Your favourite RPG of all time

[revlazaro]

Yeah NWN1 was the game I'd be praising. I own NWN2 but probably haven't spent much more than a few hours in. Camera controls are horrible; engine bogs down even power house rigs, crashes to desktop...it's nowhere near as awesome as its almost decade-old predecessor, which is still heavily supported in the community.


typochondriac:
I saw one flaw in your statement: Where the heck did you get the notion that Baldur's Gate got its ideas from NWN? If you're referring to BG maybe pulling inspiration to the original graphical MUD that was played over AOL.......I might see your point, kinda, but not really.....

BG was published long before NWN1 and spawned many other games using its engine (BG2, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment) and NWN was sort of an evolved next step from those games.

Matter of fact, last I checked there were still more Persistent-World servers up for NWN1 than 2.

[koji042]

Originally Posted by revlazaro

Yeah NWN1 was the game I'd be praising. I own NWN2 but probably haven't spent much more than a few hours in. Camera controls are horrible; engine bogs down even power house rigs, crashes to desktop...it's nowhere near as awesome as its almost decade-old predecessor, which is still heavily supported in the community.

Ah cool, thanks for the information.

I'll try ordering a copy from Amazon when the chance comes around.

[typochondriac]

Originally Posted by revlazaro

typochondriac:
I saw one flaw in your statement: Where the heck did you get the notion that Baldur's Gate got its ideas from NWN? If you're referring to BG maybe pulling inspiration to the original graphical MUD that was played over AOL.......I might see your point, kinda, but not really.....

BG was published long before NWN1 and spawned many other games using its engine (BG2, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment) and NWN was sort of an evolved next step from those games.

You're quite right about the chronology, rev, and I'm sorry I misspoke.
NWN was published two years after Baldur's Gate.

I s'pose how I should have worded it was: While BG came first, NWN was the height of achievement for that particular vision for BioWare. I'm not talking engines here - of course BW stuck with the engine they used for the BG series - I'm talking storylines, in-game features, etc (which are vastly different in some way, yes, but also in so many way nearly flawless evolutions of BG features). While the roles were BG > NWN in the beginning, I think BG2 was a perfect example of the teacher becoming the student. And I know! BG2 was released before NWN, too! But, I think it's important to remember that both series were developed by BioWare...

Anyway, my point is that I really worded my previous statement wrongly
and I can certainly see why my saying BG got all their ideas from NWN
might've sounded... well, very stupid. Silly, too-quickly-replying me.

Either way, they're both great games.

[revlazaro]

Originally Posted by typochondriac

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Anyway, my point is that I really worded my previous statement wrongly
and I can certainly see why my saying BG got all their ideas from NWN
might've sounded... well, very stupid. Silly, too-quickly-replying me.

Nah no biggy. Wasn't trying to call you out but mostly just wanted to check my own facts....didn't know if NWN was something long in development before BG or any other weird possible quirks

[typochondriac]

Originally Posted by revlazaro

Nah no biggy. Wasn't trying to call you out but mostly just wanted to check my own facts....didn't know if NWN was something long in development before BG or any other weird possible quirks

I totally understand. I would've done the same thing!

-Molly

[mykalgaidin]

Since I haven't gotten into WRPGs until recently (with Oblivion and Fallout 3) most of my frame of reference are JRPGs. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with the 16bit era. Final Fantasy 4 & 6, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, Soulblazer, Secret of Evermore, Actraiser, Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star series, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, all of these are great games and I'm sure you could find them somewhere.

[typochondriac]

Originally Posted by mykalgaidin

Since I haven't gotten into WRPGs until recently (with Oblivion and Fallout 3) most of my frame of reference are JRPGs. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with the 16bit era. Final Fantasy 4 & 6, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia, Soulblazer, Secret of Evermore, Actraiser, Chrono Trigger, Phantasy Star series, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, all of these are great games and I'm sure you could find them somewhere.

I love the Phantasy Star series! And it reminds me (thinking of DC RPGs):
Skies of Arcadia would totally be number 3 on my favorites list.

[mykalgaidin]

Can't believe I left out Skies!

Force choke me, please.

[typochondriac]

Originally Posted by mykalgaidin

Can't believe I left out Skies!

Force choke me, please.

Haha... Well, I'd love to oblige, but I forgot it, too...

I think there's only one solution here:
We should Force kick each other in the shin at the same time.

1, 2, 3... GO!

[Shiiro]

I'd have to say my faves are Chrono Trigger and Breath of Fire III. PS1 games, but they're amazing. :P