Fable and DX:HR being on that list without having either of the Baldur's Gate games or Torment: Planescape on it kind of makes that list laughable to me. Deus: EX HR could barely be considered an RPG at all and shouldn't be on the list in the first place. If you are going to make a slot for a shooter RPG on the list the Mass Effect series kills DX:HR anyway.
I can see the rest being there, especially Chrono Trigger, though I prefer FF3 (or 6, whatever you want to call...
I have played BG 1 and 2, ID 1 and 2, and Torment before but I don't have them anymore as I pass them all along to friends ages ago. I had been contemplating grabbing them from goodoldgames but now I don't have to.
For $20 this is literally 100s of hours of some of the best RPG games ever created.
100% buy for me. Not having to deal with a giant box of CDs will be nice too, BG1 alone without the expansions was 5 CDs iirc.
Same, I have ordered lots of stuff from them, built a gaming PC using parts exclusively them this year, and currently have a shipment in transit via UPS from them. I have never had a single issue with newegg products or service.
yeah, but they don't sell the box copy anymore, it disappeared from stores a while ago. They still have the digital bundles but that isn't nearly as good of a deal as the original box set was.
I haven't played LoL in a bit but was playing pretty consistently for the past year, the system they have for champions works pretty well for a MOBA game.
Definitely, it is probably the best Roguelike I have ever played, going all the way back to Amiga games. It has an expansion coming out soon too.
It could be both, basic game as F2P with only free rotation of champs and purchase options. Then have a paid version "box game" that gets a set bunch of champions opened already.
LoL did that for a while.
It is a tough call, I like the BG series because of the setting more. The characters and exposition in Torment was better though. Any RPG fan should play them all though. Considering you can get all the complete editions for $30 total on GoodOldGames there is really no excuse to. For half the price of a current title you can get 3 of the best games ever made and probably 100s of hours of playtime.
Add in NWN Diamond for a total of $40 and have enough great RPG to last you thr...
Bard's Tale and BT2: Destiny Knight took sooooo many of my hours back in the C64/Amiga days. Great games, probably the ones that got me hooked into the RPG genre.
Plus it lets me say "back when I started playing RPGs we had to keep graph paper by the computer to map out dungeons by hand" whenever someone complains about a bad minimap or map system in a game. :)
I agree, DD is probably the best $15 I have spent on gaming this year. Between this and Space Pirates and Zombies I have got a ton of hours out of two little $15 indie games this fall.
I bought Space Pirates and Zombies last night. :(
Terraria, SPAZ, the Dead Space Bundle, Borderlands and L4D2 I would consider must own at those prices.
I agree, they would have to tone it down like the MK v DC game. Capcom isn't going to have Ken and Ryu getting their heads chopped off or their skin ripped off, ever. They are far too protective of those characters to have them shown in any way but their current fighting format.
As a fighting game fan it would be great to see but I am dubious that this would ever happen and even moreso that it would be done well.
Quite honestly, it probably the best $15 I have spent on a game this year. It is a perfect mix of coop, loot, action, and strategy.
It is very co-op based, to the point that two of the classes only work really well in co-op actually. It had a bit of a rough launch but they have already put 4 patches out and the game is running smooth, besides that they have already implemented fixes and upgrades from suggestions on their forums.
There are a few game modes, 4...
The monk can solo pretty well after he gets the lightnig aura. Stack a lightning and slow and you can hold a pathway pretty well, not as well as a squire or apprentice maybe, but it is managable.
It is definitely great, I have sunk 10 hours into it already, that is more than you get out of some $60 "AAA titles". I can see myself playing this for a long time, it is a perfect mix of co-op, strategy, action, and lots of loot.
Gamefly ratings always start high because people who bought it rate it high the first day. It was 10.0 for a while Monday. It is down to 6.5 now and I expect it will fall farther if this review is near accurate.
I am not a huge sports game fan but I do play some Madden, NHL, and NBA2K from time to time with friends. I am having a really hard time caring about a new basketball game when there isn't even a basketball season in the works right now due to the lockout.
I can't imagine that the lockout will have a positive effeect on the sales of 2K12.
I agree the always online DRM sucks but it isn't like they are requiring you to use the for money AH. Hell, by the time I am done playing and selling off the items I don't need I will probably have recovered my initial money from the game purchase.
I see it as this, I am going to play the hell out of it anyway and they are now giving me a way to unload unwanted stuff and make money off it legitimately. Would I ever buy anything on the real money AH? Hell no, but I am...
it is a fun game, I picked it up on XBL Indie games quite a while ago, there are some additional levels there too. The music is the best part, I had that song stuck in my head quite often after playing.
Yet another reason to love Gearbox. I can't wait for BL2 and maybe I will make it my first CE buy ever.
Just because Deus Ex had some thrown in skillups to put points in doesn't make it an RPG, except in the very broadest and most diluted sense. To me that is the equivalent of calling Splinter Cell Conviction a great RPG, Team Fortress 2 a loot RPG, and COD multiplayer a grindy action RPG.
Fallout 3 was very good, and new Vegas was just OK to me. Oblivion was solid but Skyrim is hands down the best RPG on this console generation and it isn't close, as far as I am concer...