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Steam version of DDA pays for one of the devs drug addiction, how does this even happen?
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Featured game by thumbnail : Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
>Are mystery dungeon games allowed in this thread?
Generally yes, most mystery dungeon games(Shiren the Wanderer, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Etrian Mystery Dungeon, etc.) can be considered roguelikes too
>Is Elin/Elona allowed?
Yes, they are roguelikes
>Is Dwarf Fortress allowed?
If it's adventure mode, yes, that could be considered a roguelike, the same can't be said about its other modes though
>FAQ
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>What to Play
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>Individual Game Pastas
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>Roguelike Archive (Collection of pretty much every free roguelike there is)
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z
>/rlg/'s "official" Cataclysm: DDA fork
https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/releases
>News
11 May 2025 - Steam Sky 11.0.1 released - https://thindil.itch.io/steam-sky/devlog/942554/version-1101-released
06 May 2025 - Cogmind Beta 15 "0bPrime" released - https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/520838311548289252
03 May 2025 - Zorbus r61.5 released - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2125420/Zorbus/
02 May 2025 - Gloamvault b19_4 released
01 May 2025 - Wizard School Dropout Preview 4 "Mansion on the Hill" released - https://weirdfellows.itch.io/wizard-school-dropout/
30 April 2025 - Crablike v1.0.1 released - https://quinn2win.itch.io/crablike
26 April 2025 - TomeNET 4.9.3 released - https://www.tomenet.eu/
08 March 2025 - Anon releases Alpha version of his roguelike 'Balatrogue' - https://juraxgames.itch.io/balatrogue
>/rlg/'s shared DCSS online account
User: rlgrobin
Password: ownfault (or "robin" on Xtahua)
Roguelike Servers
https://angband.live/ (Angband and variants) Chapters 3 & 4 are right around the corner. What was your favorite fangame release during the wait? How do you think fangames will be affected by the new chapters?
Are you developing a fangame? Post progress! Summon Night is a good series.
Can we get a thread going? >All heroes & villains in one battle. 10/10 setup
>NOTHING. FUCKING. HAPPENS.
Falcom just can not help themselves... Dungeon crawlers are games I'm supposed to love. I love the sense of exploration they offer, but the COMBAT is something that always gives me trouble.
The issue I have is that 90-95% of the battles are won just by selecting attack from the menu. And then there are important battles here and there that you have to use different strategies, but they're so far apart that by the time I get to them, I just want to use the same "spam attack to win" strategy.
Real time games like Legend of Grimrock take a better approach in this, but the tile dancing is not something very fun to do as well.
Maybe I just didn't try the right games? I've played some Wizardries, some Etrian Odyssey, some SMT and the result is pretty much always the same. So, where are all the ripoffs? Why hasn't anyone else capitalized on the popularity of these, especially given Bethesda's failure to launch another title in the past fourteen years? It's a proven formula, so where are all the copycats? >love series
>there will never be a new entry
For me, it's Dragon Age. There will never be another RPG that has 6 origins with 5 UNIQUE 20 minute gameplay sequences that loop back around with unique quests and scenes and massive consequences later in the story. No RPG will ever mix real time combat with pauses so perfectly, no cast of characters will be so human, no worldbuilding so well thought out without being pretentious or just stealing from D&D, no Morrigan sex or selling knife ears into slavery.
Bros... how do you even begin to cope? If you follow Ralof into Helgen Keep during the beginning of Skyrimjob, he unknowingly completes an aurbic ritual through the unbinding of your hands (untying the Prisoner from fate) inside of a Tower--symbolic of the wheel/cylinder within which all of 'reality' occurs--where a chandelier casts the shadow of an eight-spoked wheel upon the floor of the same ritual chamber containing a deer head casting dragon-like wing shadows, between the bear emblem of the Stormcloaks and the Imperial sigil. Where all da reanposters at? Previous thread: >>3739287 >go to dungeon without an escapipe or telepipe
>get lost
>ruin out of hp
>die
>did all that for nothing Even though RF5 was a letdown, does anyone have the next Rune Factory on their radar? The idea of getting hyped for an end of life Switch game seems pretty stupid, but the waifus/husbandos dropped today and the game is coming out in May
https://youtu.be/DDcFzgjVYII?si=HsQrJLVAMO2kleSR do you like da grindan game? Alright alright after christ 20 years or so I'm ready to replay the original Final Fantasy 7. but it comes down to - do I play the PC port on steam with 7th Heaven, or do I play on my couch with the PS4/PS5 port? It's been a while since I've seen one of these. Which is your favorite game? Vehicle? Bounty? Share some stories about your journeys in the wasteland. It took me a while but now it makes sense. The subtle dimwit freaked out at it because it has a DLC featuring a liberation war against the Chinese.
