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the Fable 1 era
Hmm, I'd probably have to go with the Inifinity engine games, as Baldur's Gate 2 was essentially what introduced me to the genre and I have enjoyed later games that were similar to it - like NWN 2 and Drakensang - quite a lot. And of course there are also gems like Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment from that era.
hi click4gameplay good video and you are on my favorit youtuber list. i have sacred 2, divinty 2- the dragon knight saga, two worlds 1+2, titan quest. in 2024 is come titan quest 2. thq nordic have buy rights from sacred games
hi click4gameplay . can you make video about two worlds 1 review on youtube
Not 1 minute in and the games you shoes have my dick ROCK HARD. God I love those games. It really was the best time!!!!
For me the golden age was that entire decade, but I think the first half was still stronger: Star Wars KOTOR 1 and 2, Gothic 1 and 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, Jade Empire, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Diablo 2, Final Fantasy 10 , World of Warcraft, Morrowind.
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The first half of the decade had some serious classics obviously, but the second half is, to me personally, very clearly part of the Dark Ages of the CRPG. The amount of genuinely good RPGs being released in the back half of the decade was seriously very small.
@@robinmattheussen2395 I think he probably considers the second half of the decade as the golden age because of that cozy feeling that the RPG's from that time period give due to their brighter and more colorful atmosphere. I don't think they are better RPG's than the first half of the decade, but they do give a cozier feeling.
Kingdom Come Deliverance had this sort of beautiful "naturalism" / the same way Oblivion had back in the day.
I like walking the woods in real life so in games I'm drawn to it as well.
Kingdom Come has great forests and countryside to just wander around in. The only game I like better for that purpose is Hunter Call of the Wild. It's a hunting game, but the maps are huge and great for just wandering, if that's your thing.
Kcd has the beat forest of any game ive ever played. With rdr2 being a fairly far back and not close second. Like that game looks amazing, but kcd is the only game to ever make me feel like im actually there hiking. Im actually playing kcd right now. I played it a fairly decent anount a few times but it never clicked. This time it did and im obsessed. Im currently level 9 and still pretty early game but holy hell this game is a masterpiece, if only slightly flawed. Im SO happy the second is coming this year so that after i finish 1, ill have a few months to take a break but dont have to wait 6 years like people who played it at launch.
Yup, KCD is the first game I played and actually felt like I'm in a forest, it's beautiful
I love that game. Truly gave me the old school vibe old games used to give me. It reminds me of an immersive sim. They are using a highly customized (by themselves) version of cry engine (they say it’s not at all comparable to what you get when you develop with the uncustomized engine). I’m glad they are sticking with that engine for the sequel even if it shows its age now and we probably won’t see a huge graphical jump from the 1st game to the sequel. Gives the games a more unique and distinct look and the games are gorgeous.
That's because KCD's creative director Dan Vávra liked Oblivion quite a lot back in the day. He even mentioned the affection recently in a podcast I listened to. :)
To me the golden age of RPGs is late 90's early 2000's. Such legendary games like Gothic 1+2, Fallout 1+2, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, Planscape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Morrowind and many others were released very close to each other.
It felt very exciting to see what future might hold for us. Little did I know back then that the future of mainstream gaming will have pretty graphics, but dull and shallow gameplay. Thank god we at least have indie devs!
Not many indies around which are on that level though
To me only gothic1+2 and vampire the masquerade bloodlines are legendary
@@HuyGaming96 if you enjoyed gothic 1 and 2 i highly recommend playing chronicles of myrtana it is a gothic mod which shouldn't even be called a mod it is a fully made game take place before gothic 1 and imo despite being made by fans it is the best gothic game
@@aligmal5031 but it has different language than english which I dont understand
@@HuyGaming96 it has english subtitles gothic games are all originally voiced in polish lang
give it a try it was also my first gothic game with polish lang instead of english
That Vista Point from gothic 3 hits every time
yes man thanks Kai Rosenkranz for this and many other Masterpieces
@@leonmenssen999 There might be more to come, since he works very closely on the new Gothic Remake. I am 100% sure there will be many more tracks. cannot wait for it
@@aedankor2961 may Innos bless the remake 🙂
Wasn't this track basically sampled from someone's song? Anyway, still godly
I unironically love Two Worlds. Have not played the second game but it felt great to be in that world.
