>there will never be a game that captures the feel of going

>>270246071
Dragon Quest VIII.

what is every zelda game ever

>>270246071
looking at that picture make me think of "Shadow of the colossus", maybe that's the game you're looking for

Shadow of the colossus

>>270246185
not good is what they are

>>270246185
>skyward sword
>grand adventure

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>>270246185

There are a lot of pre-2000 and early 00s games that captures the feel and satisfaction of going on a grand adventure

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>>270246071
Dragons Dogma

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>>270246071
This one gave me that feeling

>>270246071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkYJtLMEjo

i m playing this game now
so awesome, i just wished there was more enemy variety
but its very good

>>270246678
ahahahahahaha

>>270246071
Hey Anon, got any recommendations for innocent fantasy literature?
I love The Wheel of Time, and A Song of Ice And Fire is okay, but it's been ages since I read something which feels "pure" like LoTR and Shannara and the like.

>>270246071
>grand adventure
>photo from lotr

wow, your faggot is showing.

>>270246473
THIS

The only game which ever gave me that feel.
Link's Awakening and Morrowind came somewhat close, though.

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>>270246719
>lord of the rings
>not one of or if not the most grandest adventure ever

>>270246678
curt schilling get the fuck out

>>270246716
what ?

>>270246719
Burn yourself and your heirs.

Elder Scrolls and Fallout series?

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>>270246868
>actually thinking this
>probably stroking their limited edition shit ring and shit sword

>>270246718
Earthsea

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>>270246071
Grandia is that game

>>270246678
Almost got me. I even went to GameSpot for a review.

>>270246718
Harry Potter

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Call of Juarez did for me. The first one. Especially the part where you're with an Indian on the plains and have to explore it.

Fuck I loved that game.

>>270246387
If the world map were bigger and there were more large settlements I would agree.

We can hope for more in the second one ;_;

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>>270246960
>your heirs

m'lady.

>>270246718
Edge Chronicles

>>270246473

Came here to post this.

Fuck you OP.

>>270246071
Play Ys faggot

>>270247108
>No, but am re-watching my extended edition bluray boxset.

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>>270246473

I second this shit, even though I think it was kind of slow in the combat, at later points of the game I just wanted to finish because there was no point in doing all the sidequests because you were already strong as fuck when u reached the final dungeon, not to mention, the battles were sorta slow and animations couldn't be skipped, would play again if I could fast forward some stuff like in Chrono Cross, but other than that it's a great fucking game, the only one to give me that "BIG ADVENTURE FEEL" you really felt far away from home.

Oh and the final boss was sort of underwhelming IMO.

Dragons Dogma

>>270246143

theres one

>>270247338
On that note.
Red Dead: Redemption

>>270246504
>grand adventure
>in a single building

>>270247338
I forgot about this game. Kinda clunky but still very enjoyable.
And yeah that part with the Indian was kinda neat - felt kewl climbing and looking out from the giant rock mountain.

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>>270247415
so you're spending the week with your girlfriend then.

>>270246071
both of the new Fallout games were decent for setting up the Grand adventure

Fallout 3 by juxtapositioning the cramped dark Vault with the blinding and open outdoor world, and Vegas on the trek to Vegas itself (a bit of a slower burn but still a nice setup as an open ended 'tutorial segment' like the vault was)

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>>270247108
name another work of fiction that even comes close to the amount of detail and storytelling than tolkien's

faggot

>Video games will never have forests that you can get lost in due to tree density

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>>270246071
Those sunrises

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>>270246473

>you will never play Grandia for the first time again

why live?

>>270247653
The majority of pen and paper RPG settings.

>>270247108
Fuck out of here star trek fag.

It's a fucking grand adventure riding a horse across middle earth.

The only game i can remember so far that gave me that feeling is old runescape, but to be fair i was in high school and did not know any better

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>>270247581

>>270247659
I got lost constantly in Wurm.

>Dragon's Dogma finally gives you the experience of a living, breathing party as you roam the countryside

>All they do is shout WOLVES! WOLVES! WOLVES!

I regret beating that shitfest.

tales of symphonia
skies of arcadia

>>270247571
It's kind of overlooked as it wasn't really anything particularly special, it just stuck with me for some reason.

The part at the end when you're exploring the empty town of Juarez trying to find the tomb as the sunsets is atmospheric as fuck too.

>>270246473
underated/forgotten game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji71k70CYOE

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Step it up niggas.

