Top Ten RPGS

[mattheweston]

Ok, list your top ten RPGs. This encompases all consoles as well as pc. I think we can leave out ES as it is everyone's obvious choice. =)

Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VI
Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Chrono Trigger
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Final Fantasy X
Super Mario RPG
Zelda 2: The Adventures of Link

[Falco Girgis]

Haha, I'm flattered!

Phantasy Star Online
Dragon Quest 8/7
Final Fantasy 12/7
Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Skies of Arcadia
Poke'mon
Grandia II
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross

And yes, I cheated.

[mattheweston]

I almost put FF 12, but I didn't get to finish it as my ps2 broke before I could finish it.

[eatcomics]

Anyone see there is a phantasy star for PSP? I saw it on the PS store

[hurstshifter]

Ugh...so difficult, but I like this topic. In no particular order...

Final Fantasy VII (Hard to pick just one here, almost every other iteration gets honorable mention)
Xenogears
Suikoden 2
Pokemon
Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest VIII
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Earthbound
Final Fantasy Tactics

[Arce]

Would you guys really consider Zelda an RPG? Wouldn't that be more "adventure" or something...?

Anyway..Lesse...In no order:

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Super Mario RPG: Legends of the 7 Stars
DarkCloud
Paper Mario
Defenders of Oasis
Megaman Battle Network
Phantasy Star Online
FF12
Poke'mon

[XianForce]

Would you guys really consider Zelda an RPG? Wouldn't that be more "adventure" or something...?

I sure would. I would consider it 'Adventure RPG' lol

[hurstshifter]

Would you guys really consider Zelda an RPG? Wouldn't that be more "adventure" or something...?

/agreed

RPG is such a broad category though. Don't you play the role of a character in pretty much EVERY game? I have always referred to zelda as an Adventure or Action-Adventure game and I'm sticking to it.

[Mr.Tealeaf]

hmm...I guess at the moment my top ten would be:

Final Fantasy I
Dragon Quest I
Legend of Mana
Mario RPG
The Legend of Dragoon
Chrono Cross
Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy II
Zelda Ocarina of Time

[faerrleah]

My top 10 is here :

1. Final Fantasy V
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Xenogears
4. Harvest Moon
5. Super Mario RPG
6. World of Warcraft
7. Phantasy Star IV
8. Chrono Cross
9. Saga Frontier
10. Dragon Warrior

[bitsweep]

Ooogh... Haven't visited the forums in a REAAALLLLY long time (have been finishing 1st draft work on my embedded programming book), but the new video release got me back in here. (Thanks to all the Elysian Shadows & Dual Threat folks for that... good stuff!)

Sooo, my top 10 RPG's? (Ye Gods but some of this is gonna make me look old...but I do have more than a few wee bits of grey peppering my beard now.)

1. The Bard's Tale. The original, on my long-missed Amiga 1000.
2. Ultima II, III, IV, V (never finished this one...)
3. Wizardry III (couldn't stand 1 or 2 or 4 for some reason)
4. D&D - Pool of Radiance
5. Rogue (played on UNIX workstations in the mid-late 1980's at college) Yes, the ASCII version.
6. Quest. (This was a Rogue-ish overhead view, ASCII-char based game. I was _SEVERELY_ addicted to this on the Apple ][e machines back in high-school. 1983?)
7. Diablo (Mostly a mouse-destroying click-fest, but I enjoyed it. The formula got a little old with D2. May try D3, dunno yet.)
8. Gothic 3. (First person hack-N-slash. Tried Gothic 2, but never finished it.)
9. Zelda 2
10. The Immortal. (Amiga game. First isometric perspective one that I got hopelessly addicted to. What was most memorable about this game for me was that the Amiga had RCA outputs for NTSC video. So I actually made a 45-minute playthrough video tape of this, with dramatic pauses to allow reading of the dialog balloons, and chose items slowly to show inventory, etc. It came out well, like a mini-movie. A pothead roommate I had at the time actually LOVED watching this tape while he was baked--claimed it had all kinds of "insights" and whatnot. He ended up absconding with the tape when we moved house.)

Anyway, there you have it. You can play most of these on emulators now, if you'd care to see what old-farts remember as "The Good Ole Days of Yore". (Except for Quest. I've gone looking for it multiple times, and haven't found a good .DSK image to run on the Apple][ emulators. Anyone find that one, and I'd appreciate a PM through this board.)

Enjoy.

-S

[ChrissyJ91]

Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to play many of the really awesome rpgs because series such as dragon quest seem to only just be making its way over here.
1.Chrono Trigger
2.Final Fantasy 9
3.Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
4.Wild Arms
5.Phantasy Star Online
6.Golden Sun
7.Golden Sun 2
8.Fallout
9.Deus Ex
10.Dragon Quest 4

[vasquezkelley]

Here is My Top Ten RPGS :

1. Fire Emblem
2. The Legend of Zelda
3. Fallout
4. Tales of Symphonia
5. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
6 Final Fantasy
7. Knights of the Old Republic II
8. Baldur’s Gate
9. Halo Reach
10. Planescape: Torment

[ibly31]

I started games late.

Pokemans
Runescape.
Those two are pretty much the only RPGs I've ever played. :D

[eatcomics]

I started games late.

Pokemans
Runescape.
Those two are pretty much the only RPGs I've ever played. :D

:O get you an snes emu and play some of the classics, we'll get you started on chrono trigger, just cause