At the time, Dark Conspiracy. It was basically a horror game using GDW's house system (used in the 2nd edition of Twilight 2000 and Traveller: The New Era), which basically meant superior firepower was an option to most baddies

In some ways it was kinda Phantasm II the RPG with bits of Intruders thrown in

Quote from: Ulairi;1034566. . . Ars Magica.

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;1034567Fantastic game (and setting), but didn't it come out first in 87? But the best edition (IMO), 3rd, is of course 1992

Yes, 1987.

Quote from: LouGoncey;1034668The 90s were supposed to be a horrible time for rpgs. Funny, my three favorite games of all time came from the 90s. Underground. Over The Edge and Waste World.

Horrible for people who only played games first published during the 90s (instead of ignoring new RPG systems and happily continuing to play their favorite system from whenever), and who didn't find a system they liked.

I have no idea what the three you liked are like - ?

Earthdawn
Shadowrun
7th Sea
Rifts
2nd edition D&D
Deadlands

uhh... Talislanta too. DERP. Lots of Talislanta.

Heavy Gear--by far and away.
PARANOIA
Twilight:2000 2nd ed. was loads of fun, but I don't think it technically qualifies?

Would have liked to play more of:
Shadowrun
Over The Edge

Should have played less of:
Rifts
AD&D2e

While technically out of contest, because of being a new edition of a 80s game, Cyberpunk 2020 sure was - and still is- a favorite.

Quote from: Heavy Josh;1034743Heavy Gear--by far and away.
PARANOIA
Twilight:2000 2nd ed. was loads of fun, but I don't think it technically qualifies?

Would have liked to play more of:
Shadowrun
Over The Edge

Should have played less of:
Rifts
AD&D2e

Paranoia and Twilight 2000 were both first published in 1984.
Shadowrun was 1989.
AD&D counts as 1974 in this thread.

• Vampire: The Masquerade.
• Cyberpunk 2020
• Alternity: Star*Drive
• Kult
• Dangerous Journeys
[strike]Shadowrun[/strike]

Quote from: jhkim;1034568Cyberpunk was released in 1988, Cyberpunk 2020 was in 1990.

Doesn't that make it "new edition of an old game"?

QuoteAmber Diceless was 1991.
Feng Shui 1st ed was released in 1996.

OK, I'm glad I was wrong about them;)!

QuoteI generally preferred the 1980s and 2000s for game design. I still don't like Shadowrun or dice pools much, and there was a lot of same-ness in mechanics of many games. Plus there was the terrible tendency to have linear story modules broken up into a line of scenes.

I actually don't care about the decade the game is publushed in...as evidenced by me not knowing some of my favourite games, including Pavillion Noir* of all games:D! All this thread is proving to me is that there were good games in all decades, and bad games in all decades.
But if a game is fun, I'm going to play it:p. Shadowrun-style dicepools are no fun, IMO, so I'm not queuing up to play this.

*I have a PDF of a second printing, which is from the 2000s. But I also know that the first printing was bought off and wasn't reprinted for years, so...maybe?
 
Either way, I must add Bloodlust, CORPS, Fading Suns, Fudge, Talislanta, Usagi Yojimbo, and Witchcraft to the list;).
Technically, I hear only good things about Kult and Nephilim, but I've never played them long enough to even learn what they're about. So I won't add those.

In the early nineties, Cyberpunk 2020 was my Referee rite of passage.  I ran Dungeons & Dragons prior, but only pre-written dungeon modules.  Cyberpunk demanded creativity, adaptability and judgement.  Important Referee skills I had not needed before.

In the mid nineties, Werewolf the Apocalypse was a favourite once we discarded the tree-hugging hippy crap and played it like the blood-soaked small press comic it was supposed to be.  Played straight the game is new age junk.  Playing it as a gory power trip with nigh-invulnerable wolf-men tearing the limbs from evil executive mutants in a shadowy urban hellhole is a lot of fun.

In the late nineties, Marvel SAGA.  It is still my favourite superhero game despite using cards instead of dice.

If 2020, which was a massive departure from the original Cuberpunk game doesn't count, then Feng Shui is the game.

I always thought Rifts came out in 89.  It's actually 90.  Huhn, cool.

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.

None.

Underground

Over the Edge

Unknown Armies

CyberGeneration

Castle Falkenstein

The odder and less-explored bits of the World of Darkness: Demon Hunter X, Kindred of the East, etc.

Hands down easily my fav was Shadowrun (2e I think, but it was my first clash with it).

Shadowrun would be my first choice followed by Vampire the Masquerade. I loved Shadowrun when it came out, i think that i regret that i didn't played as much as i would like.