Deadfire has the most impressive city of any RPG

[Quillon]

Vice City.

 

[Angthoron]

So is this game any good

 

[Serus]

hey what's your opinion on this song

I like it.

 

[Apostle Hand]

Kuldahar, although it's more a village than a city.

I wonder who will be next prospernaut now that I am free.

One night I dreamt that somebody got prosperized but I don't remember who.

 

[Reinhardt]

• 7 districts with their own unique theme, style, music, and lore

• 50 accessible interiors

• 200 interactive voiced NPCs (many with schedules)

• 5 connected dungeons with 4 optional bosses

• 4 joinable factions with their own base of operations

• Over a dozen sidequests with multiple paths and resolutions

• Full day & night cycle with time based events

• Two dozen random events as you travel throughout the city

It's poll, right?

 

[Safav Hamon]

Most impressive city, though? Nah.

Then what is?

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Obsidian has the most delusional fanboys

 

[Big Wrangle]

The Deadfire thread is over there, kids.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Obsidian has the most delusional fanboys

The codex has the most delusional nostalgia fags

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Now i am curious, what's the best city ever in Rpgs? Athkatla?

Bloodlines' L.A and Sigil come to mind.

 

[Jacob]

Avellone is the official RPGCodex husbandfu

This is the biggest suprise of this thread. What's a "husbandfu?" Husband Kung-fu? Never heard of this neologism used to describe Avellone. Heck, I never even heard this word anywhere else.

 

[jf8350143]

Zero random events as you travel through the city because they're bugged and don't happen and the developer doesn't know why :D

are they still bugged? i remember not getting any when i played back when it was first released and figured they'd have it fixed by the time forgotten sanctum was released

In my first play through I didn't get any, and in my second play through I get them just fine. And now in my recent third playthrough it disappears again.

 

[Big Wrangle]

Avellone is the official RPGCodex husbandfu

This is the biggest suprise of this thread. What's a "husbandfu?" Husband Kung-fu? Never heard of this neologism used to describe Avellone. Heck, I never even heard this word anywhere else.

Chris Avellone is a Shaolin champion, didn't you know?

 

[Safav Hamon]

Btw what's wrong with that? maybe it's not the best ever, but Deadfire main city is a pretty good one.

The codex still feels violated by Obsidian, and are determined to hate this game no matter how good it is.

A decade from now when Obsidian is gone and CRPGs are in decline again, the Codex will do a 180 and claim it was a masterpiece.

 

[Lord Andre]

Now i am curious, what's the best city ever in Rpgs? Athkatla?

Bloodlines' L.A and Sigill come to mind.

Arcanum's Tarrant, Morrowind's Vivec and Tel Fyr, Gothic 2 Khorinis, probably more I'm missing.

Of course it's not just pure quantity/numbers that count, it has to be interesting.

AoD's Maadoran surely deserves a mention.

 

[thesheeep]

Most impressive city, though? Nah.

Then what is?

Even Athkatla is better by way of having way more interesting encounters.
I also remember really liking the cities in KotOR, but it's been so long I don't remember the details.
L.A from Bloodlines is certainly one amazing thing.
Honestly, there are so many RPGs with well-made cities (even more if you also take action-RPGs into the mix), I find it hard to pick the very best one.

Neketaka is big, and it does look gorgeous in some places, but the rest of the game holds it back quite a bit.
You can't really judge a city independent from its game.

 

[Safav Hamon]

Athkatla is shit. Boring quest design, shallow factions, and everything looks brown and ugly. No reason to interact with anything outside quests.
KOTOR cities are visually interesting, but there's nothing to do in them except one or two fetch quests.
L.A in Bloodlines is good, but it's too linear and gated. If it was fully open, then maybe.

Cities you could make a good argument for are New Vegas, New Reno, Tarant, Khorinis, Harbor Town, and The Imperial City (heresy, I know). Neketaka dwarfs them all in size though.

 

[Okagron]

hey what's your opinion on this song

That song kicks ass. Probably my favorite from the album.

 

[Haplo]

So is this game any good

It is, as long as you're open minded and don't insist on an IE clone / DnD ruleset.
Oh and the story resolution leaves a bit sour taste.

People complain about the writing, but honestly, while not inspired, its functional IMO. I've enjoyed many games with much more bare-bones writing and its not critical for my enjoyment.

World is pretty large, exploration pretty awesome and rewarding, character development very rich in options (multiclassing added a lot of options and combos - while somewhat diluting the class identity), spells and abilities feel properly impactful and offer crazy synergies, best itemization ever, mechanics well thought out and executed (maybe except ship combat). Variable speed from PoE works much better in real time format then IE static "rounds". Oh and graphics are awesome.

Shame about the loss of the strategic layer with unlimited resting, no endurance mechanic and per encounter abilities, but its still a great game.

 

[Mazisky]

Seems like i am the only one who preferred PoE classic setting over Pirates and Nigga tribes.

 

[Haplo]

I liked some aspects of PoE1 more, but consider PoE2 the overall superior package.
Personally I'm not a fan of pirates either, but exploration was really executed well in Deadfire.
Its like what Storm of Zehir could/should have been - had it a much bigger budget, more time and a better engine. It does feel like SoZ sometimes - only 10 times better.

 

[V_K]

My only problem with Deadfire is that I couldn't care less about the combat. Which is ok, there aren't (that m)any games where I do care about it. But the problem is 80% of character development and 100% of spells are only relevant for combat.

 

[TemplarGR]

Athkatla was SHITE! Baldur's Gate was 100x times better

I agree with the opinion that the best city in an RPG until now has been Novigrad. It is essentially a current-gen Baldur's Gate...

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

Athkatla is shit.

everything looks brown and ugly.

Well, at least it's coherent.

 

[Mazisky]

I liked some aspects of PoE1 more, but consider PoE2 the overall superior package.
Personally I'm not a fan of pirates either, but exploration was really executed well in Deadfire.
Its like what Storm of Zehir could/should have been - had it a much bigger budget, more time and a better engine. It does feel like SoZ sometimes - only 10 times better.

Ofc Deadfire is better than Poe in almost every aspect, but i still prefere the fantasy forests, castles, and Poe1 grim enviroments over sunny summer Deadfire. Same reason that made me like BG1 more than 2.