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RPG Games Ranked

 

The NES has some pretty sweet RPG games. 4 Dragon Warriors alone are pretty darn good, throw in 2 Wizardrys, Bard’s Tale, and, of course, Final Fantasy and wow lookout. Ranking them is probably premature as we have only beaten five of them, but here we go anyway. For now we are defining an RPG as one with no action. For instance no Zelda.  There are many other fine RPGs which unfortunately we do not have the time to work through.  Hopefully in our golden years or this summer we will have time to play and master them all!!

 

Agent J and K's Rankings

  1. Dragon Warrior III – DWIII takes all the great elements of Final Fantasy and combines them with the best stuff from the first two Dragon Warrior games.  It’s also the concluding chapter for the original Dragon Warrior story.
  2. Final Fantasy - This one started ‘em all. There would be none of that Full Motion Video crap, without the great gameplay of the original and its successors.
  3. Dragon Warrior II – This Dragon Warrior is generally dismissed but we consider it an improvement over the first.
  4. Dragon Warrior - With only one character this game is a bit limited but still darn fun.
  5. Destiny of an Emperor - This is a decent RPG. You can recruit many different generals but the massive amount of names is confusing.
  6. Wizardry 2 – Pretty good no frills, dungeon crawler RPG
  7. Bard's Tale – So so RPG
  8. Ultima: Exodus – Ouch, this game is old school.  The first RPG released on the NES and it looks like it could have been released on the Intellivision.
  9. Swords and Serpents - One of the worst games I've played. 4 players can play together though, which could possibly on some other planet make this game fun.

Unranked and Unplayed:

  • Dragon Warrior IV
  • Wizardry
  • Might and Magic – Though it was great on the PC
  • Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Pool of Radiance
  • Legend of Ghost Lion
  • Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
  • Ultima: Warriors of Destiny