Light of Icarus

I'd like to compile a list of some of the best classics, be they rpg, action rpg, adventure, ect.

Zelda (The adventures of link, A link to the past, Orcrana of Time, Majora's Mask)
Suikoden 1 & 2
Xenogears
Final Fantasy (7,8,9)
Brave Fencer Musashi
Legend of Dragoon

So a rough sketch of some really good games.
I don't really like Final Fantasy VIII too much, but it was one of the first Ps1 final fantasy's I had ever played and thus will always have a special place in my list.

But, I'd love to hear other peoples views on the subject. It's not limited to only RPG's though.

Icarus

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Lasereth

Ahhh back when Square actually released decent games on a normal schedule. Now we have the standard Final Fantasy every few years and the rest is crap.

Suikoden 1 and 2 are huge classics as well as the PS1 Final Fantasy's.

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streak_56

Final Fantasy 10 (PS2) - A more recent game but IMO, the best that has come out in its genre.
Zelda (Super Nintendo) - Couldn't get enough of this game.
Road Rash 3 (Sega Gensis) - My brother and I played this for hours on end.

Light of Icarus

Hmm, Final Fantasy 10 isn't a bad game... They just could've made it better. I didn't like Tidus. I think he was an epic fail main character. And how he was a dream... Laaaame. The battle system was good along with a couple of other things but it was way too short in my opinion and I didn't like the idea of it being a "Puzzle Fantasy 10" in my opinion.

And a link to the past will always be one of my favorite games.

But then again, FF10 isn't a classic yet. :P

The Ps1 system had some of the BEST RPGs on the market and it saddens me when kids think that graphics really make the game. Without those really bad graphics and amazing plot we wouldn't be able to call RPGs as such. We wouldn't have had titles like "Crisis Core" for PSP or even Final Fantasy Tactics. God, two of the best games I've ever played.

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Reese

All 2d castlevania games are classic.

Lunar SSSC and Eternal Blue are still up there on my favorite games list.
Wild Arms is an overlooked RPG imo. The sequels just didn't live up to the original imo.

I think RPGs just stick with you like no other games. I pretty much forgot about gears of War 2 minutes after beating it. They're like paper plates. You use em and dump em. I payed 60 dollars for a used copy of Xenogears something like 9 years after it came out. Now that speaks of quality.

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Baraka_Guru

My list of classic rpgs.

As you can see, I was always about PC gaming. I did have access to NES and Sega Genesis, but they were mainly action games I played.

I can't believe the number of hours I spent playing each of these. I'm all about the rpgs.

Moraff's World (circa 1980)
Dunzhin (1982)
Ultima III: Exodus (1983)
Phantasie (1985)
The Bard's Tale (1985)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)
Pool of Radiance (1988)
Dragon Wars (1989)
Darksun: Shattered Lands (1993)
Betrayal at Krondor (1993)
MajorMUD (1994) [My first multiplayer experience]
Baldur's Gate (1998)
Neverwinter Nights (2002) [My second multiplayer experience]

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Super Mario Bros. 3:


Civilization:


Mechwarrior 2:


Starcraft:

dippin

the secret of monkey island is the greatest game ever.

YaWhateva

I would say the SNES had the best RPG's of any console. FFIV, FFVI, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Tales of Phantasia, Super Mario RPG, Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Illusion of Gaia, Tactics Ogre. I love those games! The SNES in my opinion was the heyday of console gaming. The Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past is an amazing game.

Was never a fan of the N64 but the original Playstation had some amazing games as well. Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VII, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, Star Ocean: Second Story, Lunar: Silver Star Story, Klonoa, Breath of Fire 3, Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon, Vagrant Story, just to name a few.

I'm a nostalgia whore.

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Light of Icarus

I would have to agree with you on that one. But the N64 doesn't get nearly enough credit in the gaming world, but I can say that it doesn't have nearly the wide range of differing genres. Orcarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Which are pretty much the only reasons to have a N64. I personally think the Ps1 was rpg heaven, with titles like Vagrant Story, Suikoden, Valkyrie Profile, just to name the most widely known ones.

I loved the snes as a rpg platform.

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Warcraft 2.
Dune 2
Fifa International Soccer (oh yeah, the first one!)
Diablo I and II (number 3 incooming!)
Baldur's Gate I and II

these are some of my favorites!

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blahblah454

Will nice list! I would like to change a few of those, and raise you some others.

I would still play these games! And some I do. I got a dosbox just to play MoM

Master of Magic - PC
Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries - PC
Civilization 2 - PC
Commander Keen: Episode Four - PC
Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier - PC

Mario 3 - NES
Contra - NES
Life Force - NES (pretty much any Gradius game deserves this list!)

Super Contra - SNES
Super Metroid - SNES

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Holy crap I can get the Space Quest series on Steam!!! Done and Done!!

Wyodiver33

Tetris

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inBOIL

Thief: The Dark Project and Thief: The Metal Age.

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Dragonlich

If we're going for classics...

- Pool of Radiance
- Eye of the Beholder series
- Daggerfall
- War of the Lance
- Elite (not really strategy, but space exploration)
- Panzer general
- Steel panthers
- Civilization series
- Syndicate
- Laser Squad
- Dune 2000

...but I don't like to look at screenshots. Especially the older games were *really* ugly when compared to games these days. But at the time, it was state of the art.

Poppinjay

Pong

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Raghnar -ITA-

Eye of the Beholder, how good this series was...

And, how can I forget, the immortal SimCity 2000.

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Nisses

UFO: Enemy unknown
Settlers
Duke Nukem
Ultima VIII: Pagan

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Star Fox.

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Commodore 64 represent:

Jumpman
Forbidden Forest
Spyhunter
Bruce Lee
Beachhead I, II
Choplifter
Commando I, II

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Dragonlich

oh man... Beachhead... that was SO frustrating at times.