Your Favourite NON-RPG games, and why?

[InvisibleShadow]

This is an additional topic to the the one created by @Vere1. Click here for the original topic.

As someone who plays a huge variety of games across various platforms, I am interested to find out what are some of the games my fellow forum members have played that are NOT rpgs? And what do you enjoy about them?

Can be for any gaming platform, and for any point in time dating back to the beginning of gaming.

Here’s a “short” list of some of my all-time favourites, with a brief description and which platform I play them on.

The Last of Us (PS3)
I’m currently re-playing through this at the moment, and I am still blown away on a consistent basis at the quality and polish to all aspects of this game. It has an incredible story/characters, fun gameplay and some of the best level design and art direction I’ve seen in a linear adventure/shooting game.

Race Driver: GRID (Xbox 360)
This is the only racing game that I have spent any great deal of time playing online, and it’s also by far my favourite “arcade” driving game. Super-tight handling, a great list of race cars and tracks from around the world and a spectacular damage engine.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (PC)
I can lose a good week just playing one skirmish in this game. It has a deep resource and tech development system crossed with epic real-time space combat on a very large scale. I’m not a pro at RTS games though, so I have to tone the difficulty back a bit.

Skate 2 (PS3)
A free-roaming skateboard game with a unique and intuitive control system, and a large world filled with locations and objects for some potentially wicked skating sessions (just watch out for the security gaurds! )

Empire: Total War (PC)
I love this for much the same reasons as stated above in the SOASE description, only this time it’s set in the 18th century with muskets and cavalry charges instead of nuclear warheads and spaceships.

Dead Space (Xbox 360)
I’m a huge fan of the sci-fi/horror genre in films, and this takes some of the best of these elements and creates a truly terrifying game with a sense atmosphere that few can match. Play in a dark room at night with a surround speaker setup for the best experience.

Grand Theft Auto V (PS3)
If you don’t know what this is then you’ve been living under a rock since 1403… Incredibly fun to play, though sadly the online component has never worked properly for me.

Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS4)
I’ve always enjoyed Infinity Ward’s COD games and have spent well over 1500 hours playing titles from this franchise all the way back to COD 2. Ghosts is a solid game, though nothing special.

Battlefield 3 (PC)
An excellent online multiplayer shooter with large scale maps and a mixture of on-foot and vehicle combat. If you stumble across someone lying in the grass with their eye glued to a sniper-scope please don’t kill them as it might be me!

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
An excellent action/adventure game with a distinctly melodramatic flavour and plenty of long cinematic sequences scattered throughout. The story is difficult to follow at the best of times and most likely requires playing the previous games in the franchise for complete comprehension, but the gameplay is easily the best so far with plenty of depth and room for replayability.

Anyway, those are my favourites. What are yours?

[Vere1]

Thanks for puting my link in this theard.My list is not that huge.

Crusader Kings II Brilliant grand strategy game that really focuses on politics and plotting vs pure military.

Fallout: NV would probably be in the running for my all-time favorite if it weren’t crash-prone. Amazing game world and very exploration-oriented with an open feel to the questing.

Assassin’s Creed IV Was’t patient with this, and man, I’m glad. This blew the disappointments from 3 out of the water, no pun intended. An amazingly well done pirate/assassin/open-world game.

Any game in the Elder Scrolls games. There are many other games that have left me speechless or I love for nostalgia, but I love the Elder Scrolls because of the freedom it gives you, the power to do what you want. You can blend in with the crowd and become a normal person, or you can go out and make a future for the world of Tamriel.

EDIT: lol,i forget that i don’t play non-rpg games at all,so i can’t have some fav games,but i have few i like.

[Fenixp]

Dear lord, there’s LOADS. So, this year:
Bioshock Infinite for a pretty damn great storyline, design, and writing. Shooting wasn’t much to write home about, but eh, screw shooting in an FPS!

The new Tomb Raider for a great protagonist and some fun gameplay.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon for the futuristic bow (it has neons on it, see?)

