Is there an ARPG/Baldur's Gate Genre?

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• TheDarkrayne Member EpicPosts: 5,297

  August 2019 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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• TheDarkrayne Member EpicPosts: 5,297

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  Alaroth: Champions of the Fours Kingdoms is on the way though.
  
  
  

  

  I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
• lahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,041

  August 2019

  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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• vegetableoil Member RarePosts: 768

  August 2019

  Lost ark may be?

  
• Hariken Member EpicPosts: 2,680

  August 2019

  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.
• Hariken Member EpicPosts: 2,680

  August 2019

  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.
• rojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722

  August 2019 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.