Hello forum,

I've never played a role playing game, i saw a friend of my play FF back in 1999 on the original Playstation, and I though oh my goodness this sucks. I love a game with constant action, like fps, action / adventure etc. Iwant to try a rpg, but i don't want to try one that really sucks and would be confusing for a beginner. Cause if that happens, it may piss me off to the point that i don't ever want to hear the letters RPG spoken together. Nothing sucks worse then a game that sucks, So I'm asking you RPG pro's out there. What is a good RPG for a beginner, I have a 360... I was thinking about getting mass effect or Oblivion.

I am not at all familar with how these games work, im a beginner.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Hello Forum,

Is there a difference between a fan and a fan boy, i think so.

I am a fan of the xbox and xbox 360 the reason is, they have the best console gaming, with the best onine gaming service. I like other games on other consoles like God of war for the PS2. I've owned just about all the home systems, the dreamcast is one of my all time fav systems. Now a fan is someone who likes the company for various reasons such as the ones i just listed. a Fanboy like the company just because......they don't care about how the system is or the games for it.I loved the PS1 but hated the PS2 it is the most boring system ever. And i hated the way sony didn't have four controller ports no hard drive, no ethernet connection, you had to buy all this extra. High price memory cards, multi-taps for four controllers etc. So from that I was turned off to sony and turned on to Microsoft xbox which had more power (better graphics). Built in Hard drive, Ethernet connection, great games and online service.

And so far microsoft has kept things going with the 360, I may try sony new machine later after games that i would like to play comes to it. But in the mean time I'm a fan of the 360, it's the best gaming console on the market. But the moment Bill gates loose his mind and start messing with things that aren't broke and not fixing the things that are broken. I'm out

I haven't had a nintendo gaming system since the NES, I played and liked the 64 but im older now and Nintendo is aimed toward children and casual gamers.How much mario can oneperson take.I'm an older hardcore (recreational) gamer so I like where I am.

Be a fan not a fanboy

I'm a lifelong Console fan and owner, I've played and owned just about every home console that came on the market beginning with an atari 2600 back in 1984. I don't play games on my pc, for many reasons, one being

1. the constant upgrades you have to make in order to play the game

The biggest reason I don't play games on the pc is the mouse and keyboard.

I heard so many pc gamers speak about how the mouse and keyboard is the best thing since slice bread. I always wondered how would you go about playing a game with the mouse and keyboard. I played games on the pc back in the day, All we had then was maybe pong, tic tac toe and hangman. So being Old skool I feel those are the type of games that should be played on a pc.

Now I don't knock things until I atleast try it. So recently I went and got a game (one of my all time favs) to play on the pc. This game is Halo 1, I have vista and I heard vista has a lot of compatibly issues with some of the older games. So I choose Halo 1 to be safe, hey the company that made the game made the pc OS. So i coldn't go wrong, and I didn't. I finally got the chance to play with a mouse and keyboard with modern gaming. And I didn't like it, the mouse was ok, but i stil perfer a controller. The 360 has the best controller on the market, it fits perfectly into my hand and the weight is nice (on the wireless controller). I felt stupid playing on a keyboard, maybe it's just the old skool in me, but i've always played games with controllers, Arcade and home consoles.

My question to all who have tried and played with both, which do you like, 360 controller or keyboard and mouse.

I say Keyboards are for typing and a mouse is for moving your cursor across the screen. How in the world do you play games like Madden, 2K8 basketball and others using a keyboard??

FPS is my fav genre. Thats why the 360 is the console of choice for top rate fps

I would love to hear your thoughts.

Wow thats a very good question? I would think MS willcontinue to let the ball roll with H2, it's still a very popular game. In fact H2 will bring many over to 360 and H3. Why stop a good thing, they have discontinued the original xbox. It will be very interesting to see how H3 does with multiplayer. What if, (this is just a though) H3 is not as fun as H2 with multiplayer. It's possible even though i doubt it but what if. What if H2 continue to be a top game on XBL. So i guess time will tell.

But very good question