As with all dungeon-crawler, hack-and-slash action RPGs, the gameplay does get old after a while.
Torchlight 2 is one of the best hack-and-slash-and-click-and-loot RPGs to come out in years.
Oh Kickstarter, how would we embrace our love of retro RPGs without you?
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These days, so many RPGs are defined by their loot systems I say.
And if you like hardcore action RPGs, you should absolutely buy Dark Souls.
As much as I tend to dislike MMORPGs, I love well-crafted cooperative RPGs.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim are both fantastic RPGs.
Planescape: Torment is widely regarded as one of the best RPGs ever made.
Pathfinder is currently one of the most popular pen-and-paper RPGs in the world.
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For many of us who play RPGs, the aesthetic is a big part of what makes the game fun.
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From RPGs to visual novels, there are plenty of games that do that, sometimes with even more emphasis than Journey.
Part of the problem is the open-world-plus-dungeons concept that weakens not only MMO game design, but also many single-player RPGs.
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Ouya will have a wide range of games from hard core to social games, including shooters, RPGs, racing and sports games.
With Torment: Tides of Numenera launching the same week, fans of old-school RPGs have plenty of projects to throw money at.
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The Marines said the RPGs were coming so fast and furious that there were "too many to count, " according to the military.
What this technology will open up for action RPGs should be amazing.
Whereas board games require us to think, and pen-and-paper RPGs require us to imagine, video games tap more directly into the actual play.
But I doubt many people who prefer a grittier or more high-fantasy look and feel in their RPGs will warm to the game.
Role-playing-games, and particularly action-RPGs, are my genre of choice, but a game like Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, or Bioshock are loads of fun.
It attempts to capture the challenge and exploration of first-person dungeon crawlers, but it also incorporates several elements that feel more akin to tabletop RPGs.
Not that this matters to the majority of Chinese gamers, who have developed a huge appetite for RPGs like Warcraft and Diablo on the PC.
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Whatever controversy dogged the company with Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2, Bioware has had a profound impact on the ascendance of Western RPGs.
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Dead State, in common with other game ideas recently mooted by luminaries of the golden age of PC RPGs, set up a Kickstarter to fund its development.
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One thing I think is actually killing RPGs as a genre and quite possibly the entire industry of gaming is that they are loosing the emersion factor.
Role-playing games, or RPGs (the primary type of games played on consoles) are not much different now than when I first played Castle Wolfenstein in the early 1980s.
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The IMB says pirates off Somalia use "mother ships" that travel far out to sea and launch smaller boats to attack passing vessels, sometimes using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
You see, the "Hex" part of the name refers to the six buttons embedded along the left side of the mouse, intended for use as hotkeys during action-RPGs.
Players will have seemingly endless ways to customize the keyboard to illuminate key bindings or display health bars, even use it as a hit indicator in RPGs or shooters.
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