Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General What games to play other than BG3 only?

-Story-driven RPGs
-Open World RPGs (Open Worlds in general)
-Grand Strategy Games (Paradox and Civ V mostly)
-"Open World Survival Craft" (Subnautica in VR mostly)
-Whatever GTA Series is
-Occasional Roguelikes (mostly Binding of Isaac).

I like to play story-driven rpgs, adventure games, and action games.

A variety for me too. I'm more surprised that you limit yourself mainly to a single genre; there's so many good games of different genres out there!

Most Recent Gems I've Played
- Wasteland 3 - TB, post-apocalyptic military RPG
- Resident Evil 2 Remake - survival horror w/guns
- Sifu - (hard) kung fu action game
- Jedi Fallen Order - action-adventure
- Case of the Golden Idol - puzzle
- God of War 2018 - Action/adventure
- Elden Ring - action rpg
- Interrogation Files - Port Landsend - watch police interviews to figure out what happened and who did it
- Vanishing of Ethan Carter - walking simulator
- Inscryption - roguelike deckbuilder...mystery?
- A Plague Tale: Innocence - action/adventure/survival/horror

My Top Rated All-Time
Baba is You - puzzle
Bloodborne - action/horror/rpg..."souls-like"
Castle Crashers - sidescroller beat-em-up
Catherine - Puzzle RPG
Cuphead - 2D shooter-platformer
DAO - (I don't need to specify)
Heavy Rain - "interactive detective thriller" (I played it when I was like 14)
Journey - beautiful indie adventure?
NieR: Automata - action-rpg bullet hell
Outer Wilds - action-adventure-puzzle
Pokemon Emerald/Colosseum
Portal - first-person puzzle
Return of the Obra Dinn - puzzle/adventure
Super Mario Sunshine - 3D action-adventure platformer
Undertale - 2D RPG

Generally, I tend to play rpgs, action-adventures, and puzzle/mystery games. But will easily branch into platformers/pure action/survival horror if the game looks good enough.

Well and saying all fantasy rpg are same kind if wrong.

I genuinely wonder if Avowed could be first OPEN WORLD none MMO RPG that I truly like?
Witcher 4 interest me as well it will have UNREAL 5 graphics and full nudity.

I have never gotten into ESO games even full nudity mod that made all women nude was not enough so I would want to finish play trough Skyrim. On other hand Skyrim graphics are outdated and average so full nudity mod does not give so much I think.

I am THEME park player to the CORE. I liked in WOW MMO when quest gives have exclamation mark above their head. This Open World has been a hard sell for me not my taste.

Avowed is based on same world a Pillars of Eternity 1 and I have played through POE1 and rated it 9/10 and I understand its lore, Gods etc.

Avowed I truly wonder how are they going to combine first person view with Open World fans with POE Theme park players?

Lets hope Avowed makes everyone happy and yes it is developed with UNREAL 5 game it is single player game.
Oh gosh if it is to open world for me Avowed if I succeed to download full nudity mode make women nude then that is basically with Unreal 5 graphics like soft porn.

Avowed will also very likely have much more Magic you can wield Magic... compare to Dungeons Dragons it is not low magic World. Avowed is kind of mix between Pillars of Eternity 1 and an Open World single player RPG but since POE 1 is very Theme Park I think it is more clear what to do.

These are my theories and how Avowed will be exactly remains to be seen.

I know Open World ESO fans look for Avowed, but so does theme park POE1 players as well and Avowed has UNREAL 5 engine.

I started out gaming on old puzzle games like Myst and Riven on computer). Then discovered RPGs during Bioware’s heyday, and played all their RPG franchises. That got me into Witcher and Cyberpunk. Then, to scratch the rpg itch, I got into isometric rpgs like Planescape, DOS, and POE. Then super open world like Skyrim.

Later, I discovered FPS’s through forcing myself to get used to them by playing Bioshock (I wanted that story). I can enjoy an occasional FPS (tho not my favorite genre).

I also enjoy strategy games like XCOM alot. And I play a ton of puzzlers still (The Witness, Talos Principle, and Portal are highlights).

Also play endless amounts of AA games. Little atmospheric gems like Gorgoa, walking sims like Edith Finch, games with clever story telling devices like Unpacking and Orwell, and weird games like Fran Bow and Soma that stick with you. I honestly get the most pleasure these days from AA games. They focus on a few things and do it well. Primordia and The Fall are standouts.

So honestly, I play just about everything. Even sandboxes like Assasins Creed and Mad Max and Hogwarts Legacy are ok, tho I find Fallout a bit lifeless.

Another game to recommend everyone play.

Do any of you like grand strategy games, or city builders? Despite playing Baldur's Gate II multiple times, that still probably doesn't equal the time I've put into one game of Civ V

City builders! So excited by the Manor Lords demo.

Civilization games are too much like work for me tho 😝

I mainly play rpgs, preferrable, where you can make your own character. And story is important for me.

Yes ...
What i like most are RPG, almost all type of them ...
From shooter (mass effect), over turn based (Fallout 1, but i would also say HoMaM series ... kinda shame they dont do those anymore btw), to action games (Witcher, SW: Fallen order), to RTwP (Dragon Age, SW:KotOR) ... and of course my main addiction: WoW.
But sometimes i got the urge to simply shoot things into bits and pieces ... and in such cases, i have Metal Gear Solid (wich story trough several games i really adore ... except for that Raiden part, that seems a little too ... off, to me).
Sometimes, very rarely, i feel like i would like to play a Strategy (Warcraft III.) even tho i suck in those horribly. So this feeling usualy dissapear really fast.
Sometimes i like to play hack and slash ... Diablo is waiting for me there. :3

The only genres i probably never enjoyed were simulators (excluding The Sims, hey we all were 12 once ) ... Arcades (no exceptions here) ... Real Time Strategies (except Warcraft) ... and things i call pseudo games, like quitar hero, wich i never tryed and i dont really think i ever will.