I was just talking about how it looks and the game engine, but I don't hate the game at all. It's flawed as hell, but it can be fun. I like the 2nd a lot more though.
@@click4gameplayreally wish we got a third, the second connected a lot of the things together the first didn’t
@@click4gameplay I love the environment in the first one. Especially the forests. I will try the second one at some point.
@@ValkbgI encourage you to try two worlds 2, it's a great sequel to 1 but I still low key wished they had fhe weapon combination mechanic as they did from 1 to 2. But both are enjoyable!
@@greentray1231 Yes Two Worlds 2 was good, the magic system where you could make your own spells was very fun.
1997 - 2007 was the golden age of gaming. Techonology was not only developed to enough not to be hinderance, but booming and pushing the limits all the time (jump from Half Life to Half Life 2 or Morrowind to Oblivion) and industry was mature enough to have more money and people with crazy ideas willing to impliment, but not too corporate to hunt the "call of duty audiance". Personally 2008-2013 were bad years or dark ages when corporations we all know and hate were at their peak with their own sequalization, colorless, always some form of military shooter games and anti-PC rethoric and action, but even then there were gems that I adore like Witcher 2, Skyrim, Dawn of War 2 and Mass Effect. Since 2014 games are good, and you have a choice of every genre you want, but the 2005 feel of not knowing what crazy new game will pop out of nowhere and turn industry upside down like Star Wars Jedi Knight, World of Warcraft, FEAR or Crysis is missing and I think we won't see this time ever again.
Agree 100%
I feel like back in those days it was more typical that games were legitimately passion projects instead of just about making a billion
I’d actually get excited by trailers and new game announcements, follow them on forums. Now it’s just so toxic and boring
God do I miss those days, thankfully I can still play it all
I would say that 2008 or 2009 could/should be added.
But yeah the 2010s kinda sucked. I think the 2020s are getting better surprisingly.
The shit games and good games that are constantly being released since the inception of gaming industry, mate. It is all highly subjective. People just have natural tendency to forget bad things.
This is the post needed, this video is......well. Not correct. 2006 to 2013 is the beginning of mainstreaming the creativity of the 90's and early 2000's
@diamondhamster4320 This. There's always been shitty, buggy, unoptimised games since the beginning of the industry.
However, I feel like the standard for a well developed game has risen much much higher (not saying there weren't standards before, there definitely were) due to the insane popularity gaming has reached. So it gets talked about and scrutinised much more.
I really liked the way you could customize your spells in Two Worlds 2. Unleashing an army of giant scorpions on a bunch of bandits and going invisible always makes me laugh
I don't think you're right about being a Golden Era of RPGs, the 2000s are a Golden Era of everything.
Gothic, Titan Quest, Drakensang, Risen and Neverwinter Series
It was a time of brave devs and insane ideas. Now, it's mostly rehashing and polishing. Almost every big project became a polished mediocrity.
Yea for the past 7-8 years rarely an RPG catches my eye as generally it is one of the genre's of games that just got worse with time.
Mainly,because most of them go for a far to casual approach and just get boring and have a world that doesn't draw you in.
Games like Elex and Kingdom come deliverance are some of the only RPG's that I personally highly enjoyed since 2017.
Really hate seeing one of my most liked genres go down the toilet since the writers and devs just fail a ton.
@@gucciguy3408 Same, I liked Elex 2 too
@@gucciguy3408 I loved elex / elex 2 so much. so sad to hear piranha bytes is over.
Thank you for putting the title of all of these games in the corner.
Thank you for finnally playing Dark Messiah. I am looking forward for your review. Take care !
I was wondering if you're going to see the video actually. I remember all of your comments about Dark Messiah. 😁
Or maybe I got the wrong guy, lol.
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BAck then studios still where about the "old school" feel of an RPG, but they started to flesh out the "cinematic" side of the RPG experience, but not to the detriment of the gameplay and the story telling and player agency.
They would also try new stuff, and it worked most of the times, but in the end it made them memorable.
