RPG's you once loved, and still do.

[Zool]

Rpgs you loved. List em.

Mine:
Legend of Dragoon (ps1, 4 discs... epic)

Dude, seriously double thumbs up for calling this. Ive spent many a time trying to remember the name of this game over the last few year cause i LOVED it.

As others have said,

Ultima series rocked, though wow do they seem dated now.
Champions of Krynn. Loved this game as well, still recall the day i got the dragonlance for my first character

[MsEricka]

RPG's you once loved, and still do.

Almost everyone is talking about Crpg's (Computer Role Playing Games). I saw this thread title and immediately came up with

Basic D&D
Top Secret (and Top Secret SI)
Gamma World
MERP (Middle Earth Role Playing)
WarHammer (original big AS! hard cover book, not WH 40k)
BattleTech, CityTech and AeroTech
Marvel Super Heroes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
ElfQuest

Those are "real" RPG's, that I once loved and still do. As for CRPG's

Bard's Tale
Pool Of Radiance
Wizardry
Might & Magic
Diablo

[Pwesiela]

Wow, it took three pages before Diablo came up. I'm kindof surprised. That and Diablo II. Makes me excited for Diablo III...

[Jay203]

System Shock 2
Deus Ex
Fallout 1 + 2 (tactics and 3 both sucked big time!)
icewind dale II
baldur's gate 1 + 2

[Rendigar]

NES - While Final Fantasy is on the list, Street Fighter 2010 was pretty sick.

Sega - Phantasy Star IV and Shining Force I and II

SNES - Ogre Battle March of the Black Queen, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire I and II

PSX - Xenogears was pretty awesome

[Falchion123]

Wasteland - The spiritual predecessor to Fallout. It's still great fun today despite it's primitive graphics.

[Falchion123]

Loved Betrayal at Krondor too, so much fun! Anyone remember that?

[Tannniss]

Big-ups to Robi for saying Shadowgate....probably the very first RPG I played, other favorites would have to be...Sid Miers Pirates(C64), Pool of Radiance, Death Knights of Krynn, Fallout series besides Tactics.....DDo is currently the one that consumes the most of my interest....

[sephiroth1084]

No one said Chrono Trigger nor Mario RPG yet?

I just saw the thread...

Both of those are awesome! Wish more games would take some pages from their playbook--I'd like to see more RPGs with multiple endings (and multiple ways to end the game), side quests that pertain to individual characters' stories rather than just as paths to new lootz, and I really like timed attacks (one of the few things I enjoyed about FF 8).

Final Fantasy 7 was the first RPG I ever played, and continues to be my favorite. I like 9, 10, 5 and 4 as well.

A lot of Square's games have been good: Xenosaga (ignoring the crappy bit near the end where you just read through a junk of story), Parasite Eve...

Kingdom Hearts finally satisfied (sort of) my desire to really fight Sephiroth in all of his badass glory, though I was really disappointed that Mickey Mouse was not the main character or the Disney-Square team-up.

Lunar Silver Star Story Complete was awesome! Totally love the characters, story and cutscenes. And it has some of the best jokes of any game I've played.

And though it plays differently, and therefore doesn't as feal as RPGish, Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

[sephiroth1084]

So many RPGs on this list that I've never tried, and so many that I tried and disliked.

Chrono Cross, was kind of interesting, but I felt like they left some of the coolest parts of Chrono Trigger by the wayside: 42 characters and only 7 double-techs and 3 triple. Few of the characters had any real story of their own, or personality.

Not a big fan of FF 6. Everyone seems to either go for 6 or 7. Six just had so many characters, most of whom were totally lifeless. And then they force you to play a dozen of them at the end when you have to split up--that killed it for me. It remains to this day one of the few games I've never gone back to complete. Oh, and I can't recall, but did a bunch of characters die and come back several times in 6? Or was that 4? Or both? I hated that.

Does NWN play like Baldur's Gate? I played some of BG II, and was kinda liking it, though it wasn't gripping me--my fault there mostly.

[Minor_Threat]

Console RPG's were my thing for a few years.

NES
Dragonwarrior 1

SEGA
Shining Force 1 & 2

SNES
FF3 (US)
Chrono Trigger
Ogre Battle

SATURN
DRAGONFORCE
Shining Force

PS1
FF Tactics
Vandal Hearts

GBA
Golden Sun 1 & 2
FF Tactics

Haven't touched a console in a few years, other than using an old PS2 for DVD player.

[Borror0]

There is a new Golden Sun game slated for the DS next year I believe, I'm looking forward to it as well. Not the most serious of game play but it had enough levity with clever combat and character customization to make it a keeper for me.

