Spec me an epic game

Breach · 11 Dec 2008 at 01:19

Mass Effect is probably my best game of last few years.

MoratJG · 11 Dec 2008 at 07:09

If you want epic, avoid Fallout 3. It's being way over-hyped.

I'd go for The Witcher: EE and Mass Effect (although ME is less "epic").

Mac2 · 11 Dec 2008 at 07:21

Epic = X3 Terran Conflict, you can happily play this for months and months. Depends if you like this sort of game and its quite tough for newbies.

z0mbi3 · 11 Dec 2008 at 07:52

Runbalk said:
Mass Effect

It's the first installment of a trilogy I believe...

Yeah but what I mean is that as a trilogy it would be epic but as an individual game I don't think it qualifies.

ali825 · 11 Dec 2008 at 08:14

Red Faction Old game but still fun

z0mbi3 · 11 Dec 2008 at 08:52

Northwind said:
Left 4 Dead

What's epic about it? Apart from nothing at all?

Depends on your definition of epic I suppose. Taking into consideration how long a campaign takes on the harder difficulties, it's re-playability owing to the AI director and how it's quite an impressive game compared to other co-op titles then I'd say it qualifies as epic.

Participant · 11 Dec 2008 at 10:47

MoratJG said:
If you want epic, avoid Fallout 3. It's being way over-hyped.

In what way over-hyped? It's a fantastic involving game, and I tend to avoid things with MMO-style skill points and statistics.

EvilOne · 11 Dec 2008 at 11:17

NWN2 with expantion, will give you a huge epic game to play all the way through, and by the time your finished another expantion will prob be out lol.

Northwind · 11 Dec 2008 at 18:14

z0mbi3 said:
Taking into consideration how long a campaign takes on the harder difficulties

50 hours?

it's a decent game, and it's very replayable, but that doesn't make it epic. It's a small replayable game, more of a dirty limerick than an epic

"1: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an epic <an epic poem>
2 a: extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope <his genius was epic — Times Literary Supplement> b: heroic"

C64 · 11 Dec 2008 at 18:43

Northwind said:
What's epic about it? Apart from nothing at all?

The gameplay ? what's epic about an rpg ?

spirity · 11 Dec 2008 at 19:14

C64 said:
The gameplay ? what's epic about an rpg ?

The scope, story, setting, characterisation and advancement. Not every RPG gets it right. But Lost Oddysey, Baldurs Gate, FF7, Xenogears, Diablo to name a few could be described as being epic.

I would definitely recommend the OP give Titan Quest a try btw. I wouldn't call it epic, but a great game nontheless.

bakes0310 · 11 Dec 2008 at 19:22

C64 said:
The gameplay ? what's epic about an rpg ?

Whats epic about an rpg

Im not even gonna answer that.

C64 · 11 Dec 2008 at 20:02

Well as far as I am concerned rpg's are boring plod along clicky borefests the only one that has ever grabbed me was fallout 3.

Even all those years ago diablo and baldurs gate and planescape torment were boring to me.

And don't even get me started on KOTOR that epic plodding click fest, who doesn't click past cut scenes and long winded text tell me that.

Whilst I think the witcher is a decent ish game this review kind of sums up most rpgs.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher

and mass effect http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/18-Mass-Effect

This man speaks the truth.

bakes0310 · 11 Dec 2008 at 20:16

C64 said:
Well as far as I am concerned rpg's are boring plod along clicky borefests the only one that has ever grabbed me was fallout 3.

Even all those years ago diablo and baldurs gate and planescape torment were boring to me.

And don't even get me started on KOTOR that epic plodding click fest, who doesn't click past cut scenes and long winded text tell me that.

Whilst I think the witcher is a decent ish game this review kind of sums up most rpgs.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher

spirity · 11 Dec 2008 at 20:25

C64 said:
Even all those years ago diablo and baldurs gate and planescape torment were boring to me.

And don't even get me started on KOTOR that epic plodding click fest, who doesn't click past cut scenes and long winded text tell me that.

Ah well. RPG's aren't for everyone.

I don't understand why you keep trying them though, and have been for the past..what.. 10 years? - even when you don't like them. Seems a bit odd, eh?

C64 · 11 Dec 2008 at 20:43

I do like good rpgs just not rubbishy boring click fest ones.

Northwind · 11 Dec 2008 at 20:47

C64 said:
The gameplay ? what's epic about an rpg ?

Massive stories, scale of game, length of game. There's no way I can say this without sounding like a ****, but what the heck, I really wonder if some people in this thread have any idea what epic actually means. It seems that it's just being used as a synonym for "great". L4D's gameplay is good but gameplay has no size, no scale, it fundamentally makes no sense at all to call it "epic". Would you say a game has extra large gameplay? Of course not. Epic doesn't mean good, in fact it has no bearing on quality at all.

PoD · 11 Dec 2008 at 20:57

Forged Alliance
Company of Heroes
In both of these games the battles just do not get any more EPIC

However from your description of epic I think you mean EPIC as in long, so I think an RPG is definitely what your looking for...sadly appart from KotoR and FF7 I haven't played anymore.

Mass Effect would be the only thing to spring to mind, but I heard people say it was far to quick!

Dannyb01y · 11 Dec 2008 at 21:03

Another vote for Mass Effect.

Is it short? Perhaps if you rush through the main quest without immersing yourself in some of the side missions. I really enjoyed it and like the way the story built up and I certainly think it is epic.. cant wait for more installments.

mysticsniper · 11 Dec 2008 at 21:08

If you want the mother of Epic games imo, then you have to start with Half-Life, then move onto HL2 and the episodes afterwards.