What was Your Favorite 1990s Game?

Kashirigi · April 19, 2018, 02:41:06 PM

I'm glad I'm not the only one who picked Heavy Gear. I still love Ghislain Barbe's illustrations.

tenbones · April 19, 2018, 03:08:34 PM

Quote from: artikid;1034960So, when are we crowning Mike Pondsmith? =P

Bow down.

Malleustein · April 19, 2018, 06:00:12 PM

Quote from: AsenRG;1035030Well, it was written by White Wolf. That should be par for the course;).

The core book had White Wolf's usual "storytelling" nonsense and took liberties with characters and setting, but the rules were surprisingly good. Thought was put into the fighting system and the vast majority of special manoeuvres were balanced. The same can be said of Secrets of Shadoloo, which I suspect was material originally intended for the core book or written at the same time.

Almost everything in the supplements that came afterwards was of stupid, imbalanced gibberish. The decline in quality is staggering and the absence of play-testing is glaringly obvious.

Heavy Josh · April 19, 2018, 06:35:48 PM

Quote from: Kashirigi;1035099I'm glad I'm not the only one who picked Heavy Gear. I still love Ghislain Barbe's illustrations.

Oh man, so much this. Barbe's run at DP9 for Heavy Gear and Jovian Chronicles is the bar I measure all mecha illustrations. And the art direction/layout of the Heavy Gear books was just amazing in the early-to-mid era of DP9. So helpful in evoking the setting, and generally easy to read.

Just Another Snake Cult · April 19, 2018, 09:24:55 PM

Honorable mentions to:

Whispering Vault

SLA Industries

Armageddon (Remember that short-lived fad of RPGs based on the Biblical Apocalypse (i.e. 666, the Anti-Christ, all that stuff they taught you at Good News Club)? This was the cool one with some of the best art of Tim Bradstreet's career and a neat future history of the Nazi-like Army of Revelations. )

Brave New World (OK, more of a guilty pleasure but it was the one supers RPG to unabashedly go for an Image/Liefield vibe which is sorta fun in retrospect)

WanderingMonster · April 19, 2018, 10:02:03 PM

One of the weirder games I was into back then was Immortal: Invisible War. It was... ambitious... I guess, in a White Wolf-y kind of way. Couldn't really get the clunky mechanics to work, though. Nonetheless, I still own the book and enjoy skimming through it from time to time.

Psikerlord · April 20, 2018, 02:26:39 AM

Quote from: WanderingMonster;1035158One of the weirder games I was into back then was Immortal: Invisible War. It was... ambitious... I guess, in a White Wolf-y kind of way. Couldn't really get the clunky mechanics to work, though. Nonetheless, I still own the book and enjoy skimming through it from time to time.

we played that! a bit. Dont remember much about it

KingCheops · April 20, 2018, 12:00:15 PM

Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;1035150Armageddon (Remember that short-lived fad of RPGs based on the Biblical Apocalypse (i.e. 666, the Anti-Christ, all that stuff they taught you at Good News Club)? This was the cool one with some of the best art of Tim Bradstreet's career and a neat future history of the Nazi-like Army of Revelations. )

Loved this one and Nephilim but sadly I wasn't able to get either past the first session or two so didn't count them.

RPGPundit · April 23, 2018, 04:25:57 AM

Amber was published in the 1990s, but it was being played several years earlier, in the '80s.

Mike the Mage · April 23, 2018, 04:47:46 AM

I played Mage the Ascension and Over the Edge but I must add that looking back, it was not the decade for me as far as tabletop rpgs are concerned.

Videogames OTOH...

AsenRG · April 23, 2018, 03:50:04 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1035596Amber was published in the 1990s, but it was being played several years earlier, in the '80s.

But could you obtain the rules unless you were in one of those games? If not, for the majority of us "year of publication" would be what matters.

Realistically, any game published in the 90ies might have been in development since the 80ies, but we don't need to check all of its history when we know the date of publication.

Hastur-The-Unnameable · April 23, 2018, 04:53:28 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1034439Of the RPGs that were released in the 1990s, which would you say was your favorite?

New editions of games released previously to 1990 do not count.

Do games originally released in a foreign language in 1999 count?

Because if so: Agone.

Christopher Brady · April 23, 2018, 05:22:54 PM

i'm going to change my choice. I've re-looked through my Champions New Millennium stuff, and although it's BASED off an older edition, it uses an entirely different engine and changes the world enough to be it's own thing. So I'm going with Champions: New Millennium.

ffilz · April 23, 2018, 05:23:12 PM

Quote from: Hastur-The-Unnameable;1035695Do games originally released in a foreign language in 1999 count?

Because if so: Agone.

I'd say if we are excluding games where an earlier edition was first published before 1990, then a game that had any published edition (whether in English or some other language) in the 1990s counts.

jhkim · April 23, 2018, 05:25:07 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1035596Amber was published in the 1990s, but it was being played several years earlier, in the '80s.

I believe that, but I note that your OP specified:

Quote from: RPGPundit;1034439Of the RPGs that were released in the 1990s, which would you say was your favorite?

New editions of games released previously to 1990 do not count.

I think release date is a much better known quantity for most games.