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I've been interested in Guild Wars and Oblivion both for quite some time (~2 years for oblivion, nearly 4 for Guild Wars). I'm pissed off at Anet, and Oblivion is gradually becoming boring, so I'm kind of looking for something new. I also play The Sims games, and Europa 1400, so if it's primarily an RPG, that's fine, too. I've tried Gothic 3 and Fable, but I need a game where I can play a female char. Any personal favorites?

I tend to stick with old favourites in things like games, books, television, movies, lunch.... Civ2 is still a, "go to," game for me!

That being said, Fallout3 is built on the Oblivion engine, so it's got a lot of similarity, but the look and feel is different.

I can also recommend Fable2.

I was a big FFXII fan, but you can't always play a female character. Not sure what FF XIII is going to be like.

Currently the two RPG's I'm hooked on are Demon's Souls and Dragon's Age: Origins.

Demon's Souls is brutally hard. I don't think I've ever played a game that has been this unrelenting in my life and yet somehow I keep turning it on and playing. It reminds me of a more actiony 3rd person Oblivion. Lot less story lot more difficult action.

Dragon's Age is the newest game from Bioware who did Mass Effect and Starwars: Knights of the Old Republic. Its a much more storyline driven game than Demon's Souls and even though I'm only like 4 hours into it I'm hooked hard. I can't wait to try out all the different races "Origin" storys. If you've played Knights of the Old Republic it's similar in gameplay but seems more along the lines of a "Mature" fantasy storyline. Much less black and white choices than in the whole Jedi/Sith KoTOR games.

If highly recommend Dragon's Age for anyone who likes a good story rpg.
Demon's Souls on the otherhand I'd recommend renting first because it seems to piss a lot of people off with just how mean it is.

Xenogears. Best. RPG. Ever.

(IMHO)

Baldur's Gate II: It's one of the greatest RPG ever made and you can choose the sex of your character.

I picked up Dragon Age Orgins yesterday. I love it. Its made by the same people that made the old Baldurs gate computer games and they call it the spirital successor to them. After spend more the 6 hours playing I agree. You must play this if you like RPGs

Agree with Demon's Souls, it is a hands down fantastic action RPG. I love playing as blue phantoms in other people's games, and have yet to start playing as black phantoms except as the boss in world 3. It is my RPG of the year, with challenging but never unfair gameplay. I have yet to finish the game, though partially that is because I have restarted characters a couple times and currently have 2 characters I am playing, a pure fighter and a pure mage.

I've been a bit disappointed with Dragon's Age so far, though. I've played about four hours now and every indication so far has been that the story and setting is incredibly generic and the gameplay doesn't depart much from the gameplay in Neverwinter Nights 2. The dialogue and characterisation is excellent however, characteristic of Bioware's usual efforts. I will continue to try and get further however before making further judgement.

Baldur's Gate 2 is also excellent, although it's a little old now. It's one of my favourite old school RPGs and probably the reason why I was so excited about Dragon Age, its spiritual successor.

I'd also like to recommend two tactical RPGs, if I may. Jagged Alliance 2 and Valkyria Chronicles to me represent the best of their genre. The former is fairly old and can be picked up cheap on Steam, while the latter is fairly recent. Both games are fairly similar and very satisfying.

Agree with Demon's Soul's, but if you're a new gamer I don't recommend it. It'll chew your ass up and spit it back out mangled. Excellent game though.

I picked up Dragon's Age Tuesday and can't stop playing it, srsly badass RPG so far. Characterization and player character progression are incredibly well done and intricate. Gameplay is great, and yes, the graphics are among the best I've ever seen. And being a game that's not afraid to kill main characters (IE, realism) is very nice.

As for older RPG's, Final Fantasy 2, 6, 7, 9, 10 (My favs) Diablo II (yeah, action RPG but still absolutely amazing) Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate, Star Ocean 1, 2, 3 (various titles on those) Legend of Dragoon, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
All of those are damn good and classic games.

I have to go back and agree with my fellow PNW'er ViperAspis Xenogears if freaking amazing if you can get your hands on it... I dont even know how many times I've played through it but damn its AWESOME. Buuuut the main character is a guy so you'll have to deal with that... I think you'll survive.