I'm not saying that FO3 is a gem, but as somebody else said (https://old.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/uhjox5/hbomberguys_fallout_3_is_garbage_and_heres_why_is/), many a criticism for FO3 applies more pertinently to FNV, the one HBG plays pretend at adoring. Would buying it on CD change anything?
Never playing Unity. >your starting trash weapon can secretly be upgraded into a great weapon
YES dude Which modern cRPG best carries the legacy of Baldur's Gate II? Post your Souls weapon-fu. Unsupervised is finally done. Zaper can now rest easy. >Monday
>no /mon/day thread
Fine I'll do it myself
Monster collecting and raising games. What have you been playing and what are you looking forward to.
Did you snatch something from Steam's Creature Collector Fest ? Which RPG does the samurai job/class best? Do you create mods for your games? Literally just blobs of different shapes and colors yet they're the most iconic rpg enemy ever, how did Toriyama do it >chicken chaser?!?!
Was this the beginning of woke in video games? Gay, bestiality, turn-based weenie slop gay sex simulator. And they still don't stfu about how AMAZING they want us to think it is. FU. The update's coming in just a few days. Then we have to wait for the translation. Ok what's the big deal with this game? Combat is shit, spells are boring, the game pushes you to play stealth archer, the cities are small and barely have any NPCs in them, exploration is meh at best, the plot is the most boring and stale story I ever heard, dragons are lame, the game level scales with you so if you want to just do the main story you can ignore 99% of the content (subjective I know, but morrowind had a different approach which I enjoyed more), the RPG mechanics are shallow to a point when I wonder why they are even there.
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oh ok, I get it now. 10/10 timeless masterpiece E33 threads often get derailed by people who haven’t played the game and just want to speculate or shitpost for no reason, let’s keep this one comfy and focused on those who are actually playing or have played it. If you haven’t, please just lurk and don’t act like a retard. With everyone excited to play the remaster, I think it's finally time to break down and play the original for the first time. Thoughts? Heard good things, and I've been looking for some good DS games. Also, is the enhanced re-release "overclocked" for the 3ds any good? I prefer to play on actual hardware but its like 40 dollars more than the base game With AI-assisted development imminent, we'll be getting yearly Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy games 
>Suggest g.f play Deus Ex
>Looks at skills, first skill she puts points into is swimming because it's cheap.
>Go to make some salad, come back, she is already in the liberty statue.
>Ask her how she got there
>uhh dunno?
>mention that there is some side missions like meeting the informat at the north docks
>sneaks to the edge of the liberty statue and tries to get down the way she got up
>instead misses the jump and lads all the way down nearly shattering her legs entirely
>proceeds to the docks
>ends up on the box shooting tranq darts on enemies that have by this point ran out of ammo doing potshots at her on top of the crates
>continues playing with no skills leveled up, sneaking past all the enemies back up the liberty tower
>enters through the top of the liberty statue, triggering a gas mine while trying to disarm it
>her sneazing and caughing pulls the guards towards that area, she then slips by the area they left to check out
>drinks all the water in the water fountain until it's empty afterwards to deal with the tear gas nade
>tries to free gunter
>didnt explore shit so has no lockpicks or multi tools
>makes pic related contraption of a TNT box and a trash can to climb over crates
>I'm sweating the entire time watching her finagle a fucking TNT crate and trying to drop it just right
>knocks everybody out with the prod
>frees gunter and climbs back over using the same crate of TNT
>gets to the top of liberty statue and is blocked by 2 people
>shitunatconevertrainedmeforthis.jpg
>tries throwing flares to distract them and knock them out but doesn't work
>instead uses fire extinguisher to stun them and then knocks them out with the baton
>not very interested in what the terrorist leader has to safe, as soon as the conversation is over is willing to just leave with "missions done I guess mindset"
>goes to explore the rest of the island
>timetoputthoseswimingskillstouse.jpg
>but inventory is full
>game crashes when trying to drop cigs
What a ride Cutesy artstyle aside, is Etrian Odyssey the peak of dungeon crawling? This might be the worst boss I've ever encountered in an RPG. He only has two attacks but he has ten billion health so the fight is just you slowly whittling away his health for twenty minutes. Avowed is miles more fun to actually play than ReOblivion and I'm tired of pretending it's not the case Have any of you zoners been doing any fun builds lately? Do you think some builds will become unviable in Infusion with the different mechanics? >we have Baldur's Gate 3 at home Why did he relinquish his role as the official, sole composer of the Final Fantasy franchise -- in his prime -- to work in a bunch of literal-who games and personal projects? Can we talk about how good the writing is in this? It presents a grounded believable system for FTL travel that informs the rest of the game. It explores themes of racial superiority, eternal apocalyptic return, and synthetic life / artificial intelligence through a dark lovecraftian lens.
