You can see which games I already own on my steam account, so preferably check that first before suggesting one. :P I've played pretty much all of the big name titles that have interested me, so many something indie instead?

I love games with strong female characters and romance stories, though there are so few (I think Bioware pretty much has the monopoly). I don't mind JRPGs so long as they aren't weird harem/fan service things. I'm very much a story and lore person, so even if the combat sucks I'll probably still enjoy it (e.g. kingdoms of amalur). I prefer medieval games or sci fi, but will look at other genres too.

I don't like games where 90% of the game's appeal is how difficult it is. I don't want games where I have to reload each fight tens of times before I work out the best strategy, I'd rather play in a way that I enjoy and gives me some flexibility to choose a style that suits me.

Extra: considering buying the new deus ex, but it's a lot of money at the moment. Worth it?

edit: I prefer fluid combat systems and first person/over shoulder third person to point and click/grids/top down.

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I noticed that Epic Battle Fantasy 3 came out on Steam recently.
Doesn't sound like it would be your kind of thing, but it's free - so worth mentioning so you can check/try it out, see if you'd like it, and ditch it if you don't.
No romance, some fan service things, overall silly/nonsensical feel to the game. You might have to restart some of the boss fights but from what I remember (maybe three years ago), the difficulty should be reasonable.

Played it a really long time ago on a flash game site and thought it was really well made (for a free game) - installed it yesterday and looking forward to playing it sometime in the near future.

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Looks funny, thanks! Will download it.

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I'm playing through it now, and I find it a blast. Considering what you like it probably isn't your cup of tea (it is light on plot). But given the price, it doesn't hurt to try!

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Divine Divinity is one of my personal faves! played it for like 80 hours
it's a Diablo-esque RPG with more open world and open questing than Diablo itself, and is filled with humour
also it's cheap and there's a magic statue that can turn you into a kitten

on Deus Ex: personally I wait until games are priced at much more reasonable amounts before buying them unless I'm very confident I'll like it and want to try it out asap, which is usually only the case with long-awaited sequels in game series I really like
so I'd say it depends on how much you like Deus Ex

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+1 for Divine Divinity

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I think I might be too much of a graphics snob. :x although I do want to be a kitten.

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Tbh graphics aged well in this game

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+1

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This guy know what he is talking about. I am the only one that likes the soundtrack of Divine Divinity? I still remember the song from the tavern.

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hehehe, I know right ^^
in fact: song 06 in this quiz thingy I did last week

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I meant this one it is so weird and so sticky at the same time, but this game has an excellent soundtrack.

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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura? It is now on steam. :)

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Yeah it is. Got added this week.

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Actually now it is xD

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Yeah I know I wrote it wrongly. Edited. :D

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It is also in the current Humble Bundle BTA tier.

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I notice you have Divinity: Original Sin but have only played 5 hours. Did you not care for it? I personally think it's an amazing game.

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I'm kinda waiting to play coop with someone some day. Those 5 hours were spent playing with someone who knew what they were doing too well, so I was kinda lost running round after them and dying a lot. e.e

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The game of thrones (not telltale) has a nice story, but the gameplay it's weak, if you like asoiaf you should play it

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To elaborate on this it's similar to Dragon Age/Mass Effect just as their later games Of Orcs and Men and Styx are.

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Morrowind was a fantastic game and is easily obtainable at a good price from either Steam or GOG.

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own it already ;D kinda waiting for the skywind stuff to be finished though, so I don't spoil it for myself.

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Take a look at