speaks for itself. personally, i like some of them, but i cant stand ones that throw tonnes of numbers and stats at me, and sometimes i just feel like a good ol' hack and slash game. any comments?
* and yes i am aware of the general poll
'oh yeah? he's thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?'
not a huge fan - i hate ones with the same story line ( i.e boy has to save world/girl from evil ) - also i find the attack system very slow and tedious with 2 evenly matched players. I liked elder scrolls series tho as the world was so ingrocing and u could intereact with everything - also they have original story lines unline breath of fire and all that banter
Yes, RPG's do rule and are my favourite genre of game and book. How can you not like FFVII and FFVIII? The others are a bit too 'futuristic' for my liking, but still rule, especially the GRAPHICS IN FFX!
Oh and not forgetting the SNES RPG's which is where I developed my love for the whole concept of the RPG: Secret Of Mana, Zelda, Mystic Quest, Illusion Of Gaia plus many, MANY more.
Amen.
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Registered 23/09/2002
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2nd September, 2003 at 10:47:45 -
i hate most RPGs. well, i say most, i mean any that are similar to final fantasy. i watched my brother whittle away hours of his life "levelling up" on final fantasy x, and it was the most depressing thing i'd ever seen. i had a go but i didn't make it past some boss because i just couldn't be arsed to spend ages and ages doing the same dumb thing again and again.
i much prefer FPSs. shoot them, they die, you win. easy and fun; with no HPs and MPs and stats to remember.
But stats are fun...unless there are too many. My RPG has 4 stats in it. Nice and simple, and it's easy to remember how they work too.
I don't like "complex" RPG's, but I do enjoy ones with good storylines. Oh and Pete, in my RPG levelling will be very easy until later on. There will also be many options on how you get your exp(quests, monsters, trade skills, etc.)
Edit: Combat will be designed so that it goes faster. Select a battle option, when your bar fills up you automatically attack.(So you don't have to waste time picking every time.)
I prefer simple RPGs - ones with loads of stats are too much for me, it just gets annoying trying to figure out what combination I need to defeat Galgazaar the Green Gnome of Grulpth.
im guessing most RPG really do need the stats we all seem to hate, but it doesnt mean we have to see them, keep them HIDDEN!
also like i sed im not the greatest fan, and im sick of ppl who think that makes me a dumbass cus i enjoy blowing things up!
'oh yeah? he's thrown a kettle over a pub, what have you done?'
I'm surprised nobody mentionned the Fallout series. It's an excellent futuristic RPG which relies more on the pen-and-paper route. It has turn-based combat just like the FF games, but it works in a different way in this game. You get a certain number of action points each turn and must use them in order to move, attck, use items and such. You get to use guns in that game, and there's nothing more fun than dismembering a gang member with a SMG. Lovely sight indeed. >
Anachronox also is a great RPG, although it's not as well known as many RPGs. It's a FF-like game that might follow the untirable "a gang of people get together to save the world" plot but it's one of the few games which pull it off well. The characters are likeable and have a strong personality and the game has a great sense of humor. There's some parts of the game which almost made me piss myself.
I'm not much of an RPG fanatic, but there are a few that I absolutely love. Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Shadowrun, and Phantasy Star Online are a few of my favorites.
I like RPGs. Adventure RPGs. Etc. I havn't played FF series because of some certainties. Although I like the zelda, mario, and bomberman titles. The best part i like about an rpg: the huge involvement. You have huge worlds, quests, sub-quests, character plots, etc. Stats, what are stats? Oh yeah, those things that make these games work.
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I'm a fairly huge fan of rpgs and i just want to say that chrono trigger is a great rpg, even though its a snes game its games like it that started the way games today are and its a classic and in my opinion one of the best rpgs of all time.
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Registered 29/07/2002
Points 5686
7th October, 2003 at 03:19:33 -
I prefer games with RPG traits over RPGs, eg: An action game but you have exp and stats. Or Action/Rpgs.
I don't like the Eye of the Beholder-type RPGs (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons), because I can't get my head round them. An exception is "Albion", which was sort of the Final Fantasy of its day.
People with fast connections might want to take a look at http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=35 (but then again you might not.) Er... it's got breasts in it. If that doesn't sell it to you I don't know what will.
I hate any RPG with
1. Tons of very easy monsters that pop up randomly. It makes battle seem completely worthless.
2. Tons of very difficult monsters that pop up randomly, making it almost impossible to go through a level that you're supposed to go through.
3. The ones that keep trying to kill you.
4. RPG's where you have to keep track of food. Not too bad if food can be bought in the store by every road (eg, Betrayal at Krondor), but I hate if when food takes up most of your inventory just so you can survive in the deeper caves (eg. playing an invisible Troll in ADOM, before you find those fried bats).
Any RPG without the above stuff should be OK with me. RPGs would be so much better if they weren't so repetitive. I also love the complex RPGs with tons of stats (assuming that you don't need ALL of them). I also enjoy the ones with puzzles where you actually have to use one your skills to accomplish them (whether in-game skills or real-life skills), instead of just killing some monster or retrieving an item.
My favorite RPGs, in order include: Baldur's Gate 2, Fallout 2, Betrayal at Krondor, ADOM, and not much else. I'd put Titans of Steel: Warring Suns and Fallout Tactics in the list if you also count them as RPGs.
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