The codex is incredibly detailed and the level of world building around stuff like element zero just puts modern blue haired vidya writers to shame.
It’s also very based and suggests at times that genocide is a necessary evil. Wrex even describes the krogan as savage niggas that are not worth saving and who are more to blame for their own problems than the genophage.
Mass Effect 1 is truly a game for white men Favorite old guys in RPGs?
Japanese rpgs are known to worship childhood so you rarely see PLAYABLE old dude characters.
What are some old guys from RPGs you like? >put tons of enemies that give diseases, ability damage, etc. in the early game
>early game is timed, with no good indication that it is timed and how much time you have
>early game companions start with bad builds
>constant pre-buffing
>turn the early game into a slog
Did Owlcat set out to make Act 1 intentionally annoying? A game similar to Elder Scrolls comes out tomorrow. Has anyone tried it? How is it? Will you be picking it up?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466060/Tainted_Grail_The_Fall_of_Avalon/ Can you recomend RPGs that have a elementary setting? I know persona and lot of other visual novel like has high schools as part of the setting. But elementary school is rarer. I just know Yo-kai Watch and demi kids. Harry Potter's games do not count and non conventional school don't count >Get stuck over an hour trying to figure out how to get past the Rancor pit in Taris
>Didn't have any sneaking abilities
>Had NO idea you could put some odor and a bomb in the skeleton pile to kill the Rancor
>Make it to Dantooine
>Every living thing can kill you
How is this game one of the best RPG games of all times? It's way too tedious and overrated. Why is this game not discussed more frequently among the CRPG community? It's the most faithful adaptation of 3.5E D&D. It's focused on dungeon crawling. It's turn based, like all D&D adaptations should be. Plus the visuals are very nice. Yes, it was buggy on launch but it now runs perfectly fine with Co* and Temple+. Maybe because it is set in Greyhawk?
Anyway, ToEE thread. Why there no more games that use a fighting game combat? Early tales and spin-off summon night do kinda, but even soft beat'em up/ side scrolling action elements are rare. Do you know more? The superior form of FUN.
Why so few? What your favorite? Any obscure game with this mechanics to recommend? Expedition 33 is this? worth the 50G disk space? best fallout new vegas major faction in ur opinion??? I just wanna say
FUCK THE ENGLISH! Previous thread is gone.
Is there any news about the update? jesus christ
this game is long. when am i done? lmao Why don't more modern RPGs have actual alignment systems in them? So we can all agree this was the most underrated entry in the series, right? Playing through 1 again right now, God these games are great. Some of my favorite character designs of all time. What I am in for?
Just finished fallout 1 two weeks ago for the first time, then finished fallout 2 yesterday.
Now, my m8 told me that best course of action in my le'classic fallout marathon would be 1.5, then Nevada and then Sonora.
Any tips? I dont need a walkthrough, I'm planning on beating the game as it is. As I've already mentioned, you probably need to play this.
-"Refreshingly not gay" -Roger Ebert
-"I wish it was a LOT more gay, 3 and a half stars" -Gene Siskel >JRPG
>Takes place in medieval time period
>Toward the end, you find the ruins of a modern or techno city, station, etc.
