Best Current RPG with a good story?

[StinkyPinky]

By the way, a game many people overlook is Jade Empire by Bioware. It's kind of their forgotten game. I think it uses a similar engine to KOTOR so it's not exactly a great looker but I thought it was fun.

 

[CP5670]

I'll need to try out some of these. I wasn't much into RPGs at one point since I'm not a fan of the traditional fantasy setting, but loved all the Fallout, Mass Effect and Deus Ex games. I played Planescape Torment a while ago and that was great too.

 

[GHz_ghost]

Title says it all, I'm trying to branch out from shooters...

I highly recommend Transistor. It's from the same developer as Bastion. I finished it a month or two ago and I was absolutely in love with it the whole time. It's an Action RPG, or at least that is what I would classify it as. The visuals are beautiful, all hand drawn/painted, and the music is excellent. I really like the story, the combat system, and the setting too. Pretty much everything about the game is excellent. I have heard some complaints about the brevity of the game (completion will probably take 8-10 hours), but I thought the length was just right. I tend to never finish games that go one for much longer than that.

Here is some of the game's art and music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41tIUr_ex3g

 

[you2]

I thught banner saga had a nice tight story.

 

[Hinda65]

play Dark Souls...I'd been mostly a FPS player and decided to try it because of how tough I heard it was. It's brutal fun....takes a little to get it set up and running on the PC but I'm 108hrs in with mouse and keyboard w/ no issues.

 

[surfsatwerk]

By the way, a game many people overlook is Jade Empire by Bioware. It's kind of their forgotten game. I think it uses a similar engine to KOTOR so it's not exactly a great looker but I thought it was fun.

:thumbsup:

 

[Anomaly1964]

play Dark Souls...I'd been mostly a FPS player and decided to try it because of how tough I heard it was. It's brutal fun....takes a little to get it set up and running on the PC but I'm 108hrs in with mouse and keyboard w/ no issues.

I too have heard it's a hard game...

 

[scooterlibby]

I'm an FPS guy, but FWIW, I was enthralled by Skyrim.

 

[tential]

play Dark Souls...I'd been mostly a FPS player and decided to try it because of how tough I heard it was. It's brutal fun....takes a little to get it set up and running on the PC but I'm 108hrs in with mouse and keyboard w/ no issues.

108 hours? Are you trying to beat the game or you just having fun? Not trying to be a dick but that game I don't see how you could spend 108 hours on it's pretty easy.

I too have heard it's a hard game...

Depends on what games you've played in the past. The game I found to be relatively easy, but I guess if you're a new generation gamer you might find it hard, or if you get frustrated easily. The hardest thing to overcome in that game is the horrendous controls/low FPS (I played it on my old laptop so I had console like FPS). Otherwise, meh, it's easier than Ninja Gaiden 2 on Easy Mode so wasn't too hard to me.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I too have heard it's a hard game...

Not so much hard but there are things in the game that are just frustrating making you repeat a section. Especially the parts that require careful platform walking on ledges.

 

[tential]

Not so much hard but there are things in the game that are just frustrating making you repeat a section. Especially the parts that require careful platform walking on ledges.

Considering how many areas in the game in which you can run through a whole area, and each mob will run off the cliff in that area, it's quite sad.

The AI of mobs in that game is painfully stupid.

 

[Hinda65]

Considering how many areas in the game in which you can run through a whole area, and each mob will run off the cliff in that area, it's quite sad.

The AI of mobs in that game is painfully stupid.

I spose you could run through a lot of areas once you know where your going? maybe you followed a bunch of online guides? I've tried to use those sparingly.....that's the fun of the game.

 

[Omar F1]

Dragon Age: Origins - a masterpiece from Bioware, which I consider one of the best PC games of all time.
The most I liked about it, that it wasn't too long to go through, the length was almost perfect for me, played it twice already, and sure would return back in the next few years.

Mass Effect 1 another great game, but what holding me to replay is the planets discovering thing, mostly waste of time with a few bases that you could find.

Based on multiple recommendations for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, now it's in my whish list and definitely I would visit some day, thank you guys.

Btw, I just finished The Witcher 1 in ~60 hours, a wonderful gameplay, characters and story. The combat system kept me engaged and never bored of it, I finished it in normal difficulty.
It went to the list of best PC games I ever played, and very nice graphics / world for a 2007 game.

 

[tential]

I spose you could run through a lot of areas once you know where your going? maybe you followed a bunch of online guides? I've tried to use those sparingly.....that's the fun of the game.

No. Just ran sometimes. My brother was the more daring and would run through an area just to scout it out. No guides, the game just had pathetically stupid AI. To this day, we still laugh "Dark Souls AI would have killed itself at this point!"

An AI system in which the mobs will always follow the most direct path to you, even if it means killing themselves, means they're down right stupid.

But like I said, we'd also played harder games like Ninja Gaiden so Dark Souls by comparison is far easier. If you play a ton of easy games then I can see Dark Souls being challenging.

