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Is there an ARPG/Baldur's Gate Genre?

FinvegaFinvega Member RarePosts: 260
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Is this a genre I am missing? A game like Grimm Dawn style game-play wrapped up in a Pillar's of Eternity type story? Not turn-based, but with full on action RPG and lot's of dialogue and heavy story telling? Any examples I am missing?

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  • TheDarkrayneTheDarkrayne Member EpicPosts: 5,297
    edited August 2019
    I'm assuming you're talking isometric view only with mouse pointer gameplay.

    Divinity 1, Beyond Divinity and Nox might fit an aRPG/cRPG hybrid.

    Dungeon Siege II and Harbinger have lots of dialogue trees and stuff.

    Newer games? None that i know of. Your hybrids these days are almost always third person like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Witcher(s).
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  • TheDarkrayneTheDarkrayne Member EpicPosts: 5,297
    edited August 2019
    Alaroth: Champions of the Fours Kingdoms is on the way though.


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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,053
    TheDarkrayne said:
    I'm assuming you're talking isometric view only with mouse pointer gameplay.

    Divinity 1, Beyond Divinity and Nox might fit an aRPG/cRPG hybrid.

    Dungeon Siege II and Harbinger have lots of dialogue trees and stuff.

    Newer games? None that i know of. Your hybrids these days are almost always third person like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Witcher(s).
    Harbinger. Now THAT is a title I haven’t heard anybody talk about in ages. I freaking loved that game.

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    Lost ark may be?
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  • HarikenHariken Member EpicPosts: 2,680
    TheDarkrayne said:
    I'm assuming you're talking isometric view only with mouse pointer gameplay.

    Divinity 1, Beyond Divinity and Nox might fit an aRPG/cRPG hybrid.

    Dungeon Siege II and Harbinger have lots of dialogue trees and stuff.

    Newer games? None that i know of. Your hybrids these days are almost always third person like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Witcher(s).
    This is what I have been really missing. Those top dawn massive world single-player RPG's. I wonder why they stopped making them.
  • HarikenHariken Member EpicPosts: 2,680
    TheDarkrayne said:
    Alaroth: Champions of the Fours Kingdoms is on the way though.


    Starting to wonder about these so-called game reporters. They always compare top-down games to Diablo or POE. This game feels nothing like those games.
  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    edited August 2019
    Finvega said:
    Is this a genre I am missing? A game like Grimm Dawn style game-play wrapped up in a Pillar's of Eternity type story? Not turn-based, but with full on action RPG and lot's of dialogue and heavy story telling? Any examples I am missing?
    From what i've seen most good modern ARPGs with lots of dialogue and story telling are turn based ( Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2, Torment Tides of Numenera, Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2, Wasteland 1 and 2, etc).

    If you want action combat i suggest checking out Victor Vran and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing.





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