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28 Apr 2008, 1:07 pm
28 Apr 2008, 4:00 pm
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skafather84 wrote:
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skafather84 wrote:
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I never really played any of the old RPG's. I like the new ones like GTA, Bully, and Mass Effect.
not sure about mass effect because i haven't played it but i'm pretty sure gta and bully aren't rpg's.
...or were you being ironic?
I thought they were RPGs.....
i dunno, it's gotten so vague. i remember when rpg meant a turn-based combat system game with fantasy elements and an actual story and interaction with characters and leveling up. today most games have that to some extent but none of them ever scream to me "rpg" so much as "doom". and yes, that includes bully and gta even though they're third person view.
gta and bully strike me more as being from the fps world just in how they develop and interract. it's very much from that same sort of "kill sh** and go" vein. not that that's bad. i love good fps's.
i guess i'm just more curious about how the genres might be shifting/changing.
I looked them up on wikipedia. Bully and GTA are under the action/adventure category.
fair enough. though at the same time...anyone could change that if they're having an argument over the topic we're talking about now...so it's not too reliable.
28 Apr 2008, 4:38 pm
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skafather84 wrote:
x_amount_of_words wrote:
I never really played any of the old RPG's. I like the new ones like GTA, Bully, and Mass Effect.
not sure about mass effect because i haven't played it but i'm pretty sure gta and bully aren't rpg's.
...or were you being ironic?
I thought they were RPGs.....
never played bully but i guess gta does have role playing elements to it
snelavasac wrote:
Confused-Fish wrote:
am i the only person who's played daggerfall?
I love Daggerfall! Sadly, I haven't played it in years because it seems even buggier on my current computer than it did before.
I agree with a lot of you that newer RPGs just aren't quite like how they used to be. The newest ones I've liked are Oblivion and Neverwinter Nights. I remember playing Baldur's Gate 2 and being disappointed that I didn't need any extra help getting through it--in my opinion, a good RPG should make you think much harder about how to get through certain situations. My favorite RPGs are probably the Ultima series (especially both parts of 7) and the Elder Scrolls series.
yeah the tes series are some of the most important rpgs out there, im pretty sure arena was the first "first-person" rpg ever made, and daggerfall has to be one of the biggest at least. i played two worlds, it was pretty bad, far too easy imho seems to be the way with alot of the newer rpgs. oblivion was good. what we need is a next tes game with the size of daggerfall, the variety of creatures, architecture and landscapes as morrowind, and the graphics of oblivion, and of course the freedom and multiple role playing opportunity's that you'd expect from a tes game
though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.
ive never played neverwinter nights, ill have to look into it
28 Apr 2008, 5:18 pm
Confused-Fish wrote:
what we need is a next tes game with the size of daggerfall, the variety of creatures, architecture and landscapes as morrowind, and the graphics of oblivion, and of course the freedom and multiple role playing opportunity's that you'd expect from a tes game though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.
though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.Stop it, I'm drooling already...
I played morrowind a grand total of about 1700 game hours before I even started to get into the mod community for that game... it was just that great. Oblivion pales in comparison next to it...
Daggerfall wasn't as great in my opinion (aside from the storyline which blows away both morrowind and oblivion), mainly because of the superbugs and the fact that it was all randomly generated...
Morrowind takes the TES cake because it was entirely hand-crafted with tlc... no procedural generation involved...
28 Apr 2008, 9:11 pm
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Dungeon Siege, but my heart lies with true old-school turn-based games like Ulitma IV, Bard's Tale I and, of course, the D&D Gold Box series.
Great choices there!
I have Pool of Radiance actually loaded on my computer right now. I am about halfway through it. I have beaten it a few times, but I just can't seem to stay away.
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29 Apr 2008, 1:30 am
skafather84 wrote:
x_amount_of_words wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
x_amount_of_words wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
x_amount_of_words wrote:
I never really played any of the old RPG's. I like the new ones like GTA, Bully, and Mass Effect.
not sure about mass effect because i haven't played it but i'm pretty sure gta and bully aren't rpg's.
