Diablo 2, skyrim, oblivion, the witcher 3... all felt like having a crappy boring job where i have to interact with people i don't like all day and nothing really feels worth doing but i gotta pick something and do it anyway. it also doesn't help that 90% of the genre is indistinguishable tolkien knockoff worlds either making no effort or trying way too hard to stand out as unique and I'm beyond sick of that crap.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Those aren't CRPGs. I'm talking the likes of Baldur's Gate, Divinity: Original Sin or Shadowrun. Completely different gameplay.

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I looked up CRPG because to me it mean "computer role playing game" but apparently now it refers to top-down point-and-click games under the heading "classic role playing game", like that's any more descriptive or clearly defined. Because this disjointed, confused genre needed more vaguery in the names of its subgenres.

Anyway most of these examples look like Diablo 2 so I'm going to assume that's the type of game you mean - and I think it's the same crap from a different camera angle. I don't think I could say it's "completely different gameplay" to something like Skyrim without feeling like a liar because the loop is bang on the same.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This stuff is pretty much the opposite of Diablo. Honestly insulting that you assume that I wouldn't recognize that.

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry the terminology is so vague and inconsistent, and I'm so disengaged from "gaming" culture and behind on genre labels that I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Do you mean the genre formerly known as "point-and-click adventures", like Disco Elysium?

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No, I'm not talking about adventures. Just look up some gameplay videos for Baldur's Gate 3.

[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

bruh this looks identical to diablo. no really this is my first time seeing the game and i thought i must have typed diablo into the search by mistake. What makes it a different genre?

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Did you actually look at the gameplay or did you stop after the first still image showed that Diablo and BG3 both have a top-down perspective and general medieval fantasy theme?