Must-have games for any roleplay fan
There's no doubt that role-playing games (RPGs) are some of the best video games around, but with so much choice, which ones should you be playing? We’ve rounded up the 26 best RPG games.
16: Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
The original Pokemon titles, Red and Blue, launched an international phenomenon that the gaming world never saw coming. With Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, the fever was hitting Pokemon Trainers everywhere like a tidal wave.
A refined battle system, wireless challenges via the Nintendo WiFi network, and 493 species of Pokemon to catch made this game the ultimate DS title for any RPG fan to have. Pokemon D/P alone quickly became the best selling games of last year, going on to sell 15 million copies worldwide. If you're going to catch 'em all, start with the best Pokemon game yet.
15: Suikoden III
While Suikoden was indeed stellar during the 32-bit era, we're going to ultimately give the duke to the first PS2-era Suikoden title. The first two were definite charmers with great sprite-based graphics, but Suikoden III's superb storytelling pushes it over the top.
Viewing the game's events through the eyes of three major characters and then picking one of them as the game's ultimate hero not only does wonder for the narriative, it also shoots the replay value through the roof. Thankfully you've still got your pick of dozens of playable characters amongst your 108 recruits.
Equal parts Rashomon and Pokemon, Suikoden III is an amazing, unique, and extremely accessible RPG.
14: Super Mario RPG
Super Mario RPG started out like any other Mario game: Bowser kidnaps Princess Toadstool once again, Mario gives chase, and a giant talking sword shatters the heavens and takes over Bowser's castle, sending you on a quest to restore order to the land... Wait, what? Yep, right from the first hour, a simple mission for Mario turned into a quest to save the entire world outside of the Mushroom Kingdom.
Of course, Shigeru Miyamoto's influence pushed Mario's first RPG into various awards and many top selling lists, making Super Mario RPG the last must have Mario game for the Super Nintendo. Wii owners are in luck, since the hotly demanded game is available on the Virtual Console.
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- Skies of Arcadia and Planetscape Torment
- Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness and Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
- Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
- Final Fantasy XII and Earthbound
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Xenogears
- Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and Fallout 3
- Our top three role playing games
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Comments
Josh said: Grandia AND Xenogears You sir are my hero
sadnack said: lol Zelda is not a rpg its a platform game OMG you dont call games rpg just because they have a good story
jo said: The Legend Of Zelda ISNT a Role playing game
Jack said: You are an idiot
Fallen_Pariah said: I love RPGs but IMO Id rather play through every new CoD game than play any Zelda game The game to me just seems like a snoozefestAnd honestly Oblivion deserved to be way higher up considering it rates more than the top ten in majority of gaming magsYes this article was made in 2008 but that still does not excuse the fact that Oblivion is not within the top 5 which is where it should be
Mike Chambers said: Where the fuck is Ultima 6
Absolute Hero said: Are you mentally retarded How can a game be overrated A game is as good as the amount of people that rate it so no it isnt overrated its brilliant hence the millions of fans There is a difference between favourite and best
Zbecrocs said: You are joking right This list makes me sick Japanese author by any chance
Pro said: your RPG choice sucks pretty bad dude u cant call this ever cos most of these stuff are crap
Snathaid said: Im gonna say that Ni No Kuni PS3 is up there with any of the games on this list
Cumface said: shame this review is almost 5yrs old when you do a new one ni no kuni comes top easy
C4138u said: You just googled for RPGs and randomized them and put them down didnt you
Claus said: This article is pointless Absurd Stupid The list was nice until The Legend of Zelda I mean IT is a RPG FUCK Please People in these websites dont even know anything about videogames And Final Fantasy VII on top I mean really VII is not even the best in the FF series You journalist should read a little more about RPG well in fact you should PLAY THEM
Matt Egan said: Came out in 2011 The author would have done well to anticipate it when we published this piece in 2008
dEll said: SKYRIM WHERE IS IT
Phil Scott said: Err FFVI not here you know little about this subjectPlease resign
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ROJAK said: why no legend of dragoon
Str8blazn said: I think a few thousand of my brain cells just died from reading your pointless comment
Str8blazn said: I dont even know what you just said Learn how to type before trying to post a comment maybe