What RPG do you recommend?

[Azathoth]

If you can find a copy of it, Planescape: Torment is the single greatest roleplaying game ever. It's even better than Baldur's Gate II (and that's almost heretical to say!).

It's the only game I've ever played which actually deals with ideas - it's pretty philosophical. The setting is absolutely unique (something rare in the world of video games), and the action is fast paced.

Be prepared to do a *lot* of reading.

[Error1312]

My favorites:

Diablo II (great hack&slash)
Morrowind + expansions
Dungeon Siege I & II
and currently, World of Warcraft

I'd like to play those older rpg's like Septerra Core, Planescape Torment and Nox (one of the best Diablo II clones of the old days I've heard), but unfortunately they are hard to find.

[HieroGlyph]

So how is Ultima Online these days? Ive tried that one... Also tried Everquest I and DAoC and... others.
Im a huge AC fan myself and as has been said afore... I g2g...

[Brys]

Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind for an excellent fantasy RPG (you can get it quite cheap now), but as the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is coming out soon, you might want to wait for that.
For a science fiction RPG, I'd suggest X3: Reunion.

[Foxtale]

Definitely a fan of the Morrowind game and expansions. It's still really great and the mods for it make it last forever.

[Rahl Windsong]

I have been following a game in development for almost 2 years now its called Ages of Athiria. This game will change the Massive Multiplayer Online Game into a genre more interested in story then levels and items like 99% of MMOG's are now.

http://www.agesofathiria.com/

This development team is so intent on making this game the way they want to they have turned down several investors in order that they can complete this game as according to their vision, and they have embarked on self funding and run several other business to fund AoA. Because of this development has been slow but they are still 100% behind this project and I have to support these guys and its because they are making my dream game!

Key Points:

1) One server for 50K players. However there will be servers all over the globe and as you travel around the game world you will also be traveling around the servers.

2) With the above "one server" idea they can then play the game with the players, as gods, bring a dynamic story to the game that players can take part in. This story will change according to how or what the players do with it.

3) Player built and run cities with 4 different types of government from democracy to communism and player cities can set their own laws

4) Perma-death for a punishment for murder if caught. Now I know this sounds harsh but hear me out. Each city can have its own laws. So say city A had the death penalty for murder and you kill a player from that city.

Now if you are caught by anyone from that city and can't beat them in a fight they have the option of permanently making you dead as in re-roll of your character. Also if caught by an NPC guard they will kill you every time, if a player catches you that player has to make a choice...do I kill them permanently or do I say its ok? If they let you go you are no longer a murderer for that reason and are once again free to enter that cities domain. However at the same time you, the murderer, could belong to a city that has no death penalty and you are perfectly safe as long as you are never caught by the player(s) or guards from the city the player belonged to that you murdered.

With the absolutely vast size of this world I don't doubt for a second that there will be very old and infamous murderer characters in this game. With a harsh penalty for murder like in real life very few players will have the intestinal fortitude required to be a murderer. What this does is it adds a real reason not to kill other players and at the same time it allows for very real and deadly murderers to exist! My god the RP possiblitites with that are amazing!!

5) When a dungeon gets cleared (very hard to do) it will stay that way until the dynamic storyline comes up with a reason for new monsters to move into it. Spawn in the game won't be like regular MMOG's where a player goes out and kills 100 deer or what ever to harvest leather. Think about that...if you have ever hunted in real life its hard enough to pack the resources of ONE deer out of the bush. Spawn can also form alliances and band together to attack players.

6) Wheather and world effects like earthquakes will effect travel and what the player can do and how effective they are at doing it. Travelling from one city to the next wont be a "taxi ride" like in most games it will instead be, like real life, much more difficult making things like caravans, shipping, etc a viable business in AoA.

7) New technology will have to be discovered by the player base and this includes magic.

If you are interested then read the entire FAQ and register for the forums, their forums are a secure website. I really think when this game does go live it will really be something and be much more then the cookie-cutter chatroom games like World of Warcraft and EQ2. I post there as Rahl Windsong.


