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All of the RPGs you have ever played

a few more

Robotech
Some cowboy game that had poker hands, forgot its name
Changeling
 
Aderleth said:
We're doing tabletop now?



D&D (every edition prior to fourth)
d20 Modern/Future
GURPS
Car Wars (technically a wargame, I suppose)
Various Palladium games: Rifts, TMNT, Robotech, Ninjas and Superspies
The old West End Star Wars game
Star Wars d20
Middle Earth Roleplaying
Rolemaster
Call of Cthulhu
EarthDawn
Shadowrun
All of the White Wolf/World of Darkness games: Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, Wraith, Changeling
Mechwarrior/Battletech
As with my videogame RPG list, I'm fairly certain I'm forgetting some stuff.
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Oddly, I got interested in Battletech about 3-4 years ago, since a co-worker (later friend) used to play and (due to the boring nature of our job) brought a few miniatures and a small map in to pass the time. :)lol: I’m completely serious, we actually played a tabletop miniature wargame at work…:lamo)

Even got to the point of purchasing a few miniatures and visiting a nearby game store...but no one else was really interested, as Battletech (or at least the version we were trying to play) involved much dice rolling and discussion, over movement - as opposed to the more popular games in the genre, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, and the like.

This friend had a nice 3D map he had created out of foam…but I lost interest (the game store and this friend are about 30-40 miles away…) and we fell out of touch.


That’s the only tabletop game I really played all that much…


Edit: I've occasionally thought that a computerized verion of Battletech (to streamline the dicerolling and such that took up so much time) might be interesting.
 
The Mark said:
Edit: I've occasionally thought that a computerized verion of Battletech (to streamline the dicerolling and such that took up so much time) might be interesting.
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There have been several computer game versions of Battletech under the franchise name Mechwarrior (also the name of the tabletop RPG game for the Battletech universe). I think there were four or five of them. If they made a new one, I'd definitely buy it.

I know what you mean about Battletech, generally. It's very technical, and I actually think that playing with miniatures is probably the best way to go if you're really going to get into the game. I rarely did so myself, but I happened to grow up in a place (St. Paul, MN) that is absolutely filled with gamers and gaming stores, so I saw quite a lot of the sort of environment you're talking about.
 
Aderleth said:
There have been several computer game versions of Battletech under the franchise name Mechwarrior (also the name of the tabletop RPG game for the Battletech universe). I think there were four or five of them. If they made a new one, I'd definitely buy it.

I know what you mean about Battletech, generally. It's very technical, and I actually think that playing with miniatures is probably the best way to go if you're really going to get into the game. I rarely did so myself, but I happened to grow up in a place (St. Paul, MN) that is absolutely filled with gamers and gaming stores, so I saw quite a lot of the sort of environment you're talking about.
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I played one or two of the Mechwarrior games - but those were more FPS games than strategy games...

I'm thinking more a turn-based strategy game, with maps divided by hexes, AOE movement and range markers when you select a single mech (or other unit, various forms of Battletech had infantry, tanks, ships, etc…) and/or specific weapons on it...

Basically, the entire tabletop Battletech game computerized.
 
The Mark said:
I played one or two of the Mechwarrior games - but those were more FPS games than strategy games...

I'm thinking more a turn-based strategy game, with maps divided by hexes, AOE movement and range markers when you select a single mech (or other unit, various forms of Battletech had infantry, tanks, ships, etc…) and/or specific weapons on it...

Basically, the entire tabletop Battletech game computerized.
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That's an interesting idea. I don't know that there'd be much of a market for any given turn based strategy computer game at this point. Here's a thought: split the difference (between FPS and turned based strategy) and make it an RTS. Something more along the lines of the total war series than the starcraft series. Maybe play a character running a merc group. You could recruit mech pilots, acquire the best tech, etc, etc; all while planning for and executing squad-scale mech battles. It could work. Hell I'd play it for sure.
 
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Zelda: Ocarina of time
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Zelda: Wind Waker
Tales of Symphonia
Tales of Vesperia
Tales of Symphonia 2
Skyrim
Oblivion
Morrowind
Arc Rise Fantasia
All of the Gameboy Pokemon games
Lost Odyssey


I'll add more as I think of them. As you can see, I love Japanese RPGs. I'm tempted to buy a PS3 to play the Atelier series.
 
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Okay, I've never seen Zelda games classified as RPG's before this thread. They've mostly been labeled adventure, or action/adventure games.
 
Asheron's Call back in the beginning it was cutitng edge and fun.
Asheron's Call 2 but it sucked as a sequel
EverQuest aka: EverCrack
Horizon's
Dark Ages of Camelot

EverQuest 2 (by far my favorite but I gave it up 1 year ago)...still miss playing.

WoW - too cartoonish for me...hated waiting my turn to get into a world....I figure if I'm paying to play why should I have to wait to get into the server.
Rift - beta tested but never quite got interested enough to subscribe
 
Your Star said:
Okay, I've never seen Zelda games classified as RPG's before this thread. They've mostly been labeled adventure, or action/adventure games.
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Generally, in an eastern context, a role-playing game is a game that assigns you a character or a party in an imaginative setting and allows you to develop their powers. Focuses on the mechanical aspects of role-playing games, not so much on narrative freedom.

In a western context, a role-playing game is a game that allows you to form an identity for your character or party in an imaginative setting.

That being said, Zelda barely rates as an role-playing game in an eastern sense because Link isn't given much of a choice about the powers he can develop. He is required to develop them to advance in the linear story.
 
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Here's a list of RPGs I've won:
Chrono Trigger
Several Legend of Zelda Games
Final Fantasy 2 and 3 (American 2 and 3)
Earthbound
Dragon Warrior
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore

I think that's about it. I've never attempted a non-console rpg, and I've never owned any x box or playstation. I had a gamecube, would like a wii some day, or maybe a ds of some variety. But I sincerely doubt that I will ever play any game that I like more than Chrono Trigger.
 
Mustachio said:
I think that's about it. I've never attempted a non-console rpg, and I've never owned any x box or playstation. I had a gamecube, would like a wii some day, or maybe a ds of some variety. But I sincerely doubt that I will ever play any game that I like more than Chrono Trigger.
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That is mostly due to the fact that Chrono Trigger is the best RPG ever.
 
Going mostly off memory (which means I missed some), these are the video game RPG's I recall playing, some of them only for a short bit (not finished):

Fallout
Fallout Tactics (is that an RPG?)
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas

Morrowind
Oblivion
Skyrim

Fable
Risen

Gothic 3
Gothic 2 and 1?


I'm sure there are many more, but I don't remember them all off the top of my head.
 
Morality Games said:
Generally, in an eastern context, a role-playing game is a game that assigns you a character or a party in an imaginative setting and allows you to develop their powers. Focuses on the mechanical aspects of role-playing games, not so much on narrative freedom.

In a western context, a role-playing game is a game that allows you to form an identity for your character or party in an imaginative setting.

That being said, Zelda barely rates as an role-playing game in an eastern sense because Link isn't given much of a choice about the powers he can develop. He is required to develop them to advance in the linear story.
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Yeah, I wouldn't consider Zelda an RPG, I'd consider them adventure games, like Metroid.
 
Everybody keeps mentioning Chrono Trigger, I've never even heard of it.... fill me in? What's so great?
 
Goshin said:
Everybody keeps mentioning Chrono Trigger, I've never even heard of it.... fill me in? What's so great?
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Chrono Trigger is great, to play is to know

Based on the enormity of Chrono Trigger's development pedigree, it's a wonder the game even came close to matching RPG fans' wild expectations. The project was helmed jointly by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yuji Horii, respectively the creators and overseers of the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series (and if you don't know what those are, well, just quit reading now). Those two names alone assured every RPG fan in the know would look forward to Chrono Trigger with a quickened pulse.

But that wasn't nearly the end of the game's development "dream team," as it came to be called. Dragon Ball creator and longtime Dragon Quest character designer Akira Toriyama threw his artistic expertise into the ring, and famed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu contributed to the game's splendid score. Even the lesser known members of the team went on to make names for themselves, such as writer Masato Kato and revered composer Yasunori Mitsuda, both of whom helped create Xenogears and its spiritual successor, the Xenosaga series.

Chrono Trigger's epic adventure put you in the middle of a valiant effort to save the world. Sounds like old hat for an RPG, right? But the game's sublimely rendered storyline spanned not just continents but epochs, as you visited and revisited the same locations in time periods hundreds, thousands, even millions of years apart. Events were woven into the storyline such that your actions in one time period had a direct and gratifying effect on circumstances in a later period. And the storyline had a natural flow. You didn't start out with power over time itself at your command; in fact, you didn't even start out planning to save the world. Rather, you were yanked into the game's larger-than-life events just by being an innocent bystander, and every time you discovered a new ability or were thrust into a new era, it was by the seat of your pants. You got the feeling you and your cohorts were being dragged along by the storyline's crazy goings on, but in true RPG fashion, you got the chance to rise to the occasion and prove your valor anyway.
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The Greatest Games of All Time: Chrono Trigger - GameSpot.com
 
Gawk, I'll never remember them all...

On-line games, Everquest 1, Wow, Guild Wars 1 (but I'm done with them now, they take over your life).


Baldurs Gate 1 and 2
Icewind Dale 1 and 2
Planescape: Torment
Fallout 1, 2 and 3
Anachronix
Arcanum
KOTOR 1 and 2
Final Fantasy 7 & 8
Gothic 1, 2 & 3
The Witcher
Morrowind
Oblivion
(Skyrim... have it, haven't played it)
Dragon Age 1 & 2
Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3
Jade Empire
Wizardry 8
Might & Magic, can't remember which ones
Dungeon Siege 1 & 2
Deus Ex 1 & 2

That's what I can think of right now...
 
Goshin said:
Everybody keeps mentioning Chrono Trigger, I've never even heard of it.... fill me in? What's so great?
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Chrono Trigger is awesome mainly for three reasons: the plot, the battle logistics, and the music. The game is kind of like one part final fantasy (3 specifically) mixed with A Link to the Past. Instead of randomly being "attacked by a Slime!" it's like in the different Zelda games where the enemies just walk around and you can fight them or sometimes just run past them, but unlike Legend of Zelda the screen becomes fixed on whatever area you encountered the enemy in. The plot is awesome, it starts off like a fairly common Bill and Ted style plot, but as the game goes along you learn about the events that led to the destruction of civilization. And you accumulate characters with unique abilities and each one has their own story. And you save the world, of course.

Also, there are optional side quests, charms you can strategically equip, and the music is quite possibly the best evar in any game. Legend has it that the composer of the music was so fixated on the job, he became gravely ill and collapsed for months after completion. That Fleet Foxes band sounds like the music in this game, if you are familiar with them.


On a different note, there was this super awesome SNES game that I think was called Robotrek. And rpg where you build robots. It's an awesome game and if you have the means to try it, I highly suggest you do so.
 
Goshin said:
Everybody keeps mentioning Chrono Trigger, I've never even heard of it.... fill me in? What's so great?
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its was a game made by square soft,and enix long before they merged,they also made a sequal which few have played for the playstation one chrono cross.

crono1.jpgchrono_cross_03.jpg
 
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