The worst RPG you play a lot (and why)

[Bloodeyes]

I've been playing the absolute shit out of KOTOR lately.

It's a shallow, easy game with a silly plot and clunky, awful combat. Still I've become obsessed with making the perfect build in it. I've restarted at least 10 times, coming closer to perfection with each iteration of my PC. I've studied the gear list and, class and skill descriptions exhaustively comparing HP and FP totals, attack bonuses, defense and force power DCs for dozens of class, stat, feat and gear combos. This was supposed to be a quick playthrough just to tick this one off my list before moving on but something about the character system has me thoroughly hooked. It's always the character system for me. Always about the build. I don't even like playing this game, it's just tedium I go through to achieve a satisfying result. When that last piece of gear goes on my character and 9 DEX becomes 14, giving a +2 to my defense which the maximum allowed by my armor. So satisfying.

Can you relate? What trash or mediocre games do you love and why?

 

[retinoid]

Game: DOS2
Why: I have clinically diagnosed mental retardation

 

[V_K]

Deadfire. I just play it on story mode as a walking sim - for pretty scenery and deeeep lore.

 

[demoman]

Unironically underrail

 

[Savecummer]

playing life daily
have the stats, cant pass the checks for hidden best ending... game is rigged
rng raped me once
cant quit

 

[Butter]

Age of Decadence. I wouldn't make a habit out of playing anything worse than that.

 

[Shaki]

Arcanum, it's broken af, combat especially, but for some reason I still get an overwhelming urge to replay it once in a while. 99% of RPGs I just finish once or twice, but I always come back to Arcanum. I think it's just the amount of options the game has, I find something new each time I play it. It's garbage, but also a masterpiece at the same time.

 

[grimer]

i play morrowind sometimes while trying to decide which rpg to play. the gameplay is shallow and mindless to the point where you dont have to worry about character development, combat, resource management, dungeon design or anything else which requires a modicum of thought really. morrowind is so braindead easy stephen hawking probably couldve played it with his 1 cheek muscle (select w to walk forward, select lmb to mash into the enemy). for me, playing morrowind is similar to fiddling with something on the desk while lost in thought, except its slightly more interactive and accompanied with good music and pretty scenery. it also serves as a palate cleanser for whatever rpg i play next so i dont play it with unreasonably high expectations.

 

[Sunsetspawn]

Game: DOS2
Why: I have clinically diagnosed mental retardation

Damn you, I was just about to start this, like, tonight.

Maybe I'll do Greedfall instead

 

[Scruffy]

Amulets and Armor

no idea why but i love that shit

 

[OSK]

Dead State. It doesn't do anything particularly well, but I found the game to be greater than the sum of its parts. I really enjoyed it, though I fully acknowledge it's not a very good game.

I might have enjoyed it so much because it was an idea I had that they stole from me: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/briiiiaaaaaaans.35182/page-7#post-861362

 

[oldmanpaco]

I have a lot of time in Skyrim. A lot.

 

[Cryomancer]

I have a lot of time on Skyrim, which is the "fast food" of open world games. Trashy but popular.

 

[Drowed]

Let me just post my playtime on Steam:

Pick whatever one you want to hate. Why I played that much of it? Because I wanted to, I guess. To be fair, Quake, Doom 2, Warcraft 2 and Starcraft would be at the top of that list if the time I spent playing was counted.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Let me just post my playtime on Steam:

Pick whatever one you want to hate. Why I played that much of it? Because I wanted to, I guess. To be fair, Quake, Doom 2, Warcraft 2 and Starcraft would be at the top of that list if the time I spent playing was counted.

My kids love broforce.

 

[nikolokolus]

Every few years I'll fire up the GOG version of Baldur's Gate 1 and do solo, Ironman runs. Over and over and over . . . Theres no mystery, no thought involved, just the endless loop of soloing with various builds until (or if) I die, and then start again.

Luckily this retarded compulsion only hits me when work is particularly soul sucking around big project deadlines at the end of the fiscal year.

 

[hellbent]

Though I haven't played it in a couple of years - NWN OC. Because I'm such a completionist batshit crazy autist that I can't just roll a new character into HoTU or SoU, I have to play them through the OC first.

 

[Sweeper]

Unironically underrail

OP said the worst RPG, not best. Try again.

 

[Drowed]

My kids love broforce.

Yeah, it is pretty much the definition of mindless fun - but it can be infuriating to play with random people on the Internet, which, come to think of it, is true of any game. The funny thing is that most of the characters are references from movies that most kids haven't seen. It is the kind of game that you turn off your brain, play until you get sick of it, and decide to do something else more productive with your life.

 

[Atlet]

Every few years I'll fire up the GOG version of Baldur's Gate 1 and do solo, Ironman runs. Over and over and over . . . Theres no mystery, no thought involved, just the endless loop of soloing with various builds until (or if) I die, and then start again.

Luckily this retarded compulsion only hits me when work is particularly soul sucking around big project deadlines at the end of the fiscal year.

at least use SCS, lol

 

[Tyranicon]

Most of the answers here range from decent to great RPGs. Proving once again that RPGcodex is not a great place for these r/games kinds of posts.

 

[Harthwain]

The worst RPG?

Darkest Dungeon.

In terms of its RPG elements it's a very weak RPG, but it has an amazing atmosphere, it's procedurally generated and can be quite challenging for such a simple game.

 

[Funposter]

Skyrim because modding it is really interesting, almost like playing Minecraft using the NexusMods download page.

 

[Smoker]

Definitely a heavy modded Skyrim

 

[Ol' Willy]

cant quit

You most definitely can