I'm about to go on a RPG binge and I need your help. I want to disect them.

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Recently I've been fortunite enough to get off my ass and purchase some RPG's I've never played and have always been meaing to off Ebay, at Zellers, EB, etc. These games range from FFA for the PS (FFV/FFVI), Grandia 2&3, I got FFIII DS for Christmas last year and finally picking it up to play, The Legend of Dragoon (only got part way through it years ago), the Shadow Hearts series and another one but I forget which. Come Feburary, I'll be off until September so i'll be up all night most likely playing these games.

I absolutely love RPG games like the most of us, of course. Some of you are so experianced and really know what you like and look for in an RPG because of how many some of you been through which I think is awesome. Next September, I'm going to Centennial College's Video Game Design program which focuses on narrative and storytelling, its only a 2 year diploma. I'm interested in not only story of video games, but of books, movies, people and my favourite TV show, The Young and the Restless. I'm pretty sure I want to go into game design and help create the next great RPG game. If not, become some sort of writer/script writer. I believe in order to know what a great RPG game is like, I think its best I play all sorts of RPG's, bad and good, and see what makes them hot and not, old gen and new gen.

What I'm looking for is to know what you enjoy in an RPG in detail and what should I look for and review in the games?

I figured I'd cover the basics:
-The character development and personal growth of the character that everyone comes to relate and love so much.
-The over all battle system with its individuality for the specific game and how the battle flows.
-The scenery(sp?) of the game which I believe strongly maximizes its beauty.
-The music which I think is the most important part of any game as it helps capture you inside the story and carries it along.
-Most important of all, the overall story. This branches off to a million different things wether it be suspense, twists and turns, etc.

I have a list of 45+ RPG games I still have to get and play going all the way back to the SNES. Not only replay the ones I have already.

In conclusion, I believe the reason I'm so set on being a writer or creating a story is because I love the fantasy of it. I love being able to take myself and put it in a fun false reality, or receive that old nastolgic feeling of my childhood playing these games. I'm positive we've all been through something like that with any type of Role-Playing games, be it in our childhood or not. If I can create an interactive story like The Legend of Zelda, A Final Fantasy, or a Dragon Quest, than that's the best satisfaction I could ever recieve.

I really would appreciate anything you can offer.

Thanks,
Cua
 
I won't go into detail yet, but if you haven't played Chrono Trigger, do it. It is my favorite game ever. I'll try to do a little write up for you. Also, if you have any questions about writing for media, feel free to ask as I graduated college with a degree in screen writing.
 
Oh I've played Chrono Trigger of course. I havn't played Chrono Cross though.
 
The two disgaea games on the PS2 are awesome. Decently hard to find though. A tactics style RPG.
 
Suikoden 1 and 2.
 
Play Chrono Cross go.

Xenogears.

Suikodens 1,2,3. SKip 4 for sure. Maybe 5, it wasn't as good but not bad.
 
Star Ocean 3 : Til the End of Time.

SE is also remaking SO and SO2 for psp, which means I need a new pair of pants.
 
Star Ocean is definitely good
try KOTOR and fable for xbox if you haven't played those yet
and fire emblem for GBA
that's a great tactical rpg
 
*coughs* Gothic series :D you can get 1-3 now for 30 bucks or so but Gothic 3 requires some patching and a pretty good comp. The only thing I'm not sure is the character you'd come to love because you don't even know his name or his past and you tend to decide what he says quite often so that kinda decides his personality somewhat :P But the fighting controls (at least for the first two games) are different to many other games and the scenery is definitely beautiful. Music is good but sorta like Oblivion as mostly background kinda thing.

If you haven't played Xenogears.. GET IT!!!!! It's a great RPG with a very nice complex story, great twists, awesome characters, good music, good battle system.

Let's see.. Planescape: Torment is just.. amazing. It is argued by some to be the most original and deepest game created (those are truly die hard fans I think :P) and even by others it's praised as a great game. I mean, it doesn't focus around fighting so much, in reality you could avoid fighting every fight except maybe 3. But it's a pretty deep game, good plot, and ya.. I think it's worth getting.

Hmmm.. and perhaps if you give a list of the RPGs you have I can make sure to mention ones you don't have :P
 
I havn't played Xenogears but I have been told to a million times. I'm guessing its on PS1, I'll look it up. I've played Xenosaga Episode 1 if that counts.
 
Excalibur said:
Make sure to play Phantasy Star 1-4. Also make sure to play Ultima 1-6, if your gonna start on an rpg crusade might as well start at the beginning.
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I would bear your children for the ultima reference.

Try UVIII as well, there's a program called Exult which helps emulate it on modern platforms.
 
Cua said:
I havn't played Xenogears but I have been told to a million times. I'm guessing its on PS1, I'll look it up. I've played Xenosaga Episode 1 if that counts.
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It does not count :P


Xenogears > Xenosaga series.
 
Tyrath said:
It does not count :P


Xenogears > Xenosaga series.
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IMO Zenosaga is the best one by far. The others in the series were lacking though. I thought Xenogears died in the 2nd CD.
 
Valkyire Profile 1 and 2. Valkyire Profile 1 has incredible replay value and VP2 has a pretty epic storyline, along with combining some platforming and a lot of strategy into your fights. The combat system takes a little to get used to, more so for VP2 since it's more involved, but it shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes and once you do get the hang of it it's incredibly well done.

Also, I'd recommend Persona 3 and secret of mana if you haven't played it.
 
Anglis said:
IMO Zenosaga is the best one by far. The others in the series were lacking though. I thought Xenogears died in the 2nd CD.
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Xenogears > all of Xenosaga. The problem was, true, the second disc the gameplay went WAY down cause you lost free roaming and whatnot but I blame Squaresoft.. they were pressuring them to finish :(
 
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I can easily say that I've never played any of the SNES RPG's other than Mario RPG and Chrono Trigger. Chrono Trigger wasn't even on Snes, it was on the PS1.

Phantasy Star, Star ocean, disaga (sp?), xenogears, and everything eles you guys have pretty much mentioned I havn't played yet but i'm dying to. I missed out alot during the PS2 due to just playing FFXI off and on. I seriously do need to catch up. I think i'm going to start off with Replaying the FF series...... 1-6 then 8-10 since I replayed 7 not to long ago.... sounds like alot perhaps, but I can do it I think.

Edit: Also, I want to know what you guys loved so much about those games. Did you find yourselve relating to a certain character in a certain way? Did you like the flow of the game and how it carried?
 
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Disgaea had some of the best anti-hero, heroes in all of the video game industry. Very well done between battles, and a fairly compelling story. It gives you some decent reasons to go back and play through multiple times though the dark court system and the ability to create the demon/angle classes.
 
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