Pick a game for me to play on stream!

I'd go with Xenogears .... or Vagrant Story. These two are also the games I'd like to play myself again.

Wild Arms 1 was pretty cool as well, it's been ages but I still remember boss battle music.
 
Ghengis_John said:
Would you like to save the princess?

>Yes
**No

Deep. I love me some western and some eastern RPG's. There's a clear-cut difference in styles, but that doesn't mean one is worse than the other. That probably won't be a popular opinion here. I really got over the whole "if it's not turn based it's not an RPG" thing a long time ago. Though games did tend to be a lot more polished in the era before developers could rely on patches. I'd recommend the original, isometric PC fallouts to you. You'd probably like them.

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They're turn-based, isometric, well written, atmospheric, chalk full of text and genuinely complex. Everything you're looking for I imagine. At a time when I was sick to death of fantasy cliches they saved my opinion of RPG's. If you play these Tade, you might find something to like in New Vegas.

As for Jaxel I second the recommendation on Wild Arms. The graphics are a bit dated but the story's anime quality.
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Oh yeah I do like those kind of games. Been playing D2 for like 9 years >_>. I like the whole (well I don't want to quote this but) "diablo 2 like games", they just have that wicked atmosphere about them. And I prefer Baldur's Gate to D2.... But D1 beats all of em :D!

But that's just it, my only qualms with western RPGs nowadays is the fact that they are commercialised way too much. Seems to me most people expect the game to be as epic or amazing as the advertisements to it, which I think they spend more time on -_-. Let me give you a better example:
I live/love/want to marry Oblivion
I hate/despise/want to poop on Fallout 3

I have no clue which one was more commercialised, but it felt more passion and effort went into the making of Oblivion, even when it has like 2 voice actors maximum lol. I just appreciate hard work and not some half assed attempt at milking the gaming society. And I have no clue if I am contradicting myself to the above statement based on those 2 games, but it's just my opinion.

P.S. If you second Wild Arms 1, YOU DA MAN! By far my favourite rpg of all time. It's so nostalgic, well written, and for it's time fan fucking tastic! Still is a gem today as well lol.
 
TadeMasu said:
Oh yeah I do like those kind of games. Been playing D2 for like 9 years >_>. I like the whole (well I don't want to quote this but) "diablo 2 like games", they just have that wicked atmosphere about them. And I prefer Baldur's Gate to D2.... But D1 beats all of em :D!
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Did ya try torchlight I take it then? Needs multiplayer *fist shake* which was weird, because they had multiplayer in Fate.

But that's just it, my only qualms with western RPGs nowadays is the fact that they are commercialised way too much. Seems to me most people expect the game to be as epic or amazing as the advertisements to it, which I think they spend more time on -_-. Let me give you a better example:
I live/love/want to marry Oblivion
I hate/despise/want to poop on Fallout 3

I have no clue which one was more commercialised, but it felt more passion and effort went into the making of Oblivion, even when it has like 2 voice actors maximum lol. I just appreciate hard work and not some half assed attempt at milking the gaming society. And I have no clue if I am contradicting myself to the above statement based on those 2 games, but it's just my opinion.
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As a side note I got into a protracted argument on another forum in a morrowind/oblivion topic because I said oblivion had 6 voice actors lol. I was using hyperbole but too many people took it seriously. Nice to see you noticed a shortage too. As for that observation I think it's fair, but I never pay too much attention to advertisements anyhow so no matter how they advertise it doesn't phase me for good or ill, I usually base my purchases more on reviews and personal developer reputation. And I'm sure oblivion had more passion behind it, it was after all Bethesda's baby, while Fallout 3 was just an acquisition. It was a "fan interpretation" that I think fell flat as sort of an imitation. To that end though I think (terrible 3rd person animations asides) that new vegas is a lot better game though than fallout 3. Primarily because it has a lot of the people who worked on fallout 1 and 2 on it I think the genuineness was there. As for mass effect, it's hyped to the extreme but I still like it. I'm a big sci-fi nerd though. Mass effect blends a lot of elements from other sci-fi franchises, into a whole I find delicious. But like sticking all your favorite foods into a blender I know some people won't find the chimera palatable.

P.S. If you second Wild Arms 1, YOU DA MAN! By far my favourite rpg of all time. It's so nostalgic, well written, and for it's time fan fucking tastic! Still is a gem today as well lol.
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It's the writing that I think still saves it to this day. About the time I had played it, I had just started watching anime. It really gave me a similar feel to like, outlaw star. Maybe that's because the little (dust mouse? Wind mouse?) bossed Jack around in a similar fashion to Gene and Jim, or the whole mysticism meets wild west feel. Heck it could be a lot of things that I only imagined. Bottom line, the writing's good. That sort of thing doesn't age.
 
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