Finger of Death when used against things that are not immune to Death Effects and have low Fort saves.
See? Compared to casters, even barbarians treat their enemies better.
you must be pretty young not to remember the pre-2013 RPG drought. Between the fall of Troika and the kickstarter renaissance we basically had Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas and Vogel's games.Things have *never* been this bad, and they're worse than even the worst pessimists could have predicted. Whether it's the AAAAAAA big-budget games or indie crap, everything is shit. WRPGs have become a laughingstock, they make JRPGs look positively wholesome and sane by comparison.
I hope that the WRPG market goes out of business and RPGs die as a genre like RTS games. It's been an endless onslaught of nothing but SHIT, and I'm tired of it. WRPGs have failed. Westoids are no longer capable of creating anything other than pozzed trash. It's over.
I can think of a bunch of reasons....none of them safe for work.
We also had Witcher 1 and 2, Alpha Protocol and various Bioware titles.
Why not simply Charm Person?
You can "romance" Anora as a male, too. Both options are locked to the human noble origin though, and not just gender locked, which is a nice touch.
Not as 'total' ahaha. A person with high charisma can 'charm'. Dominate is complete. *cough*
okay, action rpgs remained kind of strong during this time. But outside Spiderweb software classical rpgs were a dying breed.
Be that as it may, I prefer a world with Jagged Alliance 3 and Archolos to a world without them.
Not all franchises should have made a return, true. Some returns are just low effort cash grabs with a distinct DEI flavor. But I prefer having good games and bad games available to not having almost any games in my favorite genre.They are being resurrected by the most evil, dark magic ever created. A mix of the worst necromancy with Frankfurt Neo-Marxism. Look at this:
And compare the writing. People tend to hate Bioware romance (with reason), but only to show how they declined it. In Dragon Age Origins, you can only end up as a ruler if you play as a woman and romance a specific companion. Now that everyone and everything is pansexual, gender doesn't matter. I would rather have nothing over the new VtMB and Dragon Age.
It was the period of "PC is not worth it, everyone just pirates there", so naturally we mostly saw games with console-centric design back then.
Yeah, because console games are not also targets of pirates, right?
I'm talking about what the suits in companies were thinking, not what the reality was. It was true to an extent since consoles dominated in wealthy countries and those who played on PCs in them mostly sticked to a few multiplayer games instead of buying yearly AAA releases. Meanwhile, the countries where PCs dominated were too poor to buy games regularly and pirated. While consoles also saw piracy, it was much more complicated for an average Joe than just typing "download x rapidshare" in google.
Which is interesting because we're seeing Nintendo waging this war right now with their current console and all their previous ones, which the latter is fairly odd considering they no longer offer older games and a Virtual Console for the Switch. I can understand the Switch stuff raising their hackles considering how paranoid publishers are about piracy and how the Switch has been fairly compromised, and there's quite a few titles out there for the Switch. Thousands of them. A lot of them have PC versions as well. The argument that the PC is rife with piracy has been completely flipped in current year. Instead of hacking game by game, new release by new release, you have to just crack the console and make an emulator. And yes, I acknowledge it's easier to crack copy protection than it is to break the encryption on a console and make an emulator, but the end result is opening the door to that thousands of games library for piracy at all once.
There's also Fall of Avalon (currently planned for full relesse this year, though I doubt it personally, H1 2025 seems more realistic) and hopefully Urban Strife, which has been delayed undefinitely.
Proof that modders are better than commercial developers.
