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    Has there ever been a BIG open world RPG that was also QUALITY?

    As usual, your butthurt/attention whore thread is extremely unfocused, abuse of fake data and criticise Morrowind just for the wrong reasons. Morrowind hasn't "bad quality" world, in fact is just the opposite: Morrowind worldbuilding, art design, item/world object diversity, uniqueness...
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    Rock-Paper-Shotgun Top 50 RPGs on PC

    In regard the guys that defend this list as "not so bad for mainstream media", no, there was a true decline even by "mainstream media standards". 2020 list was a massive decline and the WORST list Rock Paper shotgun ever published: Compare with their 2015 list: Dark Souls Planescape: Torment...
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    Rock-Paper-Shotgun Top 50 RPGs on PC

    You know that BaK is far more than storyfaggotry. Its tactical combat is very good and his exploration, skill sytem and itemizations are better than most story-centric games on that list. Without story relevance -and things as the chapters design- BaK would continue to be a good game. Can we...
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    Classics of Hack and Slash: Die by the Sword and Severance: Blade of Darkness, now with Dark Messiah

    Die by the Sword was revolutionary, but compared with later examples its combat is slow, his movement/camera is clunky and enemy AI is far from the best. Blade/Severance -Blade: The Edge of Darkness in most Europe, Wesley Snipes movies/games killed the original name in US- is the pinnacle of...
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    Decline When did decline start to you?

    Last couple of years are always more a WIP in mobygames database. However seems that indie production started to slow down in the last years -PC and mobile- and old consoles enter in a transition period towards "next generation".
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    Vapourware Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake from Saber Interactive

    -The thematic focus of each game -that you described in a weirdly inaccurate way- doesn't matter. We are talking about what games are more popular RTwP or TB. - That turn based mode don't makes Deadfire a primary turn-based game. Encounters, combat options, enemy AI are exactly the same, so...
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    Vapourware Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake from Saber Interactive

    RTwP games are designed around the suposed tactical pauses, wich in most cases don't bring any tactics and decrease difficulty greatly. The first RTwP game challenging and with actual tactics I ever played is Kenshi -thanks that developer was more a fan of Xcom than Baldur's Gate-. Mount &...
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    Decline When did decline start to you?

    The true decline of PC gaming and video games in general, came with the massive popularization, the rise of multiplayer, the casualization, the transition towards digital format and finally, the change towards videogames as a service instead than as a product. All the dlcs, microtransactions...
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    Vapourware Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake from Saber Interactive

    Firstly, I don't understand why you are mixing real time with RTwP. RT combat games are obviously more popular, but I doubt that RTwP games sold better or are more played in the last years than TB crpgs, that was what Mordron suggested. Steam charts and steam spy links that you provided...
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    Community RPG Codex GOTY 2019: Results & Cool Graphs

    There are plenty, thousands of video games with no story at all. Vast majority of games of any genre in the first years and since then most strategy games, sport, simulators, "social", etc. In regard crpgs, Darklands, Mount & Blade, Kenshi, Neo-Scavenger or most rogue-likes have no fixed...
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    Incline Witcher game series is one of the hallmarks of gaming

    The main problem is that they do in middle of a cutscene, extending even more the length of the spectator mode. Videogames aren't films. Cutscenes as the main way to build a narrative or even worst as main part in a game experience is the worst offender to videogames nature among all...
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    Incline Witcher game series is one of the hallmarks of gaming

    "Cinematic style" in witcherios isn't limited to camera. Dialogues actually work as pure cutscenes, depriving player of his agency: - There are many pure cutscenes, introducing some new setting and actors or "chapters" in the story after entering a place, ending a conversation or achieving a...
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    Elder Scrolls Another Morrowind Mod List - RP and Content Mods

    Besides the lore-friendly consistency, something that I want in additional content mods is a minimal amount of common sense in worldbuilding to don't mix the fictional world with the game representation. Many additional content mods I ever tried fail in this regard by the inclussion of metadata...
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    Elder Scrolls Another Morrowind Mod List - RP and Content Mods

    I have only tried minimally a few "new content" mods of the last years but many seem interesting. The new patches, mechanic improvements and challenge enhacements are notable also. There is indeed a true MW modding renaissance in which there were created more than 2400 mods in the last 3 years...
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    Tamriel Rebuilt keeps chugging along


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