(Western) RPG thread - Other Gaming Forum

Bankai · 2012-07-09T04:12:31+00:00

We've got a lot of conversations going on about the various JRPG franchises out there - Final Fantasies and all that - but surely there are some folks in NintendoLife world that like the occasional Western RPG? Or perhaps not, since the genre isn't exactly common on Nintendo consoles. Still, for the PS3/ Xbox 360/ PC/ iPad gamers out there who like these games - played any recently? What's your favourite from this generation/ all time? I've been playing through The Witcher 2, and I think it's going to overtake Dragon Age: Origins as my favourite RPG of the generation. The story plays out a bit better (thanks to being based on novels, I guess), and the combat is more on the tactical side of things. Not to say I don't love Dragon Age deeply, but Witcher is really, really compelling. Historically it's hard to go past Morrowind as the RPG I spent the most time playing, but there's a little-known Dungeons and Dragons game called Wake of the Ravager that held most of my attention as a teenager. That game was the first to make me realise that PC games could indeed hold a similar amount of freedom as the pen-and-paper games.

Topic: (Western) RPG thread

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RancidVomit86
Mon 9th Jul 2012

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Cia
Mon 9th Jul 2012

I didn't like Skyrim at all, and generally don't like WRPG:s. However, World of Warcraft is a masterpiece (when played in RPG realm). The game has been in market for so long, that it 's starting to be nearly impossible to match the scope of it. The lore is also great, as is it's artistic direction and music.

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The_Fox
Tue 10th Jul 2012

LollipopChoSaw wrote:

In many ways I preferred Amalur, which took real creative risk.

Of course, Bethesda is still around and profitable, and 38 Games is dead. So much for creativity

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Ugh, I couldn't disagree with you more with Amalur. It felt like it stole as much as possible from other, better games. Luckily, this also gives me a chance to randomly point out that Curt Schilling is a giant turd masquerading as a person.

On a more positive note, I agree that Dragon's Age was a great game. No so much with the sequel.

[Edited Tue 10th Jul 2012 by The_Fox]

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Wheels2050
Tue 10th Jul 2012

I've grown up playing WRPGs (since JRPGs were and still are rare on PC). Some of my favourites are:

Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. (Seriously, if you're looking for a first WRPG to play, THIS is the one).
Knights of the Old Republic I and II
Dragon Age Origins
Dungeons of Dredmor (the newest on this list, and a fun intro to roguelikes)

Some others that are meant to be good include: (I own these but haven't played them much/at all):

Nox (an old, and I think mostly forgotten RPG from Westwood - the Command and Conquer guys)
Planescape Torment (widely considered to have basically perfected narrative in a computer game)
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (great premise, unfortunately a bit buggy but I think there are fan patches that fix a lot of it)
Fallout 1 and 2

Most of these are older games, which is mainly because I've been buying fewer games in recent years. On the upside, they should run on basically any PC bought in the last decade!

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