Incline Which RPG Should I Play Next #5

[jaekl]

1. Kenshi (Not Completable?)

Most games suffer from having way too much direction. Kenshi has the opposite problem: not enough direction. Once you're established and equipped, no longer in danger of starving - then what? Wander aimlessly in an ugly, dead world and get into pointless fights, I guess. This is like an old mmorpg after all of the other players quit. I don't get it.​

2. S2: Silent Storm (Abandoned)

A good or great game in theory, but the turns take T O O F U C K I N G L O N G and it begins to feel like someone is slowly driving an icepick through my ear into my brain the more time I spend waiting for enemy turns. Pretty cool to play on the axis team for once though.​

3. ATOM: Trudograd (Completed)

Not bad, though I had to keep taking my headphones out every time they had a cyoa book segment because the narrator that they hired was one of the worst I've ever heard in my life.​

4. SKALD: Against the Black Priory (Completed)

It's okay, it didn't piss me off at all except for the graphics a little until I turned off all the lighting and effects. Oh and the CRAFTING requiring you to gum up your inventory with 100000 useless objects. Ending was wild.​

5. Colony Ship (Completed)

After so many good rpgs, I forgive vault dweller for almost ruining the codex back in 2006. Very cool setting. Could really stand to tone it down with the asshole combat encounters though.​

6. Titan Outpost (Completed)

Good game, addictive but kinda boring. Terrible engine.​

7. Avadon: The Black Fortress (Abandoned)

This may be the world's blandest game. Just thinking about it makes images of the colour beige flash before my eyes. It's very long as well as being bland. Good to use as a sleep aid, not very fun to play however.​

8. King Arthur: Knights Tale (Completed)

Drags on for waaaay too long. Constant large combats every few steps becomes very boring. World does not feel lived in, it is simply a series of combat arenas similar to warcraft maps. No sense of progress or journey, you just teleport around the world wherever a mission pops up. Stupid morality system punishes any inconsistency so you will just choose whichever choice has the icon that you have the most points in. Loot is lame.​

9. HORSE CLUB ADVENTURES (Completed)

The entire game is fetch quests with no fast travel, so you ride across the 2km map back and forth until the game ends. Got the platinum on this btw.​

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10. Islands of the Caliph (Abandoned)

I'm worried that once all the sjw shit finally dies, this is what is gonna replace the gay trans woman stuff. I don't wanna learn about islam any more than i wanna learn about nonbinary barves.​

11. Drakan: The Ancients' Gates (Completed)

I thought this would be ass but it's surprisingly good. Feels a lot like Crusaders of Might and Magic but there was actually some effort put into it. Full of secrets and sidequests that you can easily miss meaning we have confident game designers. Has a female protagonist who is not annoying, it's been so long that I forgot it could be done. Wish more fantasy rpgs would have dragon riding, it's a lot better than a horse.​

12. Felvidek (Completed)

Short and sweet. I hate the way the dialogue is written.​

13. Tactics Ogre Reborn (Abandoned)

I didn't play this for very long, I was first annoyed by how fruity everyone looked and sounded and then I started thinking about how the intro made no sense (a case of mistaken identity causes some kids to attack a group of merc outlaws who wander into town and then the kids invite them to their secret hideout and hire them on the spot to fight a war??) then the parade of weird japanese menus and systems started being explained and I lost interest.​

14. Dread Delusion (Abandoned)

Why didn't anyone tell me that this was a tranny game?!​

15. Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate: Demon Hunters (Abandoned)

After two stinkers in a row, with my patience running thin, I am greeted by a Blizzard-esque cartoon atmosphere and a UI that gives me a headache.​

 

[Gargaune]

Drakan: The Ancients' Gates. Because Ninja Destroyer kindly helped me get it up and running but I still haven't had time to dig in.

 

[Fargus]

Skald is new and co-dexers here think its not trash.

Trupograd expansion since you already liked Atom.

Silent Storm is good shit.


The rest of this list is

 

[jaekl]

Skald is new and co-dexers here think its not trash.

Trupograd expansion since you already liked Atom.

Silent Storm is good shit.


The rest of this list is

I think HORSE CLUB ADVENTURES will be pretty lit

 

[Fargus]

Codex GotY material. No doubt about it.

 

[agris]

Glad to see you gave Dungeon Rats its due.

You mentioned something about action adventures, are the Gothics off the table for you? Gothic 1 - if you haven’t played it - is an obvious choice. Also tacticool stuff like Silent Storm.

 

[vitellus]

stop being a pussy and go play kenshi and do the slave start. the final successful liberation is excellent feels since you have to work so hard for it. bonus points for setting the injuries to 'high' during game creation.

 

[jaekl]

Glad to see you gave Dungeon Rats its due.

You mentioned something about action adventures, are the Gothics off the table for you? Gothic 1 - if you haven’t played it - is an obvious choice. Also tacticool stuff like Silent Storm.

