It is time - New RPG Codex Holy Trinity™ your fav top 5

[Vault Dweller]

Top 5:

Fallout, Arcanum, Ultima Underworld, Star Trail (Realms of Arkania 2), Darklands.

Another 5 to make it top 10:

Daggerfall, Prelude to Darkness, Torment, Mask of the Betrayer, Ultima 7.

Runners up: Gothic 2 with the expansion, Bloodlines, and Betrayal at Krondor.

 

[King Crispy]

Jaesun casts Summon Developer

SUCCESS!

 

[Shagnak]

I'll post here as soon as I've fed the kids.

This will actually take a bit of thinking, because I've played fuck all rpgs in recent times. Well, fuck all anything, other than Stalker CoP.

What I do know is that there is nothing at all recent that would make it into my top 5, or even 10. And the only ones I've really enjoyed at all have been essentially clones of old games (e.g. Dark Spire, which isn't even a PC game).

Edit: I've even bought all of Bioware and Obsidian's more recent stuff (except ME2) like a good little drone, and thought that they were all shit. Hated The Witcher. I guess I'm jaded with the genre, but then again I'll fire up something old and crusty and enjoy it immensely.

 

[Jaesun]

Please do Shagnak. There is a reason I am only doing top 5, I'll explain later.

Again if you have not listed your top 5 yet, please do!

 

[Shagnak]

This is probably a little different from when we last did this.

Ultima V
Ultima IV (Couldn't decide between Ultima IV and V so I chose both)
Fallout
Wizardry 8
Wizards and Warriors (a SGLF game if there ever was one, greater than the sum of its stinky little parts)

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

Fallout
Bloodlines
Ultima 7
Arcanum
PST

Can I change my vote? Ditch PS:T for Deus Ex. This might end up being my favorite game... too much fun.

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

My top 5:

Fallout 2 (played it before 1, and I've always preferred it)
Planescape: Torment (visually and aurally the most attractive RPG I've ever played. Great atmosphere, and adventure game inspired gameplay too.)
Deus Ex (yeah, yeah it's RPG-enough)
NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer (which I desperately need to replay)
Chrono Trigger (JRPG but it's got as much C&C as your average Bioware game, and is just so much damn fun that it's still one of my favorite games after all these years)

 

[relootz]

muh how can i vote when i still haven't played a lot of RPG's.

 

[Hazelnut]

Well, fuck all anything, other than Stalker CoP.

Glad it's not just me... god I fucking love the stalker games. I'd pay a lot for another one! Enjoyed some mods as well.

Seeing PS:T on a lot of lists - I played it partially though years ago and stopped. Recently (ran out of Stalker) tried again and got as far as finding some chief corpse gatherer in some hidden underground city - and being sent into crypt (?) MY GOD HOW CAN I JUST AVOID THE CRAPPY COMBAT? I do want to try and play this though to see what I'm missing, but I hate the combat. Its why I stopped last time as well.

<-hehe when did that arrive?

 

[LameNinja]

Gothic 2: NotR
Fallout
Deus Ex
Arcanum
Neverwinter Nights

 

[ScottishMartialArts]

Well, fuck all anything, other than Stalker CoP.

Glad it's not just me... god I fucking love the stalker games. I'd pay a lot for another one! Enjoyed some mods as well.

Seeing PS:T on a lot of lists - I played it partially though years ago and stopped. Recently (ran out of Stalker) tried again and got as far as finding some chief corpse gatherer in some hidden underground city - and being sent into crypt (?) MY GOD HOW CAN I JUST AVOID THE CRAPPY COMBAT? I do want to try and play this though to see what I'm missing, but I hate the combat. Its why I stopped last time as well.

<-hehe when did that arrive?

The combat sections are so short that they account for a very, very small amount of the overall gameplay time. The catacombs take maybe a half-hour to get through, not counting the Dead Nations which are basically a town.

 

[Lothers]

Fallout
Fallout 2
Torment
Gothic
Morrowind

I'd put Deus EX, System Shock 2 and Anachronox - but rather to my list of favourite games, not list of favourite rpgs...

 

[empi]

Fallout
Fallout 2
BG 2
RoA2 Star Trail
ADOM

 

[Vault Dweller]

You have until July 4th (or until this thread dies) to play Fallout (the first one) and update your vote.

 

[Zomg]

The combat sections are so short that they account for a very, very small amount of the overall gameplay time. The catacombs take maybe a half-hour to get through, not counting the Dead Nations which are basically a town.

No discussion in the thead faggot

also that is a huge lie there is fucktons of horrible combat in and after the garden. If you can't take the just old fashioned intermittent shitty D&D combat from early on you can't hack the true shithammer last third of the game, do not even try you will only hurt yourself friend.

 

[Jaesun]

You have until July 4th (or until this thread dies) to play Fallout (the first one) and update your vote.

EDIT:

I will have the results tomorrow for the SHOCKING REVELATION! (And I am waiting on a few PM replies for people to clarify their vote).

 

[random_encounter]

Last minute entry from the top of my head:

Wasteland
System Shock
Fallout 2
Bard's Tale III
Planescape: Torment

 

[Jaesun]

If you have not listed your top 5 yet, please do! Today is the last day.

 

[Serious_Business]

1. Torment
2. Deus Ex
3. System Shock 2
4. Ultima VII
5. Geneforge 1

Fuck Arcanum, never liked it. Even Fallout didn't make it on the list. A shock isn't it. Oh well

 

[Gragt]

Arcanum, Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Mask of the Betrayer and …

I don't know which one should get the fifth place. Maybe Daggerfall or Gothic 2, even if I do not like it much. And then I got so many more games to play …

Yeah, it's the 5th, I know.

 

[Destroid]

Fallout
Fallout 2
Ultima 6
Deus Ex
Arcanum

Morrowind got dropped off and Deus Ex added.

 

[Jaesun]

Arcanum, Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Mask of the Betrayer and …

I don't know which one should get the fifth place. Maybe Daggerfall or Gothic 2, even if I do not like it much. And then I got so many more games to play …

Yeah, it's the 5th, I know.

It's still the 4th here in the USA (West Coast).

 

[sportforredneck]

West Coast is for fags....wait...

 

[mister_matt]

Baldur's Gate 2
Planescape: Torment
TES: Morrowind

..and, well, I don't really know. I'm trying hard not to list whatever infinity engine games that I've played. I haven't played very many games compared to most of you guys, so I'll stick with these three that I know pretty well.

 

[Tex]

Dwarf Fortress
Fallout
Arcanum
JA2
Darklands