I really loved Jade Empire, the other Bioware RPG that unfortunatly never had a sequel.
Games back then: By gamers, for gamers.
AAA games now: By managers, for shareholders.
Dragon age origins is my favorite
why do they hit different? because back then they still had writers whose main goal was trying to tell a story.
Dragon Age Origins alone probably has more memorable characters than all RPGs of the last couple of years combined.
The game worlds also had a more handcrafted feel, unlike the giant, procedurally generated open worlds full of MMO style busy work quests we usually get now.
dragon age origins has a goated world and set up, that opening cutscene of grey wardens always hypes me up
Oblivion is the comfiest RPG ever made.
The tech limitations and the ways that devs transcended these were definitely key in making certain games memorable, regardless of generation. I'd agree with your point that modern RPGs have a lot more commonalities in their visual styles and handling for sure
These were the games made by the CRPG OG guys from the 80s-90s, that did it for the love of RPG's, when they had a bit more money and better hardware/graphics.
It's a golden era of Action-RPGs. Actual RPGs were nonexistent during that time.
Nowadays games are mostly made to tick boxes on a list of requirements that some room of faceless suits has produced taking ideas from titles like these that came before. It's the smaller AA's and indies that will push things and experiment.
Golden age of gaming began in the late 90's, so many really good titles came out around 98
My favorite era is more around Gothic 1-2 & Morrowind, but there are a lot of really solid RPGs from 2006-2009, I cannot deny. I do love Dark Messiah, such an underrated gem.
It's funny you bring up Two Worlds, I'm playing Two Worlds 1 right as I listen to this video. Despite the obvious criticisms of the game, it's actually a solid action RPG (for the most part, it definitely has notable flaws).
I dont think i can pick a favorite era but I definitely love those games.
A few games that kinda give me the same feeling but that are modern are Kingdom Come Deliverance, Outward, Elex, and even dragons dogma to an extent. It makes me happy that we still get some REALLY good more hardcore action adventure rpgs.
@@FunkyPunk1995 I've played and enjoyed each of those games. (Haven't gotten Dragon's Dogma 2 yet though.)
@@FunkyPunk1995 Enderal is another good one.
@@youngimmortal4719 i got dd2 on launch day and finished my first playthrough doing about 90-95% of the content after 105 hours.
Also, if you saw the controversy about the micro transactions just ignore it. I didn’t even know they were available until like a week after playing because i saw it online. Theres no im game store and there no mention of it in game. They only way youd even know they were there was if you go to your storefronts game page, then go to the dlc section there. I never once felt the need to buy them AND every item they sell you can get for free in the game, even in the first few hours. I felt like theyre only there because some higher up said they had to be. But the game is 100% not balanced for you needing or even wanting to buy them at all. I truly believe the controversy was blown out of proportion by people who didn’t play it and said “mtx = bad” without knowing how they actually rate to and function in the game
@@WarmongerL0M3N ive played it for a few hours on two separate occasions but never got very far tbh. I may need to go back and give it another go.
I didn’t dislike it, it just didn’t hold my attention for whatever reason. Im not sure why myself tbh.
All the old school RPGs just have that magic touch and passion behind them which makes playing them even to this day extremely fun. With the exception of a few most modern day RPGs feel like money grabs rather then passion projects. Massive open worlds with the illusion of choice and side activities that mean nothing. the early 2000s was truly the best time to be a gamer imo. there is still some amazing games these days. but far and few between which is sad.
Sacred 2 was incredible, and having Blind Guardian's music was a sick touch!
Totally agree! That intro with the Blind Guardian song! This world is Saaaacreeed!
Witcher 1 was such a vibe man i love the atmosphere of that game
Yeah, the atmosphere of Witcher 1 is still unparalleled, even though I consider W2&3 to be better games. If the remake will be able to recreate even a little glimpse of that with modern graphics that would be cool as hell.
@@JC-kl3uc I think this is why i didn't like witcher 3 that much, siri is kinda annoying too tbh but i agree with you
yeah, gothic 3 was my game when I was young.
bought it cheap, ran on my mediogre pc fine.
it has been praised all over but 1 thing I found rarely mentioned but it left a major mark on me.
