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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd love a good old rpg 😊! Especially a non group one, or like a side kick or small group but when you start out with 7 it's too much for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I will begin by pushing my personal agenda: Jade Empire is a super underrated older Bioware game and I think could fit your description. While you do amass a large set of followers over the course of the story, they mainly reside at camp. While out and adventuring you're only ever bringing with you one at a time: exactly the sidekick you're looking for!

    If you want to stay isometric I hold Baldur's Gate 2 very highly as far as retro RPGs go. You do have a party of six there however. You only have 3 companions for the first few hours though, so at least you get eased into it. And you could just choose to not have a full party if you want. Will make the game a bit harder, mind.

    Fallout 1&2 are also retro RPGs and pretty much just better than Arcanum in every way. Not really a party focused experience, you can have companions but they're more like the sidekicks you mentioned.

    Neverwinter Nights 2 just recently got an enhanced edition and that's also a smaller party experience. The main campaign is decent, but the expansion Mask of the Betrayer is often brought up as one of the best CRPG stories of all time and heralded for its stellar writing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank You!

    I'll checknout jade empire for sure!

    I tried baldurs gate (3?) and it was like 6 persons right away and I died in the tutorial (I guess you have yo use each and ones special abilities to overcome the others weaknesses ir something).

    I'm not a fallout person, a shame it wasn't a more fantasy setting 😁

    Played nwn back in the day, liked it a lot, but when I retried it lately it felt really old, I'll have a look at nwn2.

    Cheers !

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Anytime! One thing I appreciate in Jade Empire is that they attempted to do something different with the good/evil dichotomy. It doesn't always come off properly and it's often constrained by the nature of the game (you can't really opt out of the main quest for example) but I appreciate the attempt. Instead of just good/evil they try to make it a "Good Samaritan versus Hardcore Darwinian" dilemma based on opposing philosophies that aren't necessarily good or evil.

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