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Greatest RPG Story

octavius

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In general any good game where story does not interfere with game mechanics.

But for an actual good story (more mature than Feist's juvenile novels IMO): Betrayal at Krondor.

Best background story: Morrowind.
 

Chippy

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PST. But generally Baldurs Gate because it made you feel like you were a roleplaying a character in an existing IP/world. PST also acomplished this, just not as well since it was a story about the main character and his history.
 
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Dragon Age II was a great master piece in terms of story telling. I will never forget Dragon Age II for its story or for its gameplay, it was a twist none of us expected or wanted but we still got it. It was truly the pinnacle of gaming and the most underappreciated story form taken to a new medium. Instead of playing as a glorious hero on their mission to save the world, it concentrates on episodic unrelated events. It revolves around the hero who is deposed of their position and is now in the big city. The story takes place in the form of episodic events that happen within the main characters life. Like them becoming and entrepreneur. You can also fuck other dudes, and a dwarf which is totally super incline. Only way to have made it better is if one of the episodic events was where the main character transitioned to a werekin dwarf homo.
 

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Is this a joke question?

Of fucking course Planescape Torment.

BG series cant compete with it because what bhaalspawn angle toward, godhood or not, The Nameless One already achieve. What TNO currently trying to do is to fix his own mess, not gaining godhood.
 

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Final Fantasy X will always stick in my mind. Cheesy as fuck, but it just told the story so, so well that it sucked me in big time.

An absolute ton of detail throughout. Love, humour, death, sadness, drama, action, family issues, friendship connetions, the lot.

And that ending still does me.

Auron you legend :salute:
 

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The greatest story ina RPG is not the one where you follow a story, but the one where you write a story. So is Age of Decadence (and lots of more)! But that doesn't make FFX a great story RPG, cause it doesn't have any choices nor consequences, you just follow an adventure.
 
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