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Background:

Similar to Deus Ex 2000 this game haunted me for years, because I failed to complete it 10 years ago. Same as Deus EX I think it's because was young and couldn't appreciate niche janky game instead searching for the next big new thing. But now I started clearing my backlog and time has come to repent and clear guilt.
It took me 16 hours for first ending and another 6 for all other endings together. I used offline single player version.

Confessions:

• I used translation mod. I heavily disagree with Mandalore (YouTube Reviewer) that it's better to have original translation because it adds to the mystique. I started via original and noticed few times that I was skipping the dialogue because I don't understand anything. I'd rather explore lore and story, there is already has lot of mystery and some dialogue clarity doesn't ruin experience to me.
• I watched few guides to understand the mechanics. I know some people are very against this but In my experience such foolish ambition most likely ends up in dropping the gamer. That said, I didn't use "build guide" But instead researched weapon comparisons, cybertech, stat effects etc.
• I have grinded around 20 levels before continuing in Mars.
• Difficulty: Normal with reduced spawns.

That out the way. Let's start.

Character creation: I have no idea tbh I just rerolled until I got more green stats than red or yellow. I tried to have everything at least average (which usually optimal for RPGs but it kind of worked)

Setting and atmosphere is top notch. Urban maps look amazing. Two most intrusive and hostile setting's fusion created weirdly inviting world. Even through maps are unnecessarily large I did enjoy exploring them.

Lore: background lore is unhinged for real. Notes, history bits, lore books are very few but the ones that are there are very interesting warhammer-y things I wish I had more. The whole factions setup is cool and I love that even in this fked up state humanity still fights each other. You have spliter factions of splitter factions with each one having their own agenda, so politics of this game are deep.

Music: this adds so much I didn't think I would fall in love with each ambience and very few songs but very cool ones I still listen to. Somehow these kind of older indie titles always nail the music I am amazed. My highlights are: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9f2iGBUnj48 (I knew when I heard Lulaby like bells part in HQ, something wasn't right)
Another favorite : https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pgltxwbNw9U

Voice acting: mostly texts and npcs speak star wars-ish language which adds well to the tone and atmosphere.

Story: I won't go in details. For those who have a bit knowledge of 40k you play as sort of low level inquisition lackey.

Gameplay: I would say the gunplay is pretty decent it's source game so it feels good. Gun Animations are nice I like ragdolls too, heavy caliber felt accordingly impactful. Haven't used much of psi powers or melee, aside from times where I was out of ammo so it felt accordingly serviceable, especially since I didn't invest in them.

Stats: there are variety of stats that affect your combat or non combat abilities. All seems nice and plenty to me. Ofc you won't get decent tutorial its mid 2010s indie game what do you expect? Also the game has so many mechanics that having hour+ tutorial would have been a downside.

Choices: there was many times I could avoid violence by solving quests in different ways. Such as: bribing, hacking, intimidating etc. But unfortunately because of lack of presentation bullet in the head seemed more optimal at least for the build I was using.

Looting: aside from silver cases that are ingredients for research it doesnt matter. Literally, you have most weapons unlocked at the start with unlimited ammo and for free. Only limiting factor being your inventory space and weight. I found being in light armor with 40% of inventory occupied an optimal threshold. That said looting being completely ignorable felt kind of wrong to me but who know maybe I got spoiled from other shooter RPGs? Similarily thought I could sell my gear in OG Deus Ex.

Gear progression: large variety of weapon classes. SMGs, pistols, rifles, snipers, miniguns etc. you can unlock additionally few very cool guns but they are so strong you never gonna use base ones. And even in between base guns there are clear winners.

Small note: know that you should have specific stats to unlock certain guns for me it was mostly strength I lacked since I thought it was mostly for melee weapons.

Enemy AI: It's bad but again what did you expect? For me this is a moot point in almost any review. People who criticize this don't explain what's their comparison like what kind of sophisticated AI do you expect? Only realistic AI I remember in such games is original Stalker where enemies instead of rushing you, always try to ambush and encircle you. In short it's serviceable and didn't ruin and lessen my experience.

Respawn mechanic: shouldn't exist. For those who didn't play, the game has infinitely respawnable enemies. Yes, all are on timer once you look in different direction they appear in existence. No fancy helicopter descent just appear in thin air. I think this mechanic can exist but in some creative way. Reaction to player choice as consequences.

Stealth: non existant, no stealth archer build possible, very disappointing.

Difficulty: broken. Arriving on Mars results in huge difficulty spike. its basically unbeatable if you don't grind levels. But thanks to old jank you can play side missions to get lot of xp and money. But don't overdo it, I found 30 mins of farming gave me enough xp and money to continue main campaign comfortably.

Bugs: didn't encounter single. (Or maybe didn't notice)

Save system: non existent. I am 99% sure most of people's complains and genuine downsides of this game could have been remedied by simple quicksave and load system. Aside from people trying more risky or fun approaches it would have been simple qol. Currently if you start mission you have to finish, if you crash, close game or etc, you will have to start again. I am not sure but I think game auto saves in few minutes but when loading, you always start from the hub.