>Turns out civ. shit the bed so bad, everything reverted back to stone age and things are building back
Every time. Why does Japan have a hard on for this concept? Watching a 2-year old stream on youtube of a japanese guy playing fallout 1
This is his character build
(Yes he didn't choose any traits) Spacefaring is the only thing scratching my itch right now and I wanna shoot the shit and get some recommendations. Slogging through Star Ocean 5 at the minute because it was cheap as fuck, but it’s very average and is severely lacking in any good interstellar shenanigans.
All space is good space, Star Trek to Mass Effect to Cosmic Star Heroine. Hard scifi, space fantasy, whatever.
Post ‘em and talk about ‘em. What are your favorite NWN modules? Aware me
Is the open world fun to explore? >Friends called me gay again for picking a female character instead of male
>Somehow it's gayer to be staring at a girl's ass the entire time than a dude
I don't get it I've been hearing a lot of good things about Grandia lately? Is the series really that good? Tried this thread on /v/ and no one replied. Has anyone played Vagrus? It's on sale right now.
>open-world turn-based RPG
Sounds neat. Releases on PS5, Xbox Series X, Steam, (and hopefully Switch 2) in 2025.
WE ARE FUCKING BACK, DIGIBROS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npVx8cNyDe4 Is this the most mechanically complex jrpg of all time? who is your favorite traveler? >Explore the environment
>Defeat a powerful foe early in the game
>The reward for your skill is... an item that makes the game easier
Bad design I can't believe boomers tricked me into thinking this was good. I recently replayed the witcher 1 and witcher 2 and they were kino as fuck, this right here is just pure dogshit straight out the gate. So I decided to play VC2 after having put it off for a long while. Not a fan of it being in a school setting but whatever. Anyways I'm still pretty damn early (februrary) in the game and I unlocked a handful of my squadies missions and they give an absurd amount of money and XP when you clear them. Marion's mission is so easy to wrap up in 1 turn, barely a few minutes. This can't be intentional right? Did I do something wrong and break the games balance? I have more money than I can even spend right now. What's the best version of pic related in the year of our lord 2025? I can't do it.
The story and atmosphere look interesting but the controls and combat are so fucking shit. I can't force myself to continue. What is it? I own III HD-2D, IV/V/VI DS, VII/VIII 3DS, XI PC. I've played varying amounts of time of each.
I love the tone and the monster designs, but in all of them I find the gameplay a bit shit. Other than the main theme, the music generally doesn't blow me away either.
Why do Japs (and to a lesser extent the rest of the world) enjoy it so much? This is an RPG game made for children. No depth at all. This is what I wanted out of Minecraft and thought it was going to grow to be. Actual story and RPG elements in an open world sandbox with sculptable terrain. When I started playing this game I didn't realize eight hours had went by, absolutely wild. It's easily one of the best games ever made. So why exactly do immersive sim (Dishonored, Deus Ex, Prey, etc) always underperform and never seem to get really popular?
What is holding them back from becoming more mainsteam like a Baldur's Gate 3, Expedition 33, Elder Scrolls, etc? Just found out this exist & as soon as I saw the sheer size of the maps/world I was hooked,this is how you make your game ooze Lord of the Rings & Gothic on roids!!
https://youtu.be/h6JN3wWeqHQ?si=4L1uO70E3vOrOLXd >all villians are white men
>Malak is a pathetic and insecure faggot to boot and Calo Nord is a funny midget
>Bastila is now a super talented girlboss
>Carth is a whiny white dude
>Canderous is an overly masculine white dude who is a war criminal
>Juhani is now a furry lesbian with a "woe is me" anti-slavery character arc
>HK-47 is now making reddit jokes about meatbags left and right
>Zaalbar's story is merely a pretext for another "slavery and exploitation is bad" lecture
>obligatory social inequality comments on Taris
Still want that KOTOR remake? Is Bard's Tale IV the current epitome after finushing Grimrock? I tried to mess with Wizardry 8, but its just too messy, and the theme is not serious enough.
I love puzzles and secrets and reading maps. >"We asked 100 people to define what an rpg is..." >bro its wayyy better than the original, its a remake done right!!
