I notice that in the games section of my App Store one of the selection by types are RPG. Funny, here the list: Chaos Rings Sword & Poker Final Fantasy I&2 100 Rogues Aurora Feint II Inotia 2 Doom II RPG Fastar! The World of Magic Ravensword Gamebook Adventure 2: The Siege of the Necromancer The Isle of 8-Bit Treasures Zenonia 2 Hybrid Dungeon Scroll Across Age Dungeon Hunter Zenonia Crimson Gem Saga Shining Force Puzzle Quest Underworlds Sword of Fargoal Seed 1 Gold My heart bleed a little of some missing RPG, but that's a refreshing selection anway. I regret the absence of: Rimelands Heroes Lore: Stigmata Of Gaia Knights of the Phantom Castle Undercroft Orions: Legend of Wizards Knightfall Death and Taxes (I know its IAP is abusing but well) Seed 2
Yeah cool I'm curious to see. In fact this could be in my app store since a long time, I usually never connect in iphone section but only ipad section where it's a rather good strategy selection since a long time. Both also get the strange selection of "control your world" with a mix of sim, strategy, and resources management.
PW is RPG? more like visual novel to me. . . War of Eustrath is the best rpg and the best game currently in my ipod
Just to let you know, the games that are not on the list are there because the "Best Role-playing Games" section of the Appstore was added prior to their release. But i do agree with most games you have there, especially Rimelands.. it's not getting much love at the moment
Ha ok I didn't knew that selection was that old, the strategy selection in iPad store isn't that old. From those I played Rimelands is the more unique and it has the best fights which is quite an exploit because it is bringing a new system I haven't seen anywhere else. For sure a rpg fan could enjoy some other less casual (which is another point of its originality) but it's still very pleasant to play and certainly will be for most rpg fans. I wonder from what you get it isn't getting much love. Perhaps its TA iphone thread, I don't check on a regular base nor in deep that section, there's too many posts.
If you think Phoenix Wright is an RPG, then maybe you think Street Fighter IV is a racing game, and Doodle Jump is a RTS game?
No, visual novels are considered RPG's. 'RPG' originally stood for 'Role Playing Game', meaning that the emphasis is on playing the role of a single character. IE, Phoenix Wright, visual novels, and text adventures. The genre has evolved over time and the more common meaning of RPG today has become 'Game with a big epic storyline and/or lots of stats and numbers', but both are still valid.
Yeah... I know what an RPG is. I've been gaming since the days of Ultima on the Apple II, and played D&D at the Compleat Strategist in NYC back in the 80's. Assuming you know what those things are and why they matter. PW is not an RPG. You can call it a visual novel. You can call it a graphic adventure game. But it's not an RPG. Nor is it even a text adventure - I played REAL text adventures back in the Infocom days. Calling it an RPG is simply incorrect. It's not. Even if a million people call it an RPG, it's not.
Do you guys there are any RPGs better than elemental gimmick gear and record of lodes war for the dreamcast?
@Stirolak: Skies of Arcadia! @Chocolate: Sorry for sounding condescending a bit, I don't usually expect to get out-RPG'd by people . From my experience, any game can be defined as 'Playing a role' and they're not called RPG's; it's just that the visual novel genre is the one genre that I've seen very often being called an RPG regardless. And on the other side of things there's also the whole 'How many stats can MW2 have before it's an RPG' issue. TBH it's really a massive gray area not worth arguing about. Anyway if it helps any, I've been working on studying my history lately :
UK Top RPG Paid List: Infect Them All Cartoon Wars-Gunner Battle for Wesnoth (Gah 59p gotta pick up!) Cartoon Wars Dexter The Game Swords and Sandals Antrim Escape Full Solomon's Keep Hotel Tycoon Jean's Botique Metalwars 2 Cartoon Defense Drag Racer: Pro Tuner Final Fantasy Zenonia 2 COD Black Ops thing Air Tycoon Drag Racer Perfect whatever Crystal War Deep Dee Dungeon Chaos Rings HECTORL Badge of Carnage CSI Miami Women's Murder Club Bartender Dash ---- Sorry UK players, but you CLEARLY don't know what a good RPG is.
In my store the list aint better and yes it's wrong categories, for the quote, the current top paid, for iphone (too few HD RPG): Cartoon Wars-Gunner Final Fantasy I Cartoon Wars Ystandia A Dice Hot Game (hard to translate) Cartoon Defense Crystal War Final Fantasy II Crimson Gem Saga Dungeon Hunter Solomon's Keep The Experts: Miami Chaos Ring AngerOfStick-Friend 1112 Episode 1 Dexter The Game Deep Deep Dungeon Zenonia 2 Battle For Wesnoth 1112 Episode 2 WarShip Infect Them All Space Miner: Space Ore Bust UniWar Solomon's Boneyard Seems a little more RPG than in UK. Put in bold those I know are RPG but there's many I don't know. I wonder all those cartoon games in both countries.
But the list in my store for top profit is a little more RPG: Final Fantasy I Final Fantasy II Yslandia Chaos Rings Cartoon Wars-Gunner Crimson Gem Saga Dungeon Hunter Dexter The Game The Expert: Miami 1112 Episode 1 Zenonia 2 1112 Episode 2 iMobsters Cartoon Wars Song Summoner Space Miner: Space Ore Bust A Dice Hot Game (hard to translate) Deep Deep Dungeon Cartoon Defense Crystal War Heroes Lore: Stigmata Egypt The Prophecy Part 2 Galaxy On Fire 3D Across Age DX GraalOnline Classic+
