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Zilart
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so hey guyz I need HAELP
I'm looking for some good free-roaming games, RPGs on the PC, DS or 360. I'm thinking along the lines of Morrowind, but God knows how many times I've been through that game. I've also played Oblivion. The thing about this that I really like is that you can be a craft and go and do whatever you want to at your own pace. I'm a sucker for good fantasy but I wouldn't say it has to be that, either. I fucking love housing options. There, I said it. I love sort of "settling in" a game because obviously real life is boring.
I just want to play a game I can really immerse myself in with a great world. I've searched for lists on Google but no such luck. Does anyone have any recommendations, my nice fellow gamers?
I'm looking for some good free-roaming games, RPGs on the PC, DS or 360. I'm thinking along the lines of Morrowind, but God knows how many times I've been through that game. I've also played Oblivion. The thing about this that I really like is that you can be a craft and go and do whatever you want to at your own pace. I'm a sucker for good fantasy but I wouldn't say it has to be that, either. I fucking love housing options. There, I said it. I love sort of "settling in" a game because obviously real life is boring.
I just want to play a game I can really immerse myself in with a great world. I've searched for lists on Google but no such luck. Does anyone have any recommendations, my nice fellow gamers?
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You can get the 2.5 version for $9.99 now (got mine at Best Buy).
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I personally prefer a joystick, but it seems perfectly playable with a mouse and keyboard.
Oblivion: Shivering Isles expansion is really good and worth a look if you haven't played it yet.
I've played both 2 and 3 without a joystick and it works really well. Fun games too, and caters somewhat to both the player that enjoys space combat and space.. trading?
Very cool game to fly around just exploring in, I think. Entering a really good looking sector with some fantastic music playing can be a nice 'woah' moment.
http://www.spacerangers2.com/
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/space-rangers-2-dominators/697188p1.html
I tried the demo and loved it, but forwarned that there is no uninstall device and that you will not catch up to some of the flying asteroid in the systems, no matter how hard you try.
RTS
Text Adventure?
Do you just delete the installed directory then?
EDIT: Also, The Witcher is a pretty in-depth fantasy world. Although it might be more linear than you're after, the game is split up into chapters. Each chapter is pretty large and free roaming though.
Then of course, there's always the Baldur's Gate series in case you haven't played that yet.
Yep. Honestly, its a good thing I haven't bought this yet or my life would vanish.
To be honest, I keep thing as to whether I want to pick it up on budget right now, but there's just so much stuff on the horizon that I wouldn't really be able to give it any real time.
If they fixed the bugs in Gothic 3 I would weep rainbow tears.
I forgot about Gothic. I will second this suggestion. It's kinda buggy and you will probably want to quit the first time you fight a boar without armor because those cheap bastards kill you before you get a chance to defend yourself. If you can look past the bugs and the cheap boars then you will find an interesting world to explore. Also don't forget to save a lot.
or to get high and buy a hooker.
edit: Added pics to my space ranger post. Is there a mod to fix all that was wrong with gothic 3 or 2?
I know there's an expansion or somesuch out for it, but I don't know how much it affects stuff - burn me once and all that jazz.
Anyway, more on topic:
Since some folks threw Fallout 3 out, I'd suggest getting the 1+2+Tactics pack, which goes for like ten or twenty bucks nowadays. The two main games are great, and tactics supposedly really shines in the multiplayer aspect.
STALKER isn't really an RPG despite some people touting it as being somewhat of one (it's a FPS) but it's a rather nice "go whereever and do whatever the hell you want" sort of game once you mod it out (I reccomend Oblivion Lost, as always) It's also immersive as all get, and IMO looks even better than Crisis due to its extrordinarily superb use of lighting and environment.
There's also Sid Meier's Pirates!, which is rather freeform and generally fun save for the dancing sequences (which're thankfully optional).
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines is also up in that area and an action-RPG sort of game, and can really shine in some places (hint: GO MALKAVIAN).
Arcanum's one of the old-school games in the style and appearance of Baldur's Gate, and just a generally extrordinary game with an under-explored steampunk-styled setting.
OH! YES! OH YES!
1 Buy Arcanum
2 Load image as your character profile (I got a picture of Zero from Megaman Zero 2).
3 Go necromancer
This game had so many little things that made it so worthwhile. Like being a necro and communicating with all those dead bodies and fulfilling quests that way!
Not if you make it an RPG. Stowing away those GP in the IRA & 401 K. Buying progressively bigger houses. Getting Job EXP points to get better at your job and moving up in your trade. Acquiring useful skills for your "Party"...
Wheee! I'm living the game!
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
You've shaken the foundations of my scope of reality!
However, isn't it a bit of a stretch saying that Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is freeroaming as such? I'll grant that it is an awesome, awesome game and allows great flexibility in solving quests, but certain quest at certain times and in a certain order, no?
But, man.. Hold out for Fallout 3.
(Also there's a bunch if you just wanna run around smashing stuff up.. Total Overdose and Just Cause spring to mind, but beside the freeroaming factor they're.. not that special.)
Also, since you mention Gothic, it really might be worth it just to spoil yourself for 1 and go right to 2, because 1 has aged horribly. Stuffy tank controls for the loss, I'm afraid.
That reminds me, I've really got to finish it one of these days. And get a perorder in for too, for that matter.
Yeah, I just got it through Goozex and it seems really fun so far. Now I have to consider grabbing the second one.
The plot and insanity of it was pure joy. I loved every minute of it.
Also it's free.
This.
It is the best CRPG of this generation, and what you do has substantial impact on the path of the story.
Load times.
Such...horrible load times.
It gives me flashbacks to the late 90s, which would be fine if the game wasn't prone to making you die lots.
Along these same lines, there is of course GTA San Andreas. It's a little more linear, but damn good.
I got this and now every time I drive by Wendy's with my roommate, one of us says, "There goes Freckle Bitch's!"
Some of it is just so ridiculously over-the-top it's fantastic.
There's also the Port Royale series. It's another take on open-ended Carribean buccaneering. You can play it totally legit or go all piratey.
I would agree with this but the side quests in Pirates suck. I ended up married in the game o_O
I'll look at the Port Royale series, too. Never played it, but I love me some open-ended pirate games.
Thats one of the many options in the game, to get married. If you don't want to get married you don't have to.
I mean.
Oblivion only had one ending.
I mean.
I hate people.
And Arcanum is awesome, and seeing some of the design documents for Tarant at Wheelchair Warez HQ is awesome.
I mean.
They had a fucking map, with fucking streets.
And concept art of automotives.
And the subways and sewers were mapped also.
And they had a shit-load of newspaper articles/related quests that make our administrations handling of the media look tame in comparison.
I mean, god, that.
Ugh.
If you've read the newspapers in the game, imagine the sort of sycophantic cock-sucking that masks itself as honest journalism that you glimpse everytime you go to Tarant(them blaming the mages for the pollution in the river, after asking them whether the bi-planes were real) but expanded into a dark and hideous conspiracy.
X3.
I play it with a keyboard and mouse. Controls perfectly.
Love it.
It has my soul.
Oh god I need to play it now.