Don't take that paragraph too serious. But yes, I've played every Gothic and Risen and Elex game and I find them to be very prestigious. Except for Elex 2.

 

[Cogemesiter]

It’s a roguelike but if you enjoy buildfag games it doesn’t get much better than Path of Achra.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

5. Death Knights of Krynn (Completed) I really think dnd peaked at 1st edition.

Since you enjoyed Death Knights of Krynn, you should be playing more Gold Box games (or close descendants, such as the two Dark Sun games). Though Kenshi is also a quality game and currently leading your poll.

 

[jaekl]

5. Death Knights of Krynn (Completed) I really think dnd peaked at 1st edition.

Since you enjoyed Death Knights of Krynn, you should be playing more Gold Box games (or close descendants, such as the two Dark Sun games). Though Kenshi is also a quality game and currently leading your poll.

Zed buddy, Gold Box rules but in the last year alone I've played through 4 gold box games and they're all pretty much the same. I need a break.

 

[agris]

Glad to see you gave Dungeon Rats its due.

You mentioned something about action adventures, are the Gothics off the table for you? Gothic 1 - if you haven’t played it - is an obvious choice. Also tacticool stuff like Silent Storm.

Don't take that paragraph too serious. But yes, I've played every Gothic and Risen and Elex game and I find them to be very prestigious. Except for Elex 2.

When you play silent storm, use the fix from my sig

 

[Gandalf]

From the list of...

• ATOM: Trudograd
• Avadon: The Black Fortress
• Colony Ship
• The Cursed Crusade
• Demonicon
• Drakan: The Ancients' Gates
• Dread Delusion
• Enclave
• Felvidek
• HORSE CLUB ADVENTURES
• Islands of the Caliph
• Kenshi
• King Arthur: Knights Tale
• Life Eater
• S2: Silent Storm
• Skald: Against the Black Priory
• Tactics Ogre Reborn
• Titan Outpost
• Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemon Hunters
• Baldurr's Gayte 3 (KC)

I would play...

Titan Outpost, Skald: AtBP, ATOM: Trudograd, Kenshi, S2: Silent Storm and maybe Tactics Ogre Reborn to spice things up with this kind of strategy game and Drakan to have some old school clunky action game going on.

I based this list on the games I know and already played. The games I do no know anything practical about are: Colony Ship, The Cursed Crusade, Demonicon, Felvidek, HORSE CLUB ADVENTURES, Life Eater, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemon Hunters, Baldur's Gate 3.

The games not mentioned in those two lists above are secondary options to play, with maybe King Arthur's: Knights Tale being worth giving a go in the first place and Avadon: TBF and Dread Delusion being not worth a time.

 

[Snufkin]

Silent Storm.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

close descendants, such as the two Dark Sun games

The first one especially. I lament the fact that the Dark Sun games aren't playable with DOSBox on my New 2DS XL. I'd also kill for a more modern version of Dark Sun with the 3.5E ruleset, but I doubt any modern developer would do it justice.

Though Kenshi is also a quality game and currently leading your poll.

Kenshi is easily the best CRPG in recent years.

 

[vitellus]

Kenshi is easily the best CRPG in recent years.

mandatory in kenshi is finding beep

also, get this mod and become a fucking slaver

 

[jaekl]

close descendants, such as the two Dark Sun games

The first one especially. I lament the fact that the Dark Sun games aren't playable with DOSBox on my New 2DS XL. I'd also kill for a more modern version of Dark Sun with the 3.5E ruleset, but I doubt any modern developer would do it justice.

Though Kenshi is also a quality game and currently leading your poll.

Kenshi is easily the best CRPG in recent years.

The first Dark Sun game won by a landslide on my first poll, but the second Dark Sun was abandoned because of an egregious amount of bugs encountered within the first 2 hours of gameplay.

Considering the first game started seizing up and shooting bolts across the room near the end of the game like a malfunctioning steam engine, I can't even imagine what the second game would be like near the end.

 

[Iucounu]

To quote Marie Kondo, which ones give you sparkling joy?

 

[Butter]

Are you using a Skald avatar and haven't played it?

 

[jaekl]

Are you using a Skald avatar and haven't played it?

Is this from Skald? I was just scrolling through avatars and stumbled upon this guy. He is a perfect visual representation of my attitude and state of mind, so even if the game sucks at least it produced this avatar for me.

 

[Gandalf]

Are you using a Skald avatar and haven't played it?

Is this from Skald? I was just scrolling through avatars and stumbled upon this guy. He is a perfect visual representation of my attitude and state of mind, so even if the game sucks at least it produced this avatar for me.

It's from Alpha version or soemthing like that. I wonder what Brom the Barkeep look like in the current one or if he is still in the game. Haven't seen him yet.