Correction: I have been playing HackNet! My bad, i misread your post. Clearly we need more names for cool games. I /am/ now looking at NetHack though :)
I haven’t played that many fantasy action-ish RPGs lately, but I always thought that Gothic II was way more engaging than Oblivion or Morrowind. More compact world (which to me means less filler), also janky and just a hand full of voice actors, but a lot more personality IMO. Not a perfect game by any means though.
I’ve been meaning to play Kingdom Come 2 because it seems to be cut from a similar cloth, including giving NPCs things to do when you’re not around. For the exploration factor there’s some great RPGs without the action mechanics out there, I liked Wasteland 2 and Caves of Qod. My over all favorites have been Mass Effect 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 (2.0), but those are probably too far removed from what TES is doing.
Out of curiosity, what alternatives in the genre would you recommend?
(sits in the corner wearing a sign that reads “Ask me about Nethack”)
Played it for the first time recently! Unfortunately it seems to have some stability problems, it doesn’t launch saves for me so I’m on hiatus
That is strange. Which version are you playing? 5.0 was recently released, it may have bugs but I don’t think that’s one of them?
What platform are you playing on? At the moment the main way to play it on Linux distributions is to compile it yourself.
Correction: I have been playing HackNet! My bad, i misread your post. Clearly we need more names for cool games. I /am/ now looking at NetHack though :)
Nethack is very different, I expect, but great. You can even play it on public servers like alt.org and Hardfought
I haven’t played that many fantasy action-ish RPGs lately, but I always thought that Gothic II was way more engaging than Oblivion or Morrowind. More compact world (which to me means less filler), also janky and just a hand full of voice actors, but a lot more personality IMO. Not a perfect game by any means though.
I’ve been meaning to play Kingdom Come 2 because it seems to be cut from a similar cloth, including giving NPCs things to do when you’re not around. For the exploration factor there’s some great RPGs without the action mechanics out there, I liked Wasteland 2 and Caves of Qod. My over all favorites have been Mass Effect 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 (2.0), but those are probably too far removed from what TES is doing.