ARS: Response to the previous two articles on my tablet PC gaming project (first, second) has been positive, and as long as people continue to express interest in it, I'll keep posting updates. So with this in mind, I thought it would be useful to dedicate the next few posts to describing how well different games do or don't work with the Samsung Q1's touchscreen interface, and what problems I've run into getting them going. Note that some of these issues will apply more generally to netbook gaming-for instance, a few popular netbooks have a 1024x600 screen size, so you see resolution-specific issues come up there, too.
In this first post, I'll just go through the games in my library that I've now had the chance to install and play on the Q1UP. I'd also like to solicit your feedback on which games from the GOG.com library you'd like me to try next, since GOG has kindly offered to let me have some download codes for this purpose.
It’s foolish to say that one RPG is "better" than all the rest across systems and generations. This is merely the 25 RPGs we feel are the best and nothing more!
Dragon Quest 11 isn't even the best Dragon Quest game, it's a good game, but not the best. Dragon Quest 8 is superior to it in almost every way.
OK let's end this, in order
Xenogears
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Legend of Dragoon
Breath of Fire 4
Breath of Fire 3
Dragon Quest 8
Dragon Quest 11
Vagrant Story
Saga Frontier 2
Chrono Cross
Suikoden 2
Suikoden
Threads of Fate
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Lunar 2
Some of my personal favorites are Planescape: Torment, New Vegas, Morrowind, Kotor 2, Wasteland 3, Witcher 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Deus Ex, Disco Elysium and Vampyr.
As far as jrpg, while I'm not as big a fan as I am for Western RPGs, I love Persona 3 - 5, Dragon Quest 8 and 11, Rogue Galaxy, Final Fantast 6,7, and 12; and Lost Odyssey.
20 years ago, Interplay Entertainment released Icewind Dale, a game based on a Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the same name.
Amazon has discounted the physical versions of Concrete Genie and Planescape Torment & Icewind Dale: Enhanced Editions to $19.99.