RPG/Hack'n'Slash game [closed]

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I searched for a long time an RPG game with a little bit of Hack'n'Slash, like Diablo II. I really like Diablo II, it's fast, simple and funny.

I'm searching for a game like this: it must be a "point and click" game, with a good battle system. I'm going to try Titan Quest. I tried: Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate.

Do you have any suggestions?

Asked by Antonio

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Check out: Dungeon Siege Series, Sacred (Sacred 2 is not as good as the first one imho), Loki. If you own a PlayStation 2 you can try: Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath.

Maybe you should keep an eye on Path of Exile, a free2play but currently closed beta.

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Where did the colors for item rarity originate?

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I've played a few different RPG type games where item rarity was denoted by the same colors: white, green, blue, purple, and orange. Where did this system originate?

EDIT Maybe it's just World of Warcraft and Borderlands that use this exact scheme. I figured it must be older than WoW though.

Asked by Craig P. Motlin

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The color scheme you refer to is probably most famous due to it being what's used for World of Warcraft, where, in order of increasing rarity:

grey < white < green < blue < purple < orange < red/beige (developer items only).

I'm not sure that that schema is that common though -- Blizzard's own diablo II used grey < white < blue < yellow < purple (I think), and games like Torchlight (grey < white < green < blue < orange < purple) vary slightly.

Actually, both of those are slightly flawed comparisons, because in diablo II, green items were used as "set" items, beige were "unique" (only a single copy could drop per game). Bottom line -- I think the trend is more varied than you think.

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Help me identify this old Playstation Role Playing Game

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I remember playing this game back around 2000 or 2001. It was an RPG game. It had amazing computer generated cut scenes for it's time. It was turn based. You has your characters normal attacks, some sort of magic form, and items that you could use. Each character had different normal attacks that required timing a button press to continue the attack. If you got every button press timed properly you would complete the attack and do more damage. I think there were some button mashing moments with attacks or items too. I don't remember much about the story, but I think it was like other RPGs. Save the world, save the girl, live happily ever after. Oh an like I said in the title, I am pretty sure it was on the original Playstation.

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I believe the game you are looking for is The Legend of Dragoon. It was on the original Playstation and was released in North America on June 11, 2000.

The combat system you are refering to would be the Addition system. There would be a square in the center of the screen and a box that would close in around that center square. You would press the X key when the box hit the center square. If you did this successfully for each part of the attack you would finish the attack and your character would call out the name of the attack. The longer additions (more button presses) had a chance to be "countered" by your enemies which made a sound and made the screen turn red. You would then need to press the O key when the box hit the center square.

I think the magic forms you are refering to are the games Dragoon Spirit forms. You would transform into a Dragoon, each with their own element (fire, water, shadow, etc). You could do a sort of melee attack that needed button presses based on a rotating circle continuing on the Addition style system. You also had different magic spells unique to each form that did single target damage, aoe damage, or in some cases healed your party.

There are also items that you can hit the X button as fast as you can to increase the multiplier damage from the item.

The protagonist in the game is Dart, and yes it is similar to what you said... Dart's childhood friend Shana is taken and he sets out to rescue her. This of course leads him further into the struggle to save the world from the God of Destruction.

If you couldn't tell from my answer... I freakin' love this game! Now I must go play it again for the 100th time!

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I'm looking for a stripped-down parody of RPG games

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It was an old 90's freeware single text box game that had your character go out and kill and loot, then sell and get better armor, then wash rinse repeat ad infinitem. The "game" was more of a cpu cycle eater, but it was kinda a kick to see it running while I was doing other things. Does anyone remember that game. I'd like to get a copy if it is still available.

There was a website that had a high-scores list for those that wanted to upload their "achievements".

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You're thinking of ProgressQuest!

Progress Quest is a next generation computer role-playing game. Gamers who have played modern online role-playing games, or almost any computer role-playing game, or who have at any time installed or upgraded their operating system, will find themselves incredibly comfortable with Progress Quest's very familiar gameplay. Progress Quest follows reverently in the footsteps of recent smash hit online worlds, but is careful to streamline the more tedious aspects of those offerings. Players will still have the satisfaction of building their character from a ninety-pound level 1 teenager, to an incredibly puissant, magically imbued warrior, well able to snuff out the lives of a barnload of bugbears without need of so much as a lunch break. Yet, gone are the tedious micromanagement and other frustrations common to that older generation of RPG's.

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Im looking for a game that was a bit of a joke on grinding on text based rpg's cant remember the name

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It was an old 90's freeware single text box game that had your character go out and kill and loot, then sell and get better armor, then wash rinse repeat ad infinitem. Yea the "game" was a cpu cycle eater, but it was kinda a kick to see it running while I was doing other things. Does anyone remember that game. I'd like to get a copy if it is still available.

