Favorite RPG's

Let's see your top 5 favorite RPG's of all time, in order of your favorite (as hard as that may be)

1) Elderscrolls Morrowind

2) Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

3) Planescape: Torment

4) Mass Effect 2

5) Fallout 2

My top 5 are:

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Chrono Cross
3. Mass Effect
4. Final Fantasy VIII
5. Mass Effect 3

This is kinda hard because I don't really play fantasy RPGs, except for like the Witcher and the Elder Scrolls.

1 Fallout 3
2 Skyrim
3 The Witcher 3
4 Mass Effect 2
5 Fable 2

In no order:

Chrono Trigger/Cross

Xenogears

Dragon Age: Origins & Inquisition

Dark Souls

Bloodborne

Mass Effect 2

Final Fantasy 6

Persona 4

1. Skyrim

2. Fallout 3

3. South Park SOT

4. Sacred 2

5. Witcher 3

All this talk of Mass Effect made me forget how much I love the series, changed Mass Effect 2 to my number 4 spot.

Baldur's Gate
Chrono Trigger
Diablo II
Fallout 3
Final Fantasy IX

1. Fallout: New Vegas

2. Persona 4 Golden

3. Dragon Quest VIII

4. Final Fantasy X

5. Tales of Vesperia

1. Mass Effect 3 (followed by ME2&ME1)

2. Dragon Age Origins (followed DAI&DA2)

3. Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

4. World of Warcraft (does mmorpg count?)

5. TES Skyrim

Chrono Trigger

Monster Hunter 4G

Disgaea 3

TES: Oblivion GotY Edition

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

1. Mass Effect 3 + Mass effect 4

2. Dragon Age Origins

3. Witcher 2

4. Baldurs Gate 2 + Throne of Bhaal

5. Suikoden 5

6. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Wild Arms 3

Disgaea 2

Persona 3

Final Fantasy 9

Ring Of Red

very tough question. it's usually about the mood at the moment which i feel like playing. a lot of it may even come down to what was more appreciated at the time of release than to what is better if you sat down right now with them. top of the tops? in no particular order, maybe:

• Neverwinter Nights
• Morrowind
• Lufia
• Knights of The Old republic
• Titan Quest

can't stop at five, it's not fair.

• Diablo 2
• Dragon Warrior
• Shadow of Chernobyl (though many still try to argue that it's "just a shooter with rpg element")
• Chrono Trigger
• Mass Effect
• Risen
• Secret of Mana
• Witcher 3
• Mystic Quest
• Wasteland
• Dragon Age
• Breath of Fire

too many greats\favorites to list.

Favorite:

FF9 - I like the story and the combat is fun to play even today.

Mass Effect 1 - still the best balance of a shooter and RPG out there. The other two lost that.

Morrowind - It just open on how you can deal with problems and you start off with a weak character that grows into greatness unlike Skyrim where you start off great and only get better.

Pillars of Entity has a great combat system and a fun leveling system. It is a shame they are removing good rpg level system and placing in poorly system and pretending choices in it place.

Wild Arms (all) - I have a blast playing each game. The stories are not that bad.

Those that did not make it:

Tales of ... - these games are good but I find the game play just take out any real fun from them.

Good choice. Mass Effect 2 is easily my favorite of the series...at least so far.

1. Radiant Historia- This game is nearly a masterpiece. The soundtrack is one of Yoko Shimomura's best and the story is phenomenal, and the game is pretty balanced in terms of difficulty (Unless you're fighting a giant spider or the Thaumachine).
2. Bravely Default- Another near masterpiece. While the story is nowhere nearly as good (and quite generic), it makes up for that with the soundtrack and Brave and Default system (which was still a stupid thing to name the game after).
3. Shin Megami Tensei IV- Yep, 2/3 of this list are Atlus games. It's not personal bias, they're just (almost) all great (except Conception 2). This game has great music and the Chaos/Law/Neutral alignments having a story split is something not commonly seen in games. This game is quite difficult like most modern Atlus games (The Minotaur made me want to throw my DS against the wall at times). It also has an amazing soundtrack like the previous two games (sense a pattern?) and the Press Turn system rewarding you for exploiting an enemy's weakness is satisfying.
4. World of Warcraft- Do MMORPGs count?
5. Chrono Trigger- Another game with a great soundtrack, story, and music. The gameplay does tend to feel a little slow at times, but that's only because you REALLY want to use the slower gameplay speeds.

I see alot for Chrono Trigger, it almost made my top 5 list and I do replay it every couple years on SNES emulators. Same with Dragon Age, another great game. Another close one would be the original Deus Ex, actually prefer it to the newer one.

For those who haven't played it though, check out Planescape: Torment, especially if you liked Baldurs Gate or Fallout 1+2 style RPG's. Made by the same developer and follows the D&D rules. The story is maybe the best of any game, let alone RPG, I have ever played. You can get it on GOG for pretty cheap, and if you read up on reviews of the game, it's held in extremely high regards.

