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Re: Whats your favorite RPG
Reply #15 - 22. Feb 2007 at 04:53  
isnt every game an RPG really?

I mean youre playing the role of someone or something...in pretty much every game.
Along the way you can collect power up items that make you stronger or improve your abilities (i.e Super Mario Bros or Mega Man...etc)

Look at River City Ransom...You go around and beat up thugs, steal their money so you can buy food or books to read to make you stronger or faster and you aquire different weapons along the way. Seems to me that this game (and many others) have those "RPG" elements.

Whatev's...i guess my favorite "true" RPG is Final Fantasy.
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Reply #16 - 22. Feb 2007 at 15:17  
What sets apart classic tabletop Dungeons and Dragons from just sitting in a room playing make-believe with your lame friends is the character sheet. The character sheet (now more than ever in 3rd edition) is based around your stat scores. Six little dicechucks that govern the life path of your grunt. The ability score is something that's nearly universal across all tabletop RPG's. Games that lack it lack the proper depth of character to really let you simulate a role. Call it an RSG if you want, Role Simulation Game...but you don't simulate games, you play them.

The top three things that classify an electronic RPG to me are nearly universal among games that have RPG status:

Stat scores that directly impact your character(s) actions. "Link has a quantity of hearts" is not proper justification.

A vast, varied inventory that revolves around choice, not necessity. Unfortunately DW1 is pretty much on the same level as Zelda 1 with this, but the DW series got better. A raft to unlock a level is novel, but the difficulty of enemies is the classic barrier to entry: an "open" world with skill barriers, not physical ones.

Some aspect of magic (or magic-like special abilities), and not just a "Magic Ring." Spells/feats that you or a character in your employ can strategically cast/execute. Again, to specify, "I can press both A+B together to do a SPECIAL attack!" is not a feat. This is barely a game mechanic.
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Reply #17 - 23. Feb 2007 at 16:26  
NationalGameDepot wrote on 21. Feb 2007 at 13:23:
I have never been a RPG fan. Tongue
~~NGD

I've never been a RPG fan either NGD.  There are a few RPGs I enjoyed for various systems, like Alundra, Atelier Iris, and Super Mario RPG.  The only RPG I enjoyed for NES is Earth Bound.
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Reply #18 - 24. Feb 2007 at 10:02  
I'd definitely say Final Fantasy 1 is my favourite RPG on the NES. The Dragon Warrior series is fantastic and Ultima:Quest of the Avatar is neat too, but I think FF has them beat. Final Fantasy was Square's last ditch effort to make an amazing game and look at where it took them. The amazing line of games that this one started is phenominal, and as a series it is one of the top 5 ever created. I think it was actually the first game of its time to have animated characters in battle. Final Fantasy 1 is better than most RPG's designed now.
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Reply #19 - 24. Feb 2007 at 22:15  
For NES, my favorites are Destiny of an Emperor, Dragon Warrior IV, Dragon Warrior II and Final Fantasy.  Those are some superior titles in my book.
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Reply #20 - 25. Feb 2007 at 02:15  
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Reply #21 - 25. Feb 2007 at 17:10  
Heres links to a good write up on the history of video game rpg's.Only a few of the ones mentioned were ported to the nes but it is still an interesting read i thought.


http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070223a/barton_01.shtml


http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070223b/barton_01.shtml
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Reply #22 - 25. Feb 2007 at 22:18  
The Bard's Tale is a cool one also, takes some time but still cool. I have a proto of it, i'll review some stuff pretty soon, it seems to have differences.
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