OT: a nice RPG-ish game?

[Kel]

Most of my Favorites you have already played (Planescape/fallout).

I only have one to add that hasn't been mentioned:
Wizardry 7-8

- Kel

PS: I didn't like Gothic, personally. Never played the second one, though.

[Boron]

oh 2 oldies come to my mind now too :

dsa 2 - sternenschweif
dsa 3 - schatten über riva

they are very good if you have any sympathy with the das schwarze auge rpg universum at all .

revenant i liked too . it is an classic too . included beat them up elements in a very unique way which i liked

for a mix of strategy + rpg :
- disciples 2
- jagged alliance 2

both are very recommendable .



finally if you like magic the gathering :

magic the gathering with both extensions (spells of the ancients and duels of the planewalkers they were called iirc) is just great . it was made from sid meier .
the main part was the shandalar world where you started with a weak character with only about 30-40 randomly chosen cards and then you had to defeat monsters in duels , do quests etc.

a perfect combination between MTG and a rpg

[Lex]

Kel said:
Most of my Favorites you have already played (Planescape/fallout).

I only have one to add that hasn't been mentioned:
Wizardry 7-8

- Kel

PS: I didn't like Gothic, personally. Never played the second one, though.

if you're a game collector, you might want to track down some of the classic Ultimas.. or Bard's Tale.. oh, if we're gonna go down memory lane, Betrayal At Krondor still holds a place in my heart.

[Boron]

oh and one brilliant action rpg :

Vampires - The Masquerade .

it came out 2000 or 2001 and had really good graphics at that time . even now the graphics are still quite nice .
the ambiente was very good and the concept of the game too :
it was divided into 4 acts .
the first 2 were in the middle ages and the Last 2 were in the presence .
this way it was almost like 2 games

especially in the presence the fights were just cool
some of my vampires had machine guns while some were still equipped with medieval swords and other melee weapons .

the whole game i felt it was designed with love and there were in each act lots of very funny and humorous little surprises or especially thematic things

[Lex]

wow.. Vampires The Masquerade really was a great game! too bad I never played it

That was one of the first games that really let you be a DM in multiplayer. I waited and waited for my buddies to get the game, but it never happened.

[Kel]

Lex said:

if you're a game collector, you might want to track down some of the classic Ultimas.. or Bard's Tale.. oh, if we're gonna go down memory lane, Betrayal At Krondor still holds a place in my heart.

Hehe, I played them all, from Wiz 1 to Tunnels & Trolls and Wizards Crown. Wizardry 8, though, isn't really that old. I don't recall the exact date (someone will probably look it up ) but it is more in line with Planescape and the like.

- Kel

[deccan]

Lex said:
if you're a game collector, you might want to track down some of the classic Ultimas.. or Bard's Tale.. oh, if we're gonna go down memory lane, Betrayal At Krondor still holds a place in my heart.

One word: Darklands.

[Alneyan]

deccan said:
One word: Darklands.

Concured with. If you can find it and run it, Darklands. It will unlikely be anyone's cup of tea, but it is worth a look, and definitively more than that (it came out in 1992 if memory serves). Do not forget to patch this game though, or else you will be totemised.

Daggerfall might catch your fancy as well, if you don't mind its graphics, and its lack of variety after some time of playing. Daggerfall is closer to a love-hate game; there are worshippers of this game, and others burnt it. Ah, if only Morrowind had been just Daggerfall with an editor to add more randomness and variety... Like above, make sure you have the latest patch, which irons out almost all bugs from the game (you can still experience many crashes though, but if you are lucky, it might actually work well under XP).

Besides this, may I suggest both Ultima VII, and especially Serpent's Isle? They are easy to run on modern computers; a programme has been made for this purpose, as the games were unplayable on most computers. So, if you want to play them, be sure to download Exult there.

Lastly, I don't know if you fancy such games, but roguelikes may interest you (such as Nethack, Angband and its variants, or ADOM). Their graphics are fairly... erh... rudimentary, and the interfance can be cumbersome to learn if you hate keyboard shortcuts. There are also two graphical Versions of roguelikes, with decent graphics and a nicer interface:
- Falcon's Eye for Nethack.
- AngbandTK and ZangbandTK for Angband. I am not sure if I can post the link to these though; while they are perfectly legal, the easiest Version to use is hosted on an abandonware site, which may or may not be fine with our Moderators.

On another note, as you seem to like dialogues (Planescape Torment), may I suggest the Discworld series? These are adventure games instead, but I cannot think of any other RPG with dialogues such as Planescape.

Edit: I knew I had forgotten something. Albion. It is a somewhat old game (1996 if memory serves, so it isn't that old), and that can even run well on modern computers, with enticing graphics. Its setting is quite unique, and it could be said to be somewhat an RPG. Or, on the topic of such atmospheric games, Omikron (or The Nomad Soul as it is known in some countries) might interest you. It is a hybrid game with adventure elements, some action (thrown in at the request of Eidos, the editor) and a drop of RPG. Its main strength is its atmosphere as well, although the core of the plot feels quite cliché after a while.

[deccan]

Alneyan said:

Concured with. If you can find it and run it, Darklands. It will unlikely be anyone's cup of tea, but it is worth a look, and definitively more than that (it came out in 1992 if memory serves).

Heh. I'm glad someone other than me remembers this game. I've had a lot of fun with this. I still remember patrolling the streets of cities at night for cash and xp, sneaking into merchant banks to steal things, feeling the thrill of finding a merchant with high-quality items. But the bugs... *Sigh* I especially liked the historical feel of the game and of course there's the fact that heroes could get old and had to be retired.

[Thufir]

Kel said:
I only have one to add that hasn't been mentioned:
Wizardry 7-8

I thought Wizardry 8 was awesome. I don't recall whether the storyline really grabbed me, but I thought that the tactical implementation was the best I ever played.