What is your favourite non-Beamdog RPG series (or a title)?
JuliusBorisov
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The amount of poll options is limited, so I'm going with the top Metacritic games.
Take note, that if you like only one, or several, but not all games from the series (because the amount of poll options is limited) please vote for the appropriate series. Please provide as many details in your reply as possible.
Take note, that if you like only one, or several, but not all games from the series (because the amount of poll options is limited) please vote for the appropriate series. Please provide as many details in your reply as possible.
- What is your favourite non-Beamdog RPG series (or a title)?51 votes
- Divinity: Original Sin series5.88%
- Mass Effect series9.80%
- The Elder Scrolls series7.84%
- Final Fantasy series7.84%
- The Witcher series7.84%
- Diablo series1.96%
- Fallout series13.73%
- Dragon Age series9.80%
- Pillars of Eternity series9.80%
- A different RPG (RPG series)25.49%
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Divinity, while it is quirky, has some of the best combat out of any of the RPGs I've played. It's funny - people seemed to really dislike the armor system of D:OS 2, but I actually much preferred it over the first game's "stunned, game over, must reload" approach.
Of course the Infinity Engine games are still my all-time favorites.
Origins I've played through about 5 or 6 times with restartitist effecting many other play throughs. I loved how I could make a Thief that wielded a maul to deliver devastating backstabs.
DA2 is better than people give it credit for and I have played through it about 4 or 5 times. Combat got silly, but the story and characters are still great.
DragonAge Keep gives Inquisition countless replayability, however, it is the weaker of the three games as it attempts to go open world with too many stupid quests to sidetrack players from the main quest. DA2 did this better as a lot of the side quests actually tied in with the main story giving the region more life. I finished Inquisition once and am now slogging through a completionist run.
Mass Effect come close, but that is due to it having what I consider one the best games ever in its series -Mass Effect 2. The selling point of MA2 is its "short burst" quests. It is easy to pick up a controller, play and complete a fast pace quest in an half hour to an hour, then be able to walk away to do something with more important. A person hardly gets that in a videogame let alone a RPG. It having multiple ending scenarios with consequences was also well done and never repeated in any game I have played since.
But Diablo has ruined jobs and relationships.
I'll buy a console just to try a Megami Tensei title.
The best serie, the only one (besides BG) that makes me want to play all the games in a sequence at least once a year is Fallout.
Fallout 1 is a masterpiece, Fallout 2 is a somehow improved masterpiece. Fallout 3 is nice, Fallout NV is awesome; Fallout 4 wasn't capable of really hooking me up and Fallout 76, if confirmed as a MP-only, will never see my money.
I never saw a game give you so much liberty and present so many consequences as Fallout does. Do you wanna randomly walk the map and eventually beat the game in 5 minutes? Go for it. Want to shot the important NPC in the head? Ok. Want to play nice? Your call. Want to ravage the Wasteland? Sure, why not.
No inexplicable autokills, no immune to death NPCs, nothing. It's you, your judgment and a truly open world wanting to kick you in the nuts if you misbehave.
The scenario where the game happens is fantastic. The background is something unique. The dialogues, the development of NPCs, every single aspect of Fallout makes it the best franchise ever.
If a company ever makes an Enhanced Edition of FO1 and FO2 I would sell a kidney to throw money over this project.
It was a tough call, between Fallout and Elder scrolls. But I had to pick fallout because I've completed more Fallout games (1, 2, 3, 4, new vegas, and tactics) than Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim), and I guess have more hours played of the Fallouts too. Barring the Infinity Engine games, New Vegas is my favorite game of all time.
Anyways, as to the WHY, its gotta be the aesthetics and subject matter. Brownish grey post apocalyptic America just is more interesting than random fantasy world. Its more relatable and unique.
I got hooked on the series when they were remade for the PSP and they have been console sellers for me since.
Unfortunately I havent delved too far into the rest of the series beyond Persona/Nocturne/IV
(I just read the OP post asks as many details as possible, maybe later, I'm just starting my day and don't feel very awake yet).
I am vivid fan of Diablo in general, I like every one of 3 games, albeit for different reasons. I also like the lore.
I consider all three Witchers games really good, even if the first game has many issues and aged badly and the second game doesn't really nail the mood. Witcher 3, however, was one of best gaming experiences I ever had.
Pillars of Etenrity I really like, though I haven't played expansions and the second game yet. Due to this, I cannot vote for the entire series.
My relationship with Fallout games is complicated at best. I like the writing and mood of classic games. And I am pretty sure that I could enjoy New Vegas just fine, if it wasn't the fact I would be paying people I hate (Bethesda). I can always support Obsidian with buying other products, though.
Elder Scrolls aren't my cup of tea at all.
I believe jrpgs aren't considered in this topic.
Dragon Age, I don't know if I should give it a chance. Same for Divinity series.
After I get myself a functional PC, then yeah. Maybe I will.
could there possibly be something brewing in the beamdog world.....?
perhaps a new IP in the works, secretly being concocted.....?
or is beamdog trying to play it off like nothing is going on hmm....?
well if so, i shotty the clairvoyance badge, because i would almost swear something is going on somewhere, no matter how secretive you guys are trying to be
https://www.gog.com/game/nox
Warriors do okay against Hecubah, but Conjurers and Wizards struggle horribly. Hecubah just dies so much faster against Warriors even though all three classes are using the exact same weapon, which doesn't even depend on strength. I'm still not sure if the final fight is bugged or not; she can last for absolutely unnatural periods of time.
Honorable mentioning goes to the various total conversions of SureAI. It's only fair to count Nehrim, Enderal, Arktwend and Myar Aranath as their own franchise rather than list them under the Elder Scrolls.
The second game is generally regarded as the best of the series, but was initially my least favorite. Much darker in tone, relying on some of my least favorite SF tropes. It appeared to put the emphasis much more squarely on Action than RPG. However, in replying, the story comes more to the fore, and the gameplay, after I had adjusted to the more hardcore twitch-gamer audience, is definitely stronger than the original. There series is going from strength to strength, but lost the stats-based factor in which many RPG fans delight.
ME3 should have been the crown jewel in the series. The gameplay nice fuses the Action elements of ME2 with the stats based upgrades for the first game. The stakes are high, all our old friends from the first game are back (well, mostly) and we get to wrap up the overarching story. However, it manages to fumble the ball - the wrap-up is poorly handled, and the rewrite patch manages to make it more of a mockery. The ME2 companions are all given short shrift, and the rush to release has typically reduced each conversation to just 2 options, crimping the story telling. They even killed a fan-favorite character live on Twitter for the launch - which was totally lost unless you followed twitter, leaving an odd and unexplained gap in the main game.
The DLC was a mixed bag, but definitely some that contribute to the overall experience and storyline.
Still my favorite series, as each game continues to evoke emotion if I replay today. Still a game I enjoy breaking out on a new PC to hit each achievement anew. The only RPG that has been anywhere near as replayable, for me, as the BG series.
I will admit, several of the replies above give me regret that I have not yet played the fallout series. Hoping for the EEs one day...