Which rpg should i get for the PS3 ?

[toef]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

Call of Duty 4, Resistance 2, Hot Shots Golf, Soul Calibur IV, NBA2k7, and Ratchet and Clank Future also have "elements of RPG" in them.

I'd recommend either Fallout 3 (despite it's bugs) or Oblivion (which I rented, didn't really like, but now want to play again, as I feel like I didn't give it it's proper chance...plus it's pretty cheap to buy now).

[sj001]

Oblivion, Game of the Year Edition, great RPG. Unfortunately, not a lot of solid RPGs out for the PS3 yet. Fallout 3 would be another option though haven't had a chance to play it myself yet.

[Cyorg]

Valkyria Chronicles, and White Knight Story when it comes out.

[Avarice]

Valkyria Chronicles is an amazing rpg that just gets better with time. Folklore is a very underrated rpg in my opinion, it has tons of extra content on the psn. Plus downloadable dungeons via user content. Both are outstanding and also white knight chronicles and final fantasy 13 versus are what coming up next, and I forgot about the last remnant (still no release date but we know it is coming)

[Xerios]

Originally Posted by funsocaltiger

There is a free demo on PSN Store for Folklore. It really is more adventure/action than RPG.

murder mystery meets pokemon meets acid trip.. i loved it

[air_max]

its threads like this that remind me how much i hate microsoft because now we have to wait a long time to play FFXIII

[toef]

Originally Posted by air_max

its threads like this that remind me how much i hate microsoft because now we have to wait a long time to play FFXIII

I'm hoping Sq-Enix includes English subtitles in the Japanese release, and then I won't have to wait as long (the English dubbing isn't really a huge deal to me).

[surfdude12]

oblivion.

i thought it was much better than fallout. maybe its just me, but fallout was too much of a shooter/RPG hybrid. when i think RPG, i think medevil setting.

can't wait for Elder Scrolls V

[toef]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

oblivion.

i thought it was much better than fallout. maybe its just me, but fallout was too much of a shooter/RPG hybrid. when i think RPG, i think medevil setting.

can't wait for Elder Scrolls V

After just finishing Fallout, I might agree with that recommendation, and I never really played Oblivion.

I was hoping for Fallout to be more RPG'ish, but it was more of just wandering around being fascinated, and less about leveling up (since there are only 20 levels...I was level 14 when I finished the game, and it was incredibly easy on normal). I didn't like that the story didn't last very long (rented it Monday, beat it earlier tonight, just from playing for a few hours each evening), since I'm not the type to really wander off on too many sidequests. Although one sidequest I enjoyed (the Lincoln Memorial one) and the other I hated, but kept doing just to finish (the research book in Megaton).

Anyhow, I wanted to like the game more, because I really wanted a solid RPG that wasn't medieval. I also don't like futuristic ones, but since Fallout's "future" is based on what people in the 50's thought the future would be like, I enjoyed the setting. I just wish it was longer...a lot longer.

So go with Oblivion, if for nothing else, it's half the price, and at least just as long.

And even though I don't play any MMORPG's, if the Fallout one is really happening, I just might have the play it. I'm kind of caught up in the story now, and it seems like it'd work great as that sort of game.

[air_max]

to give an alternative opinion about fallout than toefers (although everyone is entitled to their own), i thought fallout was great. the main story was shorter than i anticipated (took me 15 hours on normal), but this allows more replay value, and replay is needed to get everything out of this game. oblivion isn't a very good replay game because it takes 50-100 hours to appreciate everything; after spending all that time, i didn't really want to have to do it all over again. but with fallout, i was ready to start anew with the knowledge i acquired over my first play through (which made my character super bad-ass in the second play through).

and the side quests are really where this game is at. there are more of them, they take longer, and there are lots of other things you can do besides that. currently i am just exploring and finding new cities (also hunting bobble heads, which is very tough). this is enjoyable, and is completely separate from any of the quests. reading this forum has made me anticipate some of the quests i have not discovered (i heard something about finding the dec. of ind. and i really wanna know what that is about). there is a lot to this game, and the gameplay and leveling system are much better than oblivion IMO.

but, if its between the two, don't worry about it much, because both games are stellar.

