I'll start:
"Choice of Robots" by "Choice of" games, it's a completely text-based game and like the name implies, is designed in the same style as a "choose your own" adventure, I've played a lot of these games but if I had to introduce any one of them to someone, this would be it.
omg seconding this and also adding the Lost Heir Trilogy. But in general there's a lot of gold among a lot of dross from the Choice of Games catalogue
A lot a lot of dross but you get some real gems every so often. Considering the size of the catalogue I think someone ought to really make a 'recommend' list for newbies so they aren't turned off by the clunkers
- "Jolly Good Cakes and Ale" since you seem to like Choice of Games. It's the sequel to Tally Ho but that one didn't have a save system which was a bit of a pain for me. It can be played independently from Tally Ho and is the first part of a trilogy in the making. Awesome writing style and the setting is similar to the Jeeves books by P.G. Wodehouse and the tv series Jeeves and Wooster (Fry and Laurie).
- "Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines" - an RPG with both first and 3rd person perspective with the best dialogue system ever (combat is meh but the narrative makes it totally worth it). The game is dark and grim, definitely not for the faint of heart. Be sure to install the fanmade patch or you may stumble upon a gamebreaking bug halfway through.
- "Disco Elysium" - dialogue based RPG. The setting is not for everyone but it's good. I didn't get around to finishing it because I replaced my PC, will have to get back to it one of these days.
I loved Disco Elysium get on it! Vampire was fun, I played it pretty late but like Fallout used to be, there aren't a lot of games like it around, modern urban low fantasy. That alone is reason enough for me to play something. It's too bad that the sequel seems to be in 'development hell'. I haven't finished Jolly Good Cakes and Ale, but I'm so far liking it more than Tally Ho! which was a little too twee for my tastes.
Just like any game, generally it has to hold my attention; I'll go with Wakfu for this post. My main was a Ecaflip and related to d&d was heavy on dicerolls / luck.
Wakfu is a french mmorpg, turn based and has hand-painted textures. Story wise was rubbish, if I remember correctly the translations were crap. Environment, classes, and combat were A+.
You know I've heard of and seen Wakfu around but I never knew it was an rpg, I'll check it out, thanks.
thanks for the input everyone