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>>270247285
look, i got it on steam for like 5bucks during some major sale and i even forgot i had installed, i tried it yesterday before removing it to make space for Evolve alpha and i suddenly got addicted to it, the storyline has nothing unique and the gameplay has a lot of things you seen in other games but it feels so good to play for some reason
i would say this game is a solid 8/10 but well, if you tried and didnt liked it maybe your demanding taste will only get settled once the new zelda/witcher/elders scrolls gets released
in the mean time, i gonna play some more

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>>270247653
Why should I bother? Anything I say will just be drown out by your fanboyism fapping loudly.

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Tomba

from the most humble of beginnings this game grows in scale so organically. Also it's super comfy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8AQuo2i0Y

>>270247903
Yeah, it had some pretty fucking awesome bits. Chasing down Billy as the Reverend and going full commando felt pretty great overall.
Fuck, maybe I should replay it sometime.

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>>270246071

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Final Fantasy 9 captures this feel insanely well.

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>>270247659
Some day...

>>270247738
go back to your my little pony...

>>270246718
O christ i fucking love all of Terry Brooks' Shannara books. I've been thinking of rereading them for awhile now.

>>270246143
>>270246473
>>270247170

I will add Wild Arms 1 and Alundra 1 too.

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>>270247973
>grand adventure
>with randumb encounters every 5 seconds while not flying above clouds

>>270247736
>general setting =/= storytelling
Are you completely fucking retarded?

>>270246718
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

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>>270247973
Best game, but sucks if you want a physical copy shit goes for $50 then again you could emulate but not the same feels imo.

>>270247659
because they all have a minimap with an arrow pointing to the next objective

>>270248168
What game?

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Morrowind

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>>270247346
Anon... Let it go.

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>>270248271
Get a load of this faggot.

>>270246473
Any other games were you go beyond the end of the world?

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>>270248512
Outerra. It's an engine in development.

>>270248540
You, come to my thread and give me advice on this game >>270247997 , or tell me here.

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Never ever

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ToV

>>270248353
Are you so retarded you don't know that the settings are (outside of rules) all made up of various stories?

LotR is a P&P RPG with the creating a character part left out.

>>270248726
if you don't like it now you never will

Gothic 2.

Dark Souls II did this pretty well.

If you don't know what it is it is a third person action RPG.

>>270248795
Eternia was, and still is the best Tales in terms of atmosphere and feeling of a huge adventure ahead.

>>270246071
dargon quest 8
skyes of arcadia
grandia 1 and 3
wind waker

>>270247124
Thanks! Haven't read that.

>>270247314
Actually a decent recommendation, though I suppose you meant it as bait.
Through I have of course read it already.
(Hate how shit the series went after the 3rd/4th, though)

>>270247371
Is that a real thing, or are you calling me an edgemaster or something? I don't get it.

>>270248241
Same here.
But sadly rereading never feels the same as the first virgin voyage

>>270248716
Looks like shit. Those waves are laughable.

>implying any part of LOTR matters when you learn about religious undertones and the fact that they had an angel guarding them the entire time
>its all just a retelling of the bible in a very obscure manner
bravo christians

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>>270246718
Check out Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams. It's not completely innocent as there is occasional violence, but it's truly a grand adventure filled with great characters. I feel like this trilogy carries the essence of LOTR more than any other fantasy series or even the LOTR movies.

Tales of Symphonia did

>>270248823
>LotR is a P&P RPG with the creating a character part left out.
Wrong

P&P RPG´s are emulating LotR

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>>270248726
I don't know what kind of advice I can give you.

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>>270248935
lel sorry man, it's a real book series, the entire world is on the edge of a giant cliff and there's airships and tons of weird shit

>>270249070
>M-muh special snowflake book is so unique that everyone is coping it forever

Tolkien was a hack who just collected together a bunch of legends and folklore and called it a book.

>>270248116
Pretty accurate

>>270248378
Thanks. Added to my list.

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>>270248938
Really? Show me a large-scale engine that looks better.

>>270249208
God, I remember that book. I read it as a kid. Good shit.

I remember another one similar to it called "Rumo". That was also quite good. They probably don't stand up to reading as an adult though.

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Yes, you will never be the young teen playing WoW when it first came out.

fuck it

>>270249208
Huh. Looks promising enough.
Thanks a lot.

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>>270248938
They do look pretty bad but it is rendering the geography of the entire planet.

>>270249241
0/10
This isn't even bait.

>>270248842
to bad controls suck

>>270249189
Terranigma?

>>270249440
I was and it was fun

>>270247983

shit is fun, not too heavy.

>>270246319
who is that?

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>>270246387
>>270246297
>>270247665
>>270247864
>>270248116
>>270248795
Although I agree with all of these in the way that they should feel like a grand adventure... I always get caught up in the gameplay/collectibles/meta stuff and I've never been able to let myself be part of the adventure itself ;_;

Shadow of the Collossus was close, but I only felt like I was part of something bigger when I was witnessing the ending scene. By then it was too late.

