Planescape Torment.
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nyctre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, if you’ve enjoyed Skyrim, honestly you can just google “best RPGs of all time” and play any that will show up. I’m gonna go against the grain here and say that Skyrim’s world is beautiful but nothing else is that great about it. Try enderall, fallout London, gothic 1+2 + archolos, mass effect 1-3, disco Elysium, Witcher 1-3, Baldur’s Gate 1-3, Neverwinter nights 1+2, dragon age origins, fallout new Vegas, pillars of eternity1+2, Kotor 1+2, south park stick of truth + fractured butthole, cyberpunk, fable the lost chapters, divinity original sin 1+2, etc.
If at any point you feel like the combat is too hard or whatever you can use cheats and just enjoy the story. All of these have pretty good ones. At least all of these have less grinding and better story than Pokemon games, in my experience.
Beyond that, just go for popular, widely acclaimed games such as rdr2, bioshock, whichever doom you want, portal 1+2, etc.
Trail@lemmy.world 1 day ago
nyctre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Definitely. Thought I put it there, but guess not.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Definitely don’t recommend Enderal. OP mentioned they didn’t want a game with difficulty spikes, and Enderal is pretty notorious for difficulty spiking. Playing Enderal on Normal difficulty is like playing Skyrim on Hard.
It might be okay on its own, but it’s not what OP is looking for.
nyctre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, that’s fair, had forgotten about that. Then again, that’s one of the games where cheats can make it playable.
gccalvin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
+1 for Enderal
zerofk@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
A “best RPGs of all time” list will inevitably include Baldur’s Gate 2, and likely other Infinity Engine games, most of which are definitely not games without difficulty spikes or required side content.
nyctre@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Which is why I suggested using cheats to make the game easier.