WHAT IS THE BEST RPG GAME FOR ME TO PLAY CHEERS

[kittens]

i want to play a really good rpg. what's a really good rpg for me to play

my specifications

loads of different character classes and that
loads of like skills that you put points into
levelling up
getting neat stuff
great world
great story
maybe like loads of different races to choose from i dunno

cheers, x

[newbridge]

Baldur's Gate

[The Boston Crab]

Top Trump

[Old Nehamkin]

Dark Souls of course.

[Urinal Cake]

For JRPGs: I'd say Persona 4
For SRPGs: I'd say Final Fantasy Tactics or whatever it was or is now called, Disgea

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Morrowind. Mod it so it looks shit hot, then play the shit out of it.

[Johnny Textface]

FFVII if you haven't already.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

MONSTER ENERGEY DRINK

[studs]

Doctor Mario

[Moribunderast]

I ain't played many but Fallout: New Vegas is my favourite of the RPGs I've played. Great world, good story, some fun characters and, most importantly, it immersed me and made me feel like the character, as your decisions lock you into certain paths and close off other avenues. I prefer that to, say, Skyrim, where you can do whatever the fuck you want to (become the leader of all Magicians and also the leader of all Thieves!) which means you just kinda walk around doing everything on offer in an OCD fashion as opposed to immersing yourself in the decisions and actions of your character.

[Bored of Canada]

The new Dragon Age is supposed to be good.
I hear you can fuck people.

Well...Elves and Boglins and stuff.

[HappyTree]

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

[Junglist]

The new Dragon Age is supposed to be good.
I hear you can fuck people.

Well...Elves and Boglins and stuff.

Its very very good. I normally hate RPGs but I've been loving it.

[Bhazor]

Divine Divinity: Original Sin is a fantastic game let down by a handful of really bad interface choices and schizophrenic difficulty. Still has the most interesting combat in any RPG I've played, everything is driven by elemental reactions and there are some great emergent moments. For example you can cut an orc so he bleeds on the floor, then freeze the blood to make a goblin fall over. Or you can use a poison arrow and then toss a torch into the room to ignite the poisonous gas. Naturally with so many variables combat is often totally unbalanced with knockdown arrows in particular being goddamn broken in the early game. But it is still a lot of fun. It can also be played in Co-Op.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/pnp95y/divinity--original-sin-features-trailer

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Honestly that game feels really bland today. The sequel by Obsidian is still great though, there's a good case to be made that its the true successor to Planescape Torment.

[HappyTree]

Could be. I loved them both. The robot character is the best NPC in any game ever and all that messing about with lightsaber gems is fiddly fun.

[Mister Six]

Grah. I wrote this post out once before and Tapatalk ate it.

Firstly, people will say Baldur's Gate. People have already said Baldur's Gate. People will always say Baldur's Gate.

But not Baldur's Gate. It's very broad but also very shallow and limited in complexity. It also hews quite closely to D&D rules that can seem opaque on occasion, and the gameplay mechanisms are rusty as hell at this point. I gather the sequels and follow-ups (BG II, Neverwinter Nights) are an improvement. Haven't played them, but snapped up the lot for cheap in the recent Good Old Games sale so I will eventually.

If you're looking for great worldbuilding, customisation and skills (and don't mind 3D graphics that look a bit clunky these days), then look to Dragon Age: Origins. It has three main classes - Mage, Warrior, Rogue which can be broken down into separate skill trees (Warrior: one-handed and sword-and-shield; rogue: dual-wielding and archer;[nb]Though the archer is shite and underpowered.[/nb] mage: bloody loads of schools of magic).

Each class also has specialisations that can be unlocked by talking to, or performing certain acts for, NPCs. So you can learn swordplay from a pirate, or shapeshifting from one of your companions.

To make things furtherly varied, there are six 'origins' that can be chosen - kind of like races, but with additional social information. There's the human noble (actually the dullest), the mage, the dwarven commoner, the dwarven noble, the ghetto elf and the reservation elf. Each of these has their own subplots and side quests, and dialogue options. So on my dwarven noble playthrough I had the option to be a decent kingly sort or an arrogant, racist prick (I chose the latter, obv) while my ghetto elf playthrough let me play the race card in the truest sense.

The overall plot is well paced and structured (though it clearly owes a debt to Game of Thrones), the characters are all memorable and well-written, and there are loads of different diversions and alternative routes that the story can take. It's the last properly brilliant RPG to have been released, I think.[nb]bHaven't played the latest, DA: Inquisition, yet though...[/nb]

The expansion pack, Dragon Age: Awakenings, is also brilliant - a game in of itself, but also a nice coda to the events of DA:O. Deffo get that, the Stone Prisoner DLC (adds a really funny and charming companion to the crew), the Return to Ostagar DLC (lots of nice characterisation and some good loot) and, if you're feeling spend-happy, the Warden's Keep DLC. Skip the rest. Awakenings is a must, though.

Dragon Age II is nowhere near as good as Origins, and was clearly rushed, but it's cheap these days and worth a playthrough, with the Legacy DLC, before you tackle the latest game, Dragon Age: Inquisition, as your choices in those games affect the content of Inquisition (which is neat).