...or were you being ironic?
I thought they were RPGs.....
i dunno, it's gotten so vague. i remember when rpg meant a turn-based combat system game with fantasy elements and an actual story and interaction with characters and leveling up. today most games have that to some extent but none of them ever scream to me "rpg" so much as "doom". and yes, that includes bully and gta even though they're third person view.
gta and bully strike me more as being from the fps world just in how they develop and interract. it's very much from that same sort of "kill sh** and go" vein. not that that's bad. i love good fps's.
i guess i'm just more curious about how the genres might be shifting/changing.
I looked them up on wikipedia. Bully and GTA are under the action/adventure category.
fair enough. though at the same time...anyone could change that if they're having an argument over the topic we're talking about now...so it's not too reliable.
Of course, I could have easily changed the genre to RPG. Then I would have been right:).
29 Apr 2008, 9:41 am
Confused-Fish wrote:
yeah the tes series are some of the most important rpgs out there, im pretty sure arena was the first "first-person" rpg ever made, and daggerfall has to be one of the biggest at least. i played two worlds, it was pretty bad, far too easy imho seems to be the way with alot of the newer rpgs. oblivion was good. what we need is a next tes game with the size of daggerfall, the variety of creatures, architecture and landscapes as morrowind, and the graphics of oblivion, and of course the freedom and multiple role playing opportunity's that you'd expect from a tes game though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.
ive never played neverwinter nights, ill have to look into it
though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.ive never played neverwinter nights, ill have to look into it
I've also played Two Worlds--let's just say I'm glad it was a Christmas gift and I didn't have to pay for it myself.
It was fun in its own way, but I wouldn't have paid full price for it if I had to buy it for myself.
If they ever do have a TES game with all that, I just hope they don't include those cliff racers from Morrowind! Otherwise, I'll gladly wait for discs that store even more than Blu-ray just to see if they ever come out with something like that.
29 Apr 2008, 10:46 am
Or just run it on a PC with 4 blu-ray install discs
29 Apr 2008, 3:57 pm
snelavasac wrote:
Confused-Fish wrote:
yeah the tes series are some of the most important rpgs out there, im pretty sure arena was the first "first-person" rpg ever made, and daggerfall has to be one of the biggest at least. i played two worlds, it was pretty bad, far too easy imho seems to be the way with alot of the newer rpgs. oblivion was good. what we need is a next tes game with the size of daggerfall, the variety of creatures, architecture and landscapes as morrowind, and the graphics of oblivion, and of course the freedom and multiple role playing opportunity's that you'd expect from a tes game though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.
ive never played neverwinter nights, ill have to look into it
though i doubt such a game would be possible even with blu-ray discs.ive never played neverwinter nights, ill have to look into it
I've also played Two Worlds--let's just say I'm glad it was a Christmas gift and I didn't have to pay for it myself.
It was fun in its own way, but I wouldn't have paid full price for it if I had to buy it for myself.If they ever do have a TES game with all that, I just hope they don't include those cliff racers from Morrowind! Otherwise, I'll gladly wait for discs that store even more than Blu-ray just to see if they ever come out with something like that.
Rofl, good old cliff racers
yeah they were pretty annoying when your at low level. yeah two worlds was fun to play (for the whole 4 hours of game play it can offer you) but there just wasn't enough, also what's with that dwarfen city even being in the game when you cant get to it
ive spent hours trying lol and then theres the disappointing online mode, its not that the online mode is bad, i wouldn't know what its like tbh because nobody is ever on!
29 Apr 2008, 3:59 pm
Reodor_Felgen wrote:
The new RPGs suck because there's to much focus on multiplayer these days. If you love good RPGs, then I recomend Gothic and Gothic II (haven't played the 3rd one). Both these games have excellent stories, but somewhat out-of-date graphics.
i wonder what the 4th ones gonna belike.
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