Vlajdermen
Arcane
Lately I've been digging around for good RPGs from Slavic developers. I've only gotten around to playing a couple of them, but I want to have a thread both for discussion and to see if I've skimmed over anything.
Already played:
Underrail. It's so good I made a whole thread about it: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/why-underrail-is-incline.126691/
Though, if I had to summarize it in one of those clickbaity headlines, I'd say it's ''the RPG that brought us incline three fingers at a time''.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Wiedźmin 3: Dziki Gon. A good game destined from the beginning to get a lot of shit on the Dex. The core gameplay's kinda meh, but its personality goes a long way. The main game's not as good as the expansions, but still, it's definitely enjoyable. All of this also goes for the Witcher 1. I haven't played the second game.
Gorky 17. A mishmash of a bunch of different games: the encounters and character progression play out like a heavily simplified Jagged Alliance, there's the ammo conservation idea from Resident Evil, the overworld controls of a Tim Schafer game, and a bunch of other shit. It's a solid game either way.
In the backlog:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. This one will probably end up in the same camp as the Witcher 3 (or Arcanum) for me.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Atom RPG. The official review of Atom was pretty interesting to read, and it confirmed all my impressions of the game, so I can assume it's gonna be the same for Kingmaker. The impression these two games gave me are ''Baldur's gate 3 with sexy graphics'' and ''the real Fallout 3, but you have to have a very high IQ to understand it''.
Boiling Point: Road to Hell. I had to order a physical copy of this one. I've never heard of it up until recently, and I would't've picked it up if it didn't seem so interesting on paper. I've never played an RPG about South American drug lords, so it seems like less of a typical RPG and more of an RPG/Far Cry hybrid.
On the fence:
Inquisitor. From what I've gathered it's like a Diablo clone. Some people say it's an underrated classic, others say it's shit. I'll probably play it some day, just not any time soon.
Planet Alcatraz (This is one case where the English title is much better). I could only find a version in Russian, and I played it until it got dialogue-heavy.
It was alright.
Edit: I left this one out.
Two worlds 2. It's clearly one of those time sink RPGs like Amalur, but I've heard it's not bad. There's not much info about it on the Dex, so I can't know for sure until I play it.
Already played:
Underrail. It's so good I made a whole thread about it: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/why-underrail-is-incline.126691/
Though, if I had to summarize it in one of those clickbaity headlines, I'd say it's ''the RPG that brought us incline three fingers at a time''.
Gorky 17. A mishmash of a bunch of different games: the encounters and character progression play out like a heavily simplified Jagged Alliance, there's the ammo conservation idea from Resident Evil, the overworld controls of a Tim Schafer game, and a bunch of other shit. It's a solid game either way.
In the backlog:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance. This one will probably end up in the same camp as the Witcher 3 (or Arcanum) for me.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Atom RPG. The official review of Atom was pretty interesting to read, and it confirmed all my impressions of the game, so I can assume it's gonna be the same for Kingmaker. The impression these two games gave me are ''Baldur's gate 3 with sexy graphics'' and ''the real Fallout 3, but you have to have a very high IQ to understand it''.
Boiling Point: Road to Hell. I had to order a physical copy of this one. I've never heard of it up until recently, and I would't've picked it up if it didn't seem so interesting on paper. I've never played an RPG about South American drug lords, so it seems like less of a typical RPG and more of an RPG/Far Cry hybrid.
On the fence:
Inquisitor. From what I've gathered it's like a Diablo clone. Some people say it's an underrated classic, others say it's shit. I'll probably play it some day, just not any time soon.
Planet Alcatraz (This is one case where the English title is much better). I could only find a version in Russian, and I played it until it got dialogue-heavy.
It was alright.
Edit: I left this one out.
Two worlds 2. It's clearly one of those time sink RPGs like Amalur, but I've heard it's not bad. There's not much info about it on the Dex, so I can't know for sure until I play it.
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