Boards.ie Top 50 CRPGs of All Time

mewso

I thought the boards top 50 games was fun and seeing as rpg is my favorite genre I thought we could do the same here and maybe at the same time breath some life into this sub-forum. Anyway list your top 10 crpgs of all time and given a reasonable amount of time (a week or so?) I will compile the results (assuming we get more than one or two contributions). I need to have a think about my top 10 before posting it but thought I would suggest it for starters. For the sake of argument it has to be listed as an rpg on mobygames. So any interest?

Mr Freeze

FFS, only seeing this now, can't believe voting is closed already :pac:

Will have a think and post back. Good Idea.

Angron

Giving this a bit of thought first, have a rough idea of a top 10 for myself, but I'm just checking mobygames to see if there's any obvious ones I've missed.

mewso

The RPG Codex top 50 list on gog is always worth a look for reference if not for the amazing fact that they have 50 rpgs they agreed on. Codexians are notorious haters from what I can see if anyone is wondering.

Angron

Heh, Icewind Dale. I haven't played that game in years!

Guyanachronism

The Codex list has put me off now, seems so highbrow . . .

but here goes:

1. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Chrono Trigger
4. Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen
5. Guild Wars 2
6. Bards Tale
7. Grandia
9. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
9. Final Fantasy IX
10. Fall Out: New Vegas

Hard to choose between things that are technically good (Guild Wars 2) and things that I have a sentimental attachment to (FFVII and Grandia)

Reekwind

My list. Surprised that Skyrim made it on to it. Probably reflects the dearth of great RPGs in the past few years

1. Planescape
2. Baldur's Gate
3. Vampire: Bloodlines
4. KOTOR 2
5. Baldur's Gate 2
6. Deus Ex
7. Arcanum
8. Fallout
9. King of Dragon Pass
10. Skyrim

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

if you're counting deus ex what about systme shock 2? .. and then what about stalker? cos if you can count stalker i already know my top 2

mewso

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

if you're counting deus ex what about systme shock 2? .. and then what about stalker? cos if you can count stalker i already know my top 2

The reason I link to mobygames is so we can avoid discussing what qualifies and just get on with it. Sadly this means Stalker doesn't get in as it would be in my list too otherwise.

Vojera

What my list tells me is that:
a) I haven't played that many RPGs
b) The RPGs on my to-do list (Persona 4, Chrono Trigger, the older Castlevanias) have been there FAR too long.
c) I somehow managed to leave TWEWY off my top 10 games of all time list. Oops.

1. The World Ends With You (NDS)
2. Shin Megami Tensei - Devil Survivor (NDS)
3. Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
4. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (NDS)
5. Kingdom Hearts (PS2)
6. Bastion (PC)
7. Final Fantasy VIII (PS)
8. Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2)
9. Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (NDS)
10. Bishoujo Sensei Sailor Moon: Another Story (SNES)

Raphael

Mah list, with commentary. Platform is the one I played it on, not necessarily the one I think it should be played on or was best on.

1. Baldurs Gate 2 (PC) - Hands down the reason I spend most of my leisure time rolling dice and pretending to be somebody else. Both an amazing game, a cultural institution, and a formative part of my childhood
2. Deus Ex (PC) - One of the best games ever. Misses the top spot only because of what BG2 means to me.
3. Knights of the Old Republic (XBOX) - That reveal. Phwoar. This game got me into Star Wars in a big way.
4. Baldurs Gate (PC) - The sequel may have got me into roleplaying, but this game got me into CRPGs.
5. Neverwinter Nights (PC) - To date I've definitely still clocked more hours of NWN than any other game, and possibly than all other games combined. It's not higher because almost none of that was actually in the game itself...
6. Planescape (PC) - I think I might be ostracized for putting this so low, but I just never got into it in a big way. Still good, just not top 5 good for me.
7. Morrowind (PC) - My favourite Elder Scrolls game, and the only one that makes this list. Just so much bigger than the ones that followed. Also the only Elder Scrolls game I've ever completed.
8. Mount & Blade (PC) - Played this a lot in the alpha, never so much after release, but it's a damn fine game engine.
9. Fallout: New Vegas (XB360) - Post apocolyptic cowboys, the game. Nuff said.
10. Icewind Dale (PC) - Not having party NPCs killed a lot of the appeal of an Infinity Engine game for me, so this doesn't place higher.