>>270249641
Enjoy being an insufferable cunt who puts his bookfu on a massive pedestal.

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>>270246718
Hold onto your butt

>>270249858
underage &n

>>270249617
>it is rendering the geography of the entire planet
This is not how graphics works.

>>270249858
I guess it's Sarina Valentina

>>270250030
I've got a signed copy, and I didn't even like it.
I like how good Brandon is at describing strife and pain, but beyond that it isn't a very good book.
Far prefer Elantris, despite the nagging feeling that it's not quite "complete".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyrfokOkvCU
Do you remember it? This feeling?

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>>270248157
You have all my nostalgia anon, but the problem with those games is they encourage you to scour them for knowledge and locations, and then the adventure is over for good. It will take me a good decade before I forget the details which are worth discovering.

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>>270250128
If you say so.

>>270250552
I think he means that the planet will have been randomly generated, and the graphics engine isn't constantly rendering the entire planet, it's rendering only certain parts of it optimised for different scales.

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>>270247983
>>270247285
>>270246678
Really like it. Sure it gets repetitive, but it's also pretty comfy for lack of better word. Great general mood, music, voiceacting (rarely even notice it, but it's seriously god tier here), visuals. Nice lore and themes of fate and shit, deeper than it may look like at first glance.

>>270250706
It's not randomly generated, they generated it based on whatever numbers they had that digitized the planet. It's quite accurate.

Of course there are levels of detail, not shit. But you can zip around the planet in it's actual scale and it almost always looks great.

>>270246868

>hurr bring ring to volcano to destroy big bad guy
>hurr something goes wrong
>hurr will the MAIN CHARACTER DIE
>LMAO WHO ARE WE KIDDING OF COURSE NOT
>ring destroyed
>everyone happy

GEE ADVENTURE!!!

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>>270247864
>>270247973

These niggas get it.

>>270250990
>LITERALLY JUST SAW THE MOVIES
KILL YOURSELF

>>270246071
>grand adventure
>gayest heroic fantasy on screen ever
wat

>>270250990
>>270251201

you can stop samefagging now GoT kiddie

>>270250990
everyone look at this man and laugh

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>that one ending when he just throws everything into oblivion and runs away with her, watching as the world slowly ends from a distance

>>270251201
>screen
Time to read some fantasy - it's best now, while you're still 14.

>>270251263
You lose, not the same guy.
And I don't look at GOT because it's like the opposite.
LOTR is gay, GOT is hurr durr dicks and violence.

The only good heroic fantasy stuff I liked back then was Conan.
Because let's face it, elves and demons and shit is totally gay.

>>270251201
Its the founder of modern high fantasy

Show some respect

>>270251517
>comparing low and high fantasy

get out

>>270250990
i know right, fuck hero's journey, so fucking mainstream. god damn sheeple learn to think for yourselves! *watches ultra contrived anime thats contrived just for the sake of it*

>>270251498
Same shit for same tards.
Heroic fantasy is the Brony vibe of the late 1950's.

>>270251517
>dicks and violence
>dicks
>Southpark is my one and only source for all culture
To this date, not a single dick has been showed on GoT, and there's no focus on dicks in ASoIAF.

Quick.
Comfiest Dragon Quest?

>>270251414
This game I wanted to love so much. It had such a great feeling. But that shitty puzzle where you have to do something utterly counterintuitive at the start really put me off. Grand adventure does not come from repeating content until I pick the right dialogue tree.

>>270251814
Have you ever even read a book you weren't forced to read in highschool?

>this thread again
Dwarf fortress, brah

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I love games that just take you so far away from where you start.
I know you return to Stark a few times. But still.

A modern grand adventure game would be good.

>>270251958
I don't read at all, I just live in the real world.
I'm not into mind slavery.

>>270246387
>there will never be a Dragon's Dogma 2

>>270251996
u wot m8

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>>270248675
Breath of Fire 3.
>>270251957
>2 variants in dialogues, one of which leads to the bad, but interesting ending and other one continues the story with the ability to replay the last minutes and chose another variant
>every timeline jump is explained to you multiple times
>shitty
>puzzle
You what?

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>>270252260

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It's simple, really.

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>what is ffxiv: arr

just started playing recently and fuck me it's incredible

>>270247564
It was a really big fucking building

actually, it was two buildings stacked atop one another if you weren't a scrub

>>270251057

>getting hit in the eye
>by a pillow
>through a little hole in a wodden wall

Only in anime games.

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Two worlds II

I genuinely really like it, it's fucking great.