>environments look 10x worse than the ps1 prerendered backgrounds
>the hardest difficulty is still way easier than ps1 universe thanks to adding 3 hit combos, staggering, and all the other additional powercreep
>the dungeon designs are completely changed for the worse for no good reason
>the voice acting is cringe and has lost all its original cheesemaxxed soul
>cave of trials is an absolute joke now
>literally no new content that is actually interesting or meaningful, just some pointless raid fights to powercreep you even more and a boring fishing game
>you can now summon cameo characters that are totally out of place as assists in battle to powercreep you even more
>awful new character art that is barely any better than the psp abomination
>"""QOL""" features that make the game play itself, so based
thanks for getting my hopes up fags. im gonna go ahead and stick to the ps1 version. I just beat this game and it was pretty fun. How the hell are you supposed to beat some of these hell mode fights though? Why is dual wielding better than 2h in literally every rpg system Gonna be replaying Morrowind for the first time since it came out. I haven't played any Elder Scrolls game since then. I remember hearing some tip that you don't actually want to make your most commonly used skills into major/minor skills, because they end up raising too fast and you get poor stat increases on level up. Where should I put the skills I actually want to use? I'm planning on playing a magic user by the way.
Also, Morrowind thread I just finished replaying every smt game and spinoff, I need something that's like... the opposite, almost. relatively short (under 30 hours), not a ton of shit to do, just a simple but fun turn based rpg. one that comes to mind would be the first black souls game. Does it hold up in the big '25? Morrowind lore is the only true TES lore. What are your thoughts about the Drakensang series? I'm just about to start playing it blind. I honestly think I've discovered that a cheaper imitation that does a similar function to a much more expensive thing, is basically the same for the primitive human brain. Welcome to the Gothic thread Premade protagonist with personality and history, or a malleable blank slate? Call it. 
I'm a bit tired to see amazing mods requiring MWSE OR OpenMW.
Many modders continue to make only MWSE versions of mods and not making an alternate OpenMW version at all. I guess since the Lua implementation is completely different, it would mean the double of scripting work for the modder, so I'm not necessarly blaming each individual modder sticking only to the MWSE option mostly because they are used to it and because apparently MWSE allows more things right now, I just wonder if the modding scene will eventually evolve or just stick to its current uses.
Some of them are particularly harsh towards OpenMW. To them, OpenMW is only good if you want to play Morrowind on Linux or MacOS, but a terrible choice (or even that there is no reason to choose it) on Windows because it doesn't support MWSE which has lots of mods, some considered essential (the number of people only swearing by Ashfall is astonishing), so they refuse to recognize OpenMW may be the future and almost wish everyone sticked to the vanilla engine (and some even ecourage new players to purely stick to the vanilla engine, I've seen this a lot in the Confrérie des Traducteurs). It's not helped by tha fact that MWSE is still maintained and updated, which continues to dig the rift in the modding community, and I hope it won't prevent OpenMW to develop and to be on par with vanilla+MWSE, especially since OpenMW have so many upsides of its own (ease of use, many MCP updates already baked in the engine and togglable in the launcher, better distant lands, better stability and optimization, native support of normal maps and parallax maps, no light limit, native support of shaders and groundcover...) Microsoft could reopen Troika. Would BG3 be a better game if Obsidian made it instead of Larian? Why are Japs so enamored with RNG bullshit?
Seriously, it's present in so many JRPGs. Where's the fun in resetting again and again because you got screwed over by the RNGod until you get a favorable result?
That's not engaging gameplay or fairly difficulty, it's straight up bullshit. How the fuck do i get good in competitive pokemon, no matter how much I think about each turn I cant win a match except against the lowest elo scrubs. Nothing I do works. Enhanced Edition good enough? Gonna play it for the first time. This is a turn-based RPG for people who hate turn-based RPGs. Any other (good) games like these ones? Post favorite RPG Maids.
Mine is this generic who mogs the main character maids. >knows he will be defeated by a dragonborn of prophecy
>saves them from execution
Was alduin retarded? What made it special compared to the others like Morrowind or Oblivion?
Why does it seem to capture the imagination like no other series that scratches that fantasy adventure feeling? Is Skyrim only hated here because it's popular?