@wiouds:

I agree, Mass Effect 1 has more of an RPG element, though I would still call Mass Effect 2 a strong RPG, and the updated gameplay is what makes Mass Effect 2 more enjoyable for me to replay. I personally don't think one is better than the other, but I do enjoy playing Mass Effect 2 a bit for for the smoother and updated combat.

Mass Effect & Witcher are the 2 main series... and maybe KOTOR back in the day.

any that do: should get the widescreen, direct-draw, and UI fix mods. makes it still great on larger new 16:9\16:10 displays.

I find there are only two choices that matter in Mass Effect 2 from a rpg stand point (interactive story does not count) and that just make the rpg part of the game play for Mass Effect 2 not as much fun.

Having recently replayed Mass Effect 1, I found the problems to be not that bad and the place Mass Effect 2 got polish does not over come the downgrades it got.

1- Parasite Eve

2- Neverwinter Nights

3- Chrono Trigger

4- Dragon Age Origins

5- Final Fantasy X

FF IV. Best RPG evar

1. Pokemon R/B/Y
2. Panzer Dragoon Saga
3. Chrono Trigger
4. KOTOR
5. Skies of Arcadia

Paper mario : the thousand year door is my all time favorite.

• Final Fantasy X
• Mass Effect 2
• Mass Effect 3
• Dragon Age Origins
• Dragon Age Inquisition

JRPGS

• Suikoden II
• Persona 4
• Final Fantasy X
• Grandia
• Final Fantasy VII

WRPGs

• Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
• Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
• Mass Effect 2
• The Witcher 3

• Baldurs Gate
• Icewind Dale
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Kotor 2
• Fallout: New Vegas

Baldur's Gate 2

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

Fallout 1-2

Icewind Dale 2

Diablo 2

West rpgs 1 the witcher 3 2 skyrim 3 mass effect 2 4 dragon age inguisition 5 fallout 3 jrpgs ni no kuni 2 xenoblade 3 bloodborne 4 tales of vesperia 5 final fantasy x

• Oblivion
• Mass Effect(2 & 3 as well)
• Skyrim
• Fallout 3
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Some of these lists are awesome, and reminded me of so many i had long forgotten:

Heres mine (disclaimer: I might have forgotten a lot)

Secret of Mana

Lost Odyssey

Final Fantasy 9 (I will probably be alone with that)

Persona 3

Persona 4 (think i prefer 3 though)

Wild Arms (1 psx version)

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (whoever said this is a legend! love this game even today!)

Disgaea (I think 3 maybe? the one where his dad has deleted his video game saves)

Fallout 3

Hybrid heaven (though i think if i played it now, i wouldnt like it as much...)

Really want to include eternal sonata, but the ending let it down....

1. Skyrim

2. Dark Souls

3. Deus Ex Human Revolution

4. Mass Effect 2

5. Fallout 3

1. The Witcher 3

2. Fallout: New Vegas

3. The Witcher 2

4. Dragon Age: Origins

5. Dragon Age 2 (yes, really, I loved the story)

Like to see what everyone's non-FPS RPG choices would be...

1. Mass Effect 2 (if it counts as RPG. If not then ignore it... For me it was Game of the generation but I consider it Third Person Shooter/ARPG hybrid)
2. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
3. Dragon Age: Origins
4. Divinity: Original Sin
5. Diablo 2
6. Planescape:Torment

Gothic is missing.

Pretty much the same games repeated over and over and most of them are ones I would pick as well, but here are a couple of great ones that aren't on the list:

Divinity: Original Sin

Path of Exile

Arcanum Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

1. Final fantasy vii

2. Chrono cross

3. Final fantasy ix

4. Final fantasy iv

5. Skyrim

1. Fable
2. Persona 3 Portable
3. Demon's Souls
4. Ni No Kuni
5. Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

Skyrim worst game ever made

@yury25:

Far from the worst game ever, though it doesn't hold a candle to Morrowind, I prefer Oblivion to Skyrim as well. You gotta think of it this way, if prior Elderscrolls games didn't exist, Skyrim would be considered a much better game, but because it had so much to live up to and failed to, it's viewed as worse than it really is.

@uninspiredcup:

How would you compare Icewid Dale to Baldurs gate? It's one of those games I have always meant to get around to but never have, may need to hop on GOG and buy it. Also have you played Planescape Torment, since you like Baldurs Gate and Icewind Dale it should be right up your alley. It's made by the same developers and follows the D&D rules. Absolutely amazing game.

Icewind Dale is basically a dungeon crawler.

1. Persona 4 Golden
2. Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver
3. Final Fantasy IV
4. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5. Dragon Age: Origins

1. Persona 4

2. Mass Effect 2

3. Dragon Age Origins

4. Tales of Vesperia

4. Pokemon Emerald