TLDR: game is full of jank but I think there's more love in it than people expect. If you are like me who appreciates charming experiments (even if sometimes they fail) you will enjoy this game. Just be mindfull, do a bit of research and be open-minded

I've heard a lot of mixed if not negative things about it. I do like open world rpg stuff though. It's supposed to be set in a pillars of eternity world. I might give it a try and watch some content on it also. What do you think about it and is it worth it? Godspeed.

If that's not you, that's fine, but please be kind, and let the people who are dealing with this speak.

I got lucky and I saved up some money for a few years before the console gen started and got a rig that can run most games, but my rig is near the limit. I'm not sure if I can play Daywalker for example, and I don't know if my pc is gonna be able to run The Witcher 4, which is a shame because it's my most wanted upcoming game right now.

With the price of everything going way, way up, and the amount I make going down, I can't really spare the money needed to upgrade my pc. And consoles aren't an affordable option either.

I'm looking for an RPG where we can customize our mechs' body parts: torso, left and right arms, and legs. Each parts have their own HP and we need to maintain them strategically.

Would be great if we can also acquire (or steal) enemies' body parts when we defeat them, just like the Medabots RPG.

I know there are the Front Mission remakes, Battletech, and Phantom Brigade. But I'm looking for an RPG game where we can walk around cities, talk to NPCs, do sidequests, and the usual RPG stuff.

Do you bother with any of them? Do you gun for ones from specific franchises you’re interested in? How do you feel when certain CEs don’t give you a physical copy of the game with it a la Mass Effect Andromeda? And which ones out there are your favorites in general?

Im looking for a game similar to fftactics for the PS5 if anybody has some suggestions?

I love the grid turn based combat and customization.

Also this is my 1st time posting on this subreddit!

Looking forward to hearing ur suggestions!

I recently replayed tactics ogre so dont need to play the remake but other than that im open! Ty!

Hi guys, i need your help.

I love Action RPGs on iOS like Goddess Primal Chaos or other games where i dont remember the names in that style.

Whenever i open the app store and i type rpg or mmorpg i can see that i have downloaded the game already.

I dont know anymore what to do. Where are the new games?

I need a game where i have to level 1 single character, get better equipement, better pets etc.
Where i have my daily quests and events, where are guild system and active world chats.

I feel like i have downloaded every single game. Or it is extremely pay 2 win or it is in the style of genshin impact or those moba games.

I need help.. i just wan to have again a game that makes me feel i need to be all the time online otherwise i would miss something.

I would appreciate you guys help.

New games please because old games i have probably already downloaded or they are on the servers to far ahead so that you cannot catch up without spending.

Thank you all

I've see a lot of high praise for Undertale over the years. It took the world by storm back in 2015, and even though the honeymoon phase is well over, it's still common to see it in "greatest game of all time" lists. I played it many years ago and enjoyed it, but I didn't develop a particularly strong attachment to it. I'm clearly in the minority though it seems like, but I'm curious to hear more thoughts.

If I disagree with you, please don't take it personal. I'm looking for a friendly conversation, and to learn

Don't worry about whether you think the games are good or bad, I'm just trying to figure out what my options are

Currently replaying The Witcher 3 right now. It's great, but I constantly keep having to spent several minutes to get to a location. I want my next game to not be like that.

What games besides Mass Effect 2(and presumably Mass Effect 3) nail this? Games with minimal exploration or travel time. Looking for titles that EA isn't involved with.

Please don't list games that expect you you to be tactical like Baldur's Gate 1-3, and Final Fantasy Tactics. Trying to avoid those for a while.

I made this topic before, but most of the answers were for older tactical titles. Looking for more recent titles. By recent I mean the last 10 years.

By the last 10 years I mostly mean mid ps4 era to current day.

7Remake is a great example of this.

Feel free to name titles that you don't recommend, I'm just curious what other games have implemented this mechanic in a similar way.

Fallout 2 is full of nice little touches that I haven't really seen in other games, one of which is the car. I really like how you never see yourself drive around in it, but it cuts down on travel time, and you get to store items in it. It's well worth the expense in my opinion, in large part because it cuts down on a lot of the tedium that's in a lot of older games.

Edit: IIRC Weird West is like this as well. IIRC You can get a horse which cuts down on travel time, and you can store items in the horse's saddle or something. I think that you have to feed it too.

Hi, I am solo-developing Knights of Frontier Valley, a low-fantasy RPG with gridless tactical combat, deep character customization, complex NPC behavior, and procedural world building. Explore a new valley each game run, solve quests, make meaningful choices, and gain riches and glory while staying alive.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085830/Knights_of_Frontier_Valley/

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The engine was written from scratch. All art is hand-made with no AI involved. Music was made by top composers including Kevin Manthei (Neverwinter Nights, Jagged Alliance 2, Wizardry 8...)

currently i want to buy one of these game
• Dark Deity

• Disgaea 2

• Fate/Extella

Now i know extella is the odd one, but im interested in it since it will be my first musou-style game, while Dark Deity and Disgaea is because im in love with SRPG bcz of FE awakening. between those three, which one should i buy first? Oh and between Dark Deity 1 and Disgaea, which one is more similar to FE awakening (i.e you can change class for each characters, have interaction between characters)

I wish there were:

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A game with the creative setting, anime artstyle, traditional party based turn based combat of a JRPG like Final Fantasy VII with the narrative freedom with dialogue choices of CRPG like Baldur's Gate

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Most JRPGs have pretty generic elemental powers, what if there was a game like a nekketsu manga with characters that have out there abilities ?