Not sure if a *type* is corect word to use ... but i gues it works.

I am looking forward to finally playing The Last of US on PC - I have watched the cutscenes and the game itself but never had a chance to play because it is PlayStation only. Thankfully next month they finally release it for PC.

The show has been just KILLING it - the cast has been top notch with Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal, Anna Torv, Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman.

I also hear there is a part 3 in the works - which is a conclusion.

7 P.M.: Oh it's no big deal, I've got time to play some Civ.
4:30 A.M.: Just... one... more... turn...

That and CK2 have me acting unwise.

I do enjoy RPGs, and a lot of the games I’ll buy and enjoy fall into that broad category. I also play a fair bit of Civ VI (and played Civ … II? back in the day), and did spend a fair bit of time with Rome: Total War though never got into its sequel or siblings. Also going back a while I enjoyed sim type and RTS games, and maybe I should try some modern successors to this kind of game but I’ve got out of the habit. I’ve also enjoyed point and click adventures and puzzle games in the past, but the more I think about it I definitely do seem to have got stuck in an RPG rut in recent years … decades?

I don’t tend to play games that require fast responses, good hand/eye coordination or fine control, because I’m rubbish at them. That rules out a lot of action games, particularly if I can’t pause. And I like getting story and dialogue or having stuff to do, and get bored quickly just wandering around looking at scenery however pretty, so open world exploration stuff is not my bag. I’ll still venture into open world action stuff, but I need a strong incentive in the form other features such as the game’s plot, characters, etc to put in the effort.

The older I get the fewer games I’m interested in playing.

My favorite genre is definitely RPGs but I don’t like most of the big names. I’ve never liked the Witcher series because the combat is very unsatisfying to me and I don’t care for Gerald (I deny the T in his name). Similarly, I don’t think Dragon Age or Mass Effect are fun for me. JRPGs where both sides line up and take turns hitting each other don’t do it for me anymore because I find that if you remove positioning from turn based combat then I’m not making enough interesting choices to engage me. Combat is either too easy or a slog with no middle ground. I respect the hell out of FromSoftware being a long time Armored Core fan, but I can’t get into Soulslike games either.

I like open world games where either the world is interesting to explore (Death Stranding, Breath of the Wild) or the way you move through the world is fun (Spider-Man, Gravity Rush 2).

I like turn based tactical games: XCom, Divinity:Original Sin, Fire Emblem, BG3.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Nier are some of my favorite action JRPGs.

Total War is probably my most played series over the last 15 years, but I’m completely burned out on that formula and need an extended break from them.

Games I’m very much looking forward to:

Baldur’s Gate 3
Death Stranding 2
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Final Fantasy 16
Fire Emblem Engage (just finally got a PS5 so I haven’t felt a need to play that yet)
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Spider-Man 2
Armored Core 6

Games I’m not sold on yet but am tracking:

Diablo 4
Starfield
Rumored Final Fantasy 9 remake
Assassin’s Creed Mirage (but knowing Ubisoft it will disappoint me)

So after a few years of just replaying the same handful of games it is nice that this will be a big year for me.

hmm, a selection of a few games I've played recently to show the genres that I enjoy:

Hogwarts Legacy
Final Fantasy 1
Final Fantasy XIV
MechWarrior 5
wotr
Coral Island (think stardew valley)
Cyberpunk 2077

I usually go with older games or on sale AAA games, so Hogwarts was an exception for me.

As for genres, I love games with RPG elements, but it's not an absolute requirement.

Gloria Victis a low fantasy MMO launched last week. Has some server/login issues buy it is buy to play at $10 and is a gem of a game.

I have heard a bit about this one, it seems interesting. Does it have large pvp battles at only specific times of the day or do they happen regularly through all 24 hours? I refuse to pay another cent to any company that engages in shift worker discrimination, learned my lesson the hard way with New World and their stupid "prime time" only wars.

Sorry, I know it is super obnoxious when a random person on the internet corrects you, but this is a person pet peeve of mine and I’m trying to spread the word.

High Fantasy: a fantasy work that takes place in a distinct, self contained world. Examples:
Lord of the Rings (technically it’s presented as a mythological history of our world but because the geography and history don’t reflect this at all it’s considered high fantasy)
A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones (Martin himself refers to his works as high fantasy in interviews)
Mistborn
Wheel of Time

Low Fantasy: a fantasy work where people from our world visit a separate fantasy world, either some other realm of existence or hidden within our world, or magical elements intrude upon our world. Examples:
Harry Potter
Chronicles of Narnia
Neverwhere
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan

Lots of people get this wrong, even the Gloria Victis mislabels it’s game as low fantasy, but googling low fantasy v high fantasy will provide countless websites that reiterate the distinction. It has nothing to do with the amount of fantastical elements.

Sorry again. Not trying to be a duck and signal you out.

Definitions I'm sure we all agree upon and about which there is no debate. Like the difference between soft and hard Sci-Fi, and who the best captain of the Enterprise is.

Picard forever.