Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made

• TacoSocks@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Damn, RPGs peaked in the 80s for you. What did these games do right that nothing has done better since?

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exist when they cared enough so that nothing can ever surpass the nostalgia of the game, regardless of quality.

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    • loonsun@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The story and engagement. Ultima IV let you talk to literally every NPC in the game, everyone had a name and a job and something to say.

    Phantasy Star II was essentially ripped off for Final Fantasy VII to the point where from the minute they introduced Aerith I was like “Well, shit, better not give HER anything I want to keep, she’s dead 1/2 way through the game.” (That was Nei in PSII).

    To be clear, those are just the first two off the top of my head, there were other excellent, excellent RPGs.

    I really liked the gold box D&D games from SSI - Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades. They don’t hold up well now due to all being turn based RPGs. There is a Steam Collection of ALL of that.

    Speaking of, before Fallout, there was Wasteland which has had a modern reboot and sequel. Also a great game that had copy protection built into a story book full of backstory paragraphs.

    For JRPGs, it’s hard to go wrong with Suikoden 1 and 2, recently re-released on PS5, drop dead gorgeous RPGs.

    I’ve played probably hundreds of RPGs since the start.

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