I have no RPGs to play :(

[Kargath]

NetHack - Falcon's Eye
NetHack (roguelike) with added easy graphics.

Also: http://usrsrc.org/svn/vultures/releases ... in32-1.exe

[Booyakasha]

you need to look into this, Boo, because it is the distilled essence of everything that was good in the nineties.

The nineties weren't all that great, as I recall. I'd hardcore take another ten years of the eighties over the nineties if anybody offered it to me. But I digress-I've had 'God Hand' for quite a while now. The only reason I didn't echo your earlier sentiments about it was that I felt honor-bound to spread the word about 'Metal Saga' (especially since this is an RPG topic and all. I'm a huge fan of 'Sid Meier's Pirates!', but you don't see me talking about it in people's lame 'goodbye forever' topics (although I totally should.) (Yeah, it's an embedded parenthetical. Because that's how I roll.))

[Wyborn]

The nineties weren't all that great, as I recall. I'd hardcore take another ten years of the eighties over the nineties if anybody offered it to me. But I digress-I've had 'God Hand' for quite a while now. The only reason I didn't echo your earlier sentiments about it was that I felt honor-bound to spread the word about 'Metal Saga' (especially since this is an RPG topic and all. I'm a huge fan of 'Sid Meier's Pirates!', but you don't see me talking about it in people's lame 'goodbye forever' topics (although I totally should.) (Yeah, it's an embedded parenthetical. Because that's how I roll.))

Alas! You are right! My lack of decorum here is appalling.

Jay: just buy an Xbox, both Knights of the Old Republic games, Jade Empire, and Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. You'll spend less than two hundred dollars and have four of the best RPGs of the last generation, KotOR2 in particular. Maybe more than you were looking to spend, but you will sink hundreds and hundreds of hours into them and afterwards you will thank me.

[Booyakasha]

^Ooh, then he could pick up 'Sid Meier's Pirates', too. (Decorum? Decorum can so totally eat me.)

[Rainbow Dash]

Alas! You are right! My lack of decorum here is appalling.

Jay: just buy an Xbox, both Knights of the Old Republic games, Jade Empire, and Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. You'll spend less than two hundred dollars and have four of the best RPGs of the last generation, KotOR2 in particular. Maybe more than you were looking to spend, but you will sink hundreds and hundreds of hours into them and afterwards you will thank me.

The only bad part of KotOR 2 is that it was so rushed.

[Wyborn]

Oh I know, that part was a tragedy, and I'm really looking forward to Team Gizka's patch for the PC version.

It still stands as an excellent example of storytelling in gaming, though, what with its largely nonlinear plot, multiple branching story paths, and how the whole thing is basically one big conversation about Nietzsche's concept of power.

[Sim Kid]

Can't you get KOTOR and Morrowind for the PC? (Is Jade Empire on the PC?) You'll be able to get Yavin on the first without having to subscribe to Xbox Live, and it's probably cheaper than getting Xbox hardware and the games.

Either way, KOTOR and Morrowind all play very well on the Xbox, just as well as they do on the PC. KOTOR 1 had a better story, but KOTOR 2 had much better gameplay. In KOTOR 1, you probably wont' see the plot twist, but in KOTOR 2, you can see the twist coming from so far away.

Spoiler.

And yes, KOTOR 2 really shouldn't have been rushed...I heard that they originally intended to have the final boss vary upon what choices you did, like if you made specific choices, then Atris would become Darth Traya. That would be much more satisfying than her simply falling into a plothole while you fight Kreia.

[Wyborn]

Spoiler.

Atris never fell into a plothole - her fate was horrible, especially if you were a Dark Sider

KotOR2's story kicked the hell out of KotOR1's. Sith Lords (that's 2) didn't even have a twist - there wasn't supposed to be one. That was the beauty of it.

And yeah, they all run on the PC, but for some reason the KotOR games run badly on most PCs - to run it with Xbox-level graphics on a decent resolution requires pretty beefy stats.

[Sim Kid]

It works absolutely fine on my PC, and it's even an HP Pavilion. Those things suck. Heck, it even runs Half Life 2 with no stuttering bug. (The only thing it hasn't been able to run are Oblivion, Vista/Mac only, or DOS games from the '90's)

You mean there wasn't a plot twist? Well explains why you could see what was going to happen at the end all the way from Telos.

[Wyborn]

Yeah, basically. I mean, you were building up to the ending the entire time.

[Sim Kid]

I've heard of Shadow Hearts. Maybe I'll check it out if I find it around.

I just looked this up...One other reason you should check out the first two Shadow Hearts is because your favourite music artist, Yasunori Mitsuda, helped compose the soundtracks. (Less so in Covenant, it says Mitsuda's a "Guest composer" in the ending credits)

[cohenmiller]

how about metal gear solid 3 snake eater rpg

its above u