There was a website that had a high-scores list for those that wanted to upload their "achievements".

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You're thinking of ProgressQuest!

Progress Quest is a next generation computer role-playing game. Gamers who have played modern online role-playing games, or almost any computer role-playing game, or who have at any time installed or upgraded their operating system, will find themselves incredibly comfortable with Progress Quest's very familiar gameplay. Progress Quest follows reverently in the footsteps of recent smash hit online worlds, but is careful to streamline the more tedious aspects of those offerings. Players will still have the satisfaction of building their character from a ninety-pound level 1 teenager, to an incredibly puissant, magically imbued warrior, well able to snuff out the lives of a barnload of bugbears without need of so much as a lunch break. Yet, gone are the tedious micromanagement and other frustrations common to that older generation of RPG's.

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Why can't we grind beyond level 20 in Fallout 3?

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I'm asking because it's becoming increasingly difficult to deal with Death claws and I really want to experiment on various other perks. Does it have something to do with the story?

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20 is the forced cap on levelling for Fallout 3.

It can be expanded to level 30 by purchasing the Broken Steel DLC.

As for dealing with Deathclaws,

get crafting the Dart Gun and immobilise them from afar.

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What game combined RPG and RTS between 2002 and 2006?

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Between 2002 and 2006 I played a PC game that combined features of both genres, RTS and RPG.
I can remember that you controlled a character, or a group of up to 3-5(?) character which could be equipped with items. Sometimes they walked through a city and talked to NPCs, merchants and quest givers. Those characters leveled up during some small battles and could equip something like runes.

Those runes determined the units you were able to use in the RTS part of the game, which took place on a whole different map in a traditional rts-style: You started with some buildings and workers and had to take one or more enemies down with the army you built up. When this map was won, you came back to the RPG part.

I think there were 3-4 races playable in the rts-part, something like Humans, Elves (with walking trees as ultimate units, something dwarf-like.

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This sounds like one of the Spellforce games. There is Spellforce: The Order of Dawn and Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars. The runes part makes me think it was the first one, as you played a Runewarrior in that one. From the Wikipedia entry on the first game:

The Circle Mages needed vast armies that would be loyal and could be gathered quickly,This is when they had the idea of the runewarriors. The runewarriors were fighters and mages whose souls were trapped in stones their masters could summon them forth to do their will any deaths would be meaningless as they could be brought back even after death because they had the gift of immortality. With these stones the mages could form armies quickly and easily sending them forth in unhaltable tides they would serve their masters for eternity had it not been for the convocation.

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Can't remember name of GBA RPG/Shooter

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I'm trying to remember the name of a GBA game.

It was set in some futuristic, sci-fi "humans at war with some aliens" universe. The gameplay was essentially that you would walk around an area solving puzzles and such, but every so often you'd have an RPG-style random battle. Only instead of an RPG menu-based battle system, you would get beamed up to a ship and you would have to play an R-Type or Gradius-style side-scrolling shooter. When you had killed enough enemies in this mode, you would get beamed back down to the overworld map again.

Anybody know what this game was?

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Was it Sigma Star? I remember playing this at some point a while ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Star_Saga

Eventually got tired of the huge number of random encounters and I stopped.

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Identify this sci-fi RPG game

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I'm looking for a game I played when I was a bit younger; here are some of the details i remember:

• I played it in the mid '90s, probably around 1995-1997.
• It was a DOS game.
• The game had both elements of 2D and 3D. While exploring the 'world map' the game was set in 2D, whilst exploring some dungeons and cities the game went in to 3D.
• The combat was tile- and turn-based.
• It was a Sci-Fi RPG game.
• The main character name was "Tom".
• The game starts with Tom on a spaceship, in 2D view, where you can 'freely' explore the spaceship. After getting to the cockpit, the spaceship suffers a malfunction, and has to crash land on a nearby planet. When you wake up after the crash landing, you are greeted by a few aliens and a friend from the spaceship, which you explore the city and plantes.
• You could also have companions in your party, some were co-workers aboard the spaceship, and others were aliens from the planet.
• There were also different continents on the planet, which you visited.

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it's called Albion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(video_game)

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Help to identify old mid-90 sidescrolling “RPG” (PC)

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I played this game around 1996-1997. It was a 2D side scroller. It was possible to travel between some kind of cave areas, where there were monsters, and the "city" areas, where you could buy stuff, talk to people, etc.