I love deserts in video games. They are the perfect spot to showcase your map+level design skills.
in G3 it is empty, but not, the things there have reason to be there not just "stuff to fill the space" but also leaves room for you to feel that the desert is a bleak space but not without reason. its people are also not just "man but in desert clothes" they have their own themes and are connected to the main story in a non-direct way.
I love Neverwinter Nights a lot, it's funny but i never actually finished the story - mainly because for a DnD based title it played like a glorified ARPG, there werent really much of a story, characters and interesting side quests.. but instead i spent many hours online on custom lore friendly server. What's still amazing even without remastered edition, after 22 years it's user interface and overall controls are probably THE BEST ever created for a game like that. And the special effects from magic spells were soooo ahead of it's time it's insane. Even though NWN2 used more modern engine, it was never nearly as comfortable to play as the original game, but with NWN2 i actually finished the story and online never got that popular - so the other way around. It was a proper story RPG with party full of characters instead of carrying around a single side kick with few lines of dialogue each chapter..
The only good official NWN 1 campaign was Hordes of the Underdark.
It had a massive amount of amazing player-made modules like Aielund Saga or Bastard of Kosigan.
I wish my man play Overlord games someday. They are short and simple compared to big RPGs but they had so much potential, fun and captured the nostalgia of the era.
Surprisingly, I'm replaying Gothic 3 but this time, with the community patch. Such an amazing RPG.
Love your videos man
Excellent video man! And the sweetest thing is that all of those games work on steam deck with a little thinkering. 🙃
Excellent work. I definitely agree with you, that age was golden for rpgs. As it was this year between Baldurs Gate 3 and Dragon's Dogma 2. We are so lucky
My favorite years are 99-2002 with games like Revenant,Planescape Torment,Nox,Summoner,Icewind Dale ,Baldur's Gate II,Vampire: The Masquerade ,Diablo 2,Gothic I,Arcanum,Anachronox ,Dungeon Siege,Divine Divinity,Gothic II
I love when an rpg have that soundtrack playing in the back all the time the immersion grows a lot feeling whe belong to that world
I'd expand the era to 1998 to 2012 the time when there were already huge budgets, but yet not quite the way to monetize them optimally. So instead they competed on merit.
Yup, golden times. And Dragon Age Origins is goated
Dragon Age Origins: Dark and Gritty
Dragon Ag 2: Characters cracking a joke in every conversation.
Dragon Age Inquisition: Rainbows flying everywhere.
Utter nonsense.
The 2nd one was just as dark as the 1st, it takes place in a city where slavery on the industrial scale has permanently scarred the veil and there are blood mages everywhere ! But it had colors other than brown, the only thing he has over Origins IMO.
Inquisition is straight high fantasy, I agree.
Dragon age 1 deserve a remake ASAP
Dragon Age 2 was definitely a weird game, but i have enjoyed inquisition quite a lot. The only "flaw" i rememer is that locations and some of the side activities played like they were recycled material from an MMO RPG. But other than that it was pretty good, yes couple of over the top characters, but overall a fine game. I also heard some good things about story DLC, but never got to play it.
@@armelior4610 sorry, I should have made it clearer. Yes, the locations, feel and story are dark but the characters are comedians, cracking a joke or being sarcastic every 2 mins or so, just like the Avengers movies. I'm not saying comedy is bad in a dark fantasy world, it's just that it's overdone in dragon age 2 which breaks the immersion of a dark fantasy world.
In 2006-2009 video game companies made games. Now video game companies make product.
This was such a welcome trip down the memory lane
Hi. I have a suggestion for an obscure RPG you can check out. Jade Empire. Don't know if you've heard of it or played it. It is a Bioware game that does not get very much attention. It is an early attempt from Bioware to make a more action focused game with lighter RPG mechanics. I love it and really want a remake or spiritual successor to it because it does many things I love. The combat is focused on styles that are like simple martial arts movesets. You collect styles and can switch between them during combat. The combat can feel very janky but it can get better as you collect more styles and find ones that work better for you.
