Recommend a Game

Basically, recommend a game you've played recently or in the past that you think other members will enjoy.

It can be on any platform, past or present.

Rogue Galaxy for the PS2. Really epic JARPG, with a very anime-esque feel. Lots of fun side quests and minigames (including a TBS Pokemon type insect battler), and a great battle system. So stop reading and go buy it, you crazies! Go! Out with you!


Europa Universalis III for the PC. Have you ever thought to yourself "Man, I wish I could play as any nation from around the world from 1453 to 1789.... Day by day. In real time"? Well, with EU3, you can! The two expansions bop it up to 1399-1822, and you can buy EU3 Complete (the original and both expansions on one disc) from Amazon for only $11, you lucky jerks! It cost me $20.... Anyhoo, the game was incredibly well researched and very much worth a look.

Mount and Blade for the PC. Licensed by Paradox Interactive, the same company behind EU3. The difference? This one was done by two dudes in Europe. "But Eidon," you'll exclaim, "it must suck if it was done by just two dudes in Europe " And how terribly wrong you would be. Seriously, it would be difficult to be more erroneous. You should be ashamed. The main focus of the game is the combat. It features an interesting battle system, where your mouse movements affect how you hit. You travel around a war torn land, creating an army. You can be a lone warrior, a warlord, a bandit, or a noble fighting for one of the countries. It's not for everyone, so definitely hit up the demo, which lets you go up to Lv. 7.

That's all.... for now.

Total War series - Probably one of the best RTT/Civ building games out there. While it doesn't offer the greatest in city planning, its tops when it come to the combat itself. The battles are large scale affairs with tactics and quick thinking winning the day. It lacks a bit of realism, but there are mods out there that rectify this problem.

Golden Sun series - while, on the surface, it looks like your run-of-the-mill, turn-based RPG, Golden Sun offers plenty more. The Djinn system offers some extra character building levels to the game, determining what skills and classes you have, while themselves offering special attacks. Plus, Golden Sun comes story-heavy, with a pretty great plot. Alchemy is brought to the forefront as higher beings manipulate the events of the will and change fate.

Rogue Galaxy? Definitely yes. The game is a true masterpiece. Steve Blum as Zegram is awesome. Gameplay and graphics are nice. Very nice really.
There's one but however: the encountering rate is insane. Yet this maybe one of the best PS2 games.

I'm playing Assassin's Creed for PS3 now. The graphics are amazing, the physics are incredible as well. I'm only in the 4th chapter, so I can't really say much about the story. Swordfights are so real.
Not so good things: lack of variety in minimissions, ability to hack all the way through the legion of crusaders/saracins with ease.

Shinobido for PS2. Highly recommend this one. Physics are really, really nice. Graphics and story are worth playing as well, imo. I've never been a big fan of a Tengu, but Shinobido is a different story.

Fallout 3 and Oblivion are awesome and deserving of there game of the year tags earned on there near releases. The download content galvanised there worth and Fallout 3 is really reccomended for rpg nuts and newbies alike though Oblivion in my opinion the better of two will be overwhelming for new players to the RPG series given its masses of menus and options needed to fully immerse yourself in its world.

Im also want to reccoment the Ultimate Megadrive collection as it has all the classics such as the Sonic Series, The Golden Axe series and Streets of Rage series but most importantly for an RPG nut like me it features also Shining force 1,2 and Shining in the darkness and Phantasy star 1 to 4

Yggdra Union - a story of a princess taking up arms and leading her people against their invaders, become a queen, and lead a quest to deliver justice by her family's Holy Sword forever and ever. Plot-holes were evident, some strings were left as strings, but overall the story was satisfying. On the mechanics, the Union system was refreshing and forced me to think about unit placement, rather than just moving everyone next to the enemy.

I second Oblivion. I've played it for 5 or 6 months and made 8 or 9 characters, and I've just recently beat the main storyline...

EidonOfTheFist wrote:

I second Oblivion. I've played it for 5 or 6 months and made 8 or 9 characters, and I've just recently beat the main storyline...

Snap - i actually make it my personal objective to do everything but the main quest till last...save when i accidently progress the story by accident as i have done in the past. Ive nearly done most of what i want with it leaving me now to tackle the Knights of the Nine and that other massive expansion that ive downloaded but have yet to start...madness that ive played it so much but still been too busy to delve into the bigger expansions.

Ive done the others but most were just really awesome bases for your characters which though short are an awesome worthwhile addictions..be you stealth (a pirates ship complete with recruitable crew which plunder gold for you and offer stealth spells, training and items), might (a castle with appropraite training and all kinds of staff from man at arms that follow you to taxidermists for showing off your bigger kills), magical (the frostcraig spire is the easiest way to get instant access to some decent alchemist equipment and the facilities to create spells and infuse magic into weapons) or evil (a nice expansion if you dont mind hiring monsters to slay people for easy cash but an ESSENTIAL purchase for vampires for its offerings within, heck it also is handy for the shrines that evil characters can use for a change).

Skode wrote:

Ive done the others but most were just really awesome bases for your characters which though short are an awesome worthwhile addictions..be you stealth (a pirates ship complete with recruitable crew which plunder gold for you and offer stealth spells, training and items), might (a castle with appropraite training and all kinds of staff from man at arms that follow you to taxidermists for showing off your bigger kills), magical (the frostcraig spire is the easiest way to get instant access to some decent alchemist equipment and the facilities to create spells and infuse magic into weapons) or evil (a nice expansion if you dont mind hiring monsters to slay people for easy cash but an ESSENTIAL purchase for vampires for its offerings within, heck it also is handy for the shrines that evil characters can use for a change).

If anything has made me want a 360, it's Oblivion. It's the same on both systems, except the 360 gets DLC and PS3 doesn't..... They said they were interested in bringing DLC to PS3, but that was back in 07 I believe, so it's unlikely.

Knights of the Nine was probably my favourite big quest line over all, though I haven't actually beaten the Shivering Isles yet. Eventually I might, but I keep getting sidetracked.

Chrono Trigger- SNES, PS1, and DS - One of the first RPGs with multiple endings, it's an old SquareSoft game with time traveling, humor, awesome characters (designed by Toriyama), and a battle system that's a sort of mix between the standard JRPG and a tactical system, with no random battles.

Shu Ryorin wrote:

Chrono Trigger- SNES, PS1, and DS - One of the first RPGs with multiple endings, it's an old SquareSoft game with time traveling, humor, awesome characters (designed by Toriyama), and a battle system that's a sort of mix between the standard JRPG and a tactical system, with no random battles.

I concur.

wassupimviet wrote:

Shu Ryorin wrote:

Chrono Trigger- SNES, PS1, and DS - One of the first RPGs with multiple endings, it's an old SquareSoft game with time traveling, humor, awesome characters (designed by Toriyama), and a battle system that's a sort of mix between the standard JRPG and a tactical system, with no random battles.

I concur.

Me too.