>>270252683
worst horse riding in the history of video games

>>270252535
not really a journey

FF X
DQ VIII
DQ IX was pretty good too

>>270252683
I genuinely want to kill you for spreading lies like those.
Fuck you, you fucking asshole.
It's the shittiest game I've ever laid hands on.

dickbutt

Torchlight 2. Albeit not "grand" on a size scale but it definitely was an adventure.

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>>270252881
I'm not telling YOU to like it, anon.

It's why I spoilered it. Yeah, the game has a ton of flaws, but it's still fun to me.

r8 my handhelds

>>270250754
mah nigga.
I played this game like two years ago when it was raining all day long and I had 3 weeks off school. Shit was so fucking comfy

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>>270252881
not him but it's not that bad faggot
>really gear mage combat system
>dat hat

>>270252683
It has a number of SERIOUS issues that never were fixed (worthless loot in minor dungeons, tier progression that stops on the first fucking island), but god, sometimes it felt insanely good.
>>270252741
>not being a mage who can cross the entire worldmap in few minutes and walk on the water

>>270252683
Only because of that qt orc girl.

>>270252426
If you're only able to construct yourself by what you read, vote, or define yourslef by your community/flag/colour/religion and so on ... Anything that doesn't come from your own work or experience, you are actually less than a man.

You're just the product of others.
That's pretty gay and you should kill yourself

>>270252065
mah niggah, TLJ is the greatest adventure game I've played.

>>270253135
>hat makes your hair disappear
And then i just cheated myself a larger mana pool and never used their mage hats again.

dwarf fortress adventure mode has a lot of potential to become a grand adventure, depending on what kind of goals you set for yourself and how in-depth you like to roleplay.

>that atmosphere when checking weather in the morning

>>270249323

Real Virtuality 4, duh. Arma 3 engine.

>>270253160
And that's your reasoning for refusing to ever read anything produced by other people?
As if you're too good to learn from others?
What the hell is wrong with you?

>>270253621
that doesn't look better

>>270253562
>zero interaction with characters beyond combat
>grand adventure
Autismal as fuck.

>>270253562

>Walking for like 30 minutes across a frozen sea to reach an isolated settlement deep in the northern tundra, totally cut off from the rest of the world, in order to learn the secrets of life and death from the necromancers there

>sea instantly unfreezes and refreezes, killing me

>>270253698

get some glasses, your eyes are fucked

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>>270253160

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>>270246185
This, I played OoT 2 years ago and I was feeling like a kid again, the hours passed without noticing, I took time to find out all the secrets of this game and when I finished, I felt empty, not knowing what to play next.

>>270253646
Self-esteem.

ITT decade old western RPG and weeb games.

>>270246071
Ni No Kuni
Morrowind

>>270247659
what is minecraft

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>>270253849
toady's getting there...

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>>270253895
my eyes are fine.

>>270250990
anon, have you considered suicide?

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>>270246071

Nehrim

The first DaS

Gothic 1 and 2

come on, OP, that wasn't that hard

>>270246071
To me it was Xenoblade Chronicles. For the first time in over 13 years I actually had that feeling again.

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>>270248015
>Why should I bother
Because you can't that's why you use that shit BUT YOULL TALK BAD ABOUT IT excuse.

>>270247653
Malazan Book of the Fallen for one.

>>270254639
That game's music and combat was too shit for me to enjoy.

Are any of the Grandia games on PSN? Have they aged okay?

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>>270246718
I'm usually not that into fantasy-literature but I really, really enjoyed the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss.
Might be called a pleb for "entry level" shit though.

>>270250990
>Frodo is the main character of LOTR

>>270251517
>LOTR is gay
>GoT is nothing but sex and violence

Find some valid criticism next time, okay?

Morrowind did, too bad none of the games to follow would.

>>270254771
I enjoyed both

>>270251517
Conan is sword and sorcery.

>>270254809
>entry level shit
I've always hated that mindset. Like what you like, who gives a fuck about how popular or accessible it is.

>>270250990
Everyone happy? How is a mentally damaged Frodo being shipped off to Valinor happy? The ring fucked him to pieces the only way to not go mad is to be around the Valar.

>>270246071
SOTC

>>270254917
I envy your shit taste, the world seems nice.

>>270246071
Just watch one piece

I just want RPGs where the cities aren't fucking empty

And I want to see my party members traveling with me; imagine if you were sailing on a ship like in Wind Waker or something but you could see the rest of your group sitting around the boat as you traveled the seas

>>270246319
I was happy till I read the filename of that gif

>>270246071
What is Dragon's Dogma

>>270254880
Who gives a fuck. Morrowind is literally the best video game of all time. We're not getting anything better.

>>270246071
>tfw I realize my perfect game
>it's basically skyrim
>only good

>>270255165
a very small adventure.

