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Re: Recommend me an Action RPG!
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2012, 03:27:45 pm »

How about Depths of Peril or Din's Curse? They're both Diablo clones with rather large twists.
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Re: Recommend me an Action RPG!
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2012, 03:42:12 pm »

YS: The Oath in Felghana and YS: Ark of Napishtim are both japanese style action RPGs with a side of plataforming that would most likely work fine on your laptop. Gothic 1 and 2 are also good picks. Both are availiable on Steam too.

There's also this oldie action rpg-ish called Severance: Blade of Darkness that should work well on it. Its sort of a unknown gem from 2001 that never got much attention, but is actualy a pretty sweet action game with a rather complex fighting system for its time and very well done animations (done with motion capture). From the 4 characters you can choose, one is a dwarf :o

All of these are rather obscure action RPGs you likely haven't played yet, and all of them support WASD controls, AFAIK.
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Re: Recommend me an Action RPG!
« Reply #17 on: July 26, 2012, 04:02:16 pm »

YS: The Oath in Felghana
I'll second this. Very fun and focused on creating large combos and avoiding enemy attacks. Even on Normal difficulty, it's kinda hard.
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Re: Recommend me an Action RPG!
« Reply #18 on: July 26, 2012, 04:18:32 pm »

Hmm, I've heard of YS, always thought it was console exclusive for some reason. Really hate the aesthetics of it, but might give the actual gameplay a chance if there's a demo. Probably should've mentioned in the OP I'm really averse to this style of console RPG. Probably because I grew up with a PC and never got to play these kind of games.

Severance I've played through twice, really great game. Can't get it to run normally on windows 7 for some reason, runs at turbospeed. My barbarian ends up doing a bizarre unending nuclear kazachok. Anyone know of a fix?

I've tried Din's Curse, I assume Depths of Peril is similar? Din's curse was fun but very basic, so I didn't play too much of it.

I played Torchlight once, vanilla, and I'm pretty sure I was sleep-playing by the end of it. I'm really excited about Torchlight 2 because it has coop and I got a buddy who loves this style of games, and that automatically makes even the dumbest games fun to play. Damn thing's not out for at least a month, though.

I might try Overlord, but I've heard it's really light on the rpg and action side and it's more about controlling your minions and evil kingdom? I'm pretty sure Overlord 2 won't run, because Xbox360 ports usually don't run well. Doesn't stop me trying them, but so far my greatest accomplishment is beating Prototype on two different laptops, with a respective average fps of 16 and 20 frames per second, so I'm not really proud of that.

I tried Gothic 2 a long time ago but it was hard as balls, so I gave up. Might have to try that again since I keep hearing good things about it, and from what I experienced it was a great game. Kind of weird controls, though.

Honestly I'm starting to suspect my own rotten mood is preventing me from enjoying anything at all right now :(

But please, if anyone else has a suggestion post it! Other people might benefit, and once I give it a night's sleep I'll go over the suggestions again! Also I really appreciate your efforts and will remember all of you fondly :]
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Re: Recommend me an Action RPG!
« Reply #19 on: July 26, 2012, 04:26:22 pm »

You can give Prototype a whirl. It's a lite on the RPG (mostly it lets you pick ability upgrades, which you'll eventually have all of) but explosively action-oriented. YMMV on whether your system can run it, but if it's got a duo-core it should do reasonably well.
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« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2012, 05:51:28 pm »

How about anything in the vein of Maple Story?
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« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2012, 06:08:59 pm »

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