The new Shadow Warrior for quad-barreled shotgun. It had a better quad-barelled shotgun than the game above.

Generally, 2013 seemed like a great year for videogames, and we’ve had at least 2 titles with quad-barelled shotguns. I’m easily impressed.

Not released but played this year:
Far Cry 3 for taking the modern FPS genre and making it awesome. Er.

Dishonored for being one of the best games I have ever played, period. Even the 2/3ds of the released DLC were frigging awesome - it’s quite apparent that the game is a work of love.

I’m pretty damn sure there’s more, but I forget. I have just played so many good games recently, it’s mad.

[AhmadKhan]

The Legacy of Kain Series and Soul Reaver Spinoffs.

[Morus]

Assassin’s Creed IV - Black Flag (PC)

I became a great Assassin’s Creed Fan during the last year, because as Assassin’s Creed IV was announced, I definitely wanted to play the other games of the series before Black Flag. (for me, AC is more Action than RPG)

Mafia I - City of Lost Heaven (PC)

Then, I really liked Mafia I - City of Lost Heaven (which is one of the projects of Dan Vavra, he really develops great games), because of it’s great story telling and atmosphere.

Deponia (PC)

Also, the adventures of the German developer Daedalic Entertainment are really awesome, like the Deponia Trilogy or Edna and Harvey - great storytelling, fantastic humor and beautiful backgrounds and characters.

Age of Empires 2 (PC)

Age of Empires 2 might be a bit old nowadays, but still I really to play it from time to time - and I don’t need any HD version of that

Dishonored (PC)

Dishonored also was a really cool game - great for me as someone who likes stealth and non-lethal methods of playing. Definitely one of my favorite games in 2012

[zicronblade]

Well, to top the list of my favorite non-rpg games, there of course is CKII. I don’t play it too often but when I play it I usually play it for at least a couple of hours in a single sitting.

Then there is the Metal Gear Solid series which I have probably put 1200 hours into between all of the “main” games.

But my favorite two outside of the RPG genre would be Rome: Total War and Men of War.

[neofrommatrix]

My favorite non-RPG game is probably Warlords Battlecry 3.
It’s a RTS and I keep returning to it all the time. I wish they made more games like these.

My favorite strategy game with only slight hint of RPG and certainly one of THE BEST games I’ve ever played is Gladius. I’d kill for remake of this game, I still play it in PS2 emulator from time to time. It’s awesome and it’s main reason why I hate Microsoft for not supporting this game on X360 and honestly this hatred follows me all these years until today (I’m looking your way, xbone!)

Another game I love with passion is Severance: Blade of Darkness

It delivered awesome combat. Totally underrated, same goes for the above mentioned games.

[Paladin]

In order. Age of Empires 2 tied with Medieval 2 total war for first, Mount and Blade Warband, Rome total war. Woops MnB is a RPG. I’d have to move Rome II up to 2nd and put AOEIII at third (CKII is an RPG also)

[InvisibleShadow]

Lots of good games listed, keep them coming. I’ve played a few of them like Far Cry 3 or most of the Assassins Creed games, and some of them I’m keen to play such as the new Tomb Raider.

[quote=“Vere1, post:2, topic:8723”]
EDIT: lol,i forget that i don’t play non-rpg games at all,so i can’t have some fav games,but i have few i like.
[/quote] Haha, that’s ok. I think most people who backed this game will like RPG’s so your thread is more relevant than mine, I was just curious as to what other kinds of games people here liked to play.

[Fenixp]

Tomb Raider

You go and do that, it really is quite amazing. Just… Don’t think of it as an actual Tomb Raider game, it is quite different in pacing and tone.

[SilverFalcon]

Metal Gear Solid - The one that made me want create games, the no. 1
Deus Ex - The one that showed me I am anarchist in my heart (the choices).
Mafia - Good story
Operation Flashpoint - Realistic open world war game, easy to mod. I won some mission design competitions
Final Fantasy (VIII) - Story
Abe’s Oddysee - Realy good and unique platformer
Total War - Great TURN/RTS strategy concept
Sturmovik - Realistic WW2 flight simulator

Edit: Pardon me, I got myself carried away. Final Fantasy is RPG and Deus Ex have RPG features mixed in.

