I think I am depressed or bored or something. I'd like to play a fresh RPG, but nothing springs to mind atm (generally don't like medieval fantasy RPGs).
Yeah play this gdang game it’s unbelievable and the strangest mix of totally vibing and check your buttocks terrifying. But like, in a cute way? Again, outer wilds. Do not play outer words by mistake (seriously wtf game corps pick a title style that doesn’t directly confuse with the other space game that came out at the same time!)
I finished outer worlds and had an ok time. Wasn't amazing, framerate tanked a lot, but was ok. I assume the games are related.
No, they’re not remotely related. They just came out around the same time and had unfortunately similar names. Here’s the trailer for Outer Wilds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6LGnVCL1_A
You explore this solar system and the goal is to figure out what happened. It’s incredible
Play Earthbound, it's cute and witty and a parody of the thing you're kind of tired of.
Or in a completely different direction, I'd recommend Sunless Sea and/or Escape Velocity: Nova, two games in the "piloting a ship around and getting involved in stories when you get to a port" genre.
I assume you've played Disco Elysium.
Greedfall was pretty good in a KOTOR/JADE EMPIRE era RPG way, and is a Shot and Pike era Fantasy RPG with a hefty helping of colonialism.
Control isn't an RPG but is a lot of fun.
I do actually have a greedfall save. I get the feeling I was in the midgame, but it was a while ago. I did get a lot of the colonial themes.
Assuming you already played Disco Elysium, official game of Hexbear?
Yes, I still need to send the devs money, when I eventually get money.
I think I am depressed or bored or something.
What you're suffering is called burnout. You need to do something else for a while, possibly a long while. Switch to a different genre or even a new hobby. You need novelty, what you're chasing is that thrill of experiencing something new. It wears off after a while. To experience novelty again, you need new experiences.
In their defense, they're right (at least to me). Playing a ton of video games does make them a lot less fun in the short term, the struggle for me is finding something else to do rn
I would up pirating the latest Rimworld expansion and creating a little ML "faction" on easy mode. Having a relaxing time while waiting for the gesso to dry
Have you played Subnautica? If kinda in a class of it's own. Technically it's survival craft but it's mostly just exploration through some of the coolest have environments I've ever seen. With head phones and a dark room and you'll forget what dry land feels like for a while.
if you're looking for RPGs Atom is pretty good if you like games like Wasteland 3. Also pathfinder kingmaker is great.
Yeah, it was a little too tense for what I'm looking for atm, but I did enjoy it for a while.
Haven't played Atom
I think I tried DS 2 and checked out pretty much instantly. Even games I ostensibly enjoy I'm just alt-f4ing out if I lose a dude.
Just want to reinforce this. CrossCode is very good and everyone here should play it.
I feel like meta writing is pretty common these days, but even so, CrossCode's meta take on RPG mechanics felt really fresh to me. I don't even know what about it felt so different from other games.
Good lord I remeber playing the demo for that years ago, god it's good.
My favorite RPGs are Night in the Woods or Knights of the Old Republic 2.
NITW is really atmospheric — great for heading into autumn — and very character driven. It's an overtly leftist game.
KOTOR2 is the only good piece of Star Wars media, and explicitly deals with moral nuance in the light side-dark side dichotomy of the force. You'll want the restored content mod — the games was rushed and a lot of partially finished stuff got cut from the main storyline but was still published with it, so some folks pieced it back together.
Nostalgia pick, but I also like Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest for the SNES. It's objectively not a good game, but it's straightforward and fun and easy to turn your brain off a little while playing. Full playtime for me is usually 8-10 hours so it's mainly a good way to kill a day
You’ll want the restored content mod — the games was rushed and a lot of partially finished stuff got cut from the main storyline but was still published with it, so some folks pieced it back together.
I honestly disagree. I don't feel like the stuff that they restored was all that important, and they added so many fights to Nar Shadaa that it honestly becomes a chore to finish
Lol fair. I love the xp that comes with it and the rest of the content is fun enough to make it extra worth it to me
I remember KotoR2, but I always seem to leave the game at some spot. Usually when I get stuck.
Haven't played the other two,.
Yeah I'm a shitty g*mer so I'm prone to ditching things that require skill and hand-eye coordination, so that definitely colors my recommendations. I definitely needed to abandon a KOTOR2 play through once because a bug wouldn't let me proceed with the storyline before lmao so yeah it definitely is like that sometimes
At that point, I use cheats to just skip the section, but sometimes that breaks other parts of the game. Or some games don't have them.
Tyranny i really liked. Sadly there aint much non fantasy rpg, the last one i can think of is Disco Elysium.
Is it safe to assume that you've already played :tequila-sunset: :lt-kitsuragi: ?
Well I checked out pokemon for the first time recently and got hooked. I played Diamond on my sister's old DS and it was so refreshing to know nothing at all about a game, to go in blind, figure stuff out, read up on the wikis. Some of my friends are big pokemon nerds so they talked me through some of it. Before that I was kinda in a slump when it came to video games, only playing action games to pass the time and get some catharsis. Now I'm back in the swing of creativity, building new things on Minecraft and terraria that I've planned for ages
I've played a couple. They're pretty cruisy and kinda what I'm looking for, but there isn't enough there for me to go back and play them again.
