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    Incline RPG Codex's Top 50 cRPGs - Results and Reviews

    The trouble with a 1-10 scale is that most people underuse the bottom half, so that it is essentially a 6-10 (or 7-10) scale plus 1/10. A 1-5 scale accepts this reality in a more fitting way. Also, most games probably are 3s.
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    The key to understanding RPGs

    I remember, when playing D&D 3.0, that the bulk of the time was spent on banter, turn-based combat resolution and moving from room to room, searching for items (and equipping them), avoiding/surviving traps and being given environmental descriptions. This would be preceded by a somewhat lengthy...
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    The key to understanding RPGs

    One part of gameplay that all RPGs, that I remember playing, have is exploration (it is probably the aspect I enjoy the most, so for me the setting is a very important part of the game). The player must explore the dungeon or city or world, finding rewards (loot or NPCs -- text/voice-over...
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    Deus Ex Is Deus Ex an RPG?

    As far as I am concerned, Deus Ex felt like a CRPG when I played it, and that is enough. (Playing on 'Realistic' difficulty) I started weak, sneaking everywhere to stop myself from getting quickly killed, but I felt myself becoming stronger until I was almost invincible at the end. I spent a lot...
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    Thief Gold or Thief 2

    Having 'Garrett' fill in the map for you may make sense, but it also reduces the cognitive load of the player, as the game remembers the layout so the player needs not to. So, if part of the enjoyment is remembering where you are and the routes from one area to another, letting the game do it...
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    Thief Gold or Thief 2

    I voted in favour of Thief Gold, for a few reasons. I felt that Thief 2 dragged a bit in the middle-end section (especially as I had played Thief Gold immediately before), and I thought that a few of the levels (particularly the Bank) were overly hard/slow (perhaps I just was not particularly...
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    Linux

    You may have some luck if you exhaustively try a variety of versions of WINE*: I have managed to get Discworld Noir to work (almost flawlessly -- better than on Windows 98) on WINE version 0.59 (happily, someone else had done the exhaustive search before me) but with absolutely no success on...
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    The New DOOM Thread (2016)

    I think I found the target audience: It is (not) interesting that the one least impressed with the Doom 4 preview was the only one that had played the original Doom before.
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    Best PC games to play on a TV with a controller?

    The Ur-Quen Masters (Star Control 2). The only use of a full keyboard is for the (non-essential) search feature on the starmap (which may have been missing from the original DOS version) -- keys needed to control the game, otherwise. Keep in mind that this game was ported to the 3DO (and from...
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    The New DOOM Thread (2016)

    I first played DOOM, using PrBoom+, in 2014. I used a mouse, where, instead of mouselook, it controlled turning left and right and also controlled movement forwards and backwards. I set the right mouse button to enable STRAFE mode when depressed, the middle button was USE and the wheel...
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    FOSS games with "open world" or "nonlinear gameplay"?

    Games I have not really played: OOlite, VegaStrike. Oh, and Star Control 2 The Ur-Quan Masters (on Debian derivatives like Linux Mint and Ubuntu: apt-get install uqm).
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    Other Codices (or How I Want to Know About More Than CRPGs)

    Is the RPGCodex the only decent game-discussion forum on the internet, or are there other "monocled" sites for, say, first-person shooters, JRPGs, strategy games (other than Tacticular Cancer) and Adventure games? "Advice" found elsewhere tends to seem a little too uncritical, following a...
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    RPG Codex Game of the Year 2015 - VOTING HAS BEGUN [AUTISM ALERT]

    I assume that there is no news of Final Fantasy Tactics on PC. Perhaps they wait to see Disgaea's performance. Perkel
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    Beamdog and Fallout remake (no, they're not making one)

    Full party control might be good (as an optional mode). Other than that, higher resolution (already done by mods), and I doubt the 3D models used to generate the sprites and other pre-rendered graphics are recoverable, so I have no particular desire for "improved" graphics.
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    RPG Codex Game of the Year 2015 - VOTING HAS BEGUN [AUTISM ALERT]

    Has enough time passed that a new top 50 or 70 list would not be overly skewed in favour of the recent (including kickstarter-related) releases? I believe the most anticipated not-yet-released title is Torment: Tides of Numenera. Would any of the newish games reach the top 10, at the expense of...

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