Would it be considered a cult masterpiece like VTMB if it were unpopular? 
I finished Earthbound and just finished M3 and cried...
I know the fandom is very defensive about criticizing Earthbound but whatever.
I hate the farming system for exemple Swords of kings in M2 and Mystical Stick in M3.
M2 is the most problematic 1/128 it's not even 1%. I entered the Stonehenge Base around lvl 50, I left it lvl 80 (with All Ness Paula and Poo learning all their PSI moves) and guess what I still didn't have the Sword of King (don't worry I made a save in case I wanted to continu farming).
I dind't tried farming for the Star Pendant in the Fire Spring bc fuck it.
And bc of this unsuccessful attempt the game ended up being super easy bc I was nearly max lvl against the everyone and it kinda ended up bumping every ennemies = ended up boring me (sadly)
At least M3 made the best items drop to 3%, at least made me farm for Kumatora's PK Ground
I don't know if this item drop is unique to M2 and M3 or common in the games around the time
NB : Why isn't it yet a Giegue/Gyigas plushie in the Hobonichi store https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK5nnqOCaCg
tim cain (creator of fallout) talked about what's essentially the elder scrolls' skill levelup system without directly mentioning TES, and pointed out all the pros and cons and potential pitfalls, such as players abusing the system, being compelled to play the game in a certain "unfun" way, etc
then he presented a potential solution to said pitfalls: make the skills level up only when you FAIL at using them
His reasoning was:
>People learn from failure irl
>It'd result in an "easy to learn, hard to master" system where you can easily be a "jack of all trades", master of none, but specialists who specialize in one skill by practicing it over and over until they git gud will go above and beyond
>when you get to the point where you can't fail, you don't need to level that skill anyway since you're already good at it
Is he onto something? Why does this meme exist? Azura is nothing like this in the games. It's once again AE's birthday month. Do you have fond memories of their games? >underrail
>neo scavenger
>ostranauts
>rimworld
>kenshi
>project zomboid
>cdda
What else can I play /vrpg/ I need something that's similar... can be any graphical style as long as it's deep systems as such (kenshi is hit or miss) What are your top five favorite RPGs What is your opinion on furry races in video games? rpgs you find the most immersive? I'm gonna revisit FO3 for the first time since 2010
Anything I should know or any mods I should get? I fucking love job systems, which game has the best job system
job systems are great It’s just bad
Even if you jive with the leveling system, the rest of it is just bad
>the only characters who are actual characters are the guest party members who just die permanently, would be cool if the main cast had any sort of lingering sentiment about them (they don’t)
>emperor is just chaotically evil for zero reason, he gets to come back as Satan but his story and boss fight are anticlimactic
>the spinoff games are the only examples of actual characterization for firion and the emperor (dissidia and stranger)
>only interesting location is pandemonium, game ends like 30 minutes later
>didn’t even bother writing text for incorrect key word usage, literally just “?”
>90% of the soundtrack is awful
>dead ends and empty rooms in dungeons that serve no purpose narratively or mechanically, didn’t even bother to fill the empty rooms with barrels or furniture to signify that it has a use in strongholds or something
It’s just bad >never play it
>installed yesterday
>does unskippable tutorial (why unskippable tutorials still exist?)
>does first missions
I love that you can play it in a toaster, but it's pretty boring. what are the best jrpgs from the 360/ps3/wii era? bonus points if I can play them on steam/emulate on dolphin. bonus bonus points if they are like ps1 jrpgs. thanks anons Name one RPG with a great story but poor mechanics
Then, name one RPG with great mechanics but a poor story Some fellow gamer upload free files (vanilla and DLCs) of the game just because he wanted to share his good experience with the game.
Too good to be true. 
2 years ago, over 2 decades after first playing it, I finally finished BG1. Until reaching the titular city, I was like "ok I get it now", but then it kind of became a slog, yet I still soldiered through. I started BG2 the next day and at this point I'm still at act 3.
I did not enjoy the city part in BG1, and BG2 has been pretty much all city up till this point. I really want to play through it, but I also can't help but feel this is one of the most overhyped games of all time.
