I haven’t played that many fantasy action-ish RPGs lately, but I always thought that Gothic II was way more engaging than Oblivion or Morrowind. More compact world (which to me means less filler), also janky and just a hand full of voice actors, but a lot more personality IMO. Not a perfect game by any means though.
I’ve been meaning to play Kingdom Come 2 because it seems to be cut from a similar cloth, including giving NPCs things to do when you’re not around. For the exploration factor there’s some great RPGs without the action mechanics out there, I liked Wasteland 2 and Caves of Qod. My favorite has been Cyberpunk 2077 (2.0), but that’s probably too far removed from what TES is doing.
rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 week ago
(sits in the corner wearing a sign that reads “Ask me about Nethack”)
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Played it for the first time recently! Unfortunately it seems to have some stability problems, it doesn’t launch saves for me so I’m on hiatus
rodneylives@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That is strange. Which version are you playing? 5.0 was recently released, it may have bugs but I don’t think that’s one of them?
What platform are you playing on? At the moment the main way to play it on Linux distributions is to compile it yourself.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Correction: I have been playing HackNet! My bad, i misread your post. Clearly we need more names for cool games.