The city looked like different buildings standing in a row, as you travel past them. It was a "medieval" game, you had magic and sword-type weapons. You could call it an RPG because there was some kind of inventory, and you were able to travel freely between areas. It was fairly combat-oriented, mostly melee, without too much jumping (though you could travel up and down).

The graphics were somewhere between Jazz Jackrabbit and Mario for the NES. The only vivid detail I remember is that there was a frozen area with a boss, which looked like a giant fridge that wobbled like jelly. And the protagonist had a big nose.

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Zeliard is most likely the answer. Did your character look like a viking type persona?

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Searching for a PS2 game set in the early 2000s

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I'm looking for a Playstation 2 game released in the early 2000s. I remember a guy with yellow spiky hair, and a woman jumping off a skyscraper and loosening her clothes (this graphic returned in the game as a transformation ability).

It was a 3d world, and the setting was America in the early 1900s (don't pin me on this, American history isn't my subject). After you exited the screen, you would get to a world map where you could select where to go.

As for the battle system, there would be a big coin like thing where a radius would run around, you had to hit square in the highlighted area to commence the attack. With this you could either attack 4 times or not at all, in a turn.

Some areas I remember the name of were Alcatraz prison and a university. I don't remember anything else.

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Shadow Hearts seems to fit your description. PS2 RPG, released in 2001, World War 1 alternative history setting, a ring used in battle and minigames to gauge success.

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Searching for a PS2 game set in the early 1900s

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I'm looking for a Playstation 2 game released in the early 2000s. I remember a guy with yellow spiky hair, and a woman jumping off a skyscraper and loosening her clothes (this graphic returned in the game as a transformation ability).

It was a 3d world, and the setting was America in the early 1900s (don't pin me on this, American history isn't my subject). After you exited the screen, you would get to a world map where you could select where to go.

As for the battle system, there would be a big coin like thing where a radius would run around, you had to hit square in the highlighted area to commence the attack. With this you could either attack 4 times or not at all, in a turn.

Some areas I remember the name of were Alcatraz prison and a university. I don't remember anything else.

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Shadow Hearts seems to fit your description. PS2 RPG, released in 2001, World War 1 alternative history setting, a ring used in battle and minigames to gauge success.

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Taskmaster for Macintosh?

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I played this game when I was a kid (probably 1994ish) and loved it. I'd like to find a copy that I can download/buy that will work on my PC. Does anyone know where I can find information about this game?

There is a game of the same name about office work or something. This is NOT what i'm looking for. In the one i'm talking about you fight monsters with swords and the like. I think a company called Amana made the game but am not 100% on that.

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You can download TaskMaker here (it looks like you have to paypal a guy $10 for a serial - sketchy!), though running it on a modern Mac or PC is unlikely without emulation software.

Luckily, emulating Mac OS 7 isn't out of the question on a modern Mac. On a PC, your emulation options look a little less favorable.

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How far should I increase Chop, Mine and Take in Etrian Odyssey?

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Skill-points are very limited in Etrian Odyssey and I have to think hard, in which skills I should invest. Chop, Mine and Take have no influence on fights, but they can provide some material, that I don't get in another way (at least on the same level). How much should I invest in these skills?

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Assuming you mean Etrian Odyssey 1, the best option you have is to build out a party of 3-5 Survivalists. Level them up a bit, either by themselves or with some members of your main party. They should work on Chop, Mine, and Take - Survivalists, unlike other classes, can learn all three - as well as at least one with Stalker and Escape.

Stalker lets you get to gathering points without so many encounters. Escape lets you get out of the few encounters you'll have. If you have more points, 1st Turn lets you Escape before the enemy even gets to go, even if their agility outclasses yours. Once you're done gathering, Warp Wire back.

Don't give anyone else gathering skills. You're right; it's a waste of points.

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Find a RPG Game on PS One

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All I can remember is that the hero had a red bracelet with a bluish pearl on it that was from another planet (The bracelet). I can't remember the name but it was on PS One. His bracelet had special powers and can level up too.

Sorry for the poor description but that's all I can remember off.

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Heh, this sounds like Legend of Legaia, one of my favorite RPGs of all time (despite never having finished it).

I actually opened this question on the off-chance it was this RPG, so if I'm right that's quite the coincidence :P.

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How to kill Brayko in Alpha Protocol

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I'm finding it very difficult to get through the Brayko boss fight in Alpha Protocol. Up to that point I'd only been dying once every few missions, but I've died about 5 or 6 times trying to get past Brayko. I've been playing on easy because a) I was trying to avoid this kind of aggravation and b) I'm not all that good at shooters so I was quite surprised to run in to this kind of brick wall.

I've hit him with grenades, incendiary bombs and hundreds of assault rifle rounds, but nothing seems to stop him.

What method should I use to kill him? Is there something that I'm missing?

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This video walkthrough (warning, some NSFW dialogue!) recommends that you:

• Do not fight him during his coked up phase, as he regains all his armor
• Run away and get him tired as opposed to going gun-ho
• Conserve health pills carefully

Good luck!

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How do I get Power Armor training in Fallout New Vegas?

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I've found some power armor, but I can't use it yet without training. I assumed that the Brotherhood of Steel would train me, if they like me enough.

I've completed the Brotherhood of Steel quest series for the overseer (the original one, I did not overthrow him), but I did not get any Power Armor training. What do I have to do to be able to wear Power Armor?

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Power Armor Training in FO:NV is available at the end of a few different quest chains in order to provide access for a variety of paths.

From the Brotherhood: After completing Eyesight to the Blind or Still in the Dark, wait 24 hours for the lockdown to end, and the Elder will offer you PA:Training, whether McNamara, or Hardin. (Hardin may ask you to go blow up the Silver Rush before offering training.)

Alternately, you can complete Arcade Gannon's follower quest, For Auld Lang Syne - in addition to rewarding you with the unique Tesla Power Armor, you'll receive the necessary training to use it.

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Where in 'Lizardo Dungeon' are the Four 'Lian Clamps'?

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A woman in the town of Leedo gave me a quest involving searching through the Lizardo Dungeon and finding 4 of an item called Lian Clamp.

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I've found three of the four, and though I've scoured the rest (I think) of the dungeon, I haven't been able to find the fourth.

These are the first two items, located in the top-right of the dungeon's second floor.

This is the third item, located in the lower left of the dungeon's second floor.

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Is there a hidden doorway or something that I'm missing? Where is the last one?

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I haven't gotten this far into the game yet, but a quick Google search reveals this post:

The "Lian Clamp" side quest: Its hidden in a "bush"!! You cant see it, but I think I approched the bush from the left... It could be the one you will see to the left when you enter the 2nd floor

Does this help?

Edit:

The Fourth Lian Clamp is indeed hiding behind a bush, in the bottom-right area of the Dungeon's second floor. In the screenshot below, the chest containing the item is directly to the right of the player's character.

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What are the most efficient uses for the first 100 gold that you get?

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I just recently started playing Realm of the Mad God.

You start off with 100 gold, what are the most useful/effective things to buy with it?

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You can get a pirate realm key!

And you might be able to dye yourself.

And that, my friend, is it.

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Oblivion (quests and races)

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Since Oblivion is the first of the Elder Scrolls games that I'm going to try I was wondering if somebody could recommend a tutorial or any web-page where I'd be able to find useful information. like tips, quests etc.

I'd love to play a stealth character, but I had the chance to notice that it'd be really hard so that's why I'm here. I tried building an archer: wood elf / thief / assassin.

Thanks in advance.

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Some tips for Oblivion:

1. Watch what skills you assign as your primary skills, your characters level up when you advance enough in your primary skills, which causes everything in the game to level up to keep pace. This is a part of the game design. However, if your skills are poorly chosen, you could end up in a situation where the enemies are all very strong and tough while you do not have enough combat skills to handle them all and effectively, get stuck with the game. This is also very important if you don't understand the stat gain multipliers at each level. You don't want to end up with 3 +1s in your stats per level since you will be severely hampered as a result. Read up about it here.

2. Stealth is actually quite easy and powerful in Oblivion if you combine it with alchemy. A well aimed poisoned arrow (with the proper poison) can often take out your target with 1 shot. Alchemy components are all over the country side, just grab whatever you can get your hands on while travelling to places.

3. If you want the ability to make spells/enchant items, you will have to join the mages guild. This requires you to go through a series of quests (most are fairly easy), and you will collect a bunch of free spells as you do so. Making spells gives you the chance to create training spells, which is great way to level up your magic skills. For example, to improve destruction, make a destruction spell that does 1 fatigue damage for 1 second on self and spam that to level up.

4. Since you will be a thief, a big source of income in the game is stealing. However, you can't sell your stolen loot until you find a fence, which requires you to join the thieves guild. Ask around the imperial marketplace to figure out how to do that.

5. Join the fighters guild (yes you can join all the guilds at the same time) to pick up some free healing potions from their chests.

6. Don't be afraid to run away. Especially early game, if you see a big orc bandit run at you with a 2 handed hammer, its prudent at that point to run away as fast as possible unless you are familiar and skilled with combat. Better yet, run for the nearest imperial guard and have them take out the orc and loot the corpse if you can :)

The wiki link that Ragnar posted is probably your best resource for looking up references, but the game is best learned by playing and enjoying it.

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