What RPGs would you recommend for people who have never played an RPG before?

[GennGreymane]

Fable: Lost Chapters

Damn I loved that game when I was a kid.

Chicken chasa!!!

[anaxie]

How well does Baldur's Gate hold up nowdays? I love Divinity, not a fan of PoE mostly cause I felt the combat sucked ass.

Frankly Baldurs Gate Trilogy and Planescape are still the pinnacle of RPGS. If you want depth play them. If you only care about graphics have fun missing out on the vast majority of RPG and JRPG games in creation

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No one mentioned Fallout 2 or Morrowind. Yall need better taste.

[Velshin]

For old school:

1-Phantasy Star series

2-Chrono Trigger

3-Final Fantasy 5/6

4-Shining Force

5-Suikoden series (specially the first two games in the ps1)


For Modern :

1-Dark Souls series (including Bloodborne)

2-YS series (the remastered version of the steam pc release)

3-Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind

4-Witcher 3

5-Tales series specially Berseria and Symphonia

[Poppincaps]

Probably Skyrim or Fallout 3. Pokemon for JRPGs. Accessible, pretty decent quality, decently deep RPG systems. If someone's never played an RPG a lot of the things we take for granted may be completely foreign to them. So I think games like Dark Souls or Final Fantasy may be a little too much.

[RobertoCarlos]

For everyone who had Witcher 3 and dark souls/bloodborne in your answer, congratulations you win the thread.

You can collect your prize shortly

[johnhoftb]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Low numbers with HP and attacking.

Simple battle system with depth.

Great story.

Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga also works in similar ways.

Same thing with Super Mario RPG, but with older turn based Square RPGs.

[Cyclone Jack]

It depends on what other kinds of games they prefer. For example, if they prefer games with lots of strategy or tactics, then I'd show them Disgaea, Final Fantasy Tactics, Shining Force, Tactics Ogre; maybe even Ogre Battle, but that's more strategy than RPG. It also depends on how far back they are willing to go, graphically. Ultima VII Complete is quite amazing, but if you didn't play in that era it may be hard to get past the graphics; the same could be said for Wizardry VI-VIII, which is an absolutely fantastic trilogy of games that will take hundreds of hours to complete.

Some of my personal favorites (skipping the titles I have already mentioned):
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magik Obscura
Baldur's Gate Trilogy
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Age: Origins (though I'd steer FAR away from the sequels)
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Fallout 1 & 2
Knight of the Old Republic 1 & 2 (esp 2 with the patch that restores all of the missing content)
Krynn Trilogy (the old Gold Box AD&D games)
Lunar I & II
Planescape: Torment
Pool of Radiance (another gold Box AD&D game)
Ultima Underworld 1 & 2
Ultima IV (the one that started it all, IMO)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Ys Books I & II

[Kathandira]

What RPGs would you recommend for non RPG gamers? What are the easiest RPGs?

Skyrim. Just jump in, and do whatever you want. Enjoy.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

It'd entirely depend on what sort of games they have been used of playing before, there's no one clear-cut answer.

This totally. That said, I'd recommend from this list:

Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire
Pokemon Black and White
Final Fantasy Tactics
Trails of Cold Steel

[anaxie]

It depends on what other kinds of games they prefer. For example, if they prefer games with lots of strategy or tactics, then I'd show them Disgaea, Final Fantasy Tactics, Shining Force, Tactics Ogre; maybe even Ogre Battle, but that's more strategy than RPG. It also depends on how far back they are willing to go, graphically. Ultima VII Complete is quite amazing, but if you didn't play in that era it may be hard to get past the graphics; the same could be said for Wizardry VI-VIII, which is an absolutely fantastic trilogy of games that will take hundreds of hours to complete.

Some of my personal favorites (skipping the titles I have already mentioned):
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magik Obscura
Baldur's Gate Trilogy
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Age: Origins (though I'd steer FAR away from the sequels)
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Fallout 1 & 2
Knight of the Old Republic 1 & 2 (esp 2 with the patch that restores all of the missing content)
Krynn Trilogy (the old Gold Box AD&D games)
Lunar I & II
Planescape: Torment
Pool of Radiance (another gold Box AD&D game)
Ultima Underworld 1 & 2
Ultima IV (the one that started it all, IMO)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Ys Books I & II

A man of fine taste.
But really you could throw nihon falcoms entire game catalogue on that list.

[Bigbazz]

Final Fantasy 6-10
Chrono Trigger
Grandia II

Thought I'd mention some JRPGS as there hasn't been much mention of them, and I feel they are among the best games one could put time into.

[meowfurion]

I think Skyrim would be a good choice. It's got that mix of FPS, shooter, and RPG in a nice blend and it's easy to get into.

[Coombs]

Witcher 3, GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption. Most other games are subpar.

[Eleccybubb]

Witcher 3, GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption. Most other games are subpar.

Only 1 of those you listed is an RPG though.

Red Dead and GTA 5 are Action Adventure games with open world elements.

Also tbh I kinda got bored of GTA 5 after finishing the story and doing a lot of the Online stuff. Does get regular content updates though I'll give it that.

As for Red Dead keep meaning to try it but so busy with retro stuff atm I keep getting sidetracked.

[Coombs]

Only 1 of those you listed is an RPG though.

Red Dead and GTA 5 are Action Adventure games with open world elements.

Also tbh I kinda got bored of GTA 5 after finishing the story and doing a lot of the Online stuff. Does get regular content updates though I'll give it that.

As for Red Dead keep meaning to try it but so busy with retro stuff atm I keep getting sidetracked.

You follow the role and play as a character through story acrs. That is more RPG than the choose your own adventure Goosebumps storytelling that most implement these days. They aren't fantasy games which I believe a lot of people consider to be the only RPGs, but the games have better dialogue and story than many others.

[Eleccybubb]

You follow the role and play as a character through story acrs. That is more RPG than the choose your own adventure Goosebumps storytelling that most implement these days. They aren't fantasy games which I believe a lot of people consider to be the only RPGs, but the games have better dialogue and story than many others.

And you are entitled to your opinion.

But their genre is clearly listed as "action adventure".

Witcher is most definitely an RPG though no denying that.

[anaxie]

Final Fantasy 6-10
Chrono Trigger
Grandia II

Thought I'd mention some JRPGS as there hasn't been much mention of them, and I feel they are among the best games one could put time into.

Play Legend of heroes series.

Youre welcome!

[Deleted]

How well does Baldur's Gate hold up nowdays? I love Divinity, not a fan of PoE mostly cause I felt the combat sucked ass.

Too hardcore, RPG newbies won't hold onto an aged game with open use of D&D rules. It's easier to get into a sword that does 15-26 damage than a sword that deals 1D8+2 damage.

I would start with Dragon Age Origins. It's excellent, fairly easy to get into while still holding onto a lot of classic RPG elements.

[Cyclone Jack]

A man of fine taste.
But really you could throw nihon falcoms entire game catalogue on that list.

I recently added a bunch of the Ys games to my catalog, as well as the first Tales in the Sky (I think that's the one). Been having that JRPG itch, and I've heard good things about these.

[Yuuki Asuna]

I'm going to go old school

Shining Force 1 & 2
Phantasy Star 4
Final Fantasy IV, V and VI
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana

Just to name a few!