[Fenixp]

Abe’s Oddysee - Realy good and unique platformer

Slight offtopic in this offtopic: If you have not played Stranger’s Wrath, do so.

[MadSmejki]

Dammit, this will be long

ArmA series - for it’s level of combat simulation and unmatched online coop when organized
Bioshock 1 - for how the story was well connected with the design. Much of the narration came from the designed systems which something I always adore.
Half Life 2 (and especially ep 2) - for its innovations in shooter genre and unmatched execution of scripts driven linear shooter
Metro: Last Light - best shooter since RAGE.And before that one there was first Bioshock. The gunplay, the ATMOSPHERE!
Portal 1 - for its innovations and flawless design. No game ever felt that complete. (Portal 2 is also awesome but there is more content than there has to be)
RAGE - for its visuals and polished combat
STALKER (Call of Pripyat is best imho) - for the overall feeling and semi living world design
Spec Ops: The Line - for its very clever breaking of the fourth wall and deconstruction of linear shooters and heroic stories
Fallout: New Vegas: The Lonesome Road DLC - for its very subtle deconstruction of avatarism in RPGs.
Assassin’s Creed series until Revelations - I love all first four AC games and every one for different things. None seems the best and most complete. It is kinda love and hate relatioship with each installment.
To the Moon - one of very few games that made me cry, several times
Driver San Francisco - I respect it for the innovatory design and meaningful connection between systems and story
GTA 3 and above - ain’t it obvious?
Prince of Persia: Sand of Time - the best Prince
Europa Universalis 4 - world, here I come to conquer as much as I can. Top strategy for me. EU3 is dead, long live EU4.
Total War series except Rome 2 - for the scale and unique system
Railroad Tycoon 3 - my guilty pleasure. I just love it for no quantifiable reason.
SimCity 4 - best tycoon ever. I want a proper remake now!
Sins of a Solar Empire (Rebellion, so the latest version) - Again, one of the best and most unique strategies
XCOM (the modern one) - I never got to play the old original so I cannot compare them but the new one delivers very solid system which makes up for great scenarios in the turn based battles.
Settlers 3 and 4 - call me crazy but there is something hypnotoad level attractive for me in those two installments.
Civilization 4 - the deepest (although ugliest) Civ
The Stanley Parable - great deconstruction of games and player agency
Bastion - Fallen in love with its visuals, its narrative and the system balance is simply perfect
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - OMG the soundtrack! One of the most mature and clever games out there.
LIMBO
DayZ - for all the possible outcomes of the system, for all the new feelings you have when playing it and getting into situations
Starcraft 2
Crusader Kings 2
CaC Red Alert 2 - most awesome of not well designed strategies

[Freix]

CS 1.6 because it’s CS 1.6

[InvisibleShadow]

@MadSmejki

Wow, what a list.

I’d forgotten about Limbo, that would definitely be a favourite for me as well.

[Fenixp]

Metro: Last Light

How does it compare to 2033? For the reference, I’ll be perfectly fine with it if it’s Metro 2033 without the escort missions. Whoever thought that’s a good idea should get punched in the face.

RAGE - for its visuals and polished combat

Finished that quite recently, actually. I don’t understand the hate this game gets, it’s a splendid FPS - great and very satisfying shooting, above all, and it proved that yes, you can actually have a complex FPS that can be played on a controller.