If this is true, I'll finally have to buy a DS. Dammit. /google

Another thing that I really liked about Golden Sun was the puzzle with the psynergy which made the out-of-combat a little more interesting than most RPGs I have played. Also, the characters were very likable even if not the most original. The fact that you could port your characters from the first game to the second one or play against your friends was also pretty nice.

By the way, another one that I liked quite a bit was Paper Mario. It was original, lighthearted and had a simplistic but fun combat system.

[Xanthain]

1 - final fantasy tactics (I still play this on a regular basis)
2 - Shining force 1 and 2
3 - Final fantasy VII (Sry i loved it, First game i ever bought with my own money and i still have fond memories of staying up past my bed time playing it)

[Bekki]

Pool of Radiance
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Secret of the Silver Blades
Pools of Darkness

I also really liked the original Bard's Tale. That 10' x 10' room with 396 Berzerkers (4 groups of 99) in it was awesome!

They were old SSI / AD&D games from late 80's early 90's.

They were using an old engine called Gold Box.

They also did a couple other games same engine, Savage Frontier Series (Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, Neverwinter Nights for AOL). Buck Rogers Series (Countdown to Doomsday, Matrix Cubed) and finally SpellJammer. DragonLance series (Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn,
The Dark Queen of Krynn).

They were awesome! They also did some others as well.

Ruins of Myth Dranor
Ravenloft
Ravenloft 2 (Set in the desert, but the name escapes me.)

Icewind Dale 1 & 2

All the Baldurs gate Series...

I too loved the Fallout series.

[BattleCircle]

1. Zelda of course (all of them)

2. The Secret of Mana

3. Final Fantasy VII (pc version)

4. Outcast (pc)

5. Starlancer (this might be considered a sim)

[Mockduck]

Wizardry!
Persona 3 and 4

[ToyVIP]

have to put my list in here...

Baldurs Gate all of them
final fantasy vii, ix (the dialogue and strange characters got me with this one) and x
actually waiting for xiii to come out to see what its like...

a couple that havent been mentioned
Fable - enjoyed the semi non linear storyline... went through that game so many times just seeing what happens when you do things different

Dungeons & Dragons Heroes - me and friends spent hours multiplaying this one on the original xbox

[Bekki]

Wasteland - The spiritual predecessor to Fallout. It's still great fun today despite it's primitive graphics.

Omg! I loved that game!!!

I forgot all about wasteland!!!

Good Answer Falchion.

/Salute

[Shamurai]

I'm 39 years old and have played so many RPG's all the way back to the very first small box release of Dungeons and Dragons..

You've mentioned so many Electronic games many of which I've played its totally my favorite Genre.... but I want to add some of my favorite PnP RPG's (besides all the D&D editions of course) in no order just as my slowly addling brain remembers them:

~ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other Strangeness - My Mutant Wolverine kicked butt! (way before the movies or cartoon ever came out)
~ Shadowrun - Both PnP and the Nintendo version (still have both)
~ Rolemaster series - Focued more on Middle Earth Role Platying
~ Boot Hill - My Gunfighter has Greased lightning speed
~ Ninjas and Super Spies - Read the name.. nuff said
~ Heroes Unlimited ~ who doesn't dream of flying arond in spandex now and then?
~ GURPS - Omg I have 30 GURPS books at least
~ Traveller - The orginal pre GURP Steve Jackson version
~ DC Heroes Games - Not my favorite but brings back memories of hooking up with Wonder Woman
~ Robin Hood ~ Bad game but I looked great in tights!
~ Advanced Recon ~ My Pig man could dual wield M-60's!! Hoo-AH!
~ All game White Wolf: Werewolf, Vampire, Mages, Mummies etc.... Storytelling Novel concept!


Okay.. lost in nostalgia.... can't comment on electronic games in this post... cuz I'm trying to remember all the PnP games I've played ~ including one where your "character" was a virus with stats and such and you gained XP based on virulence of your contagion.. sigh oh the days..

[Graypaws]

Pnp

Shadowrun
Cyberpunk 2013
Warhammer Fantasy (A grim world of Perilous Adventure and they sure werent kidding) by games workshop.
Villains and Vigilantes
Chivalry and Sorcery
Paranoia
Chill
Call of Cthulhu (talk about a jacked up game, the more experienced you got, the closer to retirement through insanity)
World of Darkness (all of them except Changeling)
Gamma World
Star frontiers
Twilight 2000

Computer RPGs
Morrowind
Any and all the gold box games, especially loved Pools of Darkness. Who here really hated the pet of Kalistes ?
Wizardry series from Bane of the Cosmic Forge til the last one.
The Bard's Tale 1 & 2
Might and Magic 1 & 2
DungeonMaster 1& 2
Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2
Champions of Krynn, Dark Knight of Krynn and Dark Queen of Krynn
Betrayal at Krondor
Elder Scrolls : The Arena
Rogue
Diablo