about them.

the best rpg in my opinion though, is star ocean 2: the second story. i love that game, i could still play it all the way through after like 7 years.

Originally posted by Raventheonly
I guess FF isn't an RPG just a set drama....
And i haven't played fallout but i do remember what i heard of it being like buldur's gate play... which is definetly RPG

Ummm...yes Final Fantasy games are RPGs.

is it comprehensible.....

FF and KOTOR are still RPs. With video game RPs, the outcome is always going to be set.

Originally posted by RaventheOnly
I guess FF isn't an RPG just a set drama....
And i haven't played fallout but i do remember what i heard of it being like buldur's gate play... which is definetly RPG

ff is more of a rpg than baldurs gate, if your talking about the ones for the console.

Heres a gem-stone

Legend of Dragoon... this is what hooked me on RPGs in the first place along with FF series.

Right now im playing Dragon Quest 8.. awesome game.

Dragoon's good, though I never played much of it, I borrowed it from my friend once.

My personal favorites are Dragon Warrior, Legend of Zelda, and Final Fantasy.

Final Fantasy 6 hands down for me.

Baldur's Gate Series... easily.

I liked the story of the first one a slight bit more, but the character development of the second...

Both are above a 9.7 out of ten IMO... and since the developers of Fallout are the developers of Baldur's Gate 😗

Morrowind for complete non linear RPG.

Kotor for linear RPG.

But I think Oblivion is gonna smoke everything. March cannot come quick enough...

If we're lucky, they won't delay Oblivion again. That was my whole purpose for getting a 360, and they took it away from me.

Anyway, the best RPG is hands down Morrowind GOTY followed closely by KOTOR, and then Jade Empire.

Koudelka (sp?)
Shadow Hearts 2.

I know a lot of people love the Final Fantasy and Breath of Fire games, but I just can't get into them; the have terrible dungeon-to-plot ratios, where you can't even go from one town to another without going through two dungeons and completing a side-quest unrelated to the rest of the game. Well, maybe I'm exagerating slightly, but it's a real problem. Not to mention tedious hours spent leveling up ... ugh. By contrast, I never had to waste time leveling up in SH2, and I can't think of a single dungeon (except for the optional side-quests), that didn't somehow advance the story. And the combat system is brilliant; if you're going to make me fight random encounters, you'd damn well better make combat fun--but RPGs (I'm looking intently at you, Final Fantasy) almost never do.

(As for Koudelka, I love RPGs, and I love survival horror, so it was probably a given that I'd love Koudelka).