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SiDeards73

SiDeards73

SiDeards73

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So having gotten bored of Skyrim, burnt out on D3, and tired of MMORPG's (TESO, WoW, Rift, LOTRO etc) i am now looking for an engaging rpg to spend hours on while i recharge my gaming batteries.

Any recommendations? anything come along recently i may have missed thats worth playing? to give an idea of what type of rpg's i like, Baldurs Gate / Icewind Dale / Neverwinter series are my favourites, Diablo series, Dragon Age series etc.

Suggestions? :)
 
Have you tried Path of Exile? It's quite atmospheric and the skill tree is bonkers, quite engrossing and fun too.
 
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A second nod for PoE here - it's the good kind of free to play (all microtransactions are either cosmetic, or are stuff like extra stash space), there are silly amounts of builds, it scratches that looting itch (and that 'one more hour, even though it's 2am' itch...). Top fun game.
 
Yeah i tried POE last year, gotta say i wasnt overly impressed, i had played and loved Titan Quest and its expansion, and also D3, and i dunno why but POE just didnt hit it with me :(

I think i want a more story driven type of RPG, something akin to Baldurs Gate or similar, i have the refreshed version, that cured an itch for a while :)
 
SiDeards73 said:
Yeah i tried POE last year, gotta say i wasnt overly impressed, i had played and loved Titan Quest and its expansion, and also D3, and i dunno why but POE just didnt hit it with me :(

I think i want a more story driven type of RPG, something akin to Baldurs Gate or similar, i have the refreshed version, that cured an itch for a while :)
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Have you played Divinity: Original sin?

Very solid game and it looks good visually as well.
 
Kingdoms of Amalur. Got it from Kinguin for about £2.50. Only a few hours in but a solid effort and you can't go wrong for the price especially considering it's around a 35hr journey just for the main quest.
 
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Kingdoms of Amalur. Got it from Kinguin for about £2.50. Only a few hours in but a solid effort and you can't go wrong for the price especially considering it's around a 35hr journey just for the main quest.
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It is totally unspectacular, but well worth playing. Very nearly a really good RPG. Does a lot of things right, but a lot falls short as well. My playthrough(where I still had loads of side quests to do) was about 70 hours!...the combat is very good.

If you are playing atm, I recommend the dlc 'The Legend of Dead Kel'(It was about 75p on Origin last week, not sure if it still is). Probably the best of the game.
 
If you liked Titan Quest the you might want to check out Grim Dawn as it's made by the same dudes!

I bought the early access months ago but for some reason it's not grabbed me quite like Titan Quest did - maybe need to give it more of a go now it's come on a bit!

*edit* this could have been the Kickstarter game you are thinking about??
 
SiDeards73 said:
So having gotten bored of Skyrim, burnt out on D3, and tired of MMORPG's (TESO, WoW, Rift, LOTRO etc) i am now looking for an engaging rpg to spend hours on while i recharge my gaming batteries.

Any recommendations? anything come along recently i may have missed thats worth playing? to give an idea of what type of rpg's i like, Baldurs Gate / Icewind Dale / Neverwinter series are my favourites, Diablo series, Dragon Age series etc.

Suggestions? :)
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I first played Gothic around 15 years ago and have never been so hooked and immersed in a game world ever since. That lead me to believe that I was an RPG fan, which lead me to force play many of the games that you and others have mentioned, only to find that they bored the hell out of me.

On the boring list:
Skyrim
Oblivion
Fallout
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
Amalur

and probably a few more that I have (instantly) forgotten. I state that just so you know where I am coming from. Perhaps I have a more 'offbeat' taste in RPGs which you will not share.

So onto the recommended list:

Divinity Dragon Saga
Witcher (1+2)
Risen (1+2) (Risen 3, I aint played yet)

And that is pretty much it in terms of relatively recent games.

For me, the best all time RPG was Gothic 2, but that would entail a trip back to DX8 (the game still looks stunning imo) and the need for a widescreen fix. Or more recently, there was Gothic 3, which was a complete train wreck of a game upon release, but with the CP 1.75 patch (with alternate combat/balancing activated) plus a content mod 2.4 (I think), I found it to be a truly epic experience. To get an idea of (a fully patched up) Gothic 3, think of a RPG world on a Skyrim scale, but instead of the vast expanses of forest, plains and mountains serving mainly as an attractive yet essentially empty and pointless time/space barrier between a bazillion cordoned off generic dungeons, or towns where the mechanics/rules of the game totally change, the landscape in Gothic 3 is teaming with life, danger, booty (that you will actually care about), secrets, and is where the all the action takes place, with the dungeons which you may find being auxilliary to the game play, as opposed to the focus of it. The large human settlement areas in Gothic 3 also blend in seamlessly with the surrounding landscape.

So if you were looking for something 'epic' which you probably haven't tried yet, I would recommend Gothic 3, BUT, I cannot stress enough this recomendation only applies to the fully patched up version of the game. The game was a train wreck upon release and was soon abandoned by the devs due to disputes with the publisher.....

Other than that, there is Gothic 1.....but I would imagine that this would offer way too low a graphical experience for anyone used to modern standards to be able to get properly into it.
 
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