Really nice video BTW. My first RPGs were Two Worlds, then Oblivion, then Gothic 3, and then The Witcher. So this feels quite relatable to me. :D
Thanks for this video man, this goes straight to the heart... Sacred 2, Witcher 1, Dark Messiah, Titan Quest, Fallout & NV, Risen... Those games are very special to me too. Those I didn't complete back in the day I replayed later. And Risen is one the rare games I played thoroughly twice.
I agree with the vibrant colors style, I tend to like that more too, especially nowadays after more than a decade of grimdark titles in the trail of Dark Souls.
Witcher 1 had that vibe where you would really get immersed into the everyday life of a witcher, more than the others imo.
Sacred 2 I'd like to replay again, but it had a memory leak problem that would make the game freeze on some modern setups, is it still the case?
Dark Messiah has a uniquely fun gameplay more 1st person games should draw from. Too short but so good.
If Titan Quest had a proper endgame, I would still be playing it. Grimdawn is great but yeah, I prefer TQ setting and color palette...
Can't wait for Titan Quest 2!
And you finally succeded at putting in my head to retry Gothic 3 ;-)
As for the favorite era, I don't really have one, I think there was great stuff at all time. And nowadays with all the games releasing all the time, we're pretty sure to always find something that suits us somehow.
1994-1999 was the best time for RPGs: Realms of Arkania, Thief, Deus Ex, Darklands, System Shock 2, Baldur's Gate, Fallout - I could go on!
I like my graphics with a little bit more graphics in them. Industry needed 5 or so years more.
@@raynortownly7098 Well, you'll miss out on some great cRPGs then - you're loss! :)
Should be the Infinity Engine era. 1998 onwards
„And Piranha bytes“
You have heard that the studio closed right?
Are you planning to make a "Chronicles of Myrtana - Archolos" vid?
As a serious Gothic-enjoyer I would expect it from you, I've been looking forward to it since it came out.
Been revisiting/cleaning up my backlog, as of late and having a blast.
Dude this video is making me feel so nostalgic, so many good childhood memories!
I love all of these games, Dark messiah might and magic still has really yet to be dethroned as the best first person melee combat for n RPG, Darktide is about the only game to have better first person melee combat but that isnt an RPG
and the OST of gothic 3 is probably one of the best video game soundtracks ever made
So glad you are bringing more visibility of the Gothic series to the video gaming world, the gothic series is my favorite series of all time and for so many years i would tell people that was my favorite game and they had no idea what it even was, glad to see more and more people are realizing how good it is
The witcher 1 looks beautiful and i love the atmosphere. I always go back ans forth between if i like 1 or 2 more. While i can agree 3 is the best, its my least favorite. I feel like the series didn’t need to go open world. I feel like theres no reason to go open world if you dont have a huge emphasis on exploration. In 3 theres no reason to explore any place you dont have a quest for because all cool and meaningful locations have nothing of value until you get a quest for that location and that sucks.
Indeed i mean for 3 i got 200 hours out if it but never have had the desire to ever play it again meanwhile the first witcher i only have 180 hours in with somewhere around half a dozen playthoughs and yet still will go back and play it again.
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I don't know why
But when it comes to Videogames, Music and movies.
The millennium era is always the golden era
The entire 2000s were a gaming golden age, 6th and 7th gen consoles and PC gaming were lit. Gaming became big enough for bolder budgets and projects. By 2013 with 8th gen consoles gaming became mainstream and corporate. Stiffled all creativity forced microtransactions, cosmetic dlcs, always on online for single player just to make back those huge ridiculous budgets. Innovation slowed down too just due to costs.
I just love this low- to mid-poly art style from the mid 2000's.
Wait you've never played Mass Effect 2 and 3? Whaaat??? They are incredibly good! As far as party based RPG's go they've only been superseeded as the greatest with the release of BG3 and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I got started with the original Boulder's Gate, and I'm still hugely fond of all things RPG :)
I just went back to Titan Quest a few days ago to finish off one or two of my old characters that I abandoned in 2017 after playing it hundreds of hours.
Dawn of Magic is also worth mentioning, even though it's basically abandonware. In tone and looks it's somewhat close to games like TQ and Sacred 2 and its large (but full of empty buildings) cities are very much culturally inspired and way too big similar to Sacred 2. It doesn't look as sharp as either of those games and the world itself is more of an ARPG killing sandox, but it still manages to stand apart with its unique magic-combo system. I have almost as much time on it as TQ. ARPGs are just much more easily replayable than huge RPGs.
