Your Top 5 Western RPGs and Your Top 5 JRPGs (Single Player)

[Insomniaku]

Okay so just to give you all some background, I was kind of new to the whole RPG thing, I mean I gamed but really was only brought up on SNES & N64 until the PS2, Xbox, & GC came out and even back then we didn't really have a computer, I suppose I have one now but I'm to cheap to go and upgrade the damn thing so I can even run anything decent... So if you're wondering why titles like Baldur's Gate and the original Fallouts are not on my lists... it is because I have sadly not had the chance to play them

Western: Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins, Elder Scrolls IV, Fallout 3, KOTOR

Japanese: Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy X, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, FFIV

 

[Ryuk2]

KOTOR 1&2, Gothic 1&2, Morrowind and well....that's all i can remember. I have played almost all (Western)RPGs made since 2000 - 2009. But no, i can't remember the best ones.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

W: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, Jagged Alliance 2, Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Morrowind.
E: Skies of Arcadia, The Last Remnant, Persona 3, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Shiren the Wanderer.

Of the top of my head.

 

[silasbufu]

WRPG :
Dragon Age
Oblivion
Morrowind
Mass Effect
Neverwinter Nights
JRPG :
yeah right..

 

[Kajt]

Western RPGs (in no particular order):
Fallout
Fallout 2
Fallout 3
Morrowind
Oblivion
Japanese RPGs (in no particular order):
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy X
Chrono Trigger

 

[deathstar2Razor]

WRPG:
Gothic 1&2
Morrowind
Fallout
Dragon Age
Oblivion

JRPG:
No

 

[Zacharine]

In no particular order

western:
Planescape:Torment
Fallout 2
Baldur's Gate -saga
SW:Knights Of The Old Republic (the first one. The second was released half-done)
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

Neverwinter Nights get's an honorary mention, as does Mass Effect. But they didn't quite make the top 5.

JRPGs:
Final Fantasy VI & VII (they are so close together I'm not separating them for this list)
Tales Of Vesperia
Chrono Trigger
Grandia
Shin Megami Tensei -games

 

[Axolotl]

Western: Fallout, Fallout 2, Morrowind, VtM:B and Fable 2.
Japanese: FF7, FFT:A2, FF3, Disgaea 2

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Western:

1. Oblivion
2. Fable 2
3. Morrowind
4. Jade Empire
5. Mass Effect

Eastern:

1. Legend of Mana (So open ended, that I can't even begin to describe how ahead of its time it was)
2. Chrono Cross (Great characters, really great characters)
3. Grandia 1 (Best. Combat. Ever.)
4. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Fuck y'all. I liked the ending a ton.)
5. Lost Odyssey (Best. Story. Ever.)

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

What's with the JRPG hate? There are some really good JRPGs out there.

The shitty combat, brain fucked stories and the female looking men?

Dude, that's not all of them. Just 95% of the ones in the past decade. When they all tried to copy Final Fantasy. I should know, I used to play them, and stopped when this shit happened. And no only play a select few.

 

[Zephirius]

WRPG:
Morrowind
Oblivion
NWN2
Fallout 3
Mass Effect
Dragon Age gets an honorary mention for fantastic writing but pretty crappy gameplay.

JRPG:
Tales of Symphonia (awesomesauce)
FFIX
Digimon World
Pokémon Gold
Can't think of anything else I really like..

 

[A Random Reader]

WRPGs:
fallout 3
morrowind
neverwinter nights
nwn 2
erm...

JRPGs:
golden sun 1&2
final fantasy 12
erm...

 

[Zacharine]

Good to see some people who arn't putting DAO up on their list.

I could go one and on about DA:O, but my stance could be condenced into this:

A remake of The Classic, Cliché RPG with some nice graphics. Good for one playtrough. It's good the first time, somewhat decent the second. There are far better RPGs with better controls, equal gameplay, far better story and greater replayability out there.

DA:O was good, but not great. It's just too cliché, all the 'plot twist' can be seen halfway trough.

So yeah... didn't quite make the list. And there are many out there who think the same. It's just that it's one of the few RPGs released during the past year, so people remember it more than most. In three years, it will be forgotten in the annals of time as a mediocre RPG that made some serious bucks but ultimately failed to impress.