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kangaxx

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I can't wait to see what a Chinese mobile game company can do with the System Shock IP.
 

Ryzer

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Deus ex is not a good game from a story and gameplay standpoint: First who thought waiting for a cursor to be properly stable on a target is fun? Second the story is some wannabee conspiracy theory you could see on the internet on the early 2000s. The game creates nothing on itself.
Ah! and it's not an RPG, just a bad shooter with a lame story and incoherent maps in which santa claus lost his presents.
 

Alex

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I regularly argue with people over video games I've never actually played. I feel a deep spiritual bond with this man

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That did trigger me! If only because discussing what was told during confession is a great sin...
 
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Insert Title Here Strap Yourselves In
Underrail is miles better than Fallout, 100% unironically. Fallout is only better in aesthetics and even that is debatable. For exploration and therefore immersion, let alone fundamental gameplay and mechanics, Underrail is vastly more developed.
Also Avernum 1/2 are some of the best RPGs as well, for similar reason of gritty combat (though unsophisticated) with cool mechanics like summons that can summon more summons. Fallout is cool but like Planescape it's on the aesthetic weird world side of things, isn't worth replays or combat tryharding. More of a visual novel. yes it's good that it introduced lots of skillchecks but it didn't fulfil that potential, Underrail did.
 
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Underrail is miles better than Fallout, 100% unironically. Fallout is only better in aesthetics and even that is debatable. For exploration and therefore immersion, let alone fundamental gameplay and mechanics, Underrail is vastly more developed.
Also Avernum 1/2 are some of the best RPGs as well, for similar reason of gritty combat (though unsophisticated) with cool mechanics like summons that can summon more summons. Fallout is cool but like Planescape it's on the aesthetic weird world side of things, isn't worth replays or combat tryharding. More of a visual novel. yes it's good that it introduced lots of skillchecks but it didn't fulfil that potential, Underrail did.
Why would the monocled populace here be triggered by indisputable facts?
 

Bastardchops

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If you criticize climate change, you're a climate denier.
If you criticize the fairness of an election, you're an election denier.
And if you criticize an RPG, you're an RPG denier.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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Ravenloft is a isekai setting.
"Isekai", meaning the transfer of the protagonist from our own world to a fantasy setting, is a fundamental component of Western fantasy literature starting with Edgar Rice Burrough's Under the Moons of Mars (1912) and Abraham Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar (1924). Not to mention Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) / Through the Looking Glass (1872) or L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). :M
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Ravenloft is a isekai setting.
"Isekai", meaning the transfer of the protagonist from our own world to a fantasy setting, is a fundamental component of Western fantasy literature starting with Edgar Rice Burrough's Under the Moons of Mars (1912) and Abraham Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar (1924). Not to mention Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) / Through the Looking Glass (1872) or L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). :M
Or Robert E. Howard's Almuric saga
 

Nortar

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Pathfinder: Wrath
Ravenloft is a isekai setting.
"Isekai", meaning the transfer of the protagonist from our own world to a fantasy setting, is a fundamental component of Western fantasy literature starting with Edgar Rice Burrough's Under the Moons of Mars (1912) and Abraham Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar (1924). Not to mention Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) / Through the Looking Glass (1872) or L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). :M
Or Robert E. Howard's Almuric saga

And Twain's "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court" (1889)
 

Jrpgfan

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The writing has never been a target of criticism in those games, so that statement doesn't even make sense.

If you're trying to trigger the codex atleast do it in a halfway decent manner.
 

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