FAVORITE RPG STORY AND WHY?

ugh this is sort of hard because all RPG stories are bad. I want to say planescape torment but that game just had a shitton of lore and emphasis on choices and original setting more than anything.

think ill just stick with Mother 3 since that one felt like it was written by a human.

^ Yup, Xenogears it's fantastic and is my personal favourite, too bad the incredible story is just too crippled by billion idiotic things.
It's the kind of game where I wish the authors hadn't tried doing seventeen different things at the same time and focused more on the main concepts.

Devil Survivor's was pretty good, lots of mystery at the beginning + modern setting + demons/magics = love!
I actually don't even remember most RPG stories. :X

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Devil Survivor's was pretty good, lots of mystery at the beginning + modern setting + demon/magics = love!
I actually don't even remember most RPG stories. :X

The story is pretty good. The characters (the teenage ones, specifically; the adults are better... but you see the teens 80+% of the time) are abysmal.

And now the sequel is BOOBS: THE GAME (BOOBS 2) (REVENGE OF THE YUZU) -BOOBS<boobies>- .

Yeah, not a fan of those huge, helium filled, freedom seeking balloons.
Still looking forward to the sequel though.

Final fantasy tactics because I love the seriousness of the story.

Terranigma because its a mind fuck.

you just talked about how a game's story should be consumed along with the game... HMMM where have we had this talk before (because i find this slightly ironic coming from you). idk i just assumed from this topic that if the RPG in question had its game elements stripped away which one had good writing? (that is what the original post said...). like i myself believe that games shouldn't be cut up into segments and analyzed individually but eh, i thought it was interesting to think about in terms of how well RPG stories hold up.

im discarding planescape torment because it didn't have good characters or a strong enough plot. people just rag on it because it had a lot of lore like ..everywhere... its probably one of the better written games out there anyway, but it's not saying much. that said it's still like a GOOD game.

edit: like i cant really say for sure if interactions are fully to blame for average story telling in games. its def pretty fucking hard to write a story knowing there are 200 meaningless conflicts in an ice cavern. then again i cant say people tried either.

I never really thought into all that much. My position was always 'Who cares'? I enjoy them regardless.

That's cool. I literally do not remember FF XIII though.

What I also found interesting in FFXIII was the fact that you are not the heroes. You are the enemies.
"Tell me, do you really think your life is worth more than the lives of millions of Cocoon citizens?" That's it, the Psicoms are protecting millions of people, not you. You are a selfish bastard for wanting to survive lol

Another thing I definitely appreciate is that everybody is not suddenly BFF with each other, they have disagreements and they pick different routes according to their beliefs/motivations.
Still, near the end, when they go all "believe-in-yourself POWER ACTIVATE" it's when it start feeling too much like an actual FF.

I love FFVI (...) but, like... there's just not enough detail.

This is how I feel about FFVI as well. Looking at the game in it's entirety it's great, lots to do, lots to see, but zooming in and looking at the details, you see it's kinda rushed.
Ahaha I get this sensation with art as well sometimes, when coming closer to famous sculptures they look ugly, when seen from distance, they're awesome again XD

My favorite RPG would probably be Chrono Cross. People usually criticize me for saying that but truth be told I have never really sat down to play Chrono Trigger (recenlty bought it though so I will be playing it soon)
Anyways, I love the fact that you bounce in between worlds. The battle system is pretty unique in my opinion, I have yet to play a game with a similar battle system (not talking about turn based) It was also the first time I played a game with a character using a Swallow (Staff with blades on both sides) i thought that was pretty awesome.
I don't want to go into detail of why it tops the other rpgs i like because i hate giving away spoilers. Who knows, maybe there is one of you who has yet to play it.