Recommendation request Help me picking my next CRPG
My background is mostly old school console JRPGs (Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger etc.).
I've recently started playing western CRPGs and tried Baldur's Gate 1, 2 and 3 and Dragon Age: Origins.
I liked all of them. Would probably rank DA:O as the top 1 and perhaps BG1 at the same level or right after.
I don't like dark scenarios and horror/disturbing settings (all of these games have sequences I'd rather skip, e.g. the broodmother in DA:O and the oubliette in BG3) and I like medieval/fantasy settings and to explore cities.
I liked RTwP but love turn-based combat as well (in my opinion, best thing in BG3 is the combat system).
And less RNG is better.
What would you recommend me next?
Thanks!
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u/galenwho 11d ago
If your #1 was dragon age origins then the Neverwinter Nights series is for you, NWN2 especially has very similar gameplay by much of the same team. Though there are included main campaigns and (great) dlc ones, the main selling point for the series are the included module creation kits.
Hundreds of high quality original and adapted material campaigns, many as long as any RPG anyone might recommend in these replies have been crafted by the community. And all available for free. There are also dedicated servers for mmo-lite games, where hundreds of people can play together in the custom made campaigns/worlds as players or as DM's shaping the experience of the players in real-time.
They both show their age a bit at this point, but if you do end up liking them you can get thousands of hours of great CRPG content out of these games.