Everybody’s talkin’ 'bout the new massively open-world online multiplayer virtual mobile browser bulletin board tabletop Japanese Western Polish Latin American Korean idle action real-time turn-based strategic role playing game, funny, but it’s still RPG to me 🎶
There’s a lot of subgenres I wanted to include, but I felt this document was already too long. Here’s more of them:
DBRPG = Deck-building RPG
SurRPG = Survival RPG
RLRPG = Rogue-like RPG
SLRPG = Souls-like RPG
I don’t know why I overlooked GRPGs since Germany has some pretty important ones. You mentioned Gothic, but there’s also both the Sacred series and ELEX series.
I’d say that while both GRPGs and PRPGs are releated to each other, there’s some big differences that go beyond nationality. I’d say GRPGs are more like a muddy Renaissance faire going on while PRPGs have more of a storybook style.
EDIT: In the interest of thoroughness, I added even more subgenre acronyms.
If only, but I did find a way to play my old cd a while back. Can’t say it aged well. Game was actually quite wonky. Most of the “secret mechanics” are pretty hard to trigger
What I wouldn't give for a new Deus Ex game. The only news I ever read about one is another cancellation.
Robocop has a similar vibe, albeit a Fisher Price version. And weirdly the new Indiana Jones game kind of scratches that itch, where you're wandering around an open environment, with multiple access points and secrets hidden away that'll reward those paying attention. Neither come close to just how detailed and cool the Deus Ex games were though.
You will have a lot of unintended fun and cringe moments regarding the language. Apartheid-style benches for non-augmented people only with a sign “Přirozené pouze” makes me laugh and cringe to this day. Prague’s Old town is translated as “Starý čtvrt”, which is just sad.
It’s an okay game otherwise. Not nearly as good as Human Revolution, but good enough to scratch that DE itch.
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