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RPGs with non-combat activities/professions
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2019-07-08 at 6:39 AM UTCin runescape there are about 30 skills and most of them are non-combat. there's cooking, fishing, woodcutting, mining, smithing, agility, thieving, etc.
elder scrolls does this to some extent as well, theres alchemy, armorsmith, barter, security, sneak, athletics, etc
im done with those games and dont want to replay them. im looking for some recommendations for rpg games where there are a lot of things to do besides Kill X Gather Y gameplay that WoW and clones do. i need an rpg with very varied gameplay because im sick of every rpg i play just being battle after battle after battle it gets so monotonous. in other words, a very deep and complex crafting system that a player can focus on instead of just being a warrior -
2019-07-08 at 8:54 AM UTCThe Fable games come to mind, particularly 2 and 3. Not that there's really an immense crafting system but there are a lot of things to do outside of combat, I enjoyed becoming a land baron. There's also Terraria/Starbound which have very deep crafting/building/resource gathering systems but I'm not sure if they qualify as RPGs.
Also obligatory dwarf fortress plug.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-07-08 at 11:48 AM UTCTo the moon.
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2019-07-08 at 11:50 AM UTCIt's gaming week, i'm playing Minecraft.
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2019-07-08 at 12:01 PM UTCchef is the best RPG class
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2019-07-08 at 12:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost chef is the best RPG class
For some reason i've always liked Clerics/Priests. I wanna be DPS, and a caster, but everyone is a wizard/mage/sorcerer so you know. Cleric/Priest it is. I used to be Shadow Priest on WoW dual specced into Discipline. It was dope. When WoW was still awesome people used to think Shadow priests somehow did less DPS than Mages. But if you play your rotation right the DoTs average out the DPS over time. To offset for the slow start, Shadow priests get ambient healing for the party as a percentage of the DPS they do, plus unique buffs. Specced into Disc, i could go to between being Main Healer and PVP healer.
People also seem to have this idea that healers are lame for some reason, but the most fun raids/dungeons/pvp games i've played i played as healer.
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2019-07-08 at 12:14 PM UTCthere is that too except you hit people in the head with your bible to heal them and give them brain damage.
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2019-07-08 at 12:15 PM UTCi don't think you'll find many non-combat roles for a rocket propelled grenade tbph.
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2019-07-08 at 2:16 PM UTC
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2019-07-08 at 4:53 PM UTCthats what the chainsaw is for
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2019-07-30 at 7:20 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny The Fable games come to mind, particularly 2 and 3. Not that there's really an immense crafting system but there are a lot of things to do outside of combat, I enjoyed becoming a land baron. There's also Terraria/Starbound which have very deep crafting/building/resource gathering systems but I'm not sure if they qualify as RPGs.
Also obligatory dwarf fortress plug.
i started playing fable 3 and its sort of fun but kind of shitty in a way too. it seems like an incredibly oversimplified rpg system that is aimed more towards children, very linear and shallow. it kind of feels like playing a rachet and clank game in the way that its always very obvious what is supposed to be done and there is no real challenge, but the arcade aspect of it is also what makes it fun. this game is too simple to be intellectually involving. personally i would recommend ELEX which has an excellent crafting/town-based system you can waste hours on, from the same developers that brought the cult classic Gothic 2 -
2019-07-30 at 1:02 PM UTCLife is Strange
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2019-08-03 at 2:42 AM UTC
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2019-08-03 at 2:46 AM UTCLife is Strange is pretty good, but the prequel sucks dick. Go back and listen to how S L O W L Y every character reads their lines to make the game unnecessarily twice as long. It was made by a different outfit and they did a pretty crappy job and used the stupid looking Unity engine, making the game look like shit. It's so unnecessary and adds nothing really, and the writing is average at best, and crappy at worst.
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2019-08-03 at 2:51 AM UTC
Originally posted by DietPiano Life is Strange is pretty good, but the prequel sucks dick. Go back and listen to how S L O W L Y every character reads their lines to make the game unnecessarily twice as long. It was made by a different outfit and they did a pretty crappy job and used the stupid looking Unity engine, making the game look like shit. It's so unnecessary and adds nothing really, and the writing is average at best, and crappy at worst.
Agreed. But it was still better than Life is Strange 2. -
2019-08-03 at 3:54 AM UTCI didnt know that was out yet/see anything about it
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2019-08-03 at 3:55 AM UTC
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2019-08-03 at 3:57 AM UTCOh fuck do you play as a teen boy? Thats fucking gay who wants to do that
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2019-08-03 at 4:30 AM UTC
