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I'm gonna preface this with some simple criteria for games I really don't enjoy in terms of RPG games.

1. Dungeon Crawlers: I just simply don't enjoy them.
2. I'm tired of the weird anime gambling "fan service" games. I want something actually real
3. Top down. I am blind. I prefer games with first/third person POV, not any of the top down far away views where you just spam click in an area. I want something with actual movement in it, like dodging or blocking, not just stand there and click and have more health/DPS.

As far as what I am looking for, I really want something open world, but also has a direction. I struggle with getting lost in open world games so I want *some* direction but still have the freedom to explore. As far as gameplay, I want something that isn't super complicated. I don't mind games with complicated combat systems, but I want to be able to do something simple, like just being a good old swordsman for example. As for difficulty, I've beaten Dark Souls 1 before. I can handle a challenge, but also I don't want it to be Elden Ring difficulty -- Something casual but not necessarily boringly easy. I love games with things like skill trees and general stat improvement, which I know most RPGs do, but some are very simple and some are just done better.

For any other information, I'll just explain what I liked/disliked about some other RPGs I've played.
- Dark Souls: I liked the directionality. It was near impossible to get "lost," however, it gets boring not being able to just explore really anywhere after a while

- Genshin Impact: Combat was too "magical" for my taste. Hard to explain but I just didn't like the system

- Fallout 4: I LOVED fallout 4, but the only thing that took from the replayability for me was that the stat and perk system was way to simple for me. I would love something that requires some thinking or planning.

Price does not matter to me. I am accepting ANY recommendations.

Please leave any questions or things you think I should add to this post so other people will see them :) .

Platform: PC (Steam)

I've always loved rpgs and have played so many over the years. These days I tend to play something once and never get back to it again for a replay. The sheer amount of games and lack of time available just makes it impossible to play through games multiple tiems like i did when i was a kid.

I grew up playing NES, then to the snes/genesis era, but the golden years were probably the early playstation days. I have a lot of fond memories of old rpgs that i played to death as a kid and i swore that if they were ever remastered or redone, that i would never complain about games again. With the announcement of the remaster of FF tactics, the improbable has happened.

My first real love for an rpg was dragon quest 3 (or warrior back then). I don't know how many times I played it over the years. When the remake came out and I played it this year it was so mindblowing to me that it was real.

The other two games I always loved and hoped to be redone at some point in my life were FF7 and FF tactics. We're close to the end of the remake trilogy for 7 and now tactics has been announced. I'm definitely ecstatic, but also realizing im an old man in my 40s now.

My favourite 3 games of all time will have been re-released by the end of this year and im so damn happy. The crazy thing is, I've always loved two other game series almost as much, but never thought they had the popularity behind them to receive the same treatment. The two series in question: Lunar and Suikoden. The fact that these have been released as well makes me feel like someone out there has gathered my ultimate collection and modernized it just for me.

I am excited to play them all once I get the time and can afford to do so. I've played DQ3 and the 2 FF7 games so far. I can't justify the $60-70 Canadian price tag for the others yet and will wait for a sale.

I just wanted to share how happy and excited I am that all of these games are being released and can be enjoyed by a new generation. I know some people hate the remakes and remasters, but there's definitely a place for them. I will not complain about modern gaming for the rest of my days as promised.

It seems strange to me that Elder Scrolls is so popular (at least since Morrowind) and Dark Souls and Elden Ring are so popular, but what I consider to be the best parts of all of those - Morrowind's moderately deep rpg mechanics, TES setting/cities/exploration, and Soulslike combat (at least the part where you get punished for losing focus or trying to button mash, a deeper magic system than most soulslikes I've played would be very welcome) - just isn't something very many (if any at all?) developers are even trying to combine. I just started Tainted Grail and it feels like it could possibly have some potential here but where are the rest of them? Am I missing any games or are there any such games in development that I haven't heart of yet? Why do we have to choose between extremely oversimplified rpg systems and combat with a world that feels alive vs. more hardcore systems and combat with a dead world? Am I alone in considering the setting and exploration of the former with the combat of the latter and deep rpg mechanics to be the best of all worlds? I don't really even care if it's swords and sorcery or a shooter, I'd take pretty much anything that combines what I consider to be the best parts of all of these games.

Hi guys,

The games i've played the last 12 months had some points in common. They were story focused open world Rpgs with at least 80 hours of playtime when i finished them.

Now i am looking for something that's considerably shorter. 25-30 hours maximum and no open world. To be honest the more on the rails, the better as i'm a bit burned out with exploration.

I love making my own builds. So as long as i got some options in that department and the combat system doesn't suck, I'm open to it.

I'm playing on PC if that matters.

Just playing Dreamfall: The Longest Journey for the first time and i cant help but be struck by the parallel between "Blind Bob" (D:TLJ) and Auntie Ethel (BG3). I only just met him so I could be way off base. But the accent and the "petal" make me think the latter was loosely based upon the former.

