Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 8th Generation, 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, 3D Platformers, 4X, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, Card, Casual, City/Attraction Builders, Dungeon Crawlers, Fighting, Flash, Handheld, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, MOBA, Point and Click , Puzzle, Racing, Real Time Strategy, Rhythm, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Shooters (1st Person), Shooters (3rd Person), Simulation, Souls-Bourne, Sports, Stealth, Tabletop RPGs, Visual Novels, Walking Simulators
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Arcade Game, Action, Text dungeon, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, Adventure, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Tower Defense, and Miscellaneous] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
fallout new vegas. upbears to the left
I know it gets wanked over more than anything, but the story telling, the environment, the characters, the quests. it's just a fucking good game that does actual political nuance well
second of all I'd shout out the outer worlds, made by the same team lmao. openly anti capitalist af, very funny, good writing and world building strongly carries over BUT THE SHOOTING IS ACTUALLY FUN (sorry new vegas)
All Bethesda games, Morrowind and after.
Do not send me your plebian opinions or some 5 hour YouTube video as to why I should actually hate a good game.
Do I have issues with some choices? Sure.
Do I have an idealised version of what I'd do in my brain? Yep.
Don't care though. They're fun :)
And nothing else really comes close to the kind of game that they are.
I enjoyed the game the entire time I played through so it's an excellent game. Thanks to hindsight however, almost everything about it and the story is completely fucked up with glaring embarrassing plotholes. Still fun as hell going through every nook and cranny the first time though. Although it takes specific circumstances to fully enjoy it. If you played Fallout 3 without knowing anything about Fallout 1 or 2 (which a lot of people did) , it feels even better your first playthrough since you have nothing to compare it to and there was no New Vegas to blow it out of the water yet.
i have my issues with all of them but i still have at least a combined 1000-1500+ hours in all of them. i even have like 250 hours in fallout 4? and thats one of my least fav, thanks mods for making the game good
Absolutely, though Daggerfall and Redguard are strong contenders as well, especially patched and modded to modern standards.
Mount and Blade: Warband. Nothing quite like its unique blend of jank, scope, and multi-layered gameplay. Oh, and an incredible mod scene. I hope Bannerlord gets there someday.
I've been playing the Gekokujo: Daimyo Edition mod this last week because I just love samurai and it's been fun to roleplay a retainer turned monk forced to leave after his monastery was razed. He has taken up the naginata in service to propel the Ikko Ikki to glory and topple the samurai class.
I pumped so many hours into warband and spent so long waiting for Bannerlord
Bannerlord is cool and I pumped some hours in there too but it just doesn't scratch the same itch yet
Are action rpg like witcher or like diablo? I’m confused :ohnoes:
Is bastion/hades arpg?
I feel like those are all arpgs.
And all great games. :chefs-kiss:
I recently tried Torchlight 3. What a piece of shit of a game. It reminded me the original Torchlight is really good.
I am going to do a play though this weekend maybe.
It’s not the worst game ever. But it’s not very good. Admittedly I didn’t give it much of a chance after i could not really get into it.
Rather just go back and play one of the first 2 that are great.
I was so disappointed in TL3 because it advertised a railmaster class where you placed train tracks to move around a mini combat train while hitting things with a giant hammer and i was like :traingang:
but then the game was like :sadness:
RPGs where you don't have to wait a minute for a number randomly generated by your computer to decide whether you hit the enemy or not, and then another number to decide the damage.
I'm pretty sure Icewind Dale counts as an ARPG, heck, I've heard people call BG2 an ARPG.
Really? Some of the most famous and popular CRPGs are Western.
ARPG is certainly a popular genre but dice rolls are definitely a major part of a lot of Western games.
Ah, misunderstood waiting part, but dice rolls for crits/damage spread are everywhere though?
Don't read into it so much. I'm just gently mocking TTRPGs lol
sorta like fallout 3/4, the witcher, that kinda thing
Yes, Diablo is often considered a hack and slash which is sometimes a separate genre and sometimes a sub-genre.
Niche choices:
Bastion (neat and short)/transistor (over complicated, but neat)
Gothic 1 and 2 (old as shit though, and prolly some dialog got :cringe: over time)
Witcher 1 and 3 (praise geraldo)
Agreeing with all of this, including the decision to omit Witcher 2
Gothic 1 and 2 are so awesome and underrated. Gothic 3 also seems awesome but I bounce off every time after a couple of hours. The first Risen is great as well (same developer), I reinstall it every few years.
Those games had so much potential, I feel like they would be masterpieces if the weird krauts making them had some more funding.
I will die on my Wizardry VIII hill (though some might call it a pure RPG, it is very combat focused). Also Icewind Dale is hard to beat.
Oh, Dungeon Siege and DS2! Amazing hack and slashes.
Does Mass Effect count? There were more rpg elements in 1, but I think 2 is the better game. Never played 3, the reviews turned me off of it.
3 has the best gameplay in the series. The story is ok, though I think the way the Reapers were built up as this great unknowable enemy meant that if you did reveal their motivations, they'd always fall flat.
Diablo 2 is still really good but its age is showing, D2r should improve on that front. Mods are what really make the game shine, though.
Grim Dawn is by far the best recent arpg. It's a spiritual successor to Titan quest rather than Diablo but it's still really good even if different. Also has a few fun mods.
Diablo 3 was my first but I wouldn't include say it's good. I'll give it an honorable mention for its great combat but everything else is lackluster. I'd put Poe in the same category now.
PoE's combat is pretty bad, the fun part of the game is making builds. The actual gameplay is just one-shotting things until you arbitrarily get one-shot by something else.
Dungeons and Dragons: Heroes! Got this when I was in middle school and every Friday we would pile into one person's house. It's a four player co-op Action RPG, if you can get some goons together to play it with a full party it's one of the best games on the original XBox.
For single player I'm going with Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The fandom's about what you'd expect for medieval historical fiction, but playing through it the first time I was as entranced by the world as I had been the first time I played Morrowind.
I really liked fallout 1, but I guess at this point it's a bit mechanically dated for most new players.
Path of Exile becomes pure insanity once you get the hang of build development. CoC WoC/BS CI Disintegrator Assassin? AoF Warcray Arc totem Chieftan? Anything Jousis has ever done, ever? It can all work, if you believe it can.
My lazy ass just wants to play minions and they keep getting nerfed. Carrion Golems :rat-salute:
