Your Favorite Non-Mainstream RPG

[Volafortis]

Mount & Blade would need to take that title.

 

[Andothul]

Mass Effect 2

.....oh wait

 

[miller_time]

Shining Force 2 -SEGA

Phantasy Star 4 -SEGA

Suikoden 1 -PS

Suikoden 2- PS

'Nuff said.

 

[thenamelessloser]

Planescape: Torment, Arcanum, and Dark Sun: Shattered Lands

Addendum: Adding the first two Suikodens after reading the posts and being reminded of those two games. Does Alpha Protocol count? I mean with the bad reviews and sales.... The first four Quest for Glories were also awesome...

 

[Unrulyhandbag]

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, one of the most in-depth RPGs to date.

I have a disk of that somewhere.
Arcanum should have been the greatest game ever but its complexity made for a ridiculous amount of bugs.

Has the GoG version been fixed?

edit: want to add Silver to this. A brilliant little JRPG style game from Spiral House I can't get it run on PC these days but the Dremcast version is just as good.

 

[thenamelessloser]

It is a shame that it was only a good game otherwise I would say Superhero League of Hoboken...

I WOULD BE LIKE I'M MORE INDIE THAN YOU. >_>

Even though I'm not even sure if Superhero League of Hoboken would have been considered indie when it came out...

 

[Ophi]

.hack, .hack//G.U.

Wait, what the hell? Since when is Fire Emblem an RPG? Maybe I've got a different definition of RPG than most people, but it's a turn-based, grid-based strategy...

If for some reason we're counting FE as a non-mainstream RPG, it has my vote for sure.

 

[Hassao]

the shin megami tensei series of course, demon souls, the world ends with you, Rougue galaxy, the .Hack series

 

[LadyRhian]

Taskmaker and Tomb of Taskmaker.

 

[Lawyer105]

Arcanum
Deus Ex
The Witcher

 

[Rarhnor]

Drakengard.


And this:

Any from the Tales series, especially Tales of Symphonia!!

Symphonia is awesome!

 

[Timbydude]

.hack, .hack//G.U.

Wait, what the hell? Since when is Fire Emblem an RPG? Maybe I've got a different definition of RPG than most people, but it's a turn-based, grid-based strategy...

If for some reason we're counting FE as a non-mainstream RPG, it has my vote for sure.

1) I've always been curious if the .hack series is worth playing all the way through; the first one was slow/repetitive, but definitely showed potential. Did you play the entire series?

2) I've always seen Fire Emblem as a Strategy RPG. I feel like the RPG elements (levels, very slight customization) are enough to label it as such.

 

[BrionJames]

Vagrant Story

 

[Iron Lightning]

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, one of the most in-depth RPGs to date.

I have a disk of that somewhere.
Arcanum should have been the greatest game ever but its complexity made for a ridiculous amount of bugs.

Has the GoG version been fixed?

edit: want to add Silver to this. A brilliant little JRPG style game from Spiral House I can't get it run on PC these days but the Dremcast version is just as good.

Well, people do still get stuck in walls on occasion, and for some reason the potion of persuasion doesn't seem to work on gar the orc for the purposes of trying to recruit him. I've also seen the animation for the torches at the safe entrance to the closed sewers in Tarant freeze sometimes during latest afternoon. I think that there is one instance where the waypoint system doesn't work if you pass too close to Tarant's Station E: Warehouse District. The biggest one is probably that there's no music on the bonus module.

So yes, there are quite a few minor bugs, none of which will irrevocably break the game. The GOG version is still the most modern one, so I expect it won't have all the problems of the old version.

 

[Axolotl]

Ultima 7? Although that doesn't really count as non-mainstream does it?

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

since it's a game in which you play a role I'm listing it.

Yeah but... You play a role in any game, don't you?

OT: Can't think of one... Haven't really looked into the indie market much, haven't played many JRPG's either...

 

[johnman]

Mount and blade definatly, had alot more fun with that than Fallout 3 and Mass Effect

 

[A Playful Shark]

I've stumbled across an indie RPG called Eschalon: Book 2.
It's an old school top-down RPG that is very complex and can be as hardcore as you want it (choices to have your armor degrade, hunger/thirst meters, etc.)

It's really fun (and cheap) check it out!

 

[neilsaccount]

I'm probably forgetting some:


Legend of Dragoon

Wow that takes me back, I'd have to go with that seeing as it was the only real jrpg i enjoyed. Well lets see though. Obvl...damn, Fallout thr...dammit, Mass Effe...DAMNIT ALL TO HELL. Ok for non-mainstream I'll go with Legend of dragoon.
(mainstream would be fallout 3)