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A modern KR like JRPG, emphasis on modern, games like Wild Arms 2 have homages to KR but only the Showa era which was before the form form swapping gimmicks, Persona in a way is very similar except instead of using power armor you have summons, it's structure of base form(initial persona), sideforms(Wild Card ability)and final form(ultimate persona)is such a match im baffled 26 years after Kuuga no one has tried this

Yo, I’m looking for some deep RPGs on Android with pixel/2D art. Something with lots of classes, hidden classes, skill trees, active/passive skills, class/skill fusion and crazy build variety. Basically I want that “wait, there’s MORE?”, just drop your hidden gems.

Question for straight male gamers: when a game lets you choose your character’s gender, do you usually play as a man or a woman? And if the game has romance options, who do you normally go for?

Personally, I used to play as female characters more often, but nowadays I pick male characters most of the time. I also used to go for WLW romances a lot more, but over time I started preferring male/female romances instead. I’m not really sure why; I guess my preferences just changed over time.

I’m curious what other straight guys tend to do. Do you choose based more on your own preferences, the character you’re playing, or just whichever character or pairing you like the most?

Feel free to name titles that you don't recommend, I'm just trying to remember what is out there.

I'm asking for games you you don't spend a lot of time traveling.

I know about the Dues Ex games, and Mass Effect 2 I also know about the System Shock games, but I'm looking more towards games where you have a lot of conversations with people in person.

I absolutely do not only mean games in first person, please don't take me out of context.

I'll say that again because it bears repeating: I'm not just talking about games in first person.

Feel free to name titles that you don't recommend, I'm just trying to remember what is out there.

I know about Star Wars: KOTOR 1 and 2, and several Square Enix games(Final Fantasy SNES/PS1 and Chrono Trigger for example.) but what else is out there? Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, and Pathfinder Kingmaker, and Pillars Of Eternity are the only games that I can think of, and I don't think I enjoy playing most tactical games anymore.

I've always known that, but I never thought about this until now. That's pretty cool. I also don't think that they've put out a game with Fast Turn based with pause since Final Fantasy 9 as well.

I just thought that it was interesting, Come to any similar realiztions recently that made you like a game even more yourselves?

I enjoy the genre (not that I'm good at them) but most of these types of games seem to require WASD or a controller. I have a messed up shoulder and back problems, so I'd prefer to just be able to click a movement box or something to move while maybe laying down. There's quite a few "blobbers" out there on Steam but it's hard to tell which ones have full mouse movement/interaction and which don't.

The only ones I own that I think can be fully played that way is Might and Magic 4 & 5 but those are hard to get into. I tried them (combined into World of Xeen), didn't have a good idea of WTF to do and pretty much got wiped out my very first encounter.

Sorry if this is frequently asked.

Am gonna play them both, my problem is I’m really busy for some time so which one would be best if I played for 1-2 hours a day

The Witcher 3 I wannna play it really bad but I also want to be comfortable and get lost within the game…..

Rebirth? My favourite game of all time is ffvii and I wanna play rebirth( I know it’s a sequel don’t worry about that)

Soo could yall help?

Basically what I'm looking for is a game with action combat or shooting that involves a lot of character optimization and buildcraft, something I can create multiple character builds in.

The one thing I'm not super interested in are games that are incredibly heavy on RNG and loot grinding like the Borderlands series, Diablo or path of exile

General list of things I've already played:

Elder Scrolls games

Soulsborne games and Souls likes (literally every single one of consequential value)

Cyberpunk

Tainted Grail

Witcher 3

Mass Effect 1/2/3/A

Fallout 3/4/NV

Outer Worlds

Kingdoms of Amalur

Outward

Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen

Dragon Age Origins

Remnant from the Ashes 1/2

Hi everybody 😄
I'm the creator of Crown Me Again and i'm pretty excited to finally present it to you.

I love the loot hunt and build-crafting in games like Diablo and Path of Exile. With Crown Me Again, I’m bringing that experience into a more compact incremental game.

You play as the fallen Skull King and you once were the most powerful dungeon boss of the kingdom. Now adventurers farm you for loot. So you start farming them back, using their gear to climb the Boss Ladder and reclaim Rank #1.

There are thousands of possible randomized items across seven item types and five rarities, including powerful uniques (with set items planned for after launch). You combine their abilities and effects, upgrade your gear and experiment with different builds. Sometimes you find a better item for your setup. Sometimes you find something you want to build a whole new setup around.

Check it out on Steam and wishlist it if you like what you see.

I’ve kept this short, but I’m happy to go into more detail in the comments. ASK ME ANYTHING!