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What about Super Mario RPG?
Once Macs can also run Wii and DS games using Boot Camp I'll definitely get an Intel Mac ;-)
and if you like oblivion but your machine is not powerful enough perhaps take a look at Gothic I + II can be had for very little but have some quite powerful story but you are equally free to do what you like
or of course the good old morrowind
also Vampires Blood lines is also pretty interesting especially from the setting
and if you can live with hack and slash diablo style: i always liked dungeon siege II .. it's much more focused on story than the first
or of course the good old morrowind
also Vampires Blood lines is also pretty interesting especially from the setting
and if you can live with hack and slash diablo style: i always liked dungeon siege II .. it's much more focused on story than the first
Jade Empire is a great game.
The majority of RPGs I've REALLY enjoyed are either console games, or ports of console games. Star Ocean: Til The End Of Time is a game that never became super-popular, but has a million things to do, a fantastic story, and I'd say some replay value (if I had time to replay games like that...)
Obviously FF7, X and XII, and DragonQuest VIII is MAMMOTH (120 hours) but it can get a bit tedious in places.
Xenosaga should be huge given that it comes on 2 or 3 DVDs, but I started a new job halfway through playing it so I never got around to finishing...
On the Mac front, Fable: The Lost Chapters is due in the next few months, and while it doesn't have quite as immersive a story as some of the games mentioned above, it's a good looking action-adventure-RPG.
(But this is coming from someone who got bored of Oblivion after only a few hours)
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Ok the guy who said "no not diabloll or starcraft rpgs" doesnt know what their talking about. Starcraft is a strategy rpg (I highlry eccomend it) about the future and aliens almost detroying humanity etc. If you ever get bored of the campaign it has free online play and a deccent community. also WarCraftlll is a strategy rpg which is pretty much starcraft in midievil time (with a twist). and finnaly DiablOll is solid rpg I dont know how that guy said it was'nt. And baisicly a hero beat the greatest Prime Evil called DiablO and yada yada yada then the comes DiablOll in this the hero is possesed by DiablO and hes out to destroy the world again. And anyway it has an awsome storyline and its an old game but still considering the time it was made its very advanced and is worth buying. Oh and like starcraft and warcraft D2 lets you play online and beat the game with other people if you get bored of the regular game alone and online isof course free.
Ok the guy who said "no not diabloll or starcraft rpgs" doesnt know what their talking about. Starcraft is a strategy rpg (I highlry eccomend it) about the future and aliens almost detroying humanity etc. If you ever get bored of the campaign it has free online play and a deccent community. also WarCraftlll is a strategy rpg which is pretty much starcraft in midievil time (with a twist). and finnaly DiablOll is solid rpg I dont know how that guy said it was'nt. And baisicly a hero beat the greatest Prime Evil called DiablO and yada yada yada then the comes DiablOll in this the hero is possesed by DiablO and hes out to destroy the world again. And anyway it has an awsome storyline and its an old game but still considering the time it was made its very advanced and is worth buying. Oh and like starcraft and warcraft D2 lets you play online and beat the game with other people if you get bored of the regular game alone and online isof course free.
I'd recommend pretty much any of the Elder Scrolls games.
Oblivion (TES 4) is great, but requires a HOSS of a machine to run at an appreciable resolution.
Morrowind is the previous iteration (TES 3). It is arguably more *fun* to play and runs great on today's hardware, though it looks a lot less crisp due to the era it was released.
Pre-Morrowind (Arena & Daggerfall) are great games, but look pre-historic by today's standards.
Oblivion (TES 4) is great, but requires a HOSS of a machine to run at an appreciable resolution.
Morrowind is the previous iteration (TES 3). It is arguably more *fun* to play and runs great on today's hardware, though it looks a lot less crisp due to the era it was released.
Pre-Morrowind (Arena & Daggerfall) are great games, but look pre-historic by today's standards.
It hasn't been released quite yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to Eschalon: Book I. I see some of you like Spiderweb games; this should be right up your alley, only it looks even better.
Speaking of Spiderweb: personally, I preferred the original Exile games to their Avernum remakes. Exile III is still probably my favorite of theirs.
Speaking of Spiderweb: personally, I preferred the original Exile games to their Avernum remakes. Exile III is still probably my favorite of theirs.
Let's just get this completely straight.
- Starcraft and Warcraft are Real Time Strategy games.
- Diablo is a hack n' slash Role Playing Game.
The way this was posted feels like it belongs to the WoW forum....
Anyway, I recommend Final Fantasy VII as well.
Well...we could technically argue that every game is a Role Playing Game... But Id rather not.
Arcanum is a great game and it definately does have a wonderful soundtrack. I'd recommend it to anyone.
I think there's a patch out now. But when I wrote that, there was none. And yes, it ran horrible on my MacBook Pro, until I installed the patch, now it crashes a lot.
You havent played enough RPGs. FF7 was good, but not the best by far. IMO FF3 was better, so was Chrono Trigger. Planescape Torment is the best.