Retr0gamer

1) Mother 3
2) Earthbound
3) Persona 4
4) System Shock 2
5) Chrono Trigger
6) Panzer Dragoon Saga
7) Etrian Odyssey
8) Deus Ex
9) Phantasy Star 4
10) Grandia

I need to play more Western RPGs!

Vojera

Vojera wrote: »

What my list tells me is that:
a) I haven't played that many RPGs
b) The RPGs on my to-do list (Persona 4, Chrono Trigger, the older Castlevanias) have been there FAR too long.
c) I somehow managed to leave TWEWY off my top 10 games of all time list. Oops.

1. The World Ends With You (NDS)
2. Shin Megami Tensei - Devil Survivor (NDS)
3. Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
4. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (NDS)
5. Kingdom Hearts (PS2)
6. Bastion (PC)
7. Final Fantasy VIII (PS)
8. Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2)
9. Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (NDS)
10. Bishoujo Sensei Sailor Moon: Another Story (SNES)

I changed my list! I can't edit my original post any more. I forgot Bastion.

Grimebox

Retr0gamer wrote: »

1) Mother 2
2) Earthbound
3) Persona 4
4) System Shock 2
5) Chrono Trigger
6) Panzer Dragoon Saga
7) Etrian Odyssey
8) Deus Ex
9) Phantasy Star 4
10) Grandia

I need to play more Western RPGs!

Is Mother 2 and Earthbound not the same game?

Retr0gamer

Grimebox wrote: »

Is Mother 2 and Earthbound not the same game?

Ah crap I meant Mother 3.

Raphael

Vojera wrote: »

I changed my list! I can't edit my original post any more. I forgot Bastion.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ah crap I meant Mother 3.

Fixed and Fixed. I R helpful.

Retr0gamer

Vojera wrote: »

10. Bishoujo Sensei Sailor Moon: Another Story (SNES)

Is that Sailor Moon RPG any good? As an unapologetic fan of Sailor Moon, playing a decent sailor moon RPG would be great.

Vojera

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Is that Sailor Moon RPG any good? As an unapologetic fan of Sailor Moon, playing a decent sailor moon RPG would be great.

It's only okay. It makes my top 10 due to my tragically small sample pool to select from rather than being really great, if you know what I mean. I still had fun playing it, although telling the difference between all the senshi was hard at times because I never actually watched or read Sailor Moon (which is being rectified this Christmas). I'd give it a six or seven out of ten.

EDIT: You should also know, I like virtually everything, so I tend to mark generously compared to other people.

Retr0gamer

Vojera wrote: »

It's only okay. It makes my top 10 due to my tragically small sample pool to select from rather than being really great, if you know what I mean. I still had fun playing it, although telling the difference between all the senshi was hard at times because I never actually watched or read Sailor Moon (which is being rectified this Christmas). I'd give it a six or seven out of ten.

Watch it in Japanese. The English dub is so-so, the original japanese language version is comedy gold!

mewso

This isn't looking like a goer to be honest but either way another week can't hurt and I still haven't had time to sit down and come up with my own 10.

Angron

I'm kinda struggling with my list really. It's more likely to end up being a bunch of Pokémon games, with some Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and a Dawn of War game that I didn't think counted for RPG but was listed on the mobygames site.

mewso

Well cancelled I suppose. Not enough interest.

Grimebox

mewso wrote: »

Well cancelled I suppose. Not enough interest.

If you posted in Games, I'm sure you would get a bigger response

mewso

Ah well I had hoped to encourage more visitors to this forum. It would be nice if people started popping in here to talk about rpgs other than the latest Bioware/Bethesda release.

Morag

Well this forum tends to be about table top RPGing, and it's currently off season for that for many people

mewso

Morag wrote: »

Well this forum tends to be about table top RPGing, and it's currently off season for that for many people

Things have changed and this forum is now for crpgs. Tapletop has it's own forum.

Raphael

mewso wrote: »

Things have changed and this forum is now for crpgs. Tapletop has it's own forum.

Located here

mewso wrote: »

Ah well I had hoped to encourage more visitors to this forum. It would be nice if people started popping in here to talk about rpgs other than the latest Bioware/Bethesda release.

Yeah, me too, but without moving some threads from the Games forum, I don't really see that happening

mewso

Once the turkey and ham has settled I might start a thread or two.

Reekwind

Do RPGs need their own forum? Or JRPGs their own subforum?