Incline CODEX VOTE: Best TURN-BASED Blobbers Of All Time (Non-Anime)

[Lady_Error]

We collected all the turn-based non-anime blobbers in the other thread, so now it is time for a Codex vote. The real-time blobbers and the tactical combat blobbers will receive separate vote threads.

Blobber definition:
For those not familiar with the term, blobbers are party-based RPG's (usually with 1st person view) where all characters move and fight "as a blob" (no separate tactical movements for each character).

Here is the complete list with links:

7 Mages (2016)
Ancients 1 (1991)
Ancients 2 (1994)
Antares (1991, Amiga)
Bard's Tale Trilogy (1985, 1988, 1990, remake 2018)
Coldfire Keep (2014, looks interesting)
Conglomerate 451 (Early Access)
Dark Spire (2008, NDS)
Descend (2011, iOS)
Devil Whiskey (2003)
Don't Go Alone (1989)
Dragon Wars (1989)
Dungeons of Avalon (1991)
Elminage Gothic (2014)
Fate: Gates of Dawn (1991, Amiga, Atari ST)
Frayed Knights (2014)
Gates of Skeldal (1998)
Grimoire (2017)
Heroes of a Broken Land (2014, roguelike)
Legacy (2004)
Legend of Faerghail (1990)
Legends of Amberland (2019)
Legend of Candlewind (2015)
Might & Magic 1 (1986)
Might & Magic 2 (1988)
Might & Magic 3 (1991)
Might & Magic 4-5: World of Xeen (1993)
Might & Magic 6 (1998)
Might & Magic 7 (1999)
Might & Magic 8 (2000)
Might & Magic 9 (2002)
Might & Magic X (2014)
Oubliette (1977, remake 2012)
Paper Sorcerer (2013)
Shadowkeep (1984, Apple)
Silvern Castle (1999, Apple)
Silversword (2011)
Spirit of Adventure (1991, Realms of Arkania precursor)
StarCrawlers (2017)
Swords and Sorcery: Underworld (2015)
Thunderscape (1995)
Undercroft (2009)
Yendorian Tales: Book 1, Chapter 2 (1996)
Yendorian Tales: Tyrants of Thaine (1997)
Whale's Voyage (1993)
Wizardry 1 (1981)
Wizardry 2 (1982)
Wizardry 3 (1983)
Wizardry 4 (1987)
Wizardry 5 (1988)
Wizardry 6 (1990)
Wizardry 7 (1992)
Wizardry 8 (2001)
Wizards & Warriors (2000, by DW Bradley)
Zavix Tower (2016, roguelike)
Operencia (2019, only Epic store so far)
Wizardry Empire 1 (1999)
Wizardry Empire 2 (2002)
Wizardry Empire 3 (2007)

One of the main reasons for this vote is to find hidden gems that you haven't tried yet. Enjoy!

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

not a big blobber aficionado but brofisted for the effort

grimoire is on my bucket list so i voted for that one so i could have that warm feeling of participation

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Wherr is wizardry gaiden and wizardry empires????
This vote is invalid. Better luck next time.

 

[Lady_Error]

Wherr is wizardry gaiden and wizardry empires????

In the JRPG subforum. We have only non-anime RPG's in General RPG Discussion.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Wherr is wizardry gaiden and wizardry empires????

In the JRPG subforum. We have only non-anime RPG's in General RPG Discussion.

LIES. You have Dark Spire and Elminage: Gothic.
Well, I mean it is debatable what is anime and what isn't. You should've had that discussion before dismissing those game, because at the moment we don't truly understand what anime is. It seems to me what you had you favourites and decided to remove their competition by using some made up reason, just like they did in moscow elections.

 

[Lady_Error]

I think most of us can tell anime lollies apart from non-anime graphics. And we had that discussion in the thread linked above.

There is nothing anime about Dark Spire and there are no weaboo lollies in Elminage Gothic either.

 

[mondblut]

There is nothing anime about Dark Spire and there are no weaboo lollies in Elminage Gothic either.

Are they in Wizardry Empire? Elminage and it are basically the same game, no?

Why no Demise? And, uh, shouldn't a poll have a restriced number of options?

 

[Lady_Error]

Demise is in the real-time blobbers list:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...ern-non-anime-blobbers-both-rt-and-tb.129048/

There is no reason to limit the number of votes either. As to the JRPG Wizardries, nobody proposed them in the “complete non-anime blobber list“ thread.

I can add the Wizardry Empires to the poll, if they are non-anime too.

 

[Lady_Error]

Googling Wizardry Empire gives this:

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Googling Wizardry Empire gives this:

Elminage: Gothic

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Sorry but I don't see many western blobbers that should be on this kind of list: Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Black Crypt, Captive, Lands of Lore, etc.

 

[Martyr]

that are custom character pics. the base game has a very neutral art style.

 

[Lady_Error]

Sorry but I don't see many western blobbers that should be on this kind of list: Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Black Crypt, Captive, Lands of Lore, etc.

Those have real-time combat, not turn-based.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

What about blobbers where you have a choice between anime and nonanime portraits like Stranger Sword City?
Please remove the disciminatory rule of no anime style.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Sorry but I don't see many western blobbers that should be on this kind of list: Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Black Crypt, Captive, Lands of Lore, etc.

Those have real-time combat, not turn-based.

Right. I missed the turn-based part..

 

[Lady_Error]

We actually looked at Stranger of Sword City and saw that both styles are anime.

 

[MajorMace]

A good occasion to update my to-play-list with games I'll never get to try.
Unsurprisingly, M&M rules supreme.

 

[cvv]

Operencia is missing. Also does "Bard's Tale Trilogy, Remaster 2018" means Bard's Tale IV?

Props for the thread.

 

[Lady_Error]

Operencia comes out next year and isn't even early access. Bard's Tale 4 is in the list of partial blobbers with non-blobber tactical combat - together with Uukrul, Goldbox games, RoA and others.

 

[cvv]

Operencia comes out next year and isn't even early access.

Ah, you're "punishing" Epic. Got it.

 

[MpuMngwana]

Why is Elminage Gothic on the list, but not Elminage Original?

 

[cvv]

Operencia comes out next year and isn't even early access.

Ah, you're "punishing" Epic. Got it.

Don't tell me you're not aware Operencia launched on EGS five months ago.

 

[Lady_Error]

Operencia was actually in the list until somebody in the other thread complained that it isn't out yet. Even on the Codex you find Fake News.

I've included it in the poll now.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Lady Error your avatar is anime, you are disqualified from making this thread.

 

[Lady_Error]

You're disqualified from posting on the Codex if you think that my Lords of Xulima avatar is anime. Stop embarassing yourself.