My favourite RPG ever, though, is the immense Fallout 2. Jaw droppingly vast, but also packed with depth, you can play it through ten times and still find new stuff. It's incredibly flexible - most missions can be completed in multiple ways - and full of great characters, memorable moments and side quests.

It does start with the worst tutorial ever, a tedious temple filled with traps, but if you want to play as a villain, you can

Spoiler alert

just kill the guy who tells you to do the trial and then flee your village.

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There are no classes or races, but there's a plethora of attributes and skills that allow you to shape your character according to your preferred tactics, and you also get perks that add extra abilities and talents.

And it's quite good at reflecting your stats in dialogue, so a high intelligence character will get more options with one character, say, but only a player with a high repair stat will be able to talk about something technical, and only a player with a high strength attribute can intimidate a particular character.

My favourite fact is that if you give yourself an absurdly low intelligence then you can barely communicate with most of the people you meet, except for the occasional village idiot, with whom you can have long, elegant and complex discussions.

It's ace.

[Mister Six]

(Fallout 1 is pretty good too, but comparing it to Fallout 2 is like comparing a nice garden pond to the Pacific Ocean.)

[Big Jack McBastard]

Fallout 3 and NV if you've not already. Great worlds, so much to find and do.

Skyrim obviously but really, if we're being honest, Morrowind + Expansions, yeah it's old and looks ropey now but it's just so dense you can waste months in it.

Yes Dragon Age Origins is worthy as well, I tried the mage class first and was utterly swept into it before I'd managed to set foot outside the first building.

Games that make you wonder about how smart the NPCs are or how they're going to react are wonderful, those moments in a first run where you're not quite sure are the best.

Both the KOTORS back to back, they've both got their charms.

Dark Souls will sap your will and crush your dreams and either embolden you to suffer through the punishment again and again until you succeed or much more likely until you just can't take it anymore and you bin it off and watch a youtube video of a speedrun or cheat like fuck. There's no story to be had there anyway just disjointed esoteric rambling from a load of lying, barmy NPCs that you're supposed to read a narrative into, there's some grand and godawful places to navigate (over and over) but by the finish its so deeply depressingly difficult and ultimately meaningless (especially if you chose the 'maintain the status quo' ending) that even when you scam your way through you feel the whole thing is an awful spirit-crushing exercise, it's less RPG more mad Japanese blokes digitally screaming FUCK YOU at everyone who tries to play it.

[Big Jack McBastard]

There are so few truly worthy of note that the big 10 or so are all that gets mentioned and we end up sounding like IGN shills.

[mook]

mount and blade (warband) - it's nothing special to look at, although i think you can mod it up a bit, but after just a couple of hours playing i reckon it's going to hook me in... i just need to devote a few straight hours to it without my "hummingbird" brain getting distracted by leaves blowing about in the garden or summat.

it's only 3-4 quid on steam so worth a punt...



edit... it's 15 quid now - i must've bought it in the sale.

[thraxx]

Gauntlet.

http://game-oldies.com/play-online/gauntlet-coin-op-arcade

[Mister Six]

Fallout 3 and NV if you've not already. Great worlds, so much to find and do.

Especially NV, which had - for my money - the much more immersive, well-crafted world. And so fucking much to do! Fallout 3 seemed paltry by comparison.

[madhair60]

BALDUR'S GATE.  BALDUR'S PISSING GATE.  NOW FUCK OFF

[kittens]

thanks everyone. downloading divine divinity and dragon age origins as we speak.

this also reminded me i am in the middle of a game of fallout 2 already but i haven't touched it in ages, what with uni work. but i've now got a month of no work, which is why i wanted a new game in the first place. so i can always go back to that.

thanks again lads, can't wait to go crazy at some elves

[Hangthebuggers]

mount and blade (warband) - it's nothing special to look at, although i think you can mod it up a bit, but after just a couple of hours playing i reckon it's going to hook me in... i just need to devote a few straight hours to it without my "hummingbird" brain getting distracted by leaves blowing about in the garden or summat.

it's only 3-4 quid on steam so worth a punt...

Seconded. Average graphics, great battles, can get fairly engrossing with its sandbox style gameplay. Plus there's nothing more satisfying than knocking some twat off his horse and nicking it.

[mook]

Seconded. Average graphics, great battles, can get fairly engrossing with its sandbox style gameplay. Plus there's nothing more satisfying than knocking some twat off his horse and nicking it.

i'm really new to it, so i'm just having a bit of a wander about at the moment. i've tinkered with the controls so "twatting" some fucker with my axe whilst riding my little pony feels a bit more natural now, it seemed opposite and wrong the way the game was set up. i like the archery aspect of the game, feels like there a bit of skill involved. i can see this game getting to be a bit of a time sink over the winter months.

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anyone know if it's possible to gift a game that's sort of been played on steam. i've got a copy of fallout: new vegas that i can't get to work on my machine for love nor tons of swearing, even after following all the advice in the various threads on the NV forum at steam.

[Mister Six]

thanks again lads, can't wait to go crazy at some elves

If you mean DA:O then be the elf! Specifically the Alienage (ghetto) Elf. That, Dwarven Noble and Mage are the most interesting origin stories.

Or do your own thing. It's cool.

EDIT: But deffo get the DLC I mentioned if you can. Really adds to the game.

[Jerzy Bondov]

May I suggest Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force? Good day sir.

[Gurke and Hare]

Nethack.

[chand]

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