The story isn't gripping - some bad dude kidnapped us for no reason and Imoen (who I don't particularly care for) is held captive. Way worse hook than the first game. Quests are your typical errand boy stuff. Game is more high level, so there is a bloat of spells and items and most of them are useless, but it takes a lot of time to figure out which aren't. At this point I think 1 to 1 adaptations of PNP systems into vidya is bad idea, though you can do worse, like invent a bloated system to mimic DND, but streamline things so stats make no logical sense and adapt that into vidya like Pillars.
The romance and companion dialogue is probably the most annoying part of BG2. Who asked for this? Jaheira keeps coming up with her grief in the weirdest moments and pixie-elf-circus-girl is probably there just to entertain .pdf files.
It's also weird that I have the same vibe with "spiritual successors" of those games. POE I enjoyed, until it got to the city part, but pushed through (the story and writing was ass). POE2 feels like a bloated mess and I don't feel like finishing it ever. Tyrrany was great fun and I enjoyed it like I did PST, but I get the critique that those are "story games".
It seems I like Black Isle stuff and I struggle with Bioware games?
What's the flowchart for enjoying a BG2 playthrough? It's mermaids. Every RPG I've played that had a mermaid in it was really good. SMT IV: Final (she was sadly rendered useless an hour after getting her by the nature of SMT game scaling), BLACKSOULS (though the mermaid in it wasn't very nice (҂̀_́)), Romancing Saga 2 (it has two mermaids [the dancer and the nereid] and a wannabe mermaid [the diver] so it's really extra good), Rogue Trader (Cassia is only half a mermaid though but a half-great game is the most that can be expected from Western devs.)
Can any /vrpg/ros provide further evidence for my hypothesis, or debunk it? This is the future of video games quality assessment, you don't want to miss out. 
If a fan remaster were made for this game, what things would you like to see? Open to discussion over a potential future project. I see many people vie for this, and while I don't see myself ever having it in me to fully develop my own game from scratch (even though I know I have good ideas and if I got off my ass could probably make something half-decent) I would at least like to do some modding/rom hacking with games and eventually polish up a remaster of something that I used to love, and that I see other people asking about regularly. Hidden gem types of games. Azure Dreams is the first that came to mind.
Anyways, for those who don't know it's a PSX roguelike dungeon crawler monster raising game where you also build and upgrade a town and date a harem of 7 (I think it was 7) girls. Teen boy's wet dream.
The GBC version was an atrocity to look at, but it did have a longer dungeon and more monsters, which is something I would add to a remaster of the PSX version (if I'm able to figure all that out one day).
So please feel free to discuss and contribute ideas. I'm not promising anything anytime soon, but it's in my heart and more people chiming in would motivate me to get started on that path. >nu-fallout fags think this is some top notch writing
jesus good thing i never picked this utter shit up
these game started to be made for console players with 90iq, beggining of downfall Rpgs where my party/I get good at things by focusing on doing those things/training at those things?
Elder Scrolls/Aidyn Chronicles can't be the only game that do this kind of leveling up, right? Resonance of Fate is one of the coolest JRPGs of all time Mark of Satan and temps me to permanently uninstall the client every time I see it. What RPG has the most strategic or tactical gameplay? I've played lots of jrpg in the past but I've grown tired of them and now I want to try the other end of the spectrum. What's a good entry point for a western rpg? Let's settle the debate once and for all. I never played the lunar games. How are they and the new remasters for them? Throw on endless mode & mixed environments, and this is a solid RPG roguelike. Excited for the open world sequel? >RPG has evil morality
Cool?
>you always behave like such a turbo cunt that it's annoying to play that way.
Aw dang it. I have never played this despite being an oldfag. What's the best way to play System Shock 1+2 nowadays? BROS i really like this dark dungeon crawling feelings, is Examina any good? I know it has realistic sword weilding mechanics thats hard to lesrn (which is good i guess)
2 years ago game was in beta and was kinda barebones... >JRPG
>Speed stat is overpowered
Why does this always seem to be true? So, mewt just needed to be an underaged waifu for people to agree with him? YET he is human.... whyyyyyyyyyyyy? What causes this phenomenon? In honor of Mother's Day, let's post some great RPG mothers Hi all. Trying to find some good psp/ps1 jrpgs with dark and moody vibes. The closest I can think of is like persona 1/2. Preferably sprite based but open to all reqs. 
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