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Friday Fun Thread for March 14, 2025

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Did you try the assassin's creed rpgs? Origins and Odyssey? They are my favourite games in the series, like if the Witcher 3 was historical fantasy.

Also based on your list there I'd suggest checking out Arkane's games if you haven't already. Dishonored and Prey are phenomenal and a good balance of strategy and pacing.

Dishonored and Prey are great immersive sims, unfortunately the studios behind them have been shut down. Immersive Sims always have their studios shut down. I am not that fond of the other Assasins Creed games. The advancements you saw in those with Ezio as the protagonist in a pre microtransaction, leftier than thou world was quite good. The sequels may be good but they are not that much better, and frankly, they are not even proper RPGs the way actual RPGs are. They are less RPG like than new Fallout games, which are terrible shooters LARPing as RPGs, except for New Vegas, which is awesome.

Yeah it's tough being an imsim fan. There are some good ones coming out in the indie scene though, if you don't mind a bit of jank and ugliness - Shadows of Doubt is great for a wip (and not only is it 40% off in the Steam spring sale, but at fanatical you can get it and total war warhammer (or Cryptmaster if you like puns - if you like puns you'll love Cryptmaster) for $10 usd) and the Intravenous series is outstanding if you like the top down view style imsims. Other good ones include Gloomwood, ctrl alt ego, and Teardown.

Also man what does rpg even mean anymore? Since mass effect 2 it has basically meant 'whatever, as long as there are dialogue options'. Not even loot is a prerequisite these days! I do take your point though, it's silly to compare them to actual rpgs like Pillars of Eternity or Rogue Trader . But I will not allow you to compare Assassin's Creed Odyssey to the Bethesda Fallouts, them's fightin words son! I know the primary appeal of the game is that it's like the arcade version of living in ancient Greece, but it has the thing I want most out of any game - a reactive story that changes based on your actions. Way more reactive than Bethesda fallouts.