Favorite past-gen RPG and why...

[Zydrate]

Does Morrowind count? It's old...ish.

 

[Riddle78]

The Legend of Dragoon. Great combat,tactical inventory (32 slots),amazing story,incredible back and foregrounds,and a soundtrack that'll blow you away.

 

[debra_ beretta]

Dark Cloud and Dark Chronicle! Enjoyable dungeon-crawling madness. I've played both of them to death.

Pokemon Red/Blue. Best in the series in my opinion, but since buying those first carts when I was at college, I've been a pokefan ever since >.<

Deus Ex, just totally overwhelmed me with its greatness. Not so keen on the second, but the original blew my mind and left me with an unforgettable experience.

Arcanum Steamworks of Magic Obscura: Drew me in, along with Diablo 2. Spent many evenings with LAN laptops and the boy beating dungeons upon dungeons of hideous creatures and getting pissed at Deckard Cain for being useless and annoying.

Final Fantasy Tactics, because I'm a sucker for isometric games.

Oh gods, I nearly forgot, Baldur's Gate 2. Jeez!

Morrowind. Because. Wow.

Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Lol @ Rasputin! The ring system makes battling a whole lot more engaging, the characters were wonderful, the story was great, the soundtrack was inspiring... I could sing praise about SH all night.

Golden Sun and Breath of Fire 4 get honourable mentions, as does Final Fantasy 6 through to 9 and the first Jade Cocoon.


I feel old :-(

 

[starkiller212]

Knights of the Old Republic.

It was my first RPG, and it was fucking fantastic.

Best. Twist. EVAAAAAAAAAR.

/agree =D

 

[michiehoward]

SNES- Chrono Trigger cause it was awesome.
Secrets of Mana cause it was awesome.
And that Sailor Moon rpg, because still freaking awesome.

PS1 -FF8, FF9. Same reasons as above.

PS2- FF10 and FFX-2 and FF12, also very much enjoyed with my husband Baulder's Gate 1&2 and Dark Cloud. Again all awesome fun and new worlds that were worth exploring. And as topic starter stated I also name all main chars after myself or my husband, and support/party members are usually my siblings names.

EDIT Holyshit I forgot KotOR 1 and 2 and also Fable and Jade Empire.....drools...

And also I think sadly that I have completed the majority of these games so many times we are into the double digits for replaying...holy fuck salt that alot of hours of my life.

 

[michiehoward]

Final Fantasy VII, VIII, X, and XII

Edit
oops forgot to add the 'why'...Well i like the story/art style/world

Your my brother from another mother

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

All of my favorite RPGs are from past generations. Not only that, but my three favorite games are all past-gen RPGs.

-Tales of Symphonia
-Golden Sun
-Golden Sun: The Lost Age

As for why:

-Tales of Symphonia: First and only game to make me cry
-Golden Sun: Great childhood memories playing it, and it's awesome.
-Golden Sun: The Lost Age: Same

 

[pineom1]

Tales Of Symphonia on the Gamecube because it was really well done and the length of it for a gamecube game was amazing, and the plot was just as amazing, emotion everything was just so great in it

 

[x EvilErmine x]

Final Fantasy VII, VIII, X, and XII

Edit
oops forgot to add the 'why'...Well i like the story/art style/world

Your my brother from another mother

Thank you my...Umm sister form another father? lol )

 

[TheKillerCliche]

Final Fantasy 7

My introduction into the world of RPG's

Mainly because since I grew up around the ps1 console, I didn't appreaciate the older gems like "Planescape Torment", until I was older.

 

[mechanixis]

Morrowind is probably a better game, but I'm going to say Super Mario RPG for the sheer unapologetic quantity of goofy fun it provided from start to finish.

 

[DustyDrB]

My first choice is taken...
My second choice goes all the way back to 1993: Shadowrun on the SNES

But my #1...

Knights of the Old Republic.

It was my first RPG, and it was fucking fantastic.

Best. Twist. EVAAAAAAAAAR.

Agreed 100%

 

[Cheesepower5]

I'll just go by console generation...

Pre-NES: Ultima IV
NES: Dragon Quest IV
SNES/Genesis: Final Fantasy VI, Dragon Quest V, Terranigma
PS1/N64: Final Fantasy Tactics, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Majora's Mask if you consider Zelda an RPG(I don't.)
PS2/GCN/XBox: Dragon Quest VIII, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Baten Kaitos Origins
Current: Lost Odyssey, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3

GB: Pokemon Yellow/Crystal
GBA: Golden Sun, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
DS: The World Ends With You, Fina Fantasy Tactics A2, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

Remakes excluded, so this doesn't go on for days.

 

[Manchubot]

Final Fantasy Tactics is what my favorite. I'm a sucker for strat-rpgs and job class systems.

 

[Sandytimeman]

Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis. This game is amazing, a Sandbox for the ages. The story is there, but is an entire world of runs, shady deals and illegal firearms.

 

[Jfswift]

Dragon force on the saturn

Front mission 3 and Grandia on the playstation

all great RPG's and for the most part quite under-rated and unknown.

Front Mission 3 was pretty cool. I remember hijacking that giant mech with the particle beam weapon (I believe on the level where you had to protect the scientists).

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Definatly Baldurs Gate (1&2 especially 2)

 

[justnotcricket]

Interestingly, it took me a long time to try a proper RPG. I think you could probably say that the first one I ever played was Pokemon Red, back in '96 or whenever, and I'd been playing videogames for a lot longer than that. Pokemon was just awesome. I'd never heard of it prior to playing the game, but I was hooked =) Pokemon white/black just came out yesterday, and I'm already into it =)

For those who don't consider Pokemon to be a 'real' RPG, then I guess it would be FF III, which I came back to retrospectively a few years ago. I loved how the characters and setting and story were so simple, but still so entertaining and imaginative. What happened to you, FF?

The first Western RPG I ever played was Dragon Age: Origins! True story =) My partner, however, has more experience with WRPGS, and I'm pretty sure he sold his soul to Baldur's Gate back in the day ;-P

 

[Prince Merluza]

Wild arms 2 the best rpg ever

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

So, something that I keep coming back to over and over is just how compelling 8-bit and 16-bit RPGs were/are.

Xenogears for the PS1. It was a pixel ho-down with graphics that (other than the cut scenes) felt like they were ported over from the SNES, but the story in insanely involved and brilliantly written, and I still replay it every year or so because it is just so damn good.

Also, best combat of any RPG ever, IMO. For those who haven't played, you have weak, medium, and heavy attack buttons, and you string them together - if you use the same string often enough, your heavy attack turns into a super move. You CAN spam the super moves, or you can choose to practice the less powerful combo of a future super move. Also you can fly around in giant mechs. Or, you can have one party member in a mech while the other two are on foot, and have them hallariously punch the enemy mechs to death while yours defends. I never get tired of those combos, no matter how many times I play the game.

Oh, and honorable mention to FF7. Not because of the plot, which is good, but for the Materia system, which is my favorite magic/skill system of any RPG.

And a second honorable mention to Planescape: Torment for having the best dialog / choice system of any RPG I've ever played. The combat was kinda clunky, and spells... just didn't work very well (bad habit of crashing the game) but really fun characterization and plot. Also Fall From Grace is one of my favorite characters ever.