[Poll] Fantasy games, non-RPG

[Jason Liang]

This poll is a request from Falksi . If you are like me, you loved fantasy and fantasy games, before you ever played your first rpg. I remember falling in love with Rastan while waiting at the Pizza Hut when I was a kid.

Currently the poll has these genres-
- Platformer
- Action Adventure
- Arcade
- Shooter
- Beat-em Up
- Fighting games
- Pinball
- Wargames
- Board games
- Flight Simulators

Let me know if you want to see adventure, or strategy rpg/ squad management/ 4x as well. I left out action rpgs from Diablo on, and MMOs.

Also I've left out fantasy-horror like Castlevania, and Ninja-fantasy like Ninja Gaiden, etc...

For some games with sequels, just vote for the series.

 

[Jason Liang]

Actraiser? What is your favourite pizza?

Yes I was trying to think of the name of this one, thanks!

 

[A horse of course]

I don't play videogames.

 

[grimace]

In no particular order.

Not in alphabetical order.

Just a selection of games that are a "fantasy" setting?

Are these fantasy games because they include some kind of "magic" in them?

Magic but no ninjas? Fantasy but not gothic castles?

 

[Falksi]

Nice work dude.

One to add to the list, Black Tiger

 

[Jason Liang]

In no particular order.

Not in alphabetical order.

Just a selection of games that are a "fantasy" setting?

Are these fantasy games because they include some kind of "magic" in them?

Magic but no ninjas? Fantasy but not gothic castles?

It's kind of in order, by system/ genre.

Yeah I had trouble drawing the line between fantasy and historic medieval. I was thinking Defender of the Crown but it's just a bad game. While Castles would be a game I would actually vote for.

 

[grimace]

Jason Liang I appreciate the effort. The contribution to discussion about games is always appreciated.

In my mind The Legend of Zelda NES is the video game version of Tom Cruise in LEGEND.

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[ghostdog]

Secret of mana is a jrpg though

 

[Jason Liang]

Secret of mana is a jrpg though

It has co-operative multiplayer so that makes it different enough from a normal rpg and more like Gauntlet or Dark Seal.

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[ghostdog]

Secret of mana is a jrpg though

It has co-operative multiplayer so that makes it different enough from a normal rpg and more like Gauntlet or Dark Seal.

Secret of Mana is a 1993 Super Nintendo game. Are you gonna bring shitty remakes into this?

Dude seriously...

EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_Mana

 

[DraQ]

So, no:

• Myth
• Hexen
• Dishonored
• Netstorm
• any godsims

Not to mention quite a handful of less orthodox/more whimsical games that should still qualify as fantasy?


At least it has Legacy of Kain series, I guess?

 

[octavius]

No HoMM?

 

[lightbane]

No Panzer Dragoon series, one of the coolest fantasy games ever that IS NOT a rpg (except the Saga spin-off)?

 

[Humanophage]

Codex top-200 non-RPGs: https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=11398

Top fantasy non-RPGs (arguably fantasy or I'm not sure marked with *):

Heroes of Might & Magic III
Thief: The Dark Project *
Thief II: The Metal Age *
Warcraft III
Master of Magic
Heroes of Might & Magic II
Dungeon Keeper
The Secret of Monkey Island *
Dwarf Fortress
The Curse of Monkey Island *
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
Sacrifice
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Severance: Blade of Darkness
Age of Wonders
Giants: Citizen Kabuto *
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time *
King of Dragon Pass
Prince of Persia *
Myth II: Soulblighter
Total War: Warhammer II
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith
Warhammer: Dark Omen
Fantasy General
Dungeon Keeper II
Slay the Spire
Terraria *
Darkwood
King's Bounty: Armored Princess / Crossworlds
Heretic
Age of Mythology
World of Warcraft
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver *
Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers *

Mine are:
1. Heroes of Might and Magic 3
2. Eador: Genesis - New Horizons
3. Age of Wonders - Shadow Magic
4. Civilization 4 - Fall From Heaven 2 (and modmods)
5. King's Bounty - Armoured Princess
6. Thea: The Awakening
7. Age of Wonders 1
8. Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
9. Warlords 2
10. Thea 2: The Shattering

(Not counting King of Dragon Pass, but it would be at 4)

If it has to be non-strategy, then:
1. Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
2. Curse of Monkey Island
3. Heretic
4. Heroine's Quest
5. OK, I don't play other genres much

 

[Jason Liang]

No HoMM?

I felt like HoMM and King's Bounty have too many rpg elements for this, but it's still an ongoing debate in my mind. Fantasy General and Master of Monsters are both wargames with fantasy reskins for example.

No Panzer Dragoon series, one of the coolest fantasy games ever that IS NOT a rpg (except the Saga spin-off)?

I thought Panzer Dragoon Saga was an rpg?

 

[Falksi]

Only 1 vote for The Immortal?!?!!??? (mine at that)

 

[lightbane]

I thought Panzer Dragoon Saga was an rpg?

It is, but the main franchise IS NOT. Saga is a title for the Saturn the world forgot about.

 

[Momock]

Alundra isn't in the list and it should be.

 

[Jason Liang]

I never knew an Astyanax arcade game existed...

 

[Lutte]

Bruh, there's shmups but no Mahou Daisakusen or Deathsmiles, platformy arcade games but no Ghouls 'n Ghosts, action rpgs but no Ys, 2d action but no vanillaware games, wtf is this list

 

[Jason Liang]

Bruh, there's shmups but no Mahou Daisakusen or Deathsmiles, platformy arcade games but no Ghouls 'n Ghosts, action rpgs but no Ys, 2d action but no vanillaware games, wtf is this list

Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Deathsmiles fall under the excluded fantasy-horror genre.
Ys is too rpg. I did not include action rpgs.
Mahou Daisakusen is science fantasy, which is also outside the thread premise.

 

[Lutte]

Ys is no more RPG than Secret of Mana is. It is, however, far better in the action gameplay bits.

 

[Jason Liang]

Ys is no more RPG than Secret of Mana is. It is, however, far better in the action gameplay bits.

Ys doesn't have co-op multiplayer. Secret of Mana does which makes it more like an arcade game.

For example I didn't include Crystalis, and Crystalis is comparable to Ys.