It's psychological!

[KefkaCultist]

Chrono Cross. My first RPG and to this day my absolute favorite. The story was amazing to me, i remember playing it with my dad so much as a kid. The side stories and all the different characters and their different personalities. The element system and the different combinations you could do. The emotional connection i felt with the main character and all the twists and turns i followed him on.

Damn it i miss that game.
Strategy guide is sitting right by me, but the game itself is at my dads.
Don't even have a ps1, though.

Damn... Ninja'd on post #2

Chrono Cross wasn't my 1st RPG (thats FF7's title) but there was definitely something about the story and characters that I connected to. Plus, I kind of accept the possibility of there being alternate realities and I'm pretty sure that game plays a factor in why I think that.

 

[Kenko]

Mount & Blade :Warbands. It's quite simple. I HATE LINEAR GAMES THAT FORCE ME TO PLAY AS A CERTAIN CHARACTER. An RPG should always be free and open, otherwise its not a goddamn ROLEplaying game, its a linear story adventure game with RPG elements. I simply love the freedom M&B gives me and the ability to make my own story and my own choices.

 

[C95J]

It really is because it's fun. My favourite game is the favourite because I play it the most.

yeah same, sometimes that is the only answer.

Maybe the REAL question is what makes your brain interpret what is fun or not?

 

[Kenko]

Mount & Blade :Warbands. It's quite simple. I HATE LINEAR GAMES THAT FORCE ME TO PLAY AS A CERTAIN CHARACTER. An RPG should always be free and open, otherwise its not a goddamn ROLEplaying game, its a linear story adventure game with RPG elements. I simply love the freedom M&B gives me and the ability to make my own story and my own choices.

Linear RPGs (JRPGs you aren't hiding it very well honestly) force you to roleplay as if you buddy has skipped out on your latests D&D adventure due to an illness and you must now play his level 10 chaotic neutral fighter. Your free to make options in battle, such as whether or not you fight aggressively or whether you focus on buffing your allies, but you still have to stick to your friends choice of being Chaotic Neutral. Don't say a game isn't something just because you don't believe it to be, that's called unwarranted arrogance.

Because the only linear RPG's are japanese? Get your head out of yer arse. Who's arrogant? I simply explained why I liked M&B. If you want to take it as me bashing something you like then boohoo, keep it too yourself as I wasnt.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Shadow of the colossuss. Wander is pretty much a blank slate personality-wise. Because of this, i didn't think of him as a person, i thought of him as me. Now. This person being me i had no doubt about the morality of the situation So the ending was a total shock to me and opened my eyes to the kind of stories games could tell. Also, that game uses music REALLY well.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

My favourite games just so happen to be Fallout New Vegas and Mafia 2.

New Vegas, Mafia 2 and LA Noire are the three games I've pre-ordered, the only three. All three games have the similar era setting of being 1950s, 1940s and 1930s respectively. I absolutely love these times settings and the two games that have been released are both great games. Because they're great games and I enjoy the time setting, I find they're my favourite games.

 

[latenightapplepie]

I love Minecraft because I am a perfectionist, control-freak hoarder.

 

[Riobux]

Eternal Darkness. It's really because of the various time periods, the sanity metre and the interesting story that reminds me of Lovecraft.

 

[Moeez]

Limbo, the worst nightmare journey a kid could go through. The ambient music, movement, and blurry backgrounds suck you into this ambiguous and dangerous world. The lack of any dialogue and pure game storytelling immerses you like no other.

 

[omega 616]

FFX. Wide variety of characters (so you can at least relate to someone). It's a story about love and optimism and all that jazz, as well as having a good conflict (Sin) and the over-throwing of a religious dictatorship (Seymour anyone?).

While I agree on the game, you missed a few things. Sin isn't the only conflict, the Tidus and Jecht story, the gang trying to stop Yuna from dying etc.

Seymour wasn't the religion, I can't actually remember his motives. Yu yevon was behind the religion to keep himself alive (if I remember right, it has been a few years since I played it).

Spoiler: spoilers ahead

Also, will people stop hating on Tidus? He is far from a whiny *****, anybody went through what he did would be an emotional wreck. From what I remember he mentions hating his dad a few short times, dwells on him never seeing home for about 20 minutes, mentions stopping the love of his life from dying, doesn't get all emotional when he finds out he is nothing but a dream ... if anything Tidus is an emotionless kid.

 

[omega 616]

FFX. Wide variety of characters (so you can at least relate to someone). It's a story about love and optimism and all that jazz, as well as having a good conflict (Sin) and the over-throwing of a religious dictatorship (Seymour anyone?).

While I agree on the game, you missed a few things. Sin isn't the only conflict, the Tidus and Jecht story, the gang trying to stop Yuna from dying etc.

Seymour wasn't the religion, I can't actually remember his motives. Yu yevon was behind the religion to keep himself alive (if I remember right, it has been a few years since I played it).

Spoiler: spoilers ahead

Also, will people stop hating on Tidus? He is far from a whiny *****, anybody went through what he did would be an emotional wreck. From what I remember he mentions hating his dad a few short times, dwells on him never seeing home for about 20 minutes, mentions stopping the love of his life from dying, doesn't get all emotional when he finds out he is nothing but a dream ... if anything Tidus is an emotionless kid.

Seymour wanted to marry Yuna, and had the entire Yevon religion in his back pocket, so I can see "overthrowing a corrupt religion" being on the list

I wasn't disputing it shouldn't be on the list, just thats there is more going on than that.

I have always wondered why the guys with the dark aoens still kick your your ass, even though you have been proved right.

 

[Biosophilogical]

FFX. Wide variety of characters (so you can at least relate to someone). It's a story about love and optimism and all that jazz, as well as having a good conflict (Sin) and the over-throwing of a religious dictatorship (Seymour anyone?).

While I agree on the game, you missed a few things. Sin isn't the only conflict, the Tidus and Jecht story, the gang trying to stop Yuna from dying etc.

Seymour wasn't the religion, I can't actually remember his motives. Yu yevon was behind the religion to keep himself alive (if I remember right, it has been a few years since I played it).

I figured Sin was a broad, one-word thing that covered most of it (they had to save Yuna from killing herself (while killing Sin); they had to stop Jecht (who was Sin), and probably most other issues like the Al-bhed - Yevonite conflict, what with the conflict being because of Sin).

As for Seymour, when you go to Bevelle, the Grand Maester or whatever he calls himself is dead himself, and agrees with Seymour's "Kill everyone, Sin is inevitable, rage-quit-life" policy. So I just figured that, in some way, almost every conflict was either related to Seymour or Sin.

 

[omega 616]

FFX. Wide variety of characters (so you can at least relate to someone). It's a story about love and optimism and all that jazz, as well as having a good conflict (Sin) and the over-throwing of a religious dictatorship (Seymour anyone?).

While I agree on the game, you missed a few things. Sin isn't the only conflict, the Tidus and Jecht story, the gang trying to stop Yuna from dying etc.

Seymour wasn't the religion, I can't actually remember his motives. Yu yevon was behind the religion to keep himself alive (if I remember right, it has been a few years since I played it).

I figured Sin was a broad, one-word thing that covered most of it (they had to save Yuna from killing herself (while killing Sin); they had to stop Jecht (who was Sin), and probably most other issues like the Al-bhed - Yevonite conflict, what with the conflict being because of Sin).

As for Seymour, when you go to Bevelle, the Grand Maester or whatever he calls himself is dead himself, and agrees with Seymour's "Kill everyone, Sin is inevitable, rage-quit-life" policy. So I just figured that, in some way, almost every conflict was either related to Seymour or Sin.

I get you, it just sounded like you brushed over alot of other details, no biggy.

 

[lettri]

Civilization 4

Empire building, gives me the illusion I'm in control, and when life otherwise sucks and I feel powerless, I go there and win, and feel like I'm worth my salt. Then, the next day, I run into my boss who tells me I didn't do something well, and I think "at least I'm good at kicking the Greek's a$$ and handing it over to them in just 20 turns!".

 

[Alex Berry]

Bioshock

Serious immersion. I could feel that ice-cold ocean water running down my back.
Also, there's something to be said for the pacing.

You're not killing the same enemy over and over again (killzone 2 was awful about this) because there's an absolute salad bowl of splicers for you to maim and a big daddy that occassionally gets pulled into the mix when that incinerate! fire you shot out was never meant for him.
Couple that with survivor mode on the ps3 and it's got some intense moments if you've got the cahones to hoof it without vita chambers.

 

[PissOffRoth]

I'm too picky about games, I think. They're still growing as a medium and there's too many things bogging them down for me right now... Plus as a heavy reader and a writer, I find most game writing to be completely, disgustingly bad. Like, so bad. One of those things you just want to jump up and down on and kill. Ick.

Sorry, I got way off topic. Yeah, I don't have a favorite.

 

[Dexiro]

Disgaea, love the characters and the mixture of evil and cute is just awesome. The story and dialogue is funny and doesn't take itself too seriously but can still knows how to play with your emotions a little.

I also love how deep the rpg mechanics are, and how they're all pretty much completely optional. You can learn the mechanics bit by bit as you play and it all fits together perfectly, then you can continue building your little team and watching them grow towards level 9999.

I'm not sure about the psychological elements, I guess I just find the grinding in this game quite relaxing and I love seeing my team grow from scratch.

Oh and it's not my favourite game, just one I felt like talking about :3

 

[Ashdown]

The game I've been spending a lot of time on recently is Persona 4.

I really like the friendship group the main character builds around him, and at the end of each Social Link, you really feel like you've helped someone. Sure it's a imaginary character, but it still makes me feel good.

I also like the whole storyline as well, it's exciting that all of this could been happening, but we just don't notice it.