The hardest part of the game was dealing with the horrific controller scheme and low fps. And the area of the game where it's exceptionally dark. Otherwise, the AI was far too stupid and weapons like the Mace(which you start with as a cleric) was exceptionally stupid. BRB staggering every enemy so they can never hit me back. What? I start with that weapon? And the next weapon I find is a phucking Zweihander? Didn't even realize how good that weapon was at first because I was so used to my mace but mobs can't even get close to you and are perma staggered all day.

Game also failed at many basic tenants of an RPG IMO. But it was "hard" and I guess anything to promote "hard" game play is better than the stupid "let me hold your hand the whole way through" game play we currently get right now.

 

[Coulrophobia]

If you are a fan of South Park, South Park: Stick of Truth is some fun times

 

[Hinda65]

But it was "hard" and I guess anything to promote "hard" game play is better than the stupid "let me hold your hand the whole way through" game play we currently get right now.

Ya, I think that's why I dig it so much.....they just drop you in...give you some basic hints along the way and leave you to it. This is the reason im at 100+hrs and just finishing the Painted World....I keep backtracking/getting lost and dying...a whole lot of dying but im savoring every minute of it.

 

[poohbear]

Witcher 2 and dragon age inquisition are the 2 rpgs that totally stand out in past 5 years. Awesome games. "Mass effect 2" is also up there, best one in the series by far.

 

[Red Hawk]

I think there's an argument to be made that Mass Effect 3 has a better overall story than Mass Effect 2.

 

[Anomaly1964]

Ya, I think that's why I dig it so much.....they just drop you in...give you some basic hints along the way and leave you to it. This is the reason im at 100+hrs and just finishing the Painted World....I keep backtracking/getting lost and dying...a whole lot of dying but im savoring every minute of it.

I play games like you play them

 

[JamesV]

Personally I don't think any RPG has a good story, but that is a matter of taste.

I'll recommend based on fun instead, and more recent games. Divinity Original Sin and Legend of Grimrock 2 are my two favorite RPG's out of the current offerings.

Divinity is an isometric turn based game which I played through twice after buying it, and I rarely do that with any game. It reminds me of Fallout and Baldur's Gate, with an action point system and interesting character development.

Legend of Grimrock 2 is a real time four direction movement RPG; like the old Wizardry game's movement, but with real time combat. Plenty of puzzles and secrets add to the combat side of the game.

Both run great on my 2600k/580/8GB system.

 

[sushicide]

+1 for Divinity, I'm usually not a huge turn-based player but was pleasantly surprised by how fun it is to play. The story isn't as epic as Dragon Age's, though it still does the job well enough.

I'm also trying out Kingdom of Amalur as suggested earlier but not really drawn into it though, however me being only lvl8 is probably too early to tell.

 

[ControlD]

This thread has me wanting to give KoA another try.

That also seemed like a game that was meant to be played with a controller and I was struggling to keep up with the action. Now that I have 60+ hours into Dragon Age Inquisition with a controller maybe I should revisit some of those games I wrote off in the past.

 

[tential]

+1 for Divinity, I'm usually not a huge turn-based player but was pleasantly surprised by how fun it is to play. The story isn't as epic as Dragon Age's, though it still does the job well enough.

I'm also trying out Kingdom of Amalur as suggested earlier but not really drawn into it though, however me being only lvl8 is probably too early to tell.

I want to save Divinity for when I move (hopefully to Colorado). I think the environment there will help with the roleplaying lol.

 

[Subyman]

ME and especially ME2 were great - the latter may be Bioware's best - but ME3 had serious issues.

To those who've played Inquisition: does it have a worthy, full-length ending? Even DAO fell down on that part a bit, IMO.

ME3 was a huge step back in terms of quality of story telling. Not so much the greater plot, but the dialog and side stuff like codex entries and data logs were really poorly written. Bad prose and they even used today's slang and idioms in the writing. I highly doubt people hundreds of years in the future are still going to be saying "Just sayin'" or "Not gonna lie." It instantly broke immersion and made me think of the 20-something year old that was tasked with churning out dialog.

ME 1 and 2 are great. Another good one is Banner Saga for story. You actually have an impact on your clan, people lived and died by your decisions, that gave the game a lot of weight for each decision made.

Divinity is fun, but its not one to play for story. I think people are just listing fun RPGs now. It's supposed to be about the story.

 

[Craig234]

Dragon Age: Origins - a masterpiece from Bioware, which I consider one of the best PC games of all time.
The most I liked about it, that it wasn't too long to go through, the length was almost perfect for me, played it twice already, and sure would return back in the next few years.

Mass Effect 1 another great game, but what holding me to replay is the planets discovering thing, mostly waste of time with a few bases that you could find.

Based on multiple recommendations for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, now it's in my whish list and definitely I would visit some day, thank you guys.

Btw, I just finished The Witcher 1 in ~60 hours, a wonderful gameplay, characters and story. The combat system kept me engaged and never bored of it, I finished it in normal difficulty.
It went to the list of best PC games I ever played, and very nice graphics / world for a 2007 game.

I liked it a lot - I think I paid like $200 on PS3 and then bought it again for over $50 on PC where I didn't even play it hardly - but I found the length of sections sadistic.

Go here! Oh wait, there's a ton more to get here! Oh wait, there's a ton more to get here! Oh wait, there's a ton more to get here! All over the game. Hard to get through.