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I meant to post this on Jul 1st, but forgot.
So we're half way through 2019, a year which hasn't provided much in the way of big name cRPGs, so has everyone been taking the opportunity to clear their backlog? Has anyone found a new hidden indy gem they haven't told anyone else about yet? Or are you still playing last years releases?
This is a list thread, let's see what RPGs you've tackled or retackled so far this year!
I stated the year half way through Divinity: Original Sin & finished that off. A good start to my year all things considered.
I finished off winter by completing Eschalon Book 1.
In spring I tried my first jRPG and completed Legends of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
This summer I have so far completed The Banner Saga 2.
And I've been quite impressed with how much I've enjoyed these games and all four have sequels that I can now look forward to, meaning I shan't be in a cRPG drought for a very long time.
The games I had to either abandon out of boredom or simply didn't enjoy but were short enough that I completed them anyway have been:
Expeditions: Conquistador - which I found tedious beyond words. Abt 10 hours played.
Battle Brothers - which I found to be fun until the grind and gotchas proved beyond bareable. Abt 15 hours played.
Theseus: Journey to Athens - a 2 hour indy choose your own adventure with all the production values of a junior school project.
Warlock of Firetop Mountain - a short choose your own adventure with many, many paths. A nice nostalgia fix but just not motivated to have another run after the first few, the main problem with the genre being having to keep repeating the start to get to a slightly different end. Abt 5 hours played.
Tyranny - which kept sending me to sleep, both in game and when trying to psych myself up to play it. Abt 5 hours played.
Which has been very useful for me as it's helped me filter the current deluge of new types of RPGs and developers in the market.
No replays for me this year, which is unusual for me.
So we're half way through 2019, a year which hasn't provided much in the way of big name cRPGs, so has everyone been taking the opportunity to clear their backlog? Has anyone found a new hidden indy gem they haven't told anyone else about yet? Or are you still playing last years releases?
This is a list thread, let's see what RPGs you've tackled or retackled so far this year!
I stated the year half way through Divinity: Original Sin & finished that off. A good start to my year all things considered.
I finished off winter by completing Eschalon Book 1.
In spring I tried my first jRPG and completed Legends of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
This summer I have so far completed The Banner Saga 2.
And I've been quite impressed with how much I've enjoyed these games and all four have sequels that I can now look forward to, meaning I shan't be in a cRPG drought for a very long time.
The games I had to either abandon out of boredom or simply didn't enjoy but were short enough that I completed them anyway have been:
Expeditions: Conquistador - which I found tedious beyond words. Abt 10 hours played.
Battle Brothers - which I found to be fun until the grind and gotchas proved beyond bareable. Abt 15 hours played.
Theseus: Journey to Athens - a 2 hour indy choose your own adventure with all the production values of a junior school project.
Warlock of Firetop Mountain - a short choose your own adventure with many, many paths. A nice nostalgia fix but just not motivated to have another run after the first few, the main problem with the genre being having to keep repeating the start to get to a slightly different end. Abt 5 hours played.
Tyranny - which kept sending me to sleep, both in game and when trying to psych myself up to play it. Abt 5 hours played.
Which has been very useful for me as it's helped me filter the current deluge of new types of RPGs and developers in the market.
No replays for me this year, which is unusual for me.
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