Rahl

[Presea]

Morrowind and it's expansions has been especially fun to me - mainly because it is the only game I have experienced in which you can literally play however you want to. Nearly every object and NPC in the game is interactive, and there are so many angles at which to play you wouldn't really know where to start. That's what I found, anyway.

Umm if you have a gamecube, get Tales of Symphonia! It's an absolutely huge game, and the visuals are so colourful and yummy. That is, if you like cute, storyline-filled adventures. >.> And Grandia II of course - that goes without saying.

Did anyone here ever play Alundra? That's been one of my all time favourites for a while now.. though I haven't seen it around in ages.

[Foxtale]

Damn that game sounds awesome. But I think I might stick to waiting for Anathema to come out. Might register anyways just to get news. It's nice to see MMORPGs taking a new step.

[lightvsdarkness]

Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Final Fantasy 7, KOTORs. The greatest games ever... Characters, storyline - it is important.

Morrowind will be forgotten. Oblivion. TES 5. Graphic does not mean anything. "Freedom" in actions will expand. If you recommend such games, after few years you must recommend new morrowinds.

But Planescape will be charming many years, no matter how matter what AI will be in TES 10...

[Rahl Windsong]

Lately I have been addicted to Neverwinter Nights and I can't believe I am saying that about a 4 year old game. The reason this game is still going strong today, besides it being a great D&D game, is the fact that the game released with a toolset so that players could make their own adventures.

The toolset is not some cheap thing either, the game modules created by players are every bit as good and some are even better then the ones made by Bioware.

So after 4+ years of this game being out there the amount of content for it is staggering to say the least. There are online worlds set in LOTR, there are single player game modules set in George RR Martin's Westeros, there is just about anything you can think of out there waiting for an NWN owner to download for free and play

The game itself reminds me of the old SSI Gold Box D&D games with updated graphics and sound and the thing is I loved those old games so NWN is like RPG heaven for me! Not only that but my older system runs this game at all the highest settings so preformance of an older system is not a concern with Neverwinter Nights, thats not to say the graphics are poor though I run it set at 1280x960 resolution, there is also shadows and other nice lighting in this engine. The graphics and sound are really quite good.

Anyway thats what I am playing lately!

Rahl

[cornelius]

diablo II for me , all the way... the expansion and the fact that the map schanges everytime you start a new character sure make it interesting

[Hawkshaw_245]

I'm an old-school RPG-gamer from way back. Played a lot of D & D, Traveller, and other similar games. Don't know much about the new stuff.

[Winters_Sorrow]

Hi Hawkshaw & welcome to the forums.

Similar to you, I was a pen & paper role-player as well.
It makes me feel very old (though I'm not!) when people look blankly at me when I mention Citadel minatures or RPGs like Paranoia & Ravenloft.

Nice to meet another fan of Traveller, though

They're mainly discussing computer role-playing games in this thread, however.

[scalem X]

I liked icewind dale more than baldur's gate I&II
Morrowind was okay too.

I like "prince of qin" but it never got famous somehow.

[Brys]

Originally Posted by lightvsdarkness

Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Final Fantasy 7, KOTORs. The greatest games ever... Characters, storyline - it is important.

Morrowind will be forgotten. Oblivion. TES 5. Graphic does not mean anything. "Freedom" in actions will expand. If you recommend such games, after few years you must recommend new morrowinds.

But Planescape will be charming many years, no matter how matter what AI will be in TES 10...

Unfortunately, Oblivion is not just a simple graphical update to Morrowind. It fundamentally changes the focus of gameplay style. The basics are still there - freedom of movement, a large world to explore, character development etc, but its still seen a huge shift towards action gaming rather than role playing. Morrowind/Daggerfall, despite aging graphics, will remain superior to the other TES games unless the later ones see a huge improvement again, which I feel is unlikely.

I liked Neverwinter Nights for a while, but eventually the levelling system and linearity of the game frustrated me too much.