AWARD NOMINATIONS: Top RPGs of 2008

[Rev. Thim]

I was going to create a "what are your 5 or 10 favourite rpgs" question for the show, but I realized this is a big topic that will take much consideration and discussion and it would make a good AWARD!

You can nominate a individual game, or entire series....unless Mike says otherwise, he is "the boss" after all (someone tell bruce springsteen to get a new nickname)


Seiken Densetsu series (aka the Mana series) Especially Secret of Mana,
Final Fantasy XII ,
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

[webbstre]

Zelda is hardly an RPG.... technically I think it is an adventure game... and I think it is in the rules that the award title needs a wacky name. Something like "So awesome it makes you drop your 20-sided dice.

[Rev. Thim]

*rolls D20* nat 20, crit.hit.

rifts,
d&d,
planescape.
vampire the masquarade.

there THOSE rpg enough for you Chase?

but no ...seriously....zelda..not an rpg.......

Chase, this is where I display the patience of a saint, and leave it to everyone else to say your wrong....but I just have three words "potions, magic, swords."

[Deli Hand Grenade]

I'm going to take your suggestion Thim but change it so that it works for our 2008 awards show. We can't do all time , but we can do the best RPGs of 2008.

So I will introduce the NEW category of the "+10 POINTS FOR AWESOMENESS AWARD" for best RPG of 2008.

My nomination is Lost Odyssey of courses.

[Rev. Thim]

yeah, I knew that game would come up, with as much as it was talked about on show. what can compete?...OH i know!

Chrono Trigger

( the DS vesrsion is comming out this month.)

[webbstre]

Remakes and ports never count towards awards... so I nominate "The World Ends with you" aka "It's a Wonderful World" aka "Subarashiki kono sekai"

And Zelda still isn't an RPG. The closest Zelda has gotten to RPG-dom is Zelda 2, which has levels and experience. Otherwise you would have to count any game where just collecting items made you more powerful as an RPG... and then welcome things like Mario and Super Adventure Island 2.

[Rev. Thim]

-version one- (the serious one)
I respect your nomination, heard good things about that one.

remakes (with additional dungeon!) should count. it is a rpg that came out this year, thus its up for rpg of the year.

Maybe I should make a "top 5 rpgs of all time" question for the show, since awards are limited to this year only.

while we seem to disagree on the definiton of RPG, it is good to kick around the topic with ya. it would be cool if we had more opinions here.

*opens a poll*, lets vote, thats the fair thing to do, if its a tie, then i guess its up to "the boss"
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-version two-(just for laughs everyone got that? ok, good.)

*unleashes a Chad-like rage*

ARGH!!! "Bob"-Dammit Chase!

Yes it F-n counts! *breaks a bookshelf* Chrono Trigger is one of the best games of eternity, it comes out this year, so its IN, like I am with your mom's ass!!!
Zelda link to the past is one of the best damn RPGs EVAR! even If it isnt in the running anymore! I'm right, your wrong. Eat a dick.

*flips you off , for good measure*

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and the oscar for best rage goes to....*opens envelope*.Chad..... damn I knew I couldnt do anger better than him. rofl.

have a good one,
thim.

[Rev. Thim]

Derek, that sounds like thee most holywood lifestyle dressing ever.


But seriously, there might be hope for the "chrono cause"; 3 new areas, new translation, presentation designed for the dualscreen, support for the touchscreen.

new control, new visual presentation, new words, more to explore = "full remake" to me..

[webbstre]

No, I agree on Chrono Trigger being one of the best RPGs ever, but it simply doesn't count for this year's awards. If any of us played them, the 3D remake of Final Fantasy IV would probably be borderline on whether or not it would count as an acceptably new game or not.