Best western RPG of the 00's?
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Probably Mass Effect 2,
It's the closest game I can think of that comes close to approximating the Table Top Gaming Experience in that it's one of the few games in which you can actually roleplay a character. Sure you're always playing Commander Shepard, Alliance Navy and Spectre in a mission to defeat The Reapers but Commander Shepard is YOUR character, YOUR badass space marine, you choose his/her words, actions and make the decisions you want that character to make... not only that these choices have impact in the story and things change in response to them.
If that's not proper "roleplaying" I'm not sure what is, it's a far deeper and truer experience than simply picking your class and deciding "No I'm good, I don't need a reward" and "I'm evil, gimme your money"
It's the closest game I can think of that comes close to approximating the Table Top Gaming Experience in that it's one of the few games in which you can actually roleplay a character. Sure you're always playing Commander Shepard, Alliance Navy and Spectre in a mission to defeat The Reapers but Commander Shepard is YOUR character, YOUR badass space marine, you choose his/her words, actions and make the decisions you want that character to make... not only that these choices have impact in the story and things change in response to them.
If that's not proper "roleplaying" I'm not sure what is, it's a far deeper and truer experience than simply picking your class and deciding "No I'm good, I don't need a reward" and "I'm evil, gimme your money"
I know what a Western RPG is. However, I cannot think of a single good one not made by Bethesda (as I have yet to like a BioWare product). Borderlands is the best I can think of off the top of my head (excluding Bethesda).TrevorGruen said:
well considering i have literally, and i mean literally, beaten kotor 1 in the 50-60+ range times..
knights of the old republic.
i literally never get tired of this game, i can play it vanilla or stacked on stacked with the hundreds of mods for it.
same goes for the sequel, if the sequel didn't have literally game breaking bugs, and wasn't rushed by lucasarts, it would easily beat out the first one.
those two games, probably rack up more than 600 hours worth of gametime, because when i play them i literally do everything and anything, especially with mods installed. (brotherhood of shadow and solomons revenge anyone? literally the longest mod i have ever played.)
knights of the old republic.
i literally never get tired of this game, i can play it vanilla or stacked on stacked with the hundreds of mods for it.
same goes for the sequel, if the sequel didn't have literally game breaking bugs, and wasn't rushed by lucasarts, it would easily beat out the first one.
those two games, probably rack up more than 600 hours worth of gametime, because when i play them i literally do everything and anything, especially with mods installed. (brotherhood of shadow and solomons revenge anyone? literally the longest mod i have ever played.)
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn came out in 2000, so it wins by a landslide.
If you wanted something more recent however... hmm... I'd probably go with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Although buggy and full of glitches when it was first released and the combat is mediocre at best, as a role playing experience it's far beyond most other games to have been released in the past few years. Although you followed a linear story progression, the sheer number of options when it comes to how and why were mind boggling and interacting with other characters in the game was a genuine joy. Plus it's also one of those few games where the group you choose to join at the start of the game can have a massive effect on how the story plays out.
You'll still meet the same NPC, but how they react to you, your dialogue options, and even the stories they tell can be sometimes entirely different depending on which clan you choose at the start of the game as well as how you've played thus far.
And did I mention how much fun it was to meet and interact with new characters? Pure bliss. Most rpg are all about statistics and leveling up, Bloodlines is one of the few which made it more about interacting with others and actually, you know, playing a role within the games world. And I like that!
If you wanted something more recent however... hmm... I'd probably go with Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Although buggy and full of glitches when it was first released and the combat is mediocre at best, as a role playing experience it's far beyond most other games to have been released in the past few years. Although you followed a linear story progression, the sheer number of options when it comes to how and why were mind boggling and interacting with other characters in the game was a genuine joy. Plus it's also one of those few games where the group you choose to join at the start of the game can have a massive effect on how the story plays out.
