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Friday Fun Thread for October 7, 2022

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I got the current CRPG humble bundle https://www.humblebundle.com/games/rpg-legends-baldurs-gate-beyond-bundle

and I am wondering what my playthrough priority will be (if I manage to not pile of shame the majority of games :/ )

Included games:

  • Pathfinder WOTR

  • Neverwintern Nights Complete

  • BG 2 enhanced Complete (also Dragonspear)

  • BG 1 enhanced

  • Planescape Torment enhanced

  • Icewind Dale enhanced

I think my favourite of those is the old planescape, but I also played this the most times already in my lifetime. Any fellow CRPG-enjoyers here? Whats your favourite? Any moderately unknown CRPGs you can recommend?

Play Underrail. It's so damn good once you get in the hang of the wonky character system

I second that. Most fun I've had since Fallout: New Vegas. It's tough, very good at scratching the exploration itch and the environment feels mostly alive, not like the fake worlds of most RPGs which seems just like a prop for a game.

It's also getting a second game soon-ish, well, if we use Valve timelines, which should be good judging on the increase in quality between Underrail and the DLC.

The second game is in development and dev diaries are being posted on the formus.

It's going to have a system where the stats of the characters are reflected in how they look in game, which should prove entertaining, I think if dev breaks the unwritten rule of 'sex is only cosmetic' and introduces RL sexual dimorphism into the game. But hey, no publicity like free publicity and paradoxically injecting a small dose of reality into a Sf/fantasy game should cause a lot of uproar.

The worldbuilding in Underrail is incredibly unique. At first glance it just seems like another 'slavs in a metro' STALKER clone, but it's so much weirder than that. I can't wait for the sequel to expand on the realms and cultures outside of lower Underrail that we barely got to see in the first game.

There was a fair bit of west underrail lore added in the DLC.. Or have you never visited the West Underrail military base ?