NEW TO RPG. I'M PROBABLY AT THE WRONG FORUM...

Alright, here I go.

I will say this in advance, but I will check the links LATER, as damn there's a lot and I'm currently just taking it one game at a time. I don't have much time anyway as I work 8hrs a day so... bear with me with this :)

author=pianotm
unity Weird and Unfortunate Things are Happening
Red_Nova Prayer of the Faithless
Sooz Together with Red_Nova and unity made Remnants of Isolation
emmych and PentagonBuddy Free Spirits
accha and Trass Dreaming Mary
Eike Notes on the Etgoesian Crisis
Archiea_Nessiah Chain of Retribution and RE:Alistair++
Indrah Ruin Frontier
LockeZ Vindication and Vindication and Iniquity
Cloudhime Starbot
Wikimon C. O. A. T. S.
Kory_Toombs Othello
Superstroke Trial
otherhand Cognitive Dissonance (Earthbound)
Cradth Stories of Sheidh: The Ancestors
Velvet Isis Gotham Knight
Volrath Master of the Wind and Bro Quest

All of the people I've listed have made games that are the exemplar of what a good indie game should be. As for puzzlers, I'm not big on them either, but check out games made by CashmereKat or Jeroen_Sol. They've both got some fantastic puzzlers.

Gee thank you for the long list.

author=eplipswich
Welcome, Nikechu!
Just a showcase of the trailer for the expanded version of OneShot:




There are also other RPGs that I like, but they probably are not the ones you're looking for since those are pure RPGs that are more into levelling/fighting bosses (pretty much the early Final Fantasy-style games) and are a bit more to the hardcore side.

Thank you for the trailer, that actually really caught my curiosity as it can be difficult without knowing what I am going to play. To start with I may be playing the top rated games first, well because they are good. I did the same with anime tbh, then later got into lesser famous anime and enjoyed them as well.

author=Kylaila
Edit: Oh, also for the notification system, there is not one in place like this with @sthsth, it is often used to adress people in posts though (as you did).
You automatically get notifications for new posts in threads, statuses, reviews etc. you created by default.
You can also subscribe/unsubscribe to specific threads or gamepages to be kept up to date with notices to anything added to it. It doesn't count edits tho, thank god. That's how this site works.

That kinda seems annoying, but I guess it's how things roll here, I'll get used to it sometime. So far I really like this community and will probably stay here.

author=Kylaila
And as a sidenote, most developers here aren't in it for the profit, either. It is mostly a hobbyist-community. So it's just normal game-loving peeps for the most part.

Yeah, if it was something with full blown ads and every post where like: "Check my game out it's great, only 0.99$" then I'd be thrown off by it, really. But if it's something like @Sooz did then it's fine.

author=Marrend
Fair enough, Sooz. Let's provide a link to The Book of True Will while we're at it!

Will check it later.

author=BadLuck
This might be in poor taste, but the game I made (Ara Fell) is currently on sale for 4.99 on steam with a 92% positive rating. I don't know if a commercial RPG Maker game is the best place to "start" per se, but I might argue Ara Fell is one the most well-rounded RPG Maker games out there.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/440540/

There's a free demo, and you can also refund Steam games if you play them less than 2 hours. If you do decide to give it a try, please let me know what you think!

How funny, I just bought it before I read your quote. I'm thinking, if free rpg's can be this fun, then what about paid ones? Definitely going to give this a try. It's not like I'm against turn based RPG's, I remember once playing a turn based game in Playstation and I loved it, I forgot the name though...

Sorry gotta go, I will check up later if I missed some comments!

author=Sooz

author=Nikechu
I'm thinking, if free rpg's can be this fun, then what about paid ones?

Just as a warning, this is not always a reliable measure.

Yeah I know, but it was mainly because of the positive ratings. The trailer looked nice as well. I will most likely be careful to buy any indie games. I will pick the indie games based on trailers etc.
I found an interesting site made from VGPerson and he translated some neat rpg games too. In fact Ara Fell will probably be the only RPG I bought. At least in a long while.

Also, thanks for the links earlier :)

author=pianotm
Ara Fell and Remnants of Isolation are more exceptions than the rule. They're great games, but most paid indie games tend to be as unmemorable as most other indie games. Don't let that entirely put you off of paid games. There are plenty of really good paid indie games out there.

I'll be sure to be on the lookout for that as well.

Now, I'm not the type to play a game several times to get several endings, I play it once then I move on. Especially in this case as there's just so many games out there... Is that a no-no or? I don't expect to become an elitist, but more the casual gamer. I will probably cross some buggy games (already did in fact), same with some bad translations/grammar or whatever's out there. I'll probably think it's funny, but at the same time won't look down on the main thing itself, the game. However that might be difficult on story-heavy games, .