Personally I was a huge fan of Tyranny. It’s built on the same engine as POE, but I liked the story, worldbuilding, and characters a lot more.
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doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
What other crpg style games have you played and enjoyed? I’m trying to figure out if I should play it or give something else a shot
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
WadeTheWizard@kbin.social 11 months ago
We need more villain-as-protagonist games. Tyranny giving you evil choices that were both meaningful, and reasonable, is so much better than the usual "I'm the hero, but I do enjoy kicking puppies on weekends" evil choices in most RPGs.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The thing is, it’s not really villain-as-protagonist. It’s more like “goon-as-protagonist”. You are just a cog in the real villain’s machine. That’s why the choices are so interesting. Because they are often constrained by the world Kyros has created. So you don’t get choices like “will you kill this baby or not” because then it’s easy to not be the bad guy. You get choices like “Kyros demands someone from this town is getting killed. You can choose this baby or this old person. You can also choose not to make a choice, but that would be shirking your job as a judge and omniscient daddy Tunon wouldn’t like it”
doggish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I also got that game for free from Amazon and I’m planning on playing that next! The premise is pretty cool!
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BG3 runs like a dream.
Virulent@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Until act 3 😬😬
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On what settings? Mine mimics a jet engine every time I fire up BG3, no matter what settings or scaling I used so far and I already have the quieter fan in the SD.
doggish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure I’ll pick it up eventually. One of my friends had to have a talk with her husband about how much she was playing that game.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
BG3 isn’t a bad game but it hasn’t really grabbed me.
Stamau123@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Torment: tides of Numenera plays similar to PoE, although I’m mainly recommending it because it was my gateway into the Numenera universe, itself more interesting than the OK game.
Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
The two Pathfinder games by owlcat are also great.
doggish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I loved the original Fallout games. Pillars is a lot like the original two Baldur’s Gate games and the other games like it. Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment. Though I haven’t really earnestly played any of them. I did play the Dark Alliance games when they were new and I was a kid, but those are action RPGs.
maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 are better gameplay wise but the world building and lore in Pillars is unmatched.
doggish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wanted to check out Pillars because I think Avowed looks cool, but I do see Divinity Original Sin 2 on sale pretty frequently so I might pick it up. I’m still trying to take a big bite out of my backlog before buying more games I won’t end up playing for years. (I finally played GTA5 last month.)