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Well if you consider Oblivon an Action RPG, from what I understand as Alneyan said, the two games are in the same style. Gothic II if I remember right was given good reviews across the board, as was the recent gold edition.

I personally don't see either game as an action rpg ala diablo, dungeon siege, or NWN. From my memory, a lot of Oldschool RPGs were solo romps, but ya I too miss the party based systems.

Alexti, ya thats what I thought you ment, but for the purpose of the discussion the goal was to categorize the RPGs in their respective genre as while each took different approaches to it, they all shared the same goal ...deliver a compelling single player adventure through the use of the normal RPG tools. Even then my groupings probably would have been different (Pools of Raidence reminded me of BG for instance).

NT - ya I was referring to the main campaign. We did load up some of the modules, and I tried a couple of them myself once some of the big ones came out. I dunno, I just never liked the system. Create a new character specifically for the purpose of playing for 4 hours? Didn't see all that appealing to me.