i don’t know that anyone calls them rpgs.
50_centavos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This might be a unpopular view but I think games like Elden Ring or Lies of P are a better RPGs. More action packed, less busy/boring missions. I beat BG3 and had fun for the first half of the game, the last half was a bit of a drag. I tried KCD 1 and couldn’t get into it, going from one end of the map to another doing mindless tasks. It was more of a middle-age simulator. I put ~250 hours into Elden Ring + DLC and I wanted more by the end of it.
Either way, I have some hope for the future of games.
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The article mentions them as action RPGs
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Which is dumb. Souls games are pretty obviously a branch of metroidvanias.
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
wtf
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
So non RPGs are better RPGs? You don’t have to like RPGs.
50_centavos@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Elden Ring is an RPG, not sure what you’re saying.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Elden Ring better classified as an action RPG, to use an analog its more akin to PnP dungeon crawlers in how it approaches its RPG elements. While say Baldurs Gate 3 is closer to an extended campaign PnP game. They are both RPGs but that’s such a broad grouping so as to be meaningful, an atlatl and a welding torch are both tools but there’s no meaningful overlap.
addie@feddit.uk 2 days ago
To quote an old RockPaperShotgun comment about Dark Souls, the best decisions are the ones that you don’t know you’re making. DS definitely has storyline changes depending on where you go first, what you do and who you speak to, which is far more natural than a two-way dialogue option for “blatant RPG decision making”.
The tragedy of Elden Ring is that it’s far too long for that. I’ve played through DS several times and would expect to get it finished in about five hours, so can play through the various plot line resolutions in a long evening of gaming. ER has a variety of ways that the DLC can play out, you say? Best book a fortnight off work so that I can get a hundred hours of gaming in.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Its an action game with RPG like stst systems.
knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
An RPG without a story and full focus on gameplay, if you like fighting monsters over and over again it sure is great, but otherwise it lacks alot