[tomtom]

My first games are all Flight-Simulators and Sim City.
Favored Medieval Games was “Jeanne ´d Arc”, Lord of the Realm, Knights and Merchands. Caesar 3, 1086 Conqueror, Braveheart (many Bugs, unplayable) Civilisation/Colonizaton, The Settlers (all, best was 1+2) Anno (all, best was 1602, the nicest 1503) Patrizier, Age of Empire 1 + 2 Rome/Medieval Total War (one of best was Viking Invasion, i think) Pirates, Far Cry (great!) Port Royal (not so bad) and than M & B. The last Game, what I´m buyed.
And many other, what i forgotten the name. All these Games I forget the time, morning was broken and I had forget to sleep…

[Cappi]

Non-RPG eh? Hmm I would say:
Battle for Middle-Earth 2
Command & Conquer: Generals
Civilization 5

Wow I only play RPG-games or I just realised…

The best games are probably:
Dishonored
The Elder Scrolls 3,4,5
Dark Messiah
Stalker SoC, CS
Dragon Age: Origins, Awakening
Fable: TLC
WoW during Cataclysm
Guild Wars 2

[213]

red orchestra 2=kcd of ww2 shooters. so many innovations that exist only in the game. other devs will not touch them because they’re afraid it’ll make their games too difficult for poor console saps. even games advertising themselves as realistic(arma 3) do not have proper swiveling bipod usage, true 3d scopes, or weapon resting. it’s truly a unique game in a very bland genre.

[Night1505]

Phwew, where to start? In no particular order:

-FF VII (well aware it’s an RPG, but props it must have!)
-Assassin’s Creed, each and every console one (haven’t played Liberation and don’t have the HD version yet… Black Flag all the way though!!)
-Farcry 3 (again, kinda RPG-esque)
-FF X (again with the Final Fantasy)
-God Hand (old PS 2 game beloved for it’s epic adrenaline charged hand-to-hand)
-XCOM: Enemy Unknown (very much with @MadSmejki on this one… never played the original but love the reboot)
-CoD: the Infinity Ward ones… Modern Warfare series + Ghosts (yeah yeah… sue me)
-Half Life 2 (who wouldn’t?)
-Deus Ex (the original for PS 2 and PC… never played the newer ones, sadly)
-Red Faction (the second one was okay too, but those that followed kinda sucked… in my opinion)
-Bioshock (the original will live in game history forever… period… neither 2 nor Infinite grabbed me quite as much… though Infinite’s story was totally redeeming)
-Limbo (again, I have to agree with @MadSmejki… Limbo is awesome… try the free demo and you will likely hate it, or buy it)
-Saint’s Row: All 3 of them (in my opinion, better than the GTA games… and way more hilarious… totally unrealistic)
-Fallout 3 (I wanted to like New Vegas as much as 3… but I didn’t)
-Red Dead Redemption (as a player of Red Dead Revolver, this was a treat that kept me satiated for some time)
-The Elder Scrolls IV and V (sorry about Morrowind, but I was unlucky enough to play Oblivion first, thus making it damningly frustrating to play Morrowind… sadness)
-Warcraft 1, 2 and 3 (3 has some of the best voice lines ever… hee hee)
-Wild Arms 1 & 2 (old PS 1 games that will forever hold a place in my heart)
-Dark Cloud 1 & 2 (same as above, but PS 2 games… oh my lord, so fun!!)
-Dishonored (I’m also a sneaker in most games that allow for it)
-Shadow Hearts (again, an RPG for PS 2, but haven’t seen others mention it and I thoroughly enjoyed it)
-Legend of Dragoon (same as above, but for PS 1… I still play this game from time to time)
-Sonic the Hedgehog: 1, 2 and 3, and Sonic Spinball even (props Sonic… love you man!)
-Plague Inc (Android/iPhone game that I still maintain I should have been the one to make… total props to the guy that actually did though)
-Pong! (both the original and the PS 1 version)
-Too Human (lots hated it… I absolutely loved it!!)
-Borderlands (haven’t played the second one, but sure I would love it too)

Sorry if I duplicated a lot of others (especially @MadSmejki), but there are some truly good games. Also, it’s hard to find many really good games without at least a few RPG elements in them. Gamers crave customization and making choices.

Thanks all,

–Chris D