[Terjyn]

The main quest in Oblivion is pretty much as short as the one from Fallout. Both games have tons of sidequests with a moderately short main story.

[foots]

Originally Posted by Septimus Prime

Valkyria Chronicles.

I agree!

[ixlegitballinxl]

there isn't really any impressive rpg's out for ps3 atm

final fantasy 13 should break this long streak of nada

[toef]

Originally Posted by air_max

to give an alternative opinion about fallout than toefers (although everyone is entitled to their own), i thought fallout was great. the main story was shorter than i anticipated (took me 15 hours on normal), but this allows more replay value, and replay is needed to get everything out of this game.

Haha. I don't dislike the game at all. If anything, liking it a lot is what made me disappointed in terms of how short it was. I don't really like replaying RPGs immediately after beating them, so I'd give the edge to Oblivion in terms of getting a lot of time out of it from just a single play-through.

Story-wise I'd go with Fallout, and it's not even close. Something about a destroyed-yet-recognizable DC was great. Not since The Getaway did I feel like I could actually walk around a city I'd been to in real life, and expect to see things I know should be in certain places. I mentioned in another thread that I finished up a quest, and figured I'd just go walk to where the Lincoln Monument should be, to see if its really there in the game, and sure enough once it came into view, I was pretty excited.

The Declaration of Independence and the Lincoln Memorial quests were my two favorite in the game. Both are side-quests, but I felt like Nicolas Cage, searching for treasured American artifacts.

I happen to have a saved game file right before embarking on the final battle, which I didn't realize at the time would be the final part of the game. So if I end up picking up a used copy of the game (I rented it this past week), I'll probably enjoy just starting from there, and going on a bunch of sidequests before actually ending the game.

My biggest gripe about the game (though I'd still put this in my top 2 games of the year, with LBP, and one of the best games in the last several years) are the endings. Not just the montages at the end, but the fact that you don't even do anything...seemed pretty anti-climactic...

[Show spoiler] just let the giant robot kill everything...also, why could I have that super mutant go get me the GECK, but not ask him to activate the purifier?

I thought this game was supposed to have 200 endings? (Sounds absurd, I know, but someone from Bethesda said that months ago). I haven't figured them all out, but I can't seem to get anywhere close...I'm stuck in single digits. Although, honestly, I don't really like having multiple endings, because you don't really know which ons is the REAL ending, so they all feel cheap.

[Show spoiler]In Fallout's case, the difference between playing the game as a good guy or bad guy amounts to 1 line of changed dialogue in the 30 second ending, even though it has greater effects during the game.

Though I hear Oblivion's ending isn't very good either...maybe Bethesda should hire someone that's good with wrapping things up.

[BigFoot]

Oblivion

[MOONPHASE]

Eternal Sonata, Folklore, Disgaea 3, and Valkyria Chronicles. i would say Enchanted Arms because i enjoyed it because i think its better then 360 version but not everyone enjoys it like i do. or if you dont mind importing and have a Japanese language only PS3 RPG Japan has great RPGs like Cross Edge, Record of Agarest War, and Tears to Tiara.

[quexos]

Originally Posted by Cyorg

Valkyria Chronicles, and White Knight Story when it comes out.

Tried the Valkyria demo and I did not like it much. Not much freedom of movement and that system of role play was not for me. Having played Oblivion and having enjoyed that much movement freedom, that must be why Valkyria did not seem that much of a game to me.

[SoCalTiger]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

if you dont mind importing and have a Japanese language only PS3 RPG Japan has great RPGs like Cross Edge, Record of Agarest War, and Tears to Tiara.

Possibly a dumb question, but how are you supposed to enjoy a game which is only in Japanese unless you read/speak Japanese? Aren't RPGs pretty much story-driven by definition?

[Toptube]

Originally Posted by ixlegitballinxl

there isn't really any impressive rpg's out for ps3 atm

Yes there is. Its called Valkyria Chronicles

[RamiusOO7]

Can't say enough good things about Oblilvion