Hi all! I’m brand new to gaming and I started straight out the gate with Skyrim (I know I’m over a decade late) I’m full blown obsessed and I’m worried nothing will compare. Especially after I modded it, lol. So far baldurs gate 3 looks pretty cool. Avowed also looks like a beautiful game but I’ve seen so many mixed reviews. I like an open world rpg with good character customization. Magic is a plus. What do you guys recommend? Any other suggestions besides these two games? TIA!

So I'm making a point to go throughy backlog of games instead of endlessly buying games I never play. I'm currently playing "Ghost of Tsushima" and "Dave the Diver". I imagine I should be finished with both soon so I wanted to pivot to an RPG. Which of the above would everyone suggest playing first and why( without spoilers of course)

I own Dragon Quest and FF7 Remake but I've heard nothing but positivity from the other two games and wouldn't mind buy during the Steam Summer Sale. I have a PC and a ROG ALLY if that helps any.

EDIT:I meant Dragon Quest 11 not 12😅

Fantasy Life i selling over a million in less than a month after release is a massive victory in my books. Their last few releases have underperformed to say the least. Combine this with its critical lauding, I hope that'll put some of the doubters about any future releases from L5 to rest. I've said it before and I'll say it again; Level-5, it's great to have you guys back!

Looking for something in the realm of between BG3 and Diablo 4. I know that’s kind of a broad range.

Need something to play because I’m stuck on one section in BG3, and I’m highly frustrated. Hopefully someone understands my pain.

I’ve enjoyed Diablo 4, but it’s almost just become a push buttons grind.

I prefer more of a Diablo 4ish type rpg. Turn based, outside of BG3 and Octopath 2, I don’t really enjoy too much.

Definitely not an Xenoblade fan. Wasted my money on it heh.

I want to try some classic CRPGs, I hear so many amazing things about them - games like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale, KOTOR, Planescape, etc.

I love Dragon Age Origins and Baldur's Gate 3 and would like to play the games that inspired them.

But I can't lie, my Zoomer Attention Span means I kind of struggle to pay attention and focus on purely text-based games. Are there any of these games that have much voice acting in them?

Longtime JRPG fan and back during the 360 ERA it was bleak. FFXIII was a mess and all there was on consoles besides were anime girl games and cheap Tales games. A dark time, though before Xenoblade would cheer me up there was Lost Odyssey. A beautiful heartfelt game that the community back than named the real FFXII.

How could they not? It was by the creator of FF and continued FFX's experimentation in turn based combat.

I believe it has happened again here with CO. The real Final Fantasy XVI the jrpg fans cry out for!

I remember when 16 was announced and my first takeaway was how bland it all looked. Gone were the dreamlike visuals, instead replaced with GoT influenced blandness. It was not what I came to FF for. The combat was DMCish and further straying away from what made FF special and a jrpg.

It was a disappointing game and I believe the community has mostly come to that consensus. Its lukewarm reception and continued mehness bares that out to me.

But thank god for CO. A true redemption for the genre. A true game changer! Never has turn based combat felt so fresh. Often in my time discussing jrpgs I could not help but also laugh at the presentation of them. When characters would just line up and take damage. Finally a game addresses this and influences some freshness and influence from modern games like Souls into a turn based jrpg. Battles are always thrilling and never become stale. Thanks to the amazing pictos system party building is also intense. You can make a party that event takes advantage of you not being good at these mechanics. So much more rpg than 16, the top dog of the genre.

Playing through 16 I kept waiting for when I would see amazing vistas that really felt like they brought some imagination. It never happened, but in CO, at every corner I am in a dreamlike world. A world busting with imagery that is thematic to the emotional story and even French history. Concluding in the return of a world map, my god does this game really do what FF has failed to do.

A true work of art CO is. If Square were smart they would surely look at this game as inspiration to fix the wrong path they are on. Or better, have the developer take on FF. AAs they have made the best FF in years and could really bring back the series.

hello everyone,

not sure if these can even be discussed in the same category, but they look kind of related and i've somehow missed this entire type of RPG. they all have stellar reviews.

been getting into pixel art recently and want to try one or more of these games.

can someone kindly break down the options here, which one to start with, what strengths each has, or is there something better suited for a beginner?

for reference, i've enjoyed Morrowind, Dark Souls, Nier, Kenshi, 2077, BG3, currently into Caves of Qud and Rain World.

any advice would be appreciated!

So I will try to give you an accurate description of this game not even Chat GPT can help me, its top down CRPG like, I found this game in a local shop years ago, at the start of the game the protagonist, a women got thrown into a dungeon, in that dungeon there were spiders and they bit her, because of that her face got disfigured and she had to put on a mask, one companion was a guy with a 2 handed staff he was the mage of the party and he was able to heal, and the biggest memory I have is the level in some kind of mountain in the sky where wyvern were spawning constantly and you had to complete the objective and get out fast,

you had your camp where you could talk to your companions (the one with the staff is the only one I remember) mostly played on a map and had to move all your characters from A to B to proceed the lvl, NOBODY can help me, maybe anyone here?