My Top Eleven BEST RPG's on the SNES

 You read the title, you know what this is. Remember that this is all OPINION. Let's do this.

My Top Eleven BEST RPG's made on RPG Maker (and similar Game Maker engines)

 RPG Maker games tend to have a bad reputation, mostly because the overwhelming majority of them are made by novices who overestimated their skills and forgot to temper their ambitions. But if 90% of all RPG Maker games are crap, that still leaves a 10% worth seeking. These are MY top 11 BEST RPG Maker RPG's.

Why are old school games so grindy?

 The grind: every RPG aficionado is familiar with the term, and there's nary a single player who doesn't have a story related to grinding. For the two or three of you unfamiliar with the term, grinding is when you spend a long time gaining experience points and gold so you can be strong enough to pass through a certain part of the game. These days, it's rarer for Modern RPG's to force the plater to grind, but pop in an NES RPG and suddenly it's grindsville. Why is that?

My Top 5 RPG Franchises (that are NOT Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest)

Yup, you've read the title, you know what you're getting. However, before we start, here's a few rules:

1. A franchise MUST have more than one game in the series, excluding remakes.
2. SRPG's and Action RPG's are NOT permitted, so no Kingdom Hearts, Disgaea, etc.
3. Eastern and Western RPG's ARE permitted.
4. Spiritual trilogies DO NOT COUNT, so no Soul Blazer-Illusion of Gaia-Terranigma!

Let's begin!

Just for fun- An RPG With a Gay Lead!

A few months ago, I was watching the then latest episode of Game Theory, and it said that LGBT representation in gaming is, well...crap. It seems that for every game with a positive representation of LGBT people, there are 10 games with negative representation, and for every 1 game with any LGBT representation (good or bad), there's 55 games without it. For example, Poison from Final Fight has to be the most well known transsexual in video games (though FAR from being the only one) and not only is she a villain, she's just one of many, many mooks for you to beat up. Another example is "Shemale Bop" in Grand Theft Auto V, which, like most media, makes transsexuals and transvestites into little more than a joke. Anyway, my point is, we need better representation of LGBT's in gaming, and today, I am here to propose we make a game that does just that.


Here's my idea. We make an RPG, because this genre is the one that allows for the best storytelling, and that just happens to be my specialty. Anyway, here's the short synopsis: You have two characters, the hero and his boyfriend. The boyfriend happens to be a martial arts expert and is teaching the hero all about some skills. The boyfriend gets called by the mayor of their city to go to the local cave and deal with a monster, so he takes the hero along to test his skills. This is the tutorial dungeon, and the boss is a monster with about 300 health.

Wind's Nocturne- a look at the power of song in gaming

As a child, I never really liked animated musicals very much, mostly because most of the songs were annoying to me. Seriously, very few, if any of these songs, were good in my opinion. I guess that's why I took to gaming as much as I did. I didn't want to hear the princess sing about how she's waiting for her knight, I wanted to see the knight kick ass! No, I don't want to hear the comic relief characters sing about friendship, I wanna control the hero as he tears through the bad guy's armed forces!

What's "Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden"?

Everybody get up, it's time to slam now! We got a real jam going down, welcome to the Space Jam! It's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Jam! Alright! Come on and Slam! And welcome to the Jam! Come on and Slam! If you wanna Jam!

Sorry, I had to do that. Anyway, "Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden" is a Freeware RPG, released back in the year 2008. The game is a loving homage to the decade of the 1990's. Practically everything in the game screams 90's: Several products such as Duncaroos are mentioned, while others such as Ecto Cooler are integrated into the game play. The game stars Charles Barkley, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, as he fights his way through the forces of the future, led by the legendary Michael Jordan, as he attempts to save his son as well as prove his innocence from a crime he did not commit. In his journey, he will be joined by a ragtag group of heroes, including the great grandson of LeBron James, as well as an extraterrestrial who came beyond the stars to help save our world from an evil organization hell bent on bringing chaos and destruction to the world via acquiring an ancient, powerful artifact from the past...