I had been kicking around this idea for a while I guess this could be something to do as you're decompressing from Christmas and waiting for New Year's to blow over. A lot of sites do this, but I though we could make it our own little occasion.
What I want everyone to do is to simply list their top five RPGs from the last ten years and give a paragraph explaining each one. Five because if this thread gets enough replies, we'll have enough variety to work with. Five also because you may not have played that many RPGs in the last ten years..
To keep you on your toes and keep things interesting, I'm going to throw in some conditions. I tried to be as fair about this as possible.
Conditions:
- Nominees must be a single player RPG or have a offline single player mode. No online-only games. Look, I know you like FFXI, that's why we're here, I don't think it or WoW really needs a space on the list.
- Only one entry from a main series, If you're just going to show us you have a hard-on for Final Fantasy, you're not really expanding any horizons. And yes, FFX-2 is main series, not that I think you'll mention it.
- One spin off from a main series will be permitted, but only one. A spin-off will be defined as something with similar elements to a main series, but a completely different gameplay style, such as the difference between Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (main series) and SMT: Digital Devil Saga (spin-off). If you're just going to list every SMT spin off, again, see the main series condition. We're here to expand palates, not show our hard-ons for a series.
- RPGs from late 1999 to late 2009 are will be considered, so we can squeeze in 1999's latecomers like FFIX. With respect to that condition, the cut-off for 2009 was Nov. 30th.
- Remakes. If it got a significant makeover like FFIV for DS or FFT: War of the Lions for PSP, we'll consider that new because elements have changed. But only nominate it if its the new version, don't thrown the PSX version of Tactics on there.
- Games with canonical story elements like Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories or 358/2 Days, even though subtitlted, are considered sequel/prequels to a main series, not spin-offs.
- Competitive RPGs (Dissidia, Pokemon) will count. So will things like Fallout 3, Deus Ex and Borderlands count, even though they may feel like FPS titles, they have all the RPG trimmings. But by the same token, we all know Modern Warfare 2 is a FPS, all the RPG elements in the world does not change that.
- Reissues don't count. Don't care if you played it between 1999-2009, if it came out in 1997, its a 1997 game. Example: Chrono Trigger, as awesome as it is on the DS, is still pretty much a reissue with a new dungone and a couple new endings. Nothing radical about that, its still a reissue. Adding new characters, job classes and abilities to Final Fantasy Tactics changes how that game is played.
And that's it.
Just make one post with your top five and on New Years Day, I'll compile our top 20. I'd throw it into a poll, but then people that put no effort into the process would be allowed to vote and that's no fun because they're not participating, just voting. For this to work it will need some real participation.
Make one post, give a paragraph for each of your nominees. Keep discussion out of this thread, but if you want to have a discussion thread, I suppose we'll just start one separately. This is just so its easy to tally up the end result and there's no clutter. If you must revise your pick you have until New Year's Eve to revise.
Nominees submitted without reasons will be ignored.
I'll post mine in one separate post here later today. I haven't really thought of mine so much as I thought about the rules for this
What I want everyone to do is to simply list their top five RPGs from the last ten years and give a paragraph explaining each one. Five because if this thread gets enough replies, we'll have enough variety to work with. Five also because you may not have played that many RPGs in the last ten years..
To keep you on your toes and keep things interesting, I'm going to throw in some conditions. I tried to be as fair about this as possible.
Conditions:
- Nominees must be a single player RPG or have a offline single player mode. No online-only games. Look, I know you like FFXI, that's why we're here, I don't think it or WoW really needs a space on the list.
- Only one entry from a main series, If you're just going to show us you have a hard-on for Final Fantasy, you're not really expanding any horizons. And yes, FFX-2 is main series, not that I think you'll mention it.
- One spin off from a main series will be permitted, but only one. A spin-off will be defined as something with similar elements to a main series, but a completely different gameplay style, such as the difference between Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (main series) and SMT: Digital Devil Saga (spin-off). If you're just going to list every SMT spin off, again, see the main series condition. We're here to expand palates, not show our hard-ons for a series.
- RPGs from late 1999 to late 2009 are will be considered, so we can squeeze in 1999's latecomers like FFIX. With respect to that condition, the cut-off for 2009 was Nov. 30th.
- Remakes. If it got a significant makeover like FFIV for DS or FFT: War of the Lions for PSP, we'll consider that new because elements have changed. But only nominate it if its the new version, don't thrown the PSX version of Tactics on there.
- Games with canonical story elements like Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories or 358/2 Days, even though subtitlted, are considered sequel/prequels to a main series, not spin-offs.
- Competitive RPGs (Dissidia, Pokemon) will count. So will things like Fallout 3, Deus Ex and Borderlands count, even though they may feel like FPS titles, they have all the RPG trimmings. But by the same token, we all know Modern Warfare 2 is a FPS, all the RPG elements in the world does not change that.
- Reissues don't count. Don't care if you played it between 1999-2009, if it came out in 1997, its a 1997 game. Example: Chrono Trigger, as awesome as it is on the DS, is still pretty much a reissue with a new dungone and a couple new endings. Nothing radical about that, its still a reissue. Adding new characters, job classes and abilities to Final Fantasy Tactics changes how that game is played.
And that's it.
Just make one post with your top five and on New Years Day, I'll compile our top 20. I'd throw it into a poll, but then people that put no effort into the process would be allowed to vote and that's no fun because they're not participating, just voting. For this to work it will need some real participation.
Make one post, give a paragraph for each of your nominees. Keep discussion out of this thread, but if you want to have a discussion thread, I suppose we'll just start one separately. This is just so its easy to tally up the end result and there's no clutter. If you must revise your pick you have until New Year's Eve to revise.
Nominees submitted without reasons will be ignored.
I'll post mine in one separate post here later today. I haven't really thought of mine so much as I thought about the rules for this
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