To avoid dragging another thread too far off topic, I’ll just open this one. I know @MikeMoose has played Chrono Trigger and enjoyed it. Any other RPG fans in here? I just beat the first Phantasy Star last Monday, probably going to fire up a game of Phantasy Star II sometime soon. I’ve also got a 25% finished save of Shin Megami Tensei to move on in. It might be an ugly game to look at, but it can be pretty interesting, and is supposed to have quite the storyline to it. It spawned a whole series of games (Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series, amongst others) that have been of interest to me for a while, so I’d like to beat it and have the full back story first before I continue on to the others. For the most part I stick to gamesthat were published on the original Play Station or earlier, as there haven’t been many since that have managed to suck me in like some of thos old ones do. At any rate, not enough to justify buying a new console. While Mike likes Chrono Trigger, I think my favourite RPG has to be Grandia. It managed to have a solid 40-60 hours worth of gameplay, while avoiding making you do a ton of grinding to drag out the time some more. Again, probably not much to look at, but it’s real fun to play, and more than makes up for it. So, anyone else on here, or is it just Mike and I that like the RPGs?
I loved FFVII and FFIX (US), Legend of Mana, Okage Shadow King, Chrono Trigger, and some others when I was younger. I just have a hard time getting into the grind these days. Perhaps my tastes are just changing with age.
I love Grandia and still play it on occasion. Not many RPGs have the playability of it (A shame really).
I much prefer having a table with maps, character sheets and dice though (I’m a grade A, old school dork)
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lost odessy is awesome if you like old school.
AWW YEAH RPG’s! Ahah woot! I am a big fan. I use to play Chrono Trigger a LOT . Beat it too many times, but it is totally awesome, and totally re-playable. I got into a game called Dransik awhile ago (aka Ashen Empires) . Not bad either.
Big fan of The Elder Scroll series. Morrowind was awesome, so was Oblivion… Yet to try Skyrim!
Unfortunately, I haven’t played ANY Final Fantasy games… And I should! Because being the RPG fan that I am, I should really try one of them out 
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Honestly, Super Mario RPG was actually pretty cool .
FABLE was an EXCELLENT RPG, as well as Fable II and Fable III
And now, for a really interesting Note…
I am working on making an RPG. :D . Been working on it for a LONG time… Mostly because It’s just ME working on it, and also because I don’t have all the time and/or money in the world to be working on it 24/7 LOL .
My RPG is actually based on Fable. If anyone remembers Jack of Blades from Fable I … ? He is basically the main “Bad Guy”. But in my RPG, he is the main character! :-P .
I probably sound like a TOTAL Nerd, but Jack of Blades has been, and probably always will be, my most favorite Villain. So I decided that since I liked him so much, I would create an RPG that revolved around him. Honestly the graphics are shit… It’s like a Nintendo or Super Nintendo style graphics, or Gameboy LOL .
But let me know what you think of this little post of mine, and maybe I’ll make my Demo downloadable from somewhere … :) :D
Sounds good to me, MikeMoose. I’m not a big RPG player, but I’m always interested in having a look at other peoples projects.
Puzzle games are a LOT of fun for sure.
@Spam : I’ll need to whip in a Demo CutOff though so don’t expect it to be up tonight, I’ll try my best though
Another Elder Scrolls series fan here. I just got Skyrim, but I haven’t started playing it yet. After having logged hundreds of hours in Oblivion, yet never finishing the main quest, I reckoned I ought to do that first.
The PC version of Fable was full of annoying bugs, but it was fun nevertheless. Has Microsoft even bothered to port the sequels to PC?
I used to play pen-and-paper RPGs years ago, running a few campaigns/chronicles in AD&D, and in White Wolf’s (original) Vampire: The Masquerade.
@Pennanngalan: I’m sure with a bit of googling for bestiary data and equipment lists, you could always knock up your own private pen and paper game of Grandia if you wanted to do your own quests like that. That actually sounds like it could be some fun if you got creative with the quests you came up with.
Also, an action-RPG that’s supposed to be quite good, I’ve started another attempt at Landstalker. As I recall, I enjoyed it, but always got stuck at some puzzle or another each time.
Hated the fable series still need to play 3 but found 2 really annoying. Too easy and too lacking in depths. Too many features that just don’t have enough flesh. Which means I could almost really really dig it. My first CRpg was phantasy star which blew my mind. Yes Call Of Cthulu is awesome and they made a video game based off of it which although it played like a third person shotter it was really a detective story game and was amazingly awesome. In one of my friends Call of Cthulu games someone based their character off of me and was the only player to survive (in part because of the opium, don’t ask too many questions there), Though Skyrim is awesome Skyrim is the reason I’ve barely been on here and wish real life would go away for a little bit. Also if you like RPGs play the latest bioware stuff because Mass Effect and Dragon Age are amazing series.
I’m a huge RPG fan. Have played and loved all mentioned in this thread Currently elder scrolls is my favorite series. I haven’t started skyrim yet because I honestly Believe my wife will leave me once I get sucked in. Lol but not joking
I’m not even allowed to think about it.
I thought this thread was about Rocket Propelled Grenades!
easy mistake to make. in fact the military makes the opposite mistake more often then you’d like to think. yeah they should bring the grenades instead they launch some D&D at the enemy.
Chrono Cross is my all time favorite RPG, followed closely by Chrono Trigger and Legend of Heroes: Tear of Vermillion.
There have been many others over the years as well…
@AllanH : Oh Allan, how we love thee :-P
RPG’s…probably my favorite genre. Played the original chrono trigger on my ol’ SNES, real classic, and also the DS. DS has housed many good RPG’s, the most recent I’ve played on DS was the latest Dragon Quest. I’ve also played the Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor @ shikitohno . Played Grandia on Dreamcast, loved it. I’ve played almost all final fantasy games, they are fun for traditional JRPG.
As for new school, I’m also a huge fan of Besthesda’s RPGs (the Elder Scrolls Series - Fallout 3 - New Vegas), I got into Morrowind on the original xbox, then Oblivion on PC, now I’m also playing Skyrim (on PC) and I’m thoroughly enjoying it but it is a bit glitchy. I wish the map was a little more diverse (like Morrowinds) but its still good. If you like these games, then check out Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Very Similar, but futuristic-type post apocolyptic setting, great games.
When taking a break from Skyrim, I’m playing Zelda - Skyward Sword on my wii. Just picked up an hd 3dtv - it can convert 2d to 3d and it makes Zelda look really good. The sword combat is great!
If you played the Dreamcast release, you got Grandia II, which while not a bad game, is far less fun than the original was for me. The original game was a Sega Saturn game at first, but it never got a Saturn release outside Japan. There’s a part of me that’d really like to see one, just for the novelty of playing it in English “as-intended” with a Saturn controller and what not. I’m still holding out a vague hope of seeing some sort of translation for Parallel Trippers, but it’s pretty unlikely at this point.
@jbruckus: From an article I read a few days ago, it sounds like your wish for more varied scenery will be fulfilled, eventually. It seems an enterprising modder has discovered that the geography for the entire continent of Tamriel (and, I assume, the outlying islands as well) is already coded into Skyrim. Can you say, “expansions galore”? There, I knew you could.
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skyrims a great game got it the day it came out on the ps3 over 79 hours so far and the dragons are still kicking my ass at level 36 , its a good thing you can cook your own food in this game as i need reminders to eat at some time its that good…
pot of tea some good snuffs and skyrim = happy time for me