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Heh. :-) Each of them has something it does better than the other one. But yeah, they're quite different, and if I had to choose just one of them, it would be Morrowind. (By the way, I do like both salted and unsalted food, depends on a particular meal. ;-))
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EDIT: forgot Fortix
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I'm not sure about the order. I like all of them, they are all different.
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I've noticed that many avoided Final Fantasy VII like the plague. Why? The story was great, the characters had depth, it was the first game in the FF franchise to introduce us with 3D animations and the convenient main-character-amnesia didn't feel all that overused back in 1998.
Anyway my list:
Honorable mentions (which I haven't played but watched Let's Play footage of and would love to play):
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Do you mean Fallout 3?
I consider it to be an excellent sandbox game, but the ending just sucks the big one.
Also, I forgot about Dragon Age: Origin and added it (even though, again, the ending wasn't as memorable as some of the "15 year old games" I remember)
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Who cares about the end? More people that you might believe.
An RPG is, first and foremost, a story. Depending on how well developed the story is, the player gets transported into a world. Without a proper closure, all you've experienced in this world falls flat and the illusion is broken; the empathy is lost.
The journey is important of course but, like any good story, the end ties everything neatly together; leaving you with a sense of completeness and a moral to think about. That's where the art of storytelling lies, in my opinion.
Anyway, to each their own.
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All parts of an RPG are important: beginning (setup), middle (journey), end. All are essential parts to any story and must be considered equally important. Without a good setup, you don't know where the hell you are or what's the meaning to anything. Without a good journey, you're spent with lots of fluff in the middle that is pointless. Without a good ending, you don't have closure, if you will, and the story feels incomplete, so where is the ending, then?
Also, $FaPiL, Grandia II is ridiculously fun, as I remember it from years and years ago. If you've ever got the time to play Final Fantasy X, please do, it is a damn lovely game. One of my favorites, by far. If you haven't heard of or played the Golden Sun series (first two on GBA, third on DS), you're missing out.
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Agreed. Apparently Andarus is of a different opinion.
Might be the cause of this new generation of sandbox-RPGs: Procedurally generated quests are more important than hand-crafted stories to some, I guess.
EDIT: Heard of the Golden Sun series, but my portable games stopped with the gameboy color. Unfortunately you can't have everything in life ;)
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That is why I prefer JRPGs or those reminiscent of them. Although, it seems that it's all about WRPGs these days with no plans to move back to the days of JRPG. Guess there isn't enough interest. I enjoy turn-based, but it's all about action RPGs.
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lol play fable 3 and it will DROP right off your list
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All games that are a part of a series count as one. My top five:
Edit: they don't have to be PC games.
Edit #2: Shit I completely forgot about Animal Crossing, that game is the shit, even if Nook is an old, miserly bastard. I'm bumping off Fable for it.
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