Your Favorite cRPG of All Time

[NotAI]

Gothic 2

[Rand]

I gave this some consideration and while I'd call JA2 a role-playing game because it has all the aspects of one (wargame + detailed units known as characters; see early D&D, especially the original campaigns run by the creators and their friends) I decided to disqualify it based on the questionable notion that it strays a bit from the illusive cRPG formula. Lilura hates me. But then again, Lilura features Quake on her cRPG blog.. How the mighty are fallen!

Fallout it is, @Thor.

@pol_345polex Another one for BG2.

It has characters, they have stats and personalities, there's upgradeable equipment, dungeons, quests.
Is it the fact that it's a modern setting that's throwing you off?
What if it was medieval sword and sorcery, but the same gameplay.
Where an evil sorceress has deposed the royal family and you are a hired mercenary freelancer who joins the rebels to recapture the regions of the kingdom and march on the capital while enemy soldiers and monsters hold territory and fight back?
Nobody would bat an eye calling that a tactical cRPG.

(Wow, I know what game my game studio would make now, if I ever won the lottery. If I ever played the lottery...)

[DDC]

Interesting that Morrowind is #1 on the other ranking thread and doesn't even have a vote here.

Morrowind probably has no votes because it isn't a cRPG, as defined in this thread. There are two basic types of cRPGs. You have your Baldur's Gate-alikes, and then you have action-based games that can be easily played with a controller and usually don't have a party (Morrowind, Deus Ex, Witcher, Elex, etc). Most people seem to be interpreting this thread as aimed at the former, because the latter has nothing in common with "tabletops."

Now for a game that actually is a tabletop, I found Gloomhaven absolutely engrossing on the hardest difficulty level. The strategy was challenging and very well-tuned

[TKVNC]

It's a pretty hard one, as it pretty much restricts a lot of RPG's that don't have 'arguably' TTRPG elements (which is fine)

I'd have to say Dragon Age: Origins

Honestly the most fun I've had with a quasi-TTRPG game.

[rusty_shackleford]

crpg = computer rpg, it doesn't refer to a specific kind of rpg beyond that

[Kronus]

And for all it's worth, I can't consider SWTOR as anything related to this one or KOTOR I.

[Nemesis]

It's a pretty hard one, as it pretty much restricts a lot of RPG's that don't have 'arguably' TTRPG elements (which is fine)

I'd have to say Dragon Age: Origins

Honestly the most fun I've had with a quasi-TTRPG game.

You'll be happy to know DA:O is this month's Junior Adventurer Guild game.

[Protean]

The more I thought about it, the more I hated them all. None of them approximate what I want.