My hope is that when I retire I can become re acquainted with crpgs
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/p/index-of-games-played-by-ye...
It has been scratching my nostalgic itch fairly well.
I squeeze in an hour or two here and there (usually at night after everybody else has gone to sleep). It can take a couple months to finish a game at this pace, but you get through them.
I like the big open-ended RPGs. I feel like I can get in and complete a couple short quests or a tricky combat situation in the short time I have allotted. It makes me feel like I'm always making progress, even if it's slow going. Compared to action games where I feel like the hour I have to play is barely enough time to warm up and play effectively.
https://github.com/exult/exult
Last time I played U7 through so many years ago it was via Exult. I wonder how far its progressed over the last decade? hmm.
Many of them are on Steam now. And the creator Jeff Vogel is an interesting Twitter follow.
"Failing to Fill: The Spiderweb Software Way" https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs
The Bloom was a monotonous slog. I wish you spent less time in the Bloom and more time in other parts of the game (or new areas).
The combat was mediocre at best (nothing like Wasteland 2 or Divinity which are great).
Finally, the bugs were terrible. I only finished the game a couple months ago, so it's had plenty of time for them to get fixed. I still ran into one game breaking bug where I had troll the forums to find out how to hand edit a game script to cause an event to trigger so that I could continue the main quest. That sucked, especially since I didn't do anything unusual. The flag just didn't get set and I was too far along in the game to go back to a previous save.
It's the only game I've kickstarted. I did that because I knew there was no other way a game like this was going to be made at the time. I wanted it to exist. I'm still glad I did and glad I played through it, but it could have been much better. I'd put it at the lower end of my list: worth playing if you really like these kinds of games, otherwise pass.
And I'm talking about Divinity 1, people say Divinity 2 is even better, though I haven't tried it because there's no linux version yet.
It blows my mind how much love and thought they've put into it, I can't recommend it enough, I haven't loved a game so much since I was a kid, do yourself a favor and check it out!
Plot, setting and characters I found quite unremarkable, though.
But still the best "traditional" RPG I have played in many years.
They created characters with plot lines instead of relying on player-generated characters. It's not Shakespeare, but with Larian Studio's humor it is definitely worth playing.
The only one I've played in the last like decade+ that gave me that old school RPG vibe, that felt wondrous like when I was a teen in the '90s discovering PC gaming, has been Wasteland II. Though the camera angles on that annoyed me even worse than D:OS!
Completing a game like Fallout 2 multiple times (it must have taken 50+ hours of play at least the first time) was nothing exceptional & I didn't need to wait for summer break to do it.
Eh, I don't know. I see where you're coming from and I don't mean to offend you, but whenever I find the time to indulge into my gaming obsessions (for me it's CCGs) I feel terribly guilty afterwards, for not spending that time on something productive, like reading up on my PhD bibliography, or just coding up my research. I don't even have a family. I'm just kind of fed up playing games all day long.
Sign I'm growing old I guess. I'll go get my hot water bottle and a cat.