>>270250990
Wow epic

>>270255165
silky smooth 15 fps

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>>270255086

>>270246071
There's something about this image that looks remarkably fake

>>270255071
The combat wasn't bad, it was MMO styled, I find it a lot better than most of the others combat system in jrpgs, especially turn based.
I can understand why people may not like it though.
The music was good.

>>270255175
Just wait for TES VI anon, Bethesda will finally be able to make a good game.
Just kidding ;_;

>>270255462
MMOs have far better combat bud.

>>270246071
like a few other people say i just wish the cities in rpgs were fleshed out more.
It's usually just a shop, an inn, a place to customize your appearance, and like 5 different npcs among the 50ish there that are of any importance
most of the doors to npc houses are usually fucking locked so you can only go into like 3% of the buildings in each city

>>270254809
I thought these were fucking great, anon. Idgaf what everyone else thinks

>>270255526
I just want bethesda to fuck off and give fallout back to obsidian, I'm done with TES. After skyrim I know they can't make good games anymore.

>>270255597
What MMOs are we talking about, the usual WoW clone press hotkeys in sequence to win?

>>270255403
They even went as far as giving another sets of monologues to the townsfolks around the world at different stages of the game, really good.
Unfortunately the game itself is shit though.

>You will never set off with a friend into a world of excitement and danger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hlITBBDrsbc

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>>270255453
What about this?

>>270254221

Me and my roommate just talk to each other in the new Dwarf Fortress things that the NPCs say.

"Hey, how was X?"
"It was sad, but not unexpected."

"Hey look, a black person!"
"IT MUST BE STOPPED WITH VIOLENT FORCE"

Good times

>>270254582
>DaS
>grand adventure

>>270255597
I disagree

>>270255710
I really wish someone competent would take over the TES IP.

>>270255175
The perfect RPG game would be Oblivion-tier sidequests, DaS 1 tier atmosphere, Fallout NV-tier NPCs, Morrowind-tier mainquests, and of course Gothic/Witcher-tier dialogue

>>270246071
Mount and Blade.

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>>270255526
Elder Scrolls VI is my biggest hope.


but I know that it will be Skyrim2

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One of the worst PS1 era jrpgs, but it has a mighty sense of adventure for sure.

>>270254956
>Sorcery in Conan : fuck the crazy sorceress
>Sorcery in LOTR : two gramps making snow falls or light their staffs

>>270255807
Well, it certainly feels like one once you leave the Asylum and start the game, and gives you the kind of feeling OP wanted to have.

>>270255919
combat and music?

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>>270246185
Shit

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Not exactly what one would call a epic adventure, but it was one hell of a adventure

>>270255714
Most modern mmos are much more in depth and action orientated than that but even 1-0 hotkey MMOs have more depth than Xenoblade does and they're harder too but I didn't play the game for that long, maybe 10 hours.

>>270256029
It'll probably be even more casualized, I know some people had trouble with skyrim, mainly hyper casuals who bethesda is of course targeting.

>>270246235

At first glance, I literally thought it was a SotC screenshot.

As for you, OP, I think Final Fantasy IX had a good adventure feel to it. Actually you might like Ni no Kuni

>>270246718
The Old Kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix

>>270246071
Playing Gothic 1 through 3 was a pretty fucking great adventure.

>>270256147
Hard to say, since combat is sucky in most RPGs, but DaS and Morrowind would be my contenders for music.

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>>270255807
It has its moments.
>that feel when standing on the balcony in the Duke's and seeing all those areas you've been through before in the distance

>>270254983
>>270255680
I just realized where I posted this and thought I'd add it. Not really giving a fuck either, I really love the series. Can't wait for the last one, though lazy Rothfuss is making us wait a little longer.

>>270256162
>someone lost time to make that
jesus you console warriors are truly autistic

>>270256284
I'd actually like some names, it's been some time but the last ones i played were Ragnarok 2 and Tera Online, aside from feeling like i was playing the same game again it really wasn't exciting

>>270246071
Correction

> There aren't enough games that feel like a grand adventure

Some have done it for me though:

> Level 5 is the best for this. Dragon Quest 8, Dark Cloud 1 and 2, Ni No Kuni.

> Zeldas. Especially OoT, MM, and WW

> Morrowind, and Oblivion in some parts

> Fable 1, while not perfect, did a pretty good job feeling like a grand adventure.

> Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. It may not be fantasy, but it sure as hell is a huge adventure.

> Pokemon. Crystal especially.

