A classic one would be to go for BG1 and BG2
Then either play the enhanced editions with EET or play the originals with Baldur's Gate Trilogy to allow you to play all three games as a singular campaign (as well as running BG1 in the same engine as BG2 if you go for the originals)
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I played them all already :)
Switching to management then, have you played Banished?
Have you played the mod Colonial Charter? Latest version is 1.76 and I found a GDrive download here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/banished/colonial_charter_mod
Mod makers site seems down.
I did play banished. I haven't played the mod though, but kinda don't want to play banished anymore. Is the mod really worth getting back into it?
Edit: I see I already am subscribed to the mod in the workshop so I have played it.
Depends on what parts of banished caught you. The mod lets you build much more visually pleasing cities by adding lots of different housing styles and so on. It also add many more production chains. Was many years since I played it and I think it was an earlier version of it.
Seems to still be up on the workshop too:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849019386
Oblivion remaster looks pretty good. Have you played through that game before?
I played all elder scroll games (except online) and fallout games but Bethesda lost me. They scammed me with fallout 76 (I have the special edition with power armor helmet) and their games after Skyrim just flatline imo. Fallout 4 got fixed somewhat, but that's it. They won't get my money anymore. Screw Todd Howard.
Original is on GOG for 1/10th of the price too, tons of great mods to improve both graphics and gameplay.
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivion/mods?sort=downloads
A must have for me is the All Plus 5 mod so I don't feel forced to power game my starting skills.
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I don't see Bioware titles on the list. Dragon Age series for fantasy, Mass Effect for sci fi. Since BG3 is on the list, I wanted to mention in case you haven't gotten to them yet.
I'll second Dragon Age since it's less action oriented than Mass Effect (which is great but OP seems more interested in strategy/management than shooting)
Mass Effect has a "tactical pause" feature though, but it feels less Baldur-like :)
I loved dragon age games and mass effect 1. Even 2, but 3 was shit.
Aviassembly.
Its fun in the way that building airplanes in KSP is fun. The game is small, and the physics are simple, but for $10 its a good value.
Have you tried Kingdom Come Deliverance 2? It’s really good and difficult. It’s a history simulator with a really kick ass story and the hero is just a guy. I really like it a lot.
Yeah but I'm stuck after 2 hours. I got into a battle through a quest I stumbled upon, but there's an enemy I fail to win from. I seem to be unable to get out of the quest. I played 1, which was really nice although I didn't completely finished it due to bugs.
I would suggest to load up an earlier save. The beginning is the hardest part of the game (like brutally hard combat sometimes) and if you don’t train Henry up (either find Tomcat or Captain Gnarly, they are trainers) you’ll just die. Or you can do what i did and just brute force the fight with save scumming. The combat is not intuitive until you practice for a bit.
Thanks, yeah I should give it another try! I really liked 1 up to the moment the game got stuck during a loading screen from the main quest.
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At the thrift store today I picked up an original disk copy of Prey (2006) and the thief trilogy.
Played them all but not a great fan
I remember enjoying Prey on release but never finishing it and being distracted by Q3A
Expedition 33 is a turn based rpg with some slight action elements. Just came out to glowing reviews and might be worth checking out.
Story might not be to your liking though.
If you're up for ARPGs, simething like Titan Quest or Grim Dawn have many hours worth of gameplay.
Worth looking at as well is anything in the Monster Hunter series. World and Rise are both amazing along with their expansions and Wilds just recently released.
All of my recommendations are long-term games with many hours worth of playtime.
Thanks will look into them!
As far as management goes x4 foundations is an awesome space game! I have hundreds of hours in that game spent just messing around with an industrial empire, buying mining ships, setting trade routes, all that fun stuff. You don't even have to fight anything if you don't want to.
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The first Witcher game is quite old but you could like the gameplay (it's not action oriented, unlike the 2 following Witcher games)
It's honestly not great looking but the story is great, and who knows, you might fall in love with a great franchise :)
I played all with er games but never finished any of them as it's just not for me weirdly. I played elder scrolls games which were nice but the Witcher just doesn't catches my attention.