It's because they weren't just action rpgs, yet. They were RPGS. Character crafting and roleplaying were the focus. That's starting to come back a bit, thankfully.
Facts, great video once again bud
2001 - FFX, Golden Sun, Diablo2 Lord of Destruction expansion and Gothic. You just can't beat it.
Great vid. Brought back some memories. Hoping the Gothic remake turns out good.
I still go back and play Origins every other year. It was just fantastic
For anybody not already familiar with the indie scene, you need to do so. I recommend Splattercat the most as he features one indie game every day on his TH-cam channel.
second and third mass effect games were absolutely amazing, you should definitely try them
It took a while for the game industry to do good combat in a rpg. Early games had to use pause or a turn based tactics style to get around limitations. Others used first person view for its immersion even though the actual combat was bad it was fine since the immersion level was there and the rpg mechanics were robust since they took inspiration from table top.
I just talked about this today, how old games were more colorful and how everything was modeled and placed in a deliberate manner. where as now everything is so 'realistic' (meaning mundane) and rng-spawned over vast areas. every rock and tree used to feel like it was placed there with a meaning, and it made everything so much more immersive. every nook of the game world felt like someone actually took time to make it by hand. now the fidelity is off the charts but somehow the artistry and design has gone down the drain. everything feels so generic.
I REALLY loved the colors in old games. There are some games I dont like playing just because the colors feel too faded, like ESO and FFXIV. Also, for the record, you can have a dark colored game that still has amazing colors!
Sacred 2 looks like a game i would enjoy
Thanks for the recommendation
Yeah I think that’s the same Xbox 360 golden era too.
Batman, mass effect, elder scrolls, fable and a bunch of others. Man that was good gaming. I wonder what happened. Games aren’t like that anymore
I just realized that this was probably the time in my llife where I was more about getting drunk and partying than playing video games. played way more before and after that^^
Since i started watching your videos my GOG library as augmented significantly lol
Dark messiah is a gem that just did not get enough love. It had a meh ending, but we really needed more games like it, after its release. Can you imagine a skyrim like game, with dark messiah style gameplay and physics. Kingdom come came the closest, but its its own thing and not quite the same.
Risen was also one of those games that have a special place in my gamer heart. And two worlds for some damn reason, even though it blows.. I always reminisce about it, I think it was just the time in general. I tended to stray from the mainstream games, even though I loved the morrowinds and oblivions etc. I liked getting lost in the eurojank piranhabyte games and other underrated games of the time.
sjajan video, kao i uvjek... Hvala. Kad stignes, potrazi Seal of Evil igru, malo ljudi zna za nju.
will you ever do a full review on chronicles of myrtana ?
The oblivion soundtrack hits different nowadays❤
dont forget abount mount & blade, the game was awesome
8:45 Saying that Gothic 3 had plenty of technical issues and bugs is really underselling it. I bought the German version on release day back then and I remember having to download a updated Installer for the game because the one they shipped on the disc didn´t work correctly. And then I had a progression breaking bug maybe 30 Minutes into the game. After getting send to the beach and going back to the down the character that´s supposed to give you the quest to find that wizzard guy wasn´t in the town anymore. I couldn´t start the main quest of the game.
I didnt have internet back in a day, so i didnt even knew i needed System Pack for windows XP to even run it x_x.
Gothic 3 was great, thank god for the modding community because i remember those days back when it first came out and woo boy those stutters, crashes, bugs, glitches, and just straight up headache inducing moments/parts of the game ... i will never forget lol ... Gothic as a series is just overall great and something i always come back to at least once or twice a year. Its like Minecraft and that 2 week phrase you get randomly?
Loved me some Gothic 3 back in the day!
Totally agree with this. Oblivion is my all time favourite game. The DLC’s in this period were also great. Shivering isles, Point Lookout. Awesome times.
Horse armor lol😉
Dark Mesiah of might and magic multiplayer was really good.
