I’m looking for a single player game, first person or third person, but something more action or role-play oriented. Not particularly a fan of turn based combat

Imagine the most trash isekai. There is an Adventure’s Guild that posts quests on a board. You fight monsters, level up, get new skills, some of which are some real OP shit. you spend that money so you can stay at an inn, recruit powerful people for your party, buy new equipment, etc.

I want to go on quest to fight bandits, pick herbs, fight a dragon. There’s gotta be a dungeon of some kind. A “defeat the demon lord“ quest is not a dealbreaker, but I kind of just want something I can play as an adventure for a while. I want it to be the most stereotypical “Adventurer Game” ever.

P.S.

I’d prefer to not reinstall Skyrim for the upteenth time.

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I know you’ve said you don’t want Skyrim, but the first thing that comes to mind is Oblivion, I can’t think of a more generic, stereotypical fantasy RPG than that game.

    In fact it makes me sad considering they retconned the lore of Cyrodil to a super generic LOTR fantasy land.

  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I really enjoyed Two Worlds as a generic RPG.

    The new Dragon Quest games were fun too.

    Also, the ‘Tales of’ series is fun if you can get into the combat mechanics.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        The game has a two-minute speedrun, because the main villain is right there when you start, and some invincible townsfolk NPCs can be tricked into ganging up on him.

    • bob_lemon@feddit.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Gothic or if you want jank

      I love the implication that Gothic is not jank here. It’s a great RPG (the first two) partly due to being janky.

      Nothing better than literally killing the unbreakable orc siege in G2 chapter 2 because they can’t deal with sidesteps.

  • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Yes, we all want a sequel to Skyrim.

    If old graphics aren’t a deal breaker, try the Gothic series, 1-3. They’re about 20 years old but they’re the only rival to the Elder Scrolls series. First person, action RPGs in open worlds with great storytelling and branching decision systems.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The original Fable is definitely some good-ass bog-standard fantasy. There’s even a “guild of heroes”

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Isn’t the Witcher series pretty much this? May not be as RP-friendly as others though.

    If you’re okay with a party-based, real time with pause system, there’s Pillars of Eternity, Dragon Age, and Baldur’s Gate.

    There’s also the Wizardry series, but I don’t know much about it and they’re quite old.

    • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I haven’t played any of the other games in the series, but Dragon Age Origin was solid

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    imagine the most trash isekai

    There are plenty of JRPGs that are literally exactly like those animes. Isn’t Sword Art Online one? I haven’t played it, personally, but it sure sounds like .Hack//Sign (which I have played) but crazier.

    None of the ones I’ve ever played were real-time, though. They’re all turn-based like Final Fantasy or, at best, like the “Tales of” series.

    Final Fantasy 7 remake? The first one might seem more sci-fi than fantasy given that it’s entirely in Midgar, but the next one should have more of the fantasy world since that city and the casino were really the only high tech places originally. It’s not turn based at least.

  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Daggerfall, probably. You are john daggerfall. Your mission; to scrape randomly generated labyrinths for randomly generated macguffins. You have 50 arrows and must find secret doors. A zombie appears, pray you have a silver weapon and a potion of remove disease. Brave hero, accept this quest.

    The only thing its missing is dwarves.

  • Hal-5700X@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The most generic, stereotypical fantasy RPG I can think of is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.