raeven
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Looking to try out a new game after beating BG3's honor mode. The game was such incline I doubt any could ever top it (I mention this just to trigger the codex), but I'm in the mood for another turn based RPG where you control a full party of characters.
I've tried most of the RTwP games and i just can't get into that system, so I'm just gonna stop trying. I played BG1 when it first came out but couldn't finish it because that mode just isn't for me, and all the subsequent times I've picked it (or similar games) up have not changed my mind.
I love many single-protagonist RPGs, such as Fallout 1 and 2, but right now I'm more interested in fully controlling an entire party.
First person RPGs have never been my thing, I much prefer a top down perspective. Isometric, oblique, or overhead - doesn't matter.
My RPG experience started on Mac with Realmz (Gold box era, but on Mac), and as such I never got used to the blocky graphics / text and 8-bit sound of the DOS era. I'm only really interested in games made after that time period. Let's say after 1995 to make it simple. Don't kick me off the codex, pls.
Games in this vein that I've loved:
- Jagged Alliance 2 and 3 - one my all time favorites, and one of my recent favorites.
- Realmz - Gold box style design with a ruleset shamelessly ripped off from AD&D, simple overhead graphics and tiles, but very crunchy and combat heavy.
- Divinity Original Sin 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 - the codex's favorite games to hate. Too bad they're both such great games. Love the combat & encounter design of these games, despite the silly armor system of D:OS 2
- Shadowrun trilogy from HBS - simple, basic, but fun. Good times
- Wasteland 2 and Wasteland 3 - loved both of these. Fallout style setting and C&C, but with a full party to control? Yes pls.
Games that I didn't like so much:
Idk what it is, but I find it really hard to get into spiderweb software's games. There's just something about them that doesn't 'click' for me, and I can't seem to put my finger on why.
Games I'm considering picking up next:
- Pathfinder: wrath of the righteous - seems like it's more polished than Kingmaker, plus it was designed from the get-go with a turn based mode. Maybe that doesn't matter, idk. It's more recent and reviews seem to say it's a big improvement over the original in terms of polish and such.
- Divinity: Original Sin - played the 2nd one, but never got too far into the 1st one. Not sure why. I could give it another go though, especially if the general consensus is that it picks up after the first few hours of gameplay.
- Knights of the Chalice / Knights of the Chalice 2 - looks pretty fun. I dig the graphics and the overall design.
- Solasta: Crown of the magister - looks like it could be fun. Don't know that much about it.
Open to other codexian suggestions so long as they meet the requirements I've laid out above and are in english. If you just want to bash my shitty taste in games and tell me I'm the reason why everything is decline, do it in one of the game specific threads I've posted in.
I've tried most of the RTwP games and i just can't get into that system, so I'm just gonna stop trying. I played BG1 when it first came out but couldn't finish it because that mode just isn't for me, and all the subsequent times I've picked it (or similar games) up have not changed my mind.
I love many single-protagonist RPGs, such as Fallout 1 and 2, but right now I'm more interested in fully controlling an entire party.
First person RPGs have never been my thing, I much prefer a top down perspective. Isometric, oblique, or overhead - doesn't matter.
My RPG experience started on Mac with Realmz (Gold box era, but on Mac), and as such I never got used to the blocky graphics / text and 8-bit sound of the DOS era. I'm only really interested in games made after that time period. Let's say after 1995 to make it simple. Don't kick me off the codex, pls.
Games in this vein that I've loved:
- Jagged Alliance 2 and 3 - one my all time favorites, and one of my recent favorites.
- Realmz - Gold box style design with a ruleset shamelessly ripped off from AD&D, simple overhead graphics and tiles, but very crunchy and combat heavy.
- Divinity Original Sin 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 - the codex's favorite games to hate. Too bad they're both such great games. Love the combat & encounter design of these games, despite the silly armor system of D:OS 2
- Shadowrun trilogy from HBS - simple, basic, but fun. Good times
- Wasteland 2 and Wasteland 3 - loved both of these. Fallout style setting and C&C, but with a full party to control? Yes pls.
Games that I didn't like so much:
Idk what it is, but I find it really hard to get into spiderweb software's games. There's just something about them that doesn't 'click' for me, and I can't seem to put my finger on why.
Games I'm considering picking up next:
- Pathfinder: wrath of the righteous - seems like it's more polished than Kingmaker, plus it was designed from the get-go with a turn based mode. Maybe that doesn't matter, idk. It's more recent and reviews seem to say it's a big improvement over the original in terms of polish and such.
- Divinity: Original Sin - played the 2nd one, but never got too far into the 1st one. Not sure why. I could give it another go though, especially if the general consensus is that it picks up after the first few hours of gameplay.
- Knights of the Chalice / Knights of the Chalice 2 - looks pretty fun. I dig the graphics and the overall design.
- Solasta: Crown of the magister - looks like it could be fun. Don't know that much about it.
Open to other codexian suggestions so long as they meet the requirements I've laid out above and are in english. If you just want to bash my shitty taste in games and tell me I'm the reason why everything is decline, do it in one of the game specific threads I've posted in.
