Borderlands 2, the irreverent RPG-Shooter is approaching six million copies shipped, as well as a very strong attach rate for its exemplary series of DLC.
Half action-RPG, half real-time strategy, the game is the latest brainchild of Chris Taylor, the man behind Gas Powered Games.
You get to not only see the same characters sticking around for endless chunks of continuous gameplay, you get to see a sci-fi RPG gradually morph into a third-person shooter with RPG elements.
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Players of the action-RPG control a series of warriors who duke it out medieval-style with the terrible God King.
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There is the action-RPG, for instance, which can itself be divided into multiple sub-genres from the click-and-loot variety to more story-driven affairs.
But I would still love to see a top-down action-RPG that requires something more in terms of combat strategy, that requires more than click-and-loot to progress.
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Developer Spicy Horse drew its inspiration for upcoming action-RPG Akaneiro: Demon Hunters from many deep wells.
The game is a hack-and-slash action-RPG with a full range of customizations available to players.
Aethereus is described as an in-depth, low-fantasy, high action-RPG, with lots of customization and crafting elements.
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ChronoBlade (FREE) - Developed by nWay, a single-player demo of the upcoming action-RPG will be playable only with Atlas controllers.
But even the game, so far, looks to be shaping up into a solid, even slightly old-school, action-RPG.
Like its predecessors, the game is an MMORPG, but looks more like a top-down action-RPG such as Diablo.
Add this to a long and growing list of incredible looking action-RPG titles.
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The fact that your main attacks are achieved through clicks makes the game sound much more like an action-RPG than most MMOs out there.
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Horn, an action-RPG designed for Android and iOS, is being billed as the action game that tablets and mobile phones have been waiting for.
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Both Tripwire Interactive and nWay are also bringing games to the OUYA, with the former working on two games and the latter working on one (action-RPG ChronoBlade).
From the creators of the classic adventure Quest for Glory games comes Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, a 2D adventure-RPG currently down to its last 28 hours on Kickstarter.
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Runic Games, the developer behind the long-awaited action-RPG Torchlight 2, has announced that they will be announcing a release date for the game this Friday at PAX Prime.
Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is something of a folkloric hybrid: half Little Red Riding Hood, half Japanese myth, the game is a lovely, highly-stylized action-RPG from developer American McGee and Spicy Horse Games.
Not only does the patch give players tons of flexibility over difficulty settings with the addition of Monster Power, it adds a huge new piece of end-game content to the action-RPG.
Check out more artwork and information about the game at the official website, and a vast amount of discussion, updates, videos and more at the Kickstarter page where husband and wife team Corey and Lori Cole go in-depth on what makes an adventure-RPG interesting, immersive, and fun.
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While it's been possible for ages to record keyboard and mouse commands as macros, quality assurance teams sometimes can't have any tracking software running -- a real pain when trying to recreate a bug in an online RPG or other input-heavy apps.
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Today, the mystery is solved: an original, brand-new RPG from the developer with the working title Project Eternity.
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Exploring dungeons is the standard dungeon-crawler RPG fare, with every few paces of exploration being interrupted by surprise attacks from monsters.
The MMO and single-player RPG experience need to evolve, according to Garriott.
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But you also get an epic, over-the-top story about the mysterious Stick of Truth, a fully-fledged turn-based RPG system, and Kenny dressed in drag.
With a deep dialogue system, a huge world to explore, and lots of other goodies, the old-school RPG project should be, quite franlky, amazing.
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