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About LinkBacksAll you first person shooter fans are trying to take a piece of our pie. LEAVE US ALONEOriginally Posted by TimBuktu
All you first person shooter fans are trying to take a piece of our pie. LEAVE US ALONE
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I feel like I'm following in TimBuktu's footsteps. Fallout 3 didn't grab me at all when I rented back when it was new, then after loving Skyrim (and getting all 1000 achievement points), I'm revisiting Fallout 3 and am now really enjoying it. After completing F3 I think I'm going to dive into Oblivion and then New Vegas. Hopefully by that point some good Skyrim DLC will be out.
Yeah, the voice acting in New Vegas is pretty brutal. Everyone speaks in the same robotic way. I want emotion from my video game voice actors, damn it!
If by "true RPGs" you mean "turn-based console JRPGs," then they still exist. The ones I can think of off the top of my head that are on this generation of consoles are Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia, Valkyria Chronicles, and Eternal Sonata. I haven't played the latter two, but I have played the former two and I would rate them positively. There's also the Persona series which I know little about and am not totally sure if they are all localized in English.
I think you will find most people would define "true RPGs" as being PC games, especially those based on Dungeons & Dragons rulesets. The original 2 Fallout games, the Baldur's Gate series, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, etc.
The best thing to do if you want to play the turn-based games like Chrono Trigger, the early Final Fantasy games, Earthbound, etc. is to get an SNES and a PSX emulator and play games from the mid- to late-90s. That was the genre's golden era.
There's also independent games made with RPG Maker.
EDIT: I neglected to mention that Tales of Vesperia is not turn-based. It is a Japanese RPG with random encounters and mountains of dialog and what have you, but the combat system is real-time.
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If you have a Wii then you definitely need to play Xenoblade Chronicles which just came out earlier this month and is probably my favourite RPG in years. It's not as linear as most modern RPGS have gotten, giving you wide open cities and fields to explore and level up in at your own free will, and there's a seemingly infinite amount of side missions spread out all over the land to continually distract you from the main quest. I spent the first 8 hours of the game simply wandering around the massive city you start in meeting a bunch of side characters and completing the varied missions they give you and it almost felt like something out of Majora's Mask or Shenmue. It's so good.
I don't know if anyone can answer this, but it's worth a shot. I've gotten super into Skyrim and Fallout in the past year, and am thinking about just buying this Witcher 2 game. Is it in the same vein or will it be too steep a climb up the RPG hill for me? I have basically never played whatever version of RPG's those are until this year.
Thanks for the game recommendations. I only have a PC right now. I sold my consoles and TV after I cancelled my cable a while back, but I'm thinking about getting back into console gaming at some point. So I'll keep all those titles in mind.
I only played it for about an hour, so don't take this as a very informed decision, but I jumped into Witcher 2 and was pretty lost. It opened with a lot of story and dialogue and I didn't really get what was going on. I read online it helps if you had played the first game. But like I said, I was really lazy and didn't even really get to the actual combat/questing.
I played the demo for Fez last night and I am in love.
Fez is great but it's super glitchy (crashed a few times on me already) AND the map system is needlessly complicated. Although now I've gotten used to the map. Just took a little bit.
I don't know why I'm even saying anything negative about it - I love it.
Skyrim is also glitchy as nuts. But Fez took a single oversized pixel and gave it 4 dimensions. I can see how it took 5 years to come out, it's the most compact chunk of depth I've ever seen.
Yeah, I was just frustrated about the crashes. It's a spectacular game and as one of those gamers big on the retro style, puzzlers and platformers, it appeals to pretty much all my sensibilities. I know how silly it is to say this after mentioning the glitchiness as a negative, but I loved the intentional glitchiness in that opening sequence.
I just got this, I'll let you know what I think soon.
Okay, I played Fez all day and I can't believe the depth of some of these puzzles. It's insane. I'm trying not to look anything up, but I eventually caved so I could figure out that secret Tetris-block code for control input.
I also read a bit about the impossible puzzle at the end of the game. This thing is a monster.
Played it through once with the demon hunter. Good ole Diablo. It feels good.
Dave Foley as YesMan though, come on.
ditto
I can't believe I never realized that was Dave Foley!
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