> Okami

That is all I can think of. My top 5 adventures would be
1) Dragon Quest 8, 2) Dark Cloud 2, 3) Zelda: Wind Waker, 4) Okami, 5) Zelda: Majoras Mask

I wonder how are you going to accomplish that.
To get a sense of scale, a lot of the play time should be just travel. That can get kinda boring.

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Ragnarok online was the first game that made me feel like I was on a grand adventure.

>my first swordsman
>the first guild and the first castle invasion
>doing party all day in gh
>being reborn together with all of your guild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXCexeWLG8

>>270246071
>ctrl + f
>no Soul Reaver

For fuck sake guys, seriously...

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>>270256286
Stop it anon, I got it...just stop, please...

>>270253160
Caveman pls go

>>270256562
>Getting on a plane to go for that one steampunk city with a bunch of people on the plane
Shit was interesting somehow
I'd even go as far as saying that Tibia back in the day was a boss at feeling like an adventure, even in the newbie island exploring the most distant parts with the biggest fears of our lives of dying and losing all our 200 golds
Too bad the game went to shit

>>270254809
fucking awesome

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>>270246315
You would pick the CDI games instead?

>>270256785
>TES VI
>only weapon classes will be Axe, Sword and Bow
>two guilds with 3 quests each
>only destrcution, conjuration and illusion magic left
>three main perk trees

You know it will happen anon.

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Paper Mario felt like a big adventure to me

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>>270256562
>wanted to get into it since like 2005
>always ended up forgetting about it
>now it's simply too late

>>270252820
DQ IX is in my top ten games of all time. Fucking incredible

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I will still be, dreaming my way home.

I get whimsical chills whenever I think of my time with this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCYiDp2x54

>>270255762
Kill me now

>>270253621

>someone seriously believe this shit

L
M
A
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RV Engine is straight trash, even Bohemia don't know what the fuck they're doing with that engine. Besides RV engine doesn't have the scale of Outerra in the slightest.

Outerra generates a whole planet. RV Engine generates a 250-450 m2 map, on which you can't max the viewdistance properly ( objects, shadows, the whole deal ) without having to deal with 7 FPS flat.

And i find that funny that you talk about the water in Outerra engine in such a bad way, when the one in ArmA 3 looks like an undistilled pool of shit.

>>270257082
It doesn't matter, bethesda has already released its greatest game - Morrowind.

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Modded Oblivion

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>There will never be a Nausicaä game
>There will never be a Laputa game
>There will never be a Princess Mononoke game
>All of them open ended with no hand holding
>Make your own adventure
>Meet friends
>Explore
>Live

Neither will a game that takes place in Gensokyo, where you play as a villager and will MAYBE get to see a youkai if they attack your village. You wouldn't be the hero, just a bystander trying to get by and maybe helping the shrine maidens. The goal would just be surviving as long as you possibly could.

Dragons Dogma is a lot of fun, it just doesn't feel very grand to me. The only game that has ever given me the sense of immersion in an ancient yet fantastical setting is Shadow of the Colossus.

Each Colossus encounter is unique. It felt like a world of its own and the gameplay allows for a once in a lifetime experience.

Also, whoever posted Grandia...you're awesome.

>>270246387
oh yes, an adventure in the same fucking plains forever, how lovely

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>>270257175
>tfw no Dark Cloud HD collection

>>270257236
Which looks too dated by now.

We know that they still have talent, the DLC are still excellent after all.

They just need to get their shit together and start making good main games again.

>>270256538
>> Pokemon. Crystal especially.
MAH NIGGA

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If you guys need something new, cheap, and easy to find, give this a try. It's a solid 7/10 Zelda knock off. I really enjoyed it.

>>270257331
Was that mod ever finished?

>>270246185
Shit

>>270257331

The wold is fucking small though. I want to be lost.

Now if we were talking about comfy shit, yeah, sure.

>>270246071
>Skies Of Arcadia
>Dragon Quest VIII
>Final Fanasy IX
>Chrono Trigger

Final Fantasy XV is a good challenger too, i recently read a lot of shit about it and it's really promising adventure-wise

>>270257082
STOP

>>270257431
They won't, they want the casual cod audience.

And with mods morrowind looks better than skyrim, doesn't feel dated at all.

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what is Dragon Quest 7. Discovering all these new and different lands with different stories and mysteries was a blast.

>>270257654

It does.

You can make a old game looking how good you want, the gameplay is still dated as shit.

>>270257560
With Unique Landscapes and Better Cities installed you can get lost, other than that there is also a fully finished Elsweyr mod which will expand the world quite a bit, and the total conversion Nehrim feels like a solid 9/10 RPG

>>270257654
Well, problem is, that my PC is mediocre, and Morrowind is, from a technical point of view, unoptimized crap, meaning that I can't run a fully modded Morrowind with all the god-tier graphical enhancements.

