Guilty Pleasure RPGs?

[Difera]

Princess Maker 2 (PC)... back in the day I made sure my bedroom door was locked to prevent someone walking in and seeing me playing that... Finished it multiple times btw.

 

[Harry Easter]

Two Worlds II

It is better than part 1: better graphics, slicker gameplay and they put in some thoughts in the story.

But in practise this means:

- How to handle the journal and inventory is a catastrophe (whose bright idea was it, to put this on the F-keys?).
- The horses handle like arse and it isn't a race when there is no one to race with.
- Your character is always the ugliest bastard around, no matter how much tought you put into his creation.
- Important story-paths get started but never finished and the ending is like "what? huh? What just happened?"
- The writing is just trashy. Like mixing an american sitcom mixed with Lord of the Rings and nobody knows how silly they look.

But they put so much love in it and I just love it back. I love how adorkable my butt-ugly hero with his pornstache acts around women. And he tries so hard to be cool. Like a pubescent boy, whose voice broke only a few days ago. The game wanted to be The Witcher, but it was only Two Worlds II. I love it.

The Addon Pirates of the flying Fortress is actually quite good, btw. They added a lot of humour and seemed to recognise how silly their game is. The story is also ... goodish? Dunno, I found it interesting and heartwarming in some areas.

And another positive: they actually put quite some work into the world as you can see, when you read the books. But because you play Two Worlds II, you wouldn't know :D.

 

[Max Damage]

Temple of Elemental Evil is fun with Co8 patch. Playing vanilla is like playing turn-based Dungeon Siege, a good combat system wasted by doing nothing with it. Not to mention bugs and corrupted save files. The potential and graphics inspired me to mod it, plus the bad voice acting has its weird charm at times. I wish there was a game that is ToEE + Knights of the Chalice, that'd be genuine pleasure.

 

[JarlFrank]

I wish there was a game that is ToEE + Knights of the Chalice, that'd be genuine pleasure.

https://www.realms-beyond.com/

 

[Max Damage]

can't wait!

 

[ortucis]

Dragon Age is probably closest to a guilty pleasure for me. It feels as though it was created during an interim period between classical gaming and modern gaming degeneracy, with strong elements of both. There's so many things that annoy me about it, yet I also feel a bit nostalgic about it and am likely to replay it at some point. Never tried the sequels though, and doubt I ever will.

Origins is the only good Dragon Age game. Probably cause they were creating it for PC, until EA forced the console port, fucking up the visuals. Compare the fluid UI with the sequels, you can tell how much they changed everything for console gamers. PC gamers stopped being their audience after the money they were making on consoles.

Even the story and characters (despite being generic fantasy tropes) feel better written compared to whatever-the-fuck happened afterwards.

 

[buru5]

Spore

 

[kintake]

Ultima 9. God the game we got sucks so much, but I like to boot it up every now and then and pretend it's great. The music and atmosphere is nice, the graphics and day/night cycle were pretty good at the time. The combat is a thing, can't really find a word for it. The bugs are hardly noticeable since my savegame is going to go corrupt and I can no longer play the game at that point and that makes me forget everything about the game because how else could I ever live with myself having wasted any time at all on such a steaming pile of garbage?
Nietzsche tried to warn me. The abyss doth gaze back.
The Avatar could have asked, through context clue, "What's a paladin?" in any of the Ultima games and no one would have given a shit, it's just because the voice acting made him seem ignorant and dumb that people, and that guy with the videos on youtube fork or spoon or something, threw such a fit.
Great game tho 10/10. "EA sports it's in the game". It sure is. Still waiting for Ultima Online 2 as well.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Joined: Sep 23, 2009
Messages: 32

Wait... what? Average of one post every 4 months?

Princess Maker 2 (PC)... back in the day I made sure my bedroom door was locked to prevent someone walking in and seeing me playing that... Finished it multiple times btw.

Ah, it all makes sense now.

 

[Darth Canoli]

Joined: Sep 23, 2009
Messages: 32

Wait... what? Average of one post every 4 months?

Princess Maker 2 (PC)... back in the day I made sure my bedroom door was locked to prevent someone walking in and seeing me playing that... Finished it multiple times btw.

Ah, it all makes sense now.

When he's not posting, that's because he's in jail.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Anything by Spiders:
Mars: War Logs
Bound by Flame
Propably soon also Technomancer, once I find time.

Games with high ambitions and low budgets. I have a soft spot for them.

Also Two Worlds 1.

Technomancer is pretty underrated. The only flaw was the backtracking.
Of Orcs And Men is… interesting. I didn't like the combat that much but the story was quite good.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Yeah but the gameplay is 5% exploration of linear maps and 95% combat. Thr cutscenes are nice, I agree.

 

[Falksi]

Holy duplicate subject Batflaps! Merge ahead?

Technomancer & Dragon Age Origins both = Awesome

 

[ERYFKRAD]

95% combat

And the issue here is?

 

[Lord_Potato]

That the combat in question is not very satisfactory. So its difficult to endure it for the sake or the plot.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

95% combat

And the issue here is?

Combat isn't that great. It's been a while since I played it, but I remember it being rather weird and not like anything I had played before. It was like someone took a turnbased system and tried to make it real-time.
The game is actually the basis for the Styx stealth games, btw. So it's worth playing if you like those.