your favorite 90's early 2000's RPGs

[duedmen]

thought I would invoke some nostalgia today.I'm a huge fan of the older rpg some of my favs include
-Arcanum
-BG1+2
-fallout 1+2
-Icewind dale 2

what are some of you old favorites?

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

KOTOR was, and still is one of my favorite games. Same with KOTOR 2, but it's not quite early 00's. Morrowind is up there as well.

 

[duedmen]

thats quite a funny coincidence as my friend recently lent me his copy of chrono trigger for SNES and I'm currently working my way through it

 

[Fenring]

Morrowind, in aught-two.

 

[migo]

I can't think of any that I played that have provided more than nostalgia. Every single one of them when I went back to play them I felt very, very, frustrated.

 

[Kryzantine]

Planescape: Torment, of course.

Basically the crowning achievement of storytelling.

 

[duedmen]

I can't think of any that I played that have provided more than nostalgia. Every single one of them when I went back to play them I felt very, very, frustrated.

I can see where your coming from the older rpgs do tend to have a rather step difficulty and learning curves

 

[Sacman]

Deus Ex and System Shock There FPSRPGs they count...

 

[Zeraki]

Final Fantasy VI
Grandia
Grandia 2
Final Fantasy IX
KOTOR(even though I could never finish it because of constant computer issues.)

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Xenogears is a brilliant game, it's to bad they defiled it with Xenosaga (I know it's not truly related but come on, if you played them both tell me they don't share a lot of similarities).

 

[Googenstien]

Planescape Torment is a gem if there ever was one.

And the first two Elder Scrolls games are surprisingly brilliant, even after all these years.

Ding Ding Ding Ding! We havea winner.

I played the crap out of Elder Scrolls Daggerfall in college, and Planescape is one of my favorite D&D worlds along with Dark Sun.

 

[Frasman]

Final Fantasy 6
EVO The Search For Eden
Phantasy Star Online
Diablo & Diablo 2
Super Mario RPG

 

[migo]

I can't think of any that I played that have provided more than nostalgia. Every single one of them when I went back to play them I felt very, very, frustrated.

I can see where your coming from the older rpgs do tend to have a rather step difficulty and learning curves

It's not even that though, because I was quite experienced with them, so it's like going back to riding a bike, but this bike has octagonal wheels and a wooden pole with splinters instead of a seat.

Exile just didn't have a story anymore, it was an interesting sandbox, but there was nothing new to discover. Baldur's Gate really fell appart if you didn't follow the plot. I got killed so many times going to places on the map that they expected you to go to later, so they had encounters for a higher level party. It felt like being railroaded by a dick GM, and that's interestingly what tabletop RPGs were like then too, and the horrible advice in the 2e DMG. I dislike playing BG for the same reason I don't like playing AD&D anymore, and when I do play AD&D it's heavily tweaked so that it looks like a different game.

 

[octafish]

Torment and System Shock 1 and 2. I played most of them but these are two (three?) that stand-out for me. Mind you, VtM:Bloodlines came out in 2004 so probably just misses out of being included.

 

[Blue Musician]

There are only 2 RPG that I have truly enjoyed:
System Shock 2 and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

 

[Discord]

Uh.. Jade Empire anyone?

Till this day I play it and I await Jade Empire 2

 

[Nexus Arc]

The Legend of Dragoon, Great story, Graphics, and badass costumes and Dragoon Transformermations.

 

[Ulfsson]

Baldur's Gate 1 + 2
System Shock 2
KOTOR

and the crowning glory

Planescape: Torment.