>>270257793
Please. After an hour you stop missing shit and that's it. I get the feeling you've played morrowind 20 minutes, said that it's too dated and quit.

Fact is, the gameplay is the most in depth out of all the recent TES titles.

>>270248031
this so much

>>270254809
The Kingkiller Chronicles are pretty overrated

I enjoyed the first book but the second one was utter shit

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>>270257480
I dunno.

>>270257560
>>270257838
There are more mods than that that make the world larger. You can get lost without the compass activated with just UL like that anon said though. Not many other large RPGs though, I think I've only ever been lost in modded Oblivion now that I think about it, as far as open world games go.

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sup

my question is, why is there no massive open world star wars or lord of the rings rpg. imagine how fucking based a gigantic star wars rpg would be with a fuckload of planets, space shit, factions like jedi, sith, smuggler, bounty hunter, and you can only go with one of them because being a jedi and a sith would be stupid...oh but an anon can dream

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>read this thread and understand that i want to make a DQ8 playthrough again
>remember the insanely high encounter rate and slow overall pacing of the game

>>270258192
The second one was split into two where I live, so for me it was so third one that I didn't like that much.
After he left the University it went downhill.

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Remember the potential Fable had? I thought we would eventually get the game Fable 1 was supposed to be.What the fuck happened?

>>270258398
there is kotor, but the gameplay is shit

>>270258280
Is that oblivion?

>>270258398
because people with money are cunts

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>>270257154

Well, tree of is coming soon I hope. For what I could see, it has some of that ragnarok feel, keep a eye on it, if you like it will be your second chance to explore a game with the same fun vibe as the old rag.

>>270258760
Yep, looks like it.

Looks like no one in this thread provided a good game worthy of OPs description. Looks like we will have to wait until 2017 for a game like that.

>>270258707
does kotor have the faction stuff i was talking about? I was thinking something like morrowind or oblivion faction-wise. Kotor you have to be a jedi and theres a linear story you have to follow, not as open as id like

>>270258635
No, I don't remember. Partly because if you owned an original xbox you were a faggot, and partly because you would have been blind not see Peter was just bullshiting about all the features.

Which in the end, turned out to be true.

>>270258593
I can agree with that, I guess

The entire time he spent learning with the Adem ended up being pointless because as soon as he got back to the University he went back to being a huge cunt except now he knew swordfighting. Like, why make such a huge deal about how "we'll kill you if you don't learn this properly and instead come here for the wrong reasons" if they are just going to let him leave without changing his personality at all?

The 'mission' to go kill the thieves in the forest was actually kind of interesting but the whole side note about him fucking the incarnation of the moon was pure shit.

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>>270258776
Tree of savior, fuck.

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>>270246071
Might be just me, but I've been playing through Nostalgia recently and have been getting those sort of vibes. Main character wants to be an adventurer and find his dad, see new places, that sort of stuff. Also has you traveling around the world in an airship, exploring ruins, documenting various finds, etc. To be fair I'm not far enough in to personally say whether it's great or not (and the game does have you do some backtracking if you want to do jobs and build your adventurer rank), but it's doing a good job at having that sense of exploration so far to me.

okay you guys just made me download a ps1 emulator, grandia and buy a usb controller that looks like a ps controller

I hope it will be fun

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>>270258760
nah that's elder scrolls racers obviously

>>270258370
Agreed. Very comfy game too, and the music kicks ass as well.

>>270258953
I think it doesn't have, didn't played much, the gameplay is the most boring shit I ever played

>>270259197
>buy a usb controller that looks like a ps controller

you ruined it, you should've got a ds2 with a usb adapter.

>>270251845
>not a single dick
Season 1 had Theon's dick show up momentarily after he fucks Rose the Whore. There was that guy that tried to poison Dany after she got married to Drogo and was dragged naked behind the horses. Some dick revealed during the gay scenes involving loras and that baratheon gay guy and later again with that other gay guy who was spying for littlefinger. You need to pay more attention to your dicks bro.

>>270259226
Bethesda should cash in on this.

>kart racing against vivec, soth sil, almalexia, jiub and others

I'd pay to see that.

>>270252683
>playing two worlds 2 on ps3
how can anyone fucking stand this lag

>>270258635
fable is a solid 7/10 anyway (before lost chapters it was pretty bad though)

it sucks that the series just constantly regresses with each release

>>270259226
>there will never be a TES racing game a la Mario Kart
>there will never be a TES strategy game a la Total War
>there will never be a TES Star Wars Battlefront clone
>there will never be a good TES mod for Warband

Only the first one was a joke, the rest is dead serious.

