maggot:Final fantasy 7.
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But godfather, gta and saints row as rpgs ?`
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define an RPG?
GTA had you take on the role of a main character and then perform missions/quests to further the story, gain more stats and increase your character abilities - in this case his weapons arsenal ...
and as far as I recall, The Godfather and Saints Row are built around the same engine/game style ...
1) Final Fantasy VII
Still the only computer game where I got so emotionally involved that I actually shed a tear when Aries died, I got upset to find out Red XIII was the last of his kind and genuinely felt pissed off when they destroyed part of the slums. Gripping, twisting plot, brilliant game mechanics and at the time brilliant graphics, this really set the bar for what other RPGs should do
2) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time
Mesmerizing game, brilliant puzzles, an intuitive game system and a fun, simple plot that captured your attention
3) Mass Effect
The only thing stopping this getting the number 1 spot is simple - it was too short. It was truely epic in its scope though, and it had me glued to the game for 3 days (I mean like 15 hours at a time for 3 days), like a
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book I couldn't put it down. The pacing was brilliant, fast flowing, every changing, engaging characters and a genuine drive to try and get my character (chose a female) to have lesbian sex with an alien ... lol the maturity. *sigh* if only it had been more like 80-100 hours, something that would have had me glued for a week so it was like a holiday rather than something that was more like a long weekend away. Can't wait for the sequel
4) Fallout 3
I came late to this particular franchise, this being the first installment for me, but it is mesmerising, the depth, the sheer scale, and the setting of the world is just pure brilliance, has me hooked when I get the chance to sit and play for a few hours!
5) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Only gets pipped to the 4th spot by Fallout 3 because I find the sci-fi industrial wasteland aspect of Fallout 3 more appealing than the medieval fantasy world of Oblivion, but seriously all the same reasons as Fallout 3 for this one
6) Final Fantasy X
after VII this is the 2nd best in my view, it was another towering story that did really engage you, but it was stopped from being really truely epic because they have found the snag of voice acting, some of those charcters voices really did just grate. That and there were points in the plot when you just wanted to kick the lead character in the face for being such a whiney ***, but yeah ... pure class game, the battle system was brilliant and generally loved how it all joined together
7) Fable
disapointment at the time of release faded into sheer joy from how wonderfully simple yet truely engrossing the game was, I played it non-stop till I completed it ... well ok I fell asleep at my computer once, but then woke up and carried on playing (ah the joys of uni!) would have ranked higher but for the short game play and the feeling that it could have been so much more ...
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Eternal Sonata
beautiful in its own right, it's strangely gripping inspite of some odd cut scenes and I guess I love the quirkyness of the story! Great, off-beat game.
9) KotOR
ah, what a game ... fun, brutal and gave you that choice of light/dark ... only problem was it was very hack and slash for me and oh so repetative in places, but still worth playing and worth a mention.
10) Overlord
How could I not love this game, it is a mockery game and it works oh so beautifully. One to play for your tongue in cheek references to movies and games of the fantasy genre, and especially so if you like Lord of the Rings!
Note: Fable II failed to make the top 10 because inspite of me being mesmerized by brilliant visuals and gripped by a story that was absolutely fantastic, I was unable to continue playing until I either completed it or my attention span shifted. The game started freezing and bugged out on me, so until I stick the disc in the drive and try it out and it works (haven't tried this for a few months!) then I just wont be able to mark it appropriately.
Morrowind missed out for being just too damn depressing, it always f****ng rained! It was like Wales but more brown!!!! Still a great game
Final Fantasy IX suffered from being the shortest FF title on the Playstation systems for me, and thus I felt disapointed to find out that the boss I was fighting after 49 hours ushured in the end credits and left me wondering wtf happened to all the side quests and other stuff that I must have missed
Final Fantasy VIII missed out on a top 10 spot because I got stuck, and I mean horribly stuck. I create 4 save files when I play an RPG in case of such a situation, however in this instance I couldn't get back to a point where I could physically go level up for a few hours and try again at this boss, I was so epically stuck that I had to throw out 80+ hours of game time and start over, which I have to say makes you really reluctant to do it all again and it left me with this bad feeling in my gut, somy incompetance has lead to this not being top 10, rather than the game itself, I just personally can't see past that 80+ hours and having to restart situation ...
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anyways, there are my thoughts ... looking forward to cracking open lost odessy and playing that and getting FFXIII ... maybe I'll one day finish FFXII we shall see ... perhaps I'll finish Blue Dragon one day as well... for now though there just aren't enough hours in the day *sigh*
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