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IGN's top 100 RPGs of all time

Top five are fairly standard for best so nothing out of the ordinary there buy how the hell is Fallout 3 #10 of all time? The open-ness of it was fun but the story and ending sucked which are essential to RPGs.
 
You know what's a good way to increase ad revenue? Create a list 100 items long and force everyone to click a new page to view each one. Fuck IGN, I don't go there anymore.
 
As long as Final Fantasy VII wasn't #1 I'm happy

Xenogears is always underrated in these. It's waaaay too deep for it to really drive home with the average person.
 
zerocool84 said:
Top five are fairly standard for best so nothing out of the ordinary there buy how the hell is Fallout 3 #10 of all time? The open-ness of it was fun but the story and ending sucked which are essential to RPGs.
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Same with Skyrim. It's a good game and all but #7 best RPG of all time? The problem with these lists though is they're so subjective. Everyone is going to have a different one.
 
Some really odd rankings there. Fallout 3 is one of the top 10 rpgs of all time, but New Vegas, which by and large is the same (albeit tweaked) game and it barely makes the top 100? Same with Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. At least that Had FF4 and FF6 high enough for em not just consider a complete trolling.
 
nismotigerwvu said:
Some really odd rankings there. Fallout 3 is one of the top 10 rpgs of all time, but New Vegas, which by and large is the same (albeit tweaked) game and it barely makes the top 100? Same with Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. At least that Had FF4 and FF6 high enough for em not just consider a complete trolling.
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Mass Effect 2 is NOT just a tweaked ME1. ME2 barely even counts as an RPG.
 
nismotigerwvu said:
Some really odd rankings there. Fallout 3 is one of the top 10 rpgs of all time, but New Vegas, which by and large is the same (albeit tweaked) game and it barely makes the top 100? Same with Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. At least that Had FF4 and FF6 high enough for em not just consider a complete trolling.
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Likely because NV was a progression of 3. Similar game mechanics and such, so Fallout 3 brought the Fallout revolution to the table, while NV just expanded on it.
 
Tweak155 said:
Likely because NV was a progression of 3. Similar game mechanics and such, so Fallout 3 brought the Fallout revolution to the table, while NV just expanded on it.
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Isn't that the same as FFVI, Diablo 2, and Baldur's Gate 2? (I've never played the early FF, Diablo 1, or Baldur's Gate.)
 
coldmeat said:
Isn't that the same as FFVI, Diablo 2, and Baldur's Gate 2? (I've never played the early FF, Diablo 1, or Baldur's Gate.)
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Thing with Final Fantasy games that it could be the same engine same everything and still be a totally different game experience because the power of a RPG is in the story and the characters.

It's a totally different game even if the game mechanics and controls are identical.
 
I loved Chrono Trigger, played it on the SNES, emulators and DS, but could never get into FF. Something about CT just seemed more "down to earth" or something, like there was less lore and references to names and places and magic that I don't know. FF always seemed like there was just a little too much fantasy.
 
Isn't that the same as FFVI, Diablo 2, and Baldur's Gate 2? (I've never played the early FF, Diablo 1, or Baldur's Gate.)
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FFVI was actually a rather large departure from prior entries, actually FinalFantasy in general doesn't tend to keep much of their mechanics from one entry to the next. The Esper system used in FFVI was quite different from its predecessors, and the scope of the story was rather groundbreaking at the time(VII's Materia was a fairly heavily modified version of the Esper system, but it was still very different). An epic adventure where your goal is to save the world had obviously been done many times prior
but to fail
? Really was an absolutely amazing game. They may use common spells from one entry to the next, and crystals almost always are a large factor in the series, the actual combat and how you progress your character changes more in FF then any other series I can think of, in any genre honestly.

And with that in mind, should I get FF VI and play through it?
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VI starts quite a bit slower the Chrono Trigger, and the story is a lot more involved(while Chrono Trigger actually has a fairly straightforward story arc, VI's can border on convoluted at times). VI also has one the greatest video game antagonists ever(a strong argument could be made for the best). Chrono Trigger it is more of an event you are trying to stop, doesn't have truly comparable narrative feel IMO(not knocking CT, one of my top all time games, just not FFVI good IMO).
 
List is decent...by IGN standards anyway.

I don't think Mass Effect, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 are deserving. I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. I've spent upwards of 200 hours on Skyrim and FO 3 combined, and while I loved them for what they were, I never really felt like I was playing an RPG. But I guess it's all in how you define "RPG". Knights of the Old Republic is EASILY more deserving of a Top 10 spot.

And I do believe Earthbound should be in place of Pokemon (really? Pokemon?!), and I hate to say it, but Chrono Trigger deserves it over FF6 as the #1 of All-Time. But that's splitting hairs. 😉
 
Sony needs to hurry up and get FF6 to the Vita. Never played it when it was released, but sounds like something that I need to experience.
 
Nice to see xenogears getting some praise definately the deepest story I've ever played and the way it relates to modern day society
 
coldmeat said:
I loved Chrono Trigger, played it on the SNES, emulators and DS, but could never get into FF. Something about CT just seemed more "down to earth" or something, like there was less lore and references to names and places and magic that I don't know. FF always seemed like there was just a little too much fantasy.
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I know what you mean, and it's becoming a bigger pet peeve of mine. I feel like I either need to really pay attention during dialog or practically have a lexicon by my side at all times. I think it just comes from people's obsession to name everything with some ridiculously obscure name. Look at the Final Fantasy VI video on IGN's page... "Great Demon War". Do you think that name would ever be used in today's games? Hell no! They would give it some weird, foreign name that we would have to attempt to remember. Although, the Final Fantasy VI dialog does seem to differ from the Final Fantasy 3 SNES dialog that I'm used to. For example, the suits that they rode in were "Magitek armor."

All in all, you don't have to riddle a game with obscure sounding names for it to have a great story!
 
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