Looking for good new RPGs

[williamoak]

Hey folks,

TLDR: looking for new (or old but little known), interesting, narrative RPGs. With a fondness for isometric tactical RPGs.

I have had excessive amount of free time lately due to illness, I have had way too much time to play video games. So I am turning to the collective wisdom of the paizo boards. I've gone through way too many RPGs and am looking for more exotic fare to stave off my boredom (that's never good for the mind). Pretty much all the D&D games gave been passed through (baldur's gate multiple time), pillars of eternity, wasteland 2, most spiderweb software games (and similar ones like Balrum and Eschalon), all the dragon ages, all the mass effects, most of the divinity series, the recent shadowrun games (very good, I wish they would make more...), arcanum, the fallout games, the stick of truth, the evoland series, Tyranny, the witcher series, the blackguard series (not as good as it seemed in my head), the elder scrolls series, jade empire, expeditions:conquistador, and probably some I no longer remember.

I've also played procedural open world games so much I am sick of them (I love minecraft and starbound, but over 1500 hours over 3 years is too much).

I would never have thought this situation possible, but here I am.

[Johnnycat93]

Here I was hoping that this was a thread about P&P games...

The Fire Emblem series is a personal favorite of mine; the more recent games allow you to create your own hero. I also like Final Fantasy Tactics (advanced the most), a series called Luminous Arc, and the old Mega-Man Battle Net series. Transistor was also pretty good, and also a shout out to The World Ends With You which is one of my top 5, though it's only an RPG and not tactical.

For Honor drops next month which looks sweet. Dark Souls and Bloodbornes are also recommended action-RPGs if you haven't played them. I don't have much patience for Skyrim and the like, so I can't make any recommendations along those lines.

[williamoak]

Johnnycat93 wrote:

Here I was hoping that this was a thread about P&P games...

Oh, I'm playing plenty of those two (mostly shadowrun 5e and pathfinder). It's just hard to play P&P when your alone.

I've also played through fire emblem and the final fantasy tactics games. Quite like the gameplay. Wow, I just realised I forgot all the DS RPGs I played.

[Neurophage]

Bravely Default remains a personal favorite of mine. The entire Shin Megami Tensei series is good stuff. I have a particular fondness for Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga. The Devil Survivor sub-series is also pretty good. Tactics Ogre is somewhat along the same lines as Final Fantasy Tactics. NIER remains one of the best narrative-focused action RPGs ever made and is getting a sequel by Platinum in a couple months. The Atelier series is one of my favorite RPG franchises. They're games primarily about alchemy and ditch the epic, world-saving plot of most RPGs in favor of being slice-of-life character studies.

[PossibleCabbage]

Lords of Xulima is pretty fantastic in that "modern lo-fi PC RPG" sense. It predates things like WL2 and PoE, but it's worth your time.