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I realised that I need to play a whole bunch more RPGs if I'm going to make mine any good, so that I know what I'm up against and what has worked/didn't work/sucked/cliched. So here's a potential list that I was thinking of purching:
1. Baldurs Gate 2
2. Escape from monkey island
3. Planescape: Torment
4. Fallout 1 & 2
5. Gothic II
6. Soulbringer
7. Siege of Avalon
8. Arcanum: Of steamworks and magick obscura
9. Stonekeep
10. Revenant
11. A final fantasy (which one, also: they're so damn expensive...)

so, whatcha think???
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Snoolas · Professional Poster Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 4000

Uhhh. I've only heard of three of those... Blush

Only played Final Fantasy 10. You should definately play one good Final Fantasy, preferably seven or ten. Seven, I'm told is worlds better than ten, and I thought ten was absolutely epic. But get prepared for a lot of wasted time and heavy addiction... Wink wink

Lars · Bytewise Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Posts: 285 Location: Sweden

Escape from monkey island: is a funny game witch i liked a lot.
final fantasy 6 and 7 are the best ones if you ask me.
if you own a ps2 i could recomend "Star Ocean: Till the end of time" witch had me hooked for about 85 hours.
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Ryan Clark · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject:

Since you're doing this on your own, you might want to compare yourself to other indie RPG projects, instead of big budget titles. These guys are quite successful:

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/

IGTHORN · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:26 pm Post subject:

Is FF7 made for a pc... I dont have a playstation, nor do I intend to get one...

good point ryan, but the selling point of my game will (hopefully) be a great game experience, because I'll never get the same gfx or sound or anything that big buggets have, but I want to play the big budget games to see: oh, they screwed up that but I could make it better. I'm opening up that link though right now...
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Wade · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Yes there was a PC version of FF7.

Codehead · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject:

The 'Blade of Destiny' series on the Amiga were great RPGs. You might be able to dig up an old version for UAE or similar.
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AT · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

As has been mentioned, the first two monkey islands. I've also heard good things about beneath a steel sky and bladerunner, though i've not played either.
Is there a particular type of rpg you are thinking of making ? Some good 'action' rpgs :
Secret of Mana - action rpg, good multiplayer fun, a bit like zelda with levelling and stuff... (snes emulator)
Ultima 8 - considered by some not to be the best. But I found it to be a good laugh, and wandering out into the wilderness usually turns up something interesting without getting too tedious. (PC-DOS)
Little Big Adventure - Very quirky isometric game. Game environment is wacky but holds together well (PC-DOS)

ViX44 · Sir Postalot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 2502

If you're going to go emulator, get Solomon's Key for NES. No, it's not an RPG, in the sense that it doesn't suck. Instead, it rules and you will bow down before it.

Codehead · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:

JoshuaSmyth · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject:

I personally recommend Fallout 1 and 2. Try to get the first one and play that first though as I think its better and sets up the story for the second a little more.

I'm playing through Arcanium now, and I reckon its pretty good. The best part is the character creation, next time though I'm going to be a Nietzche Love Child

I personally dislike the final fantasy series (I think I might be the only one) it seems like a story with random combat thrown in.
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1. Baldurs Gate 2 -- Haven't played
2. Escape from monkey island -- Haven't played
3. Planescape: Torment -- Didn't like
4. Fallout 1 & 2 -- Fallout 1 is good, haven't played 2
5. Gothic II -- Great game! As is the first
6. Soulbringer -- Isn't that a fighting game?
7. Siege of Avalon -- Never heard of it
8. Arcanum: Of steamworks and magick obscura -- Never heard of it..
9. Stonekeep -- Never heard of it
10. Revenant -- Never heard of it Confused

11. A final fantasy -- The original is good, as is the second (Japanese version, which you could emulate and download the translated version), 5 (Another Japanese one, translated) and 6 (3 in North America) The ones after 6 are crap, don't bother.

Also: Dragon Warrior is a great series, with 4 games for the NES, 2 more (Japanese) for SNES and 1 for the PSX.

What else... ADOM is an awesome rogue-like game, and a must play. (It's free!)

Vampire - The Masquerade: Blood Lines is a good game too, and fairly new.

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Guest · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

What the Hell...? Dude, FFVII is the best FF game out there!

(If it's a Final Fantasy, why the hell do they keep makin' more?!?!?!?!?!?!)

ViX44 · Sir Postalot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 2502

Why? A fool and his money...?

Sadistic Penguin · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:32 am Post subject:

I have FF7 for the PC. If you get it and need a good patch for XP, I can give it to you (it's pretty old!) Very fun.

Sion · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

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