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Seeing what people's tastes are and the last post I saw about story was years ago. Link me to a thread if that is incorrect, but I searched and didn't find anything recent.

Just picked up Pasqal Haneumann; loving the game so far. I welcome any tips - anything that you wish you had known starting out.

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Recently played through Mass Effect 3 for no reason and particular.

I played as an engineer this time around. And I realized that I really enjoy the fantasy of a so-called "Tech Wizards". The engineer plays out mostly how you'd expect a wizard to, but in a SciFi setting. You've got Lighting, fire and ice spells. You can use spells that takeover the minds of synthetic beings. You have a cute robot drone you can command.

But besides something like shadowrun, which I do plan to play, what else is out there that fills this niche?

Hey everyone,

I recently started a game music breakdown series where I analyze music from games that have inspired me, exploring how musical choices reflect the themes, philosophies, characters, and locations within those games.

My latest episode is about "Fall-from-Grace" from Planescape: Torment. Alongside the harmony, melody, and orchestration, I also explore how I think Mark Morgan's music reflects both the philosophy of the Sensates and the character of Fall-from-Grace.

In particular, I argue that some of the compositional choices mirror the Sensates' belief that true understanding comes from opening oneself to the fullest range of life's experiences.

This is, of course, just my own interpretation, and I'd genuinely love to hear what fellow Planescape fans think.

2023 was a great crpg year with rogue trader, bg3 and to a lesser extent, starfield.

There hasn’t been any crpg of this caliber in three years, and nobody want to compete with gta6 release, so 2027 doesn’t look better.

Most of the games recommended on this sub are old stuff I have already played. I thought with the popularity of bg3, that we would see a big stream of high production crpg, but alas it’s not the case.

Solasta II looks nice, so far. Maybe.

I just reviewed Colony ship for my channel over on YouTube. But because I put out a video on this Reddit pretty recently I'm not going to link it here. But what I will say is honest to God you guys need to really look at Colony ship. It reminds me a lot of OG fallout. Super cool. Probably honestly other than bg3 probably right next to bg3 as my favorite non Stellaris video game I played in quite a while

These are the games I have played:

1. Neverwinter
2. Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
3. Planescape: Torment
4. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
5. Age of Decadence
6. ATOM RPG
7. BG1/2/3
8. Disco Elysium
9. Arcanum
10. DOS 1/2
11. Fallout 1/2/3/4
12. Forgotten Realms: The Archives
13. Icewind dale
14. Kenshi
15. Lionheart: Legacy of the crusaders
16. UnderRail
17. Pathfinder: Kingmaker/Wrath of the righteous
18. Pillars of Eternity 1/2
19. Shadowrun: Returns/Dragonfall/Hong Kong
20. Tyranny
21. Rogue Trader

Any recommendations for any games I can play would be so helpful as I feel like i have ran out of options rip

Hi, it's Andrea from FLAT28, developer of Glasshouse.

It's been a while since my latest post on this sub, and everytime it's a good experience so I thought that our latest devblog was a very good moment to make a post!

In our latest devblog we talk about our approach to writing our cRPG, the challanges and learn experiences we did over the years. We also briefly talked about the Neowiz Indie Quest contest that awarded us 70.000$ and few sneak peaks of what's coming ahead.

If you're into cRPGs, if you already knew Glasshouse and wanted a bit of an update that may be a good reason to jump on our devlog and give me your thoughts ^_^

For those that didn't know anything about Glasshouse:

Glasshouse it's a Feudalpunk CRPG, with Turn-based combat, set in a lockdown apartment block at the dawn of a world war. You'll need to investigate the mysterious triple murder next door, fight the Political Conspiracy, and make terrible choices before the flatmates do it for you!

Thank you :)

Of course, I mean games which are available legally for free.

Hey guys, I’ve heard a lot of good things about this game. I love science fiction I love fantasy fiction, and I love a good story, but I also love combat that comes along with it and I was just curious how much of this game has combat or is it just basically one big book please let me know

I fell into a Rogue Trader hole after finishing BG3, and it has honestly been such an unexpected delight. I loved it so much that I started painting Warhammer 40k miniatures on the side.

For me, Rogue Trader shines in the world-building, lore and choices. I thought all the little choices that pop up when you are scanning planets or just moving through the world felt very impactful. There were small things I made a snap decision on that randomly popped up again later in the game; I love that. I also find the combat mechanics to be very accessible; the buffs and debuffs took a little googling to understand, but nothing too complex. I think by about hour 20, everything started to feel much more fluid. Also, RT's RPG element is very immersive. You feel like a ruthless space lord! It is definitely a game that is more rewarding to play a morally dubious character or a merciless despot; I enjoyed leaning into both.

So, what is next after this? I feel like trying to tackle Wrath of Righteous, as it feels like the natural progression on a CRPG journey. I would most appreciate some suggestions. I have tried but failed to get into Divinity 2, I just can't get into but if you can convince it is worth slogging through the first few hours it would be a strong contender. I feel like i missing out on that one.

I've played so many cRPGs over the years, and have loved so many.

One that I always think back to was Wasteland 2. The story was fine enough, but what really drew me in was how the party worked. With your party almost assuredly being made up of characters you made, there was so much freedom to make stories for them.

I believe another user was actually discussing this exact thing recently, when ranking their favorite cRPGs and I wanted to double down on that.

The fact that there are different "dialogue traits" (even if it was pretty limited) that unlocked different avenues of discussion? It really helped lean into the feeling that the party was made up of different personalities that you crafted.

My favorite thing though, which I have never seen another cRPG do quite as well, is actually dialogue choices. Yeah, in every other game a party member might speak up after a dialogue trigger or whatever - but it's still scripted. Wasteland 2 letting you change the speaking character mid-conversation made talking to NPCs feel truly alive, like it was a group of people having a conversation.

Perhaps you had a typically reserved character/Ranger who only spoke up at certain times, or maybe you had another who tried to be the moral compass of the group. Or maybe you had two that were in conflict with each other's decisions, being shown by them offering up different opinions.

For me, this added so much to the game and it's why I bounced so hard off Wasteland 3. Seeing this feature get removed really took away my main interest in the game - and it's something I've desperately craved for another game to do but have never seen happen.

I'm currently playing through rogue trader with a friend, but we can't play every day and I'm itching for more.

I've played through bg3, wasteland 2 and 3, divinity (both), jagged alliance 3. Mostly co op.

I've also played through a fair bit of Poe and Poe 2. Completed expeditions Rome.

I've tried kingmaker and decided it wasn't for me. I prefer turn based and even though it now has the option for it, I don't really want to go back.

I'd prefer a newer game, one that doesn't have a huge party, around 4 would be ideal, 6 is too many.

Any recommendations?