This franchise has lots of potential outside the RPG genre

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Gothic series gave me an adventure feeling. Not grand in scale but it was so fun exploring in Gothic 2. So much hidden stuff.

>tfw vista point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fduqstJHgFY

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Level 5 sequel pls

>>270259572
That's what I mean. If you disregard the hype, Fable was a good game. The series had so much potential, and it was all wasted.

>>270259771
fuck that, they should go back to making good games

>>270259636
Fuck off, it should stay a singleplayer RPG.

The first half of Crysis always feels like an adventure me. You advance deeper and deeper into a tropical island, starting at a coast and ending up inside a mountain. Unfortunately after that it's all downhill.

>>270259636
At least there is a chance we will get Warhammer: Total War

I really like the warhammer fantasy universe, so many factions and posibilities. I just really hope they learned from their fuckups with Rome 2.

>>270256259

I'd give both of my kidneys to experience Prime 1 for the first time again.

>>270259771
God ni no kuni is so fucking boring, I had to stop playing that shit

>>270259771

"You thought it was over? Nope, here is another fantastic ending. You think it's over now. Nope, here is some amazing closure with every character. But it's over now right? Well, there might be another secret ending."

Besides Okami, I can't think of a game with better closure. Fucking learn from this Nintendo. I want a freaking epilogue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaU2K8_WuvI

>>270260000
>>270260138
>hating ni no kuni
you literally have no soul

>>270260535
I don't really hate it, I just got bored with it really quickly.

Maybe I'll give it a shot again, the gameplay was alright.

>>270260004
Doesn't have to be developped by Bethesda, and it should of course never be a part of the main series.

They delved into other genres with Redguard and battlespire, and TESO as well, and who wouldn't want to charge the Imperial City as a commander with your army of thousands of Daedra ?

Show some fucking respect.

>>270260062
Rome 2 is decent now, CA really knows how to patch games.

>>270260684
>show some fucking respect

For what, your retarded ideas?

>>270260684
Haven't got around playing rome 2 since launch. Might consider giving it a go again.

Wind Waker probably counts for a lot of people.

Morrownd gave me that feeling.

I became so fucking obsessed with that game when I was a kid. Obviously there wasn't a big cast of diverse characters but adventuring on your own was just fucking perfect.

I would obsess over checking out dwemer ruins, walking through those mushroom cities.

God, what a world.

>>270260908
I tell almost everyone I meet this story at some point

I played through wind waker the first time without knowing how the sail worked

I HIGHLY recommend it... sorta changed my life a little

>>270260856
It's a shitty meme, anon.

chill

>>270260865
It good pretty gud with the last patch, especially with the Emperor Edition.

Took them a whole year to fix their mess though

Half Life 2, that's one of the only games where I actually felt like I came a long way as for the most part you could pretty much trace your way back right to the start of the game.

>>270260657
Then the genre probably isn't for you. Ni No Kuni is the definition of a grand adventure RPG. The Ghibli art direction and music makes it charming as fuck too.

Dark Souls was honestly the closest thing to that for me.

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I know it's just a poorly disguised recommendation thread, but anyways ...

Games that actually felt adventurous to me:

Shadow of the Colossus
The Longest Journey
Genso Suikonden II
Final Fantasy I - IX
Ocarina of Time
Pokemon Red
Mystic Quest
Goof Troop

For some reason I don't get a real adventure feel from games like Morrowind or Gothic
even though I really like them.
Maybe they are too straight-forward or lack a certain ambiguity.

>>270261324
>dat interconnected world

That was some top design, shame they botched it in the sequel.

What are features in RPGs that you would love to see?

I'm a worthless nodev but I really want to make a game, I regularly save threads like these to mine ideas for what people love

>>270261413
Well, you only posted story focussed games with almost no exploration outside the mainquest, so I'd say to you an adventure is something with a clear and important task to you, like LOTR where Frodo gets the task to destroy the ring.

That's probably why you didn't think that TES 3 or Gothic were adventurous, because there was no such task, no purpose to explore the world around you other than your curiosity.

>>270261782
Same.

The problem I find is what I want seems to change every month and I can't come up with a consistent and coherent game idea.

>>270261465
I remember the first time I went through Darkroot Basin/Forest.

I was walking across that bridge by the waterfall and I just imagined what it would actually have been like to be there, in armor, lugging around your sword, just trying to make it through that world.

No one around but you, the waterfall rushing, no shitty game music, nothing. Just you, the scenery, and the knowledge that something was going to try and kill you soon.

What a lonely experience that game was. Even when you connected with other people, there still felt like there was a huge distance.

>>270246071
Shadow of the Colossus is exactly that image but brain dead people complained why aren't there a million orcs that you can fight on the field.