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i want a good rpg, im bored, someone please recommend, but not the following:

fallout series
baldurs gate series
planescape torment
arcanum
kotor series
neverwinter nights

is there anything worth playing? pls help me dac

Lolblivon.

If you're ok with dated graphics I can always recommend Darksun: Shattered Lands. Post apocalyptic fantasy setting. Plays sort of like Fallout. Create a party of up to 4 players (no recruitable NPC's, but there are allies). You start off fighting lots of monsters in the arena. If you do well the crowd throws bits of cash. If you do really well the monsters get bigger and badder and you get even more cash. After escaping you journey through the desert uniting towns, armies, and former slaves to fight the oncoming Draj army. The order and number of allies you get is up to you. Typically the end game can be triggered after uniting 2 or 3 towns. But the more you get the easier the final battle is. A sequel, Wake of the Ravager, was made but it's a shadow of the original.

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Download:
http://dso.zidev.com/downloads.html

Use VDMSound or DOSbox to run.

Vampire:Bloodlines

I got another one. It's more FPS than RPG, but that's debatable. Deus Ex. Play it with the Shifter mod. There's so many changes to the weapons, skills, new augmentations like the skullgun, new weapons, changed point system so the stealth approach is more rewarding, and other stuff. New alt-fire keybind. One thing I liked is being able to stack multiple combat knives and throw them. Oh yeah, when you throw crates and heavy things at guys it hurts and sometimes kills. Good stuff. Check it:

http://www.eidosinteractive.com/forums/index.html

shadowrun for SNES is actually pretty fun if you're into that sort of thing? or you could always try call of cthulhu: dark corners of the earth

World of Warcraft, mayhaps?

Jade Empire is coming out sometime now. XBox port.

It's basically KOTOR without retarded universe(Instead you get ancient china).

Of course I wouldn't ever consider putting it with Fallout or Arcanum, but you did in the OP, so fuck off

I have Jade Empire downloaded from steam but I haven't played it yet. I will keep you guys UPDATED.



Anyways, if you like DnD a lot then ToEE with all the patches and fan made patches will probably be good. Supposedly Gothic 1 and 2 are good but 3 is a buggy mess.

I've been meaning to play Prelude to Darkness for a longtime. It's an independent RPG but a lot of people on the codex highly recommend it. It's also now free to download. http://www.zero-sum.com/

Greyhawk: Temple of elemental evil
Arcanum
Spellforce (rpg/rts)

I played Jade Empire a bit back in the day and found it utterly unjoyable. Combat gets boring after about twenty minutes when you realize that no matter how much you upgrade shit it's the same thing. You do more damage, but oh noes, enemy has more hit points. You move faster, but oh noes, enemy dodges faster. You turn into giant mutant zombie dragon, but oh noes, enemy already is one.

I couldn't recommend TOEE as a good RPG. It's a good dungeon crawler, but the story is terrible (borderline nonexistent) and way too short. Darksun has it beat.

As I've said a million times, Arcanum would've been better served as a book. Story was cool, gameplay was not.

thanks for the recommendations hombres, i will explore and examine

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:I've been meaning to play Prelude to Darkness for a longtime. It's an independent RPG but a lot of people on the codex highly recommend it. It's also now free to download. http://www.zero-sum.com/

i tried this a while ago when it was earlier recommended here, but i couldnt get into it. i dont really consider graphics a huge deal, but it looks so bad i couldnt get over it. bad 2d is one thing, but bad 3d is entirely another, and bad 3d it certainly is. maybe ill try it again and give it more time, i dont know. i really liked the back story that i read

jetbaby wrote:As I've said a million times, Arcanum would've been better served as a book. Story was cool, gameplay was not.

As I've said a million times, you are wrong.

What the fuck was wrong with the gameplay?

If any of your arguments contains the word 'balance', don't even answer that question.

The combat system was shit for one.

I thought the story in general for arcanum was balls. Good book my arse.

Me too, but pretty much all RPG stories would be pretty balls. Probably the only decent one would be Torment but thats because it basically is already a book.

Planescape : Torment would have been awful as a novel.

come on guys! You cannot hate a game that lets you have sex with a sheep.. Arcanum ftw!