Can we please talk about how good Gothic 3 still looks to this day?`The graphics in this game were amazing. It was beautiful.
kinda reminds me ... RTS games from late 90s till the early 2000s
Starcraft 2 is the Anomaly here (2010)
They certainly do!
Around 1997- 2004 is my favorite between fallout, baldurs gate, planescape torment, gothic 1&2 and ps1 / ps2 era jrpgs, it was such a fond time.
After that 2015 upward until today i think we are seeing some of the best RPGs ever made since early 2000s. You just have to look past AAA bullshit. Underrail, age of decadence, disco elysium, pathfinder, etc. There are few diamonds in the AAA space too baldur's gate 3 and kingdom come deliverance.
While I get joy from watching you play the obscure and underrated pc western rpgs(I used to search and dig like crazy on internet and gog).....I get sad since I no longer have an pc anymore...I have moved twice and its too hard to carry around an full desktop ☹️.
I have an anniversary edition of titan quest with players 6 mod halfway and an temple of elemental evil half playthrough with circle of the eight mod....I backup the save files on an external HD and steam got my titan quest save on cloud but again no place to play them.
Risen 1 is probably the best one, it's the Gothic 3 we never got. Great list played most of them ,there might be some good RPGs after '09 but that period was probably the golden era of this genre. Graphics and game mechanics has improved a lot throughout the years but the one thing these game had that most new titles lack is an immersive world/environment and storyline.
2006 through 2009 was a golden era of gaming in general. RPGs, fps, third person shooters or even third person action adventure. Best years of my gaming history
Also totally thought you were far past 100k, love your content brother! Appreciate your hard work
Oblivion was my first RPG. It was the epitome of what I considered to be a game from the future when I was young. The fact you could move shit around and pick things up was incredible. I will never forget being in the starting dungeon and moving the chains around and them reacting to your body. That was my first experience with "next gen" gaming, coming from Gran Turismo and MGS3 on the PS2.
The atmosphere is absolutely the best part of that game. Everything about it sits in a deep part of my soul. Aggrandizing, I know.. But it does lol. I still play it a couple times a year. I've done that starter dungeon hundreds of times. It's a problem ;)
Oblivion, as one of my all-time favorite games, is great. I wonder, how do you feel about Skyrim? I feel like it lost some of the charm we got with Morrowind and Oblivion, and I don't know why....
The Rpgs elements got cut out more and more, thats why Skyrim dont feel as impactful. Even Oblivion was a very light weight Rpg compared to Morrowind and especially Daggerfall.
I think Stalker technically can be called a RPG .It is super good at the atmosphere and world dynamic. I suggest go through some of them before stalker 2 drop
Raise your hand if you remember the golden age of gaming and that golden age happens to overlap with when you were a kid who didn't know a fucking thing about media.
Ahhh ..... the Gothic 3 music. So nice. :)
I got a trilogy of 2009 favorites. Risen, Divinity 2 and Fable 2. All on Xbox 360 I know but the ports aren't as bad as you say and now you can play them in better quality on Series X (retrocompatibility for the win)
You should do review four spellforce series. It blends RPG and RTS very well aloso it has very nice story and setting
My greatest dream is a game that utilizes OpenMW Engine for game with similar color palette and coziness like Oblivion. I need a new feelgood rpg.
Dark Messiah of M&M is one of my all time favorites. Such an under-rated gem IMO. Did you try Might & Magic X yet, @C4G ? It's a grid based one like grimlock but it's not bad either. I had fun once I got the hang of it. In your video of Gothic 3 did you get the game from Steam? I can't seem to ever get those working. It took a long time to get Gothic 2 to work I had lots of crap to do to make it happen.
Those were the days!
Hey I love what you're doing with your channel. Really good content. Revisiting these games It's a different thing today on 2024 and we appreciate the games in a unique way.
We should remember these games with their pros and cons. And this is what you are doing with these videos. Thank you. Really Enjoying your channel.
Dark Messiah is definitely the most unique of all the RPG's mentioned in the vid. I really wish they'd make a remake, or a sequel. Too bad it'll most likely never happen :/
Love your chanel. Have you tried ATOM RPG? As an isometric post apocaliptic RPG it is awesome. Like Fallout 2 were back in its time.