Happy Gamin!

I'm a dinosaur - as far as I'm concerned, RPGs are games where you can do anything your character is capable of, because your GM (Game Master) is a human being, not a preprogrammed device.

I like the ruleset for GURPS, and the fact that the books themselves advise the GM to throw out anything that doesn't work for his/her particular game. I'm trying to set up a Star Wars game under GURPS - still working out how to define FTL speeds (I might go with J. Michael Straczyinski on this one, and say they move at the speed of plot) and defining how much the Force Sensitive and Jedi advantages should cost (and which Powers will be available to Jedi - maybe I should pick up a copy of GURPS Powers too...).

D&D is a quick-and-dirty ruleset for people who like hack'n'slash gaming with a minimum of character interaction - not that you can't roleplay in D&D, it's just that the rules don't explicitly encourage it any more. (In AD&D 2nd Ed, the DMG did specify rewards for roleplaying, and that talking your way out of a fight still counted as "defeating the encounter" - I can't find that phrasing in D&D 3.5, and I hear it's been completely dropped in 4.0...)

Zeller has a good point; I recommended Xenogears because you play as a female character, but only for a (relatively) short time. If you meant you want an RPG where you only play a female character 100% of the time, then Xenogears isn't the one.

Although the main guy Fei has a very long and luxurious pony tail...

<sigh> I'm such a hopeless Xenogears fanboy Until next time,

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Ahhh, mate, make it a Final Fantasy game! Especially Final Fantasy 9 for Playstation, because the armour and weapon system is most easily adapted to.

Also, if you like the Mario series, the Mario RPG games will be great for you! Befitting the RPG genre, the Mario RPG games feature a turn-based battle style, level up system, and the very last boss battle is always an epic fight! XD

star wars: knights of the old republic- xbox

Pokemon Gold- game boy color (a remake for the ds is coming out in the u.s. next year though)

tales of symphonia- gamecube

sonic chronicles: the dark brotherhood- ds

paper mario- n64

mario and luigi: partners in time- ds

chrono trigger- snes (theirs also a ds port)

final fantasy 4- gba (the originails for snes and their was a ds remake but the gba one is the best)

mass effect- 360

tales of the abyss- ps2

skies of arcadia- dreamcast (theirs a gamecube port of it to)

valkyrie profile: covenant of the plume- ds

world of warcraft- pc

spectrobes- ds

spectrobes 2: beyond the portals- ds

golden sun- gba

golden sun: the lost age- gba

dragon quest monsters: joker- ds

kingdom hearts: chain of memories- gba

tales of vesperia- 360

borderlands- 360

jade empire- xbox

lost odyssey- 360

Have you played Fallout 3, Mass Effect, or Fable 2? All of them are just fantastic, and you can play as a female in any of them. I would highly suggest Lost Odyssey if you're into Final Fantasy type RPG's, but the main character in that is male I'm afraid.

Fallout 3 is good especially for one who has played Oblivion... the interface is almost exactly copied from Oblivion (VATS replaces spellcasting and the block button will make you aim when using a gun, but other than that it's pretty much the same), so if you're an experienced Oblivion player (as you noted in the OP) then you should be able to jump right into Fallout 3 without having to learn a new interface. The interface is definitely more PC-friendly, however, so get it on a PC if you have one that has the juice to run the game... NOTE: if you get this game, definitely invest in at least the Broken Steel addon. The core game ends at the conclusion of the main quest, but Broken Steel allows you to play past the end of the game and finish all those side quests that you didn't do...

Mass Effect is also a really great game. Bioware certainly went to town on this one like they did for Kotor. A bit more FPS-oriented than previous Bioware games, but still retains that trademark well-developed plot and cinematic scope that Bioware is famous for. Controls are a bit quirky at times, although the PC port fixed a lot of those from what I've been told, as I've never experienced any real problems (other than climbing mountains on a 75 degree angle in my mako)...

Can't remark on Fable 2 however, at least until they decide to release the game on PC (I'm too cheap to own any console, and even if I had the money there's a few things I would be spending it on first before getting there, like my college education...)

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