You'll still meet the same NPC, but how they react to you, your dialogue options, and even the stories they tell can be sometimes entirely different depending on which clan you choose at the start of the game as well as how you've played thus far.
And did I mention how much fun it was to meet and interact with new characters? Pure bliss. Most rpg are all about statistics and leveling up, Bloodlines is one of the few which made it more about interacting with others and actually, you know, playing a role within the games world. And I like that!
Baldur's Gate 2, hands down. By far the greatest game ever made, and since it was released in 2000, it's the best game of the 00's.TrevorGruen said:
Runners-up include Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas, Knights of the Old Republic, and Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Ummm... Yeah, I'm going to have to go with Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivions. I've logged 500 hours in it, and I still like picking up for short games now and then.
1. Baldur's Gate 2
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Jade Empire
I have a thing for Bioware (though I haven't played through KOTOR yet). I own Bloodlines:Masquerade, but I rolled into the "lunatic" clan or whatever and I never could understand my dialogue options. It was all nonsense. I almost don't consider Fallout 3 a "role-playing" game because I never really feel like my character has any personality, and I don't get involved in it. Don't get me wrong though, I loved faffing about in the wasteland.
2. Dragon Age: Origins
3. Jade Empire
I have a thing for Bioware (though I haven't played through KOTOR yet). I own Bloodlines:Masquerade, but I rolled into the "lunatic" clan or whatever and I never could understand my dialogue options. It was all nonsense. I almost don't consider Fallout 3 a "role-playing" game because I never really feel like my character has any personality, and I don't get involved in it. Don't get me wrong though, I loved faffing about in the wasteland.
Oh Fallout 3 for sure, the humor aspect put it above Oblivion. Wait what...? KOTOR came out when?!
I have no sense of time.
I have no sense of time.
Trust me, you won't be disappointed. If you put the time into it that it deserves, you will definitely like it. Even Yahtzee said that it had a great story.TrevorGruen said:
OT: For me it would have to be Mass Effect 1. It had much more of an RPG element in it and I personally thought the story and characterization were much, much better in the first one.
Runners up would be either ME2, KOTOR, or Fallout 3. Eh, I would even consider Stalker to be somewhat RPG-ish so that's also in the runner up section.
why do people all go "fallout 3, fallout 3" it was crap, to get the full experience out of it you had to, not only, buy the game but then turn around and cough up 50 or so extra bucks to get all the dlc which (probably) adds only 3-4 extra hours of gameplay, hell i dont like it becaue the original campaign only went for 5-6 hours, i finished it in an afternoon...
also, for me, it would have to be the original Neverwinter Nights (which, according to wikipedia, was released in 2002 so it counts) not so great graphics, good gameplay, BRILLIANT WONDERFUL MAGICAL ORGASMIC STORY, and thats why i liked it and its also the reason nwn2 was a big disappointment
runner-up, mass effect series, no i mean both of them
also, for me, it would have to be the original Neverwinter Nights (which, according to wikipedia, was released in 2002 so it counts) not so great graphics, good gameplay, BRILLIANT WONDERFUL MAGICAL ORGASMIC STORY, and thats why i liked it and its also the reason nwn2 was a big disappointment
runner-up, mass effect series, no i mean both of them
Dragon Age take first prize for me. No game has kept me excited about its story since Planescape: Tomrent.
Runners up: Morrowind, Oblivion and the Mass Effect series. Oh and don't forget about about Deus Ex.
Runners up: Morrowind, Oblivion and the Mass Effect series. Oh and don't forget about about Deus Ex.
Well to be fair, if we're counting 2010, we can't count 2000. So make up your mind, New Vegas or Deus Ex.
[edit] the choice is obvious.
[edit] the choice is obvious.
Dungeon Siege #1
Such a grand game, especially for LAN since zonematch was cut.
(I will admit my opinion is bias as of late
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Such a grand game, especially for LAN since zonematch was cut.
(I will admit my opinion is bias as of late
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