Awesome amount of response, thanks to all for humoring me!!
And hey, Anvil! No problem about that original post, either, its a small book..
Fallout series: I've tried and love them all
Fallout 3 sucked out my soul.. Jade Empire is great too, one of the few XBOX games I did get to play :> I actually recently nabbed a copy of Arcanum but haven't tried it yet, thanks for reminder! Downloaded Mabinogi but the internet wouldn't cooperate with me enough to get a feel for it
I've always wanted to try that Ultima 7 (the full 3d hack-n-slash-ish one?).. I grew up fearing leveling too high on the NES Ultima
I had Etrian Odyssey 2 for my old DS, twas a good throwback to those older games like Dungeon Magic/Arcana/Wizardry (and that mapping was fun, I've sat down with a notebook to map older games by hand before).. And once upon a time I played a good bit of Gearhead too
(FREE!) Also, I can fully agree that Disgaea is less complex/more grindy :> Its hyper-grindy, which pulls me in because you can technically always go back and find a new monster or item to level up, if only for fun.. Gothic 2 is the one Gothic I played, and shamefully I'm still apprenticing with the people in town and haven't went farther..
I want desperately to like UnReal World, but for some reason can't get past the odd movement system and the use of images of real people in the game, haha.. Trivial reasons, I know :| Wing Commander, and to a lesser extent Command and Conquer, always bugged me with their real people too..
I never played Ogre Battle 64, but did play some on SNES.. Great game, especially when you realize its the format for FF: Tactics.. I've played SMT: Devil Survivor for DS and that was all the experience I'd had with those games til I recently got Persona 3 Portable (rom-cough-rom), and its been pretty good so far as well :>
Will try Arx Fatalis, and I've seen that Agarest running around too (but don't really like games I'm embarrassed to be seen playing, Disgaea pushes that line.. For anime I've watched Fullmetal Alchemist, Blue Exorcist, and now Attack on Titan).. Also, I entered about twenty giveaways for Inquisitor on SteamGifts and missed them all (no surprise there, and added that Underrail to Favorites to watch :> I've played Amalur (and then dealt with my fiancee falling in critical love with it and playing nearly 200 hours.. Solid combat, in my mind it did everything well, but nothing new, and not much for end-game).. I've got Don't Starve and the new expansion also (gifts from a friend, bless him :>), but every time I try to exit a cave it crashes :| Reported that problem and haven't really seen anyone else experiencing it.. And I bought Project Zomboid pretty early on and they've overhauled the lighting to the point that it chugs on my laptop now
I check the updates to see if it has smoothed out, but no luck yet.. And same thing with Starbound, waiting on that "optimization" phase that still seems a year away.. And Sacred 2 :> I also bought the original ages ago, and while its a bit "static", that game keeps giving and giving and giving :| I've got the 2nd one for PS3 currently..
On SteamGifts I keep entering for The Witcher, if only to be told by the game itself that its too nice to run on this laptop :> Really been wanting to play it, even though someone told me something about testicle-removal, haha, but can't recall if thats in the first or second one.. Still, its the only game I've ever heard of where someone "loses the jewels" in a way other than "The king's vault has been robbed!"
And sadly the only King's Bounty I've ever played was the original on Sega, though it was great :> I'm not sure if the new ones would run for me, but I've seen them around and been interested! :>
I've been watching Star Citizen for a bit now.. And Galactic Princess (
http://galactic-princess.com/ ).. And Limit Theory
http://ltheory.com/ .. Timber and Stone
http://www.timberandstonegame.com/ .. Star Ruler 2
http://starruler2.com/ .. Darkwood
http://www.darkwoodgame.com/ .. I'm apparently keeping an eye on lots of space games :|
And lastly, I really wish there was a roguelike game creation kit, built for monkey-level non-coders like myself :> My favorite "level editor" has been TES Toolkit or whatever, that came with Morrowind
Anyway, if there was a very user-friendly RL-Creator (built-in enemy AI and templates for stores and skills and equipment, random-gen stuff in place, tileset support, all that), I'd save my pennies til I could buy it :> And then I'd build, and build and build and build, and jam in every single element from all these games I love..
Overall, after all this talk, I walk away feeling more like I should work on appreciating the games I already have access to instead of hunting the white whale and wasting time :|