What RPG should I play?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:40 pm

I need a rpg to play and since I cant afford NWN platinum for my collection yet im gonna have to try an old one. Ive been playing M&M 6 but need a break on it. The throw all the monsters at me you can routine does'nt cut it these days.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:51 pm

All these are new to you? Fallout. Replay? Baldur's.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:38 pm

No they would all be replays.

Vinda-Lou · Post by **Vinda-Lou** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:08 pm

Arcanum was the game I most wanted to enjoy, but it lacked soul.

Dig up your System Shock 2, download the rebirth meshes, and play through that bad boy again! I reinstalled last night. I'm going through as a straight marine, or whichever is the soldier as opposed to the hacker or psi-guy.

CSL · Post by **CSL** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:52 am

I loved Arcanum, so go play it.

ChrisGwinn · Post by **ChrisGwinn** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:30 pm

If you haven't done it, play Fallout 1 or 2 as a really stupid character (intelligence 1 or 2). The dialogue is completely different and hysterical, as are some of the solutions to quests. Really stupid with a high charisma is even funnier. I think 2 is actually the better dumb character game.

BG2 / ToEE don't seem like they would be that different on a replay.

Eightball · Post by **Eightball** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:33 pm

Love the dumb guy conversation in FO2 with the idiot in the second village....the cow watcher guy. Just classic.

godhugh · Post by **godhugh** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:36 pm

All the rest pale in comparison to BG2, and it does play very differently depending on the party size/NPC's you take with you.

Bad Demographic · Post by **Bad Demographic** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:48 pm

Gah! How many times did I glance at this thread and not pick up on the fact that it belongs in PC Gaming in General?
Moving.

quantum · Post by **quantum** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:21 pm

I found BG2 to be soul-rendingly vapid to replay. But if you do (foolishly) decide to go down that route, be sure to download the mod that lets you skip Irenicus's starter dungeon.

Why not Gothic, Gothic 2, or Wizardry 8?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:29 am

Ahhh, Wizardry 8 - there is a title you don't hear much talk about around these parts...a sadly underrated classic CRPG, created in the modern era.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:54 am

All these are new to you? Fallout. Replay? Baldur's.
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No they would all be replays.

Then pick the one which still has a radically different play experience.

In BG2, been a fighter, try a mage or vice versa.

In Fallout, there is HtH vs. ranged, or Big Guns, or Pacifist, or even Stupid, though the latter is quite limited.

And I can feel your pain on MM6. It's like the developers thought:

Hey, killing a dragon is cool, so it must be really cool to kill 100 Dragons.

MM7 is worse.

Here's a fun MM6 trick, though (if you haven't cleared out the undead areas):

Fly in circles around the undead, herding them into a tight circle. Get all the undead in the area if you want to. Then dash off in one direction and finish them all off at once with the meteor spell.

Buatha · Post by **Buatha** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:39 am

Carpet_pissr wrote:Ahhh, Wizardry 8 - there is a title you don't hear much talk about around these parts...a sadly underrated classic CRPG, created in the modern era.

Well, I mainly enjoyed the game right up until the roads between cities. Jesus, how I hated the wandering monsters on the road. Plus, since the game scales the monsters to your party level, each fight was a challenge...like a thirty minute challenge every so many feet of road.

However, it also may have ruined my party by having specialized classes which are a bit harder to start out.

Finally, if you remember, was there a problem using that cursed sword that did insane damage except for not being able to un-equip it?

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:32 pm

thread-jack continuation:

the Wiz 8 start was definitely on the "hard" end of the scale. I also used a lot of specialty chars but slogged through that first (unbalanced) dungeon and specifically the road to the first city ...after that, it was all glory (imo).

I guess I am just a sucker for ANY "modern" crpg that uses that format (party format, roll your chars up front, first person view, turn based combat) still, since they are practically extinct now.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:19 pm

I played Wiz8..got bored of it fairly quickly. The road travelling did get damn annoying.

Caine · Post by **Caine** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:42 pm

perhpas i should ask the same question for myself. been iching to play an rpg, but as i have so many of them, i got no clue where to start. hell, half of the ones i have i haven't even touched. bought them for collection. i figure that if i stopped buying new games now and just played rpg's until i finished them, i could go for a good 5 years solid.

Hrnac · Post by **Hrnac** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:28 pm

I will toss Arx Fatalis and both Gothic games into the mix as fun RPG's to try.

-Hrnac

O.DOGG · Post by **O.DOGG** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:46 pm

Play Torment again. For the first time.

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