ChromeAlchemist said:
This is actually in response to the 'What JRPGs are good?' thread. Personally, I see RPGs as RPGs. I actually won't get into the whole WRPGs considered to be 'RPGs' and Japanese developed RPGs labelled JRPGs on this one just yet.
This is not just about your favorite WRPGs of all time, or which one is the best. This is a thread discussing WRPGs in general. Not only which ones are good, but also which ones you believe everyone should avoid, which are okay, and short reviews there of.
While a three word post about your enjoyment over Fallout 3/Oblivion and how you believe it was 'awesome' would be fine otherwise, it doesn't invoke discussion. I would like to know specifically why you thought the WRPG in question was good, such and such a WRPG was terrible, and anything at all in between.
Are there any WRPGs coming out soon that interest you?
What would you like to see in your ideal WRPG?
Baldur's gate, as a series-
-Great combat. Most strategic I've ever seen in an RPG, with a truly large and diverse set of spells (not just different types of damage and status effects). Allows you to control six party members at once.
-Gives you real options on how to develop your characters/party.
-Great story (the first in-depth video game story I'd ever seen). Tons of great characters with interesting personalities.
-Epic. The series as a whole is the most epic thing that video games have ever produced. The games are huge with an open-ended world.
-The best dungeons I've ever seen; the perfect mix of monsters, puzzles, and the creepy feeling of being in an unholy place.
Fable II-
-Incredible world with a ton of personality. It manages to take the most generic RPG setting and give it some life.
-Provided the best opportunity to roleplay in a video game that I've ever seen. I'm not just evil guy or good guy, I'm an evil guy who has to curb his violent tendencies in order not to hinder his real estate empire (since wanton destruction will effect the town's economy) and who has a family that he is truly dedicated to. My first character was a monster with great PR.
-The most "alive" video game world I've ever seen. Choices you make have real effects on the game world- play as a complete degenerate and Old Bowerstone will be a slum, Westcliff will be an outlaw town, the temple of light will perish, and the Brightwood farm will be a haunted ruin. People will run away from you screaming whenever you enter town.
The Madman said:
But why you ask, aghast and no doubt holding your face with you palms, mouth open, scream style! Clearly, you exclaim, you simply have terrible taste. Well no, and shut up and quit being such a jerk. I have wonderful taste! You see, the reasons are simple and are such:
Here's your reason: the original NWN was a mediocre dungeon crawl with far too many chests to open. I haven't played NWN2 yet, but it's not hard to imagine it being better than Bioware's lone bastard child.