What Are Your Favorite Computer RPGs?

[Jamcat]

What are your favorite computer-based RPGs?

For me, the all-time great computer RPG would be Dungeon Hack from SSI. What I like about Dungeon Hack is that the Dungeons were randomly generated every time you played. And every factor in the game could be custom tweaked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Hack

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dungeon-hack

After Dungeon Hack, the next best computer RPGs would be Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss, and Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Underworld

http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/ultima-underworld-series

[Mike Taylor]

Though I didn't play it on the PC, strictly speaking, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was pretty damned good as a role-playing game.

[dthsapprntc]

My all time favorite computer rpg is The Elderscrolls; Morrowind.

[Jamcat]

Well, I guess we can throw in console & handheld RPGs as well.

Let's see... Favorite RPGs I can think of in that area would be the Golden Sun RPGs for the Game Boy Advance. And Parasite Eve RPGs on the original PlayStation.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Ive always had a special place in my heart for Final Fantasy's

Also I played one on a playstation where you play this a kid who fights with tonfa and his best friend who runs off and turns evil you get a castle and start a rebellion while collecting about 100 different heroes including 3 flying squirrels. No idea what it was called.

[Lithanial]

Grandia 1/2 no contest. though they wont release the 3rd over here :( gits.

[Crazeyal]

I'm STILL playing Starcraft.

[Lithanial]

since when was that a RPG?

[Crazeyal]

You ever BEEN on Battle.net? It's a roleplaying game just getting a match!

[Lithanial]

hah true :D and then those battlenet guys went on to play WoW and drive me up the wall :drool:

[sableagle]

My all time favorite computer rpg is The Elderscrolls; Morrowind.

Then I get to ask you whether everyone p____ng me off so much was actually part of the storyline put there to push players towards fulfilling their grand destiny or whatever it was.

After too many people giving me the equivalent of "What the **** do you want, Nigger?" and "Keep your sticky thieving paws to yourself you damned savage!" all the time I was in no mood to help any of them, including the dope-bombed agent supposed to be my mentor.

Was it really open-ended or was it basically a case of taking your time about getting to the one and only possible end other than an inglorious death?

[Jamcat]

One computer RPG I wanted to play but never got a chance to was Fallout. A post nuclear Mad Max type RPG.

Sadly I can't seem to find it on the abandonware sites.

[sableagle]

I played Fallout 2. It had some good points but it really bugged me on several details.

[Plunder Down-Under]

I know plenty people who played Morrowind and never followed that questline, so if you consider open ended to mean "plot optional" then yes.

[Jamcat]

Here is a cool RPG:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/532/Whales+Voyage.html

Outline:
Whale’s Voyage basically is an RPG that features space trading elements. Your crew visits several planets where they can barter a range of goods and accomplish certain missions in order to increase their budget and obtain better equipment for their ship and themselves.

Story:
You command the crew of the Whale, a space freighter which once might have been an impressive ship. But soon, your men realize that their second-hand bought vehicle was such a cheap deal, not because of their superb bargaining skills but simply because it’s a piece of scrap. So, you’ve got an almost wrecked ship orbiting a planet which is faaar away from beloved earth and you’ve got no money – to sum up: you’ve got a big problem! Your task will be, as you have certainly already guessed, to find a way to boost your finances and get back home! Sounds easy? Rest assured, it ain’t…

[Fade2Black]

My favorite RPG of all time is Final Fantasy IX. I'm probably showing my age here, but I used to play
Infocom games in middle school.

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/1692/lookitup2ct7.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom)

[dthsapprntc]

Then I get to ask you whether everyone p____ng me off so much was actually part of the storyline put there to push players towards fulfilling their grand destiny or whatever it was.

After too many people giving me the equivalent of "What the **** do you want, Nigger?" and "Keep your sticky thieving paws to yourself you damned savage!" all the time I was in no mood to help any of them, including the dope-bombed agent supposed to be my mentor.

Was it really open-ended or was it basically a case of taking your time about getting to the one and only possible end other than an inglorious death?

Annoying people is what killing sprees are for. Besides, it is possible to mod that out of the game.

As for the ending, well, I only finished the game twice, both times the last guy pissed me off so I killed him, I don't really know if the other options you have pan out to anything.

I think what they mean about open ended is that you can continue to play the game after you have completed the main quest, as there is still hundreds of quests left to do, and then there are all the expansions, both official and unofficial.

I am now going to add to the list of fav rpgs: Final Fantasy VII, VIII and X. The Elder Scrolls; Oblivion, Gothic I and II.

[Plunder Down-Under]

I loved morrowind cause cheating was so easy, gotta fight your way past gods to destroy a heart? Screw that my boots fly.. AWAY!