Official 2024 HQ RPG VOTING!!!

[Stack of Turtles]

There are fantasy novels better than LotR that are unheard of

Citation needed.

The Eternal Dream series by David V. Stewart. Very tightly written and gets to the point in a timely manner, never a dull moment, and also written by a Christian. I have been recommending it in the book thread.

Another series (though set in space) is Combat Frame Xseed by Brian Niemeier (also a Christian). It is even faster paced and tighter than Stewart's novels. Meaningful stuff happening and people dying left and right.

The Chronicles of Narnia is not obscure and sometimes gets talked about online, but it definitely seems like people don't actually read it. I found those books to be more enjoyable than LotR. They are also shorter and more fantastical.

I like LotR but I don't think it is the end-all-be-all that it is made out to be.

You seem to me to have very odd personal tastes.

I don't have any problem with this, but I think it may be better not to make objective statements of preference.

[7Trickster]

Didn't play any of these.

Same

[rusty_shackleford]

About 10 days to go

[rusty_shackleford]

Poll ended, discuss results!

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Metaphor ReFantazio doing better than Trails, Granblue Fantasy Relink, and Dragon's Dogma 2 has lowered my estimation of this forum.

[Oyster Sauce]

Metaphor ReFantazio doing better than Trails, Granblue Fantasy Relink, and Dragon's Dogma 2 has lowered my estimation of this forum.

Today you made a post about Trails featuring black market HRT and helping gay guys hook up

[stormvermin]

Is the king arthur xpac worth playing? I have the base game downloaded but like so much else it's on the backburner.

[rusty_shackleford]

It seems I'm the only one who voted for Arco, either because others did not like it or did not play it, so I'll shill it.


It's a rather unique turn-based party-based RPG with, for lack of a better term, bullet-hell style combat(don't let that scare you off, I'm awful at those games) set in meso-America. Yes, there's a bit of "gringo bad", but tbh I'd expect it. If you can get past the simplistic pixel-style graphics, it's really enjoyable.
The combat is unique in that it's a simultaneous turn based system which is workable by showing the enemy's next action.


It has a demo on Steam if you want to give it a try:

[rusty_shackleford]

Is the king arthur xpac worth playing? I have the base game downloaded but like so much else it's on the backburner.

If you like tacticool RPGs, it's a must-buy. Great game, no woke stuff.

Oh wow, are these two games related? I got King Arthur's Knights Tale sitting in my library and I still have to play it. Thanks for the recommendation/reminder.

Legion IX is a standalone expansion that takes place in the same area. The stories seem mostly unrelated(so far).
The base game is pretty much all around better. Legion IX is more like a side-story game with less features.

Example of how it feels like a rushjob:


That's for the base game, not the (standalone) xpac.

I might if I get bored enough, but I'm unsure if I'll finish this. I don't regret buying it because I like the developer but meh.
If I had to guess, this started as a DLC then they tried to turn it into a full standalone game, and then scaled it back for some reason. A bit disappointing. Looking forward to their new game announcement sometime this year.

Base game is way better

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Metaphor ReFantazio doing better than Trails, Granblue Fantasy Relink, and Dragon's Dogma 2 has lowered my estimation of this forum.

Today you made a post about Trails featuring black market HRT and helping gay guys hook up

Trails Through Daybreak has a good game engine (movement, lighting, polish, etc), character models look good, massive cast of characters most of which are fleshed out and likeable, massive cast of playable characters almost all of whom have well thought out kits (except for Swin's marking mechanic that makes every other swing of his a crit, which is pointless when you build so that you can crit every swing anyway), flexible battle system and character building that pretty much lets you fill a team of your most favorite characters from the roster and find a way to make it work, engaging character building with the Xipha system, is built upon one of the most fleshed out Japanese media settings ever with Zemuria, has some engaging plotlines, has some good comedy, has some genuinely suspenseful sequences, has fantastic soundtracks by Hayato Sonoda, Yukihiro Jindo, Shuntaro Koguchi, etc. The PC port by Durante is excellent with his usual array of features for prior Trails games like turbo mode, scaling to any resolution, instant resume, etc. The woke stuff is annoying but small fraction of the total experience. I wouldn't have sank $200 on this latest 3 game arc unless it was great. I have two reviews of the first two Kuro games published here on the HQ if you want to check them out.

[The_Mask]

Is the king arthur xpac worth playing? I have the base game downloaded but like so much else it's on the backburner.

The base game is one of the best RPGs of the past decade, for me.

I've yet to play the expansion, sadly.

[stormvermin]

Is the king arthur xpac worth playing? I have the base game downloaded but like so much else it's on the backburner.

The base game is one of the best RPGs of the past decade, for me.

I've yet to play the expansion, sadly.

Good to know. Never heard of the game until it was nominated for JAG and the studio did make that van helsing game which I absolutely adore. I actually thought the studio went under.

[J1M]

It seems I'm the only one who voted for Arco, either because others did not like it or did not play it, so I'll shill it.


It's a rather unique turn-based party-based RPG with, for lack of a better term, bullet-hell style combat(don't let that scare you off, I'm awful at those games) set in meso-America. Yes, there's a bit of "gringo bad", but tbh I'd expect it. If you can get past the simplistic pixel-style graphics, it's really enjoyable.
The combat is unique in that it's a simultaneous turn based system which is workable by showing the enemy's next action.


It has a demo on Steam if you want to give it a try:

Get the Gringo is a good Mel Gibson movie.

[Acrux]

What a terrible year for rpgs.

[Valter]

Wait Fallout London is actually good?

[Lhynn]

It seems I'm the only one who voted for Arco, either because others did not like it or did not play it, so I'll shill it.

Id have looked into it, but the pixel presentation gave me stage 3 cancer just by looking at it.

[Rienen]

Skald did have one of my votes, but ultimately lost it when I started comparing playtimes and my overall remembrance of each game's story and game systems.

Technically, Last Epoch was the game I played the most of but I just couldn't bring myself to give it any votes.

[Acrux]

It seems I'm the only one who voted for Arco, either because others did not like it or did not play it, so I'll shill it.


It's a rather unique turn-based party-based RPG with, for lack of a better term, bullet-hell style combat(don't let that scare you off, I'm awful at those games) set in meso-America. Yes, there's a bit of "gringo bad", but tbh I'd expect it. If you can get past the simplistic pixel-style graphics, it's really enjoyable.
The combat is unique in that it's a simultaneous turn based system which is workable by showing the enemy's next action.


It has a demo on Steam if you want to give it a try:

I didn't play that, but the videos of it remind me of Fates of Ort.

[Tweed]

Didn't vote for anything, but I'll still complain about everything.

[lucky-SVLLa]

I voted one point for Skald simply because there were too few decent cRPGs in 2024. But ultimately, I don't think Skald will get the most votes...

[Acrux]

But ultimately, I don't think Skald will get the most votes...

Are you sure?

[lucky-SVLLa]

But ultimately, I don't think Skald will get the most votes...

Are you sure?

Well, I thought Drova was gonna win. Also, I didn’t expect HQ to rate Metaphor: ReFantazio so highly. Maybe I’ll give it a proper try; the art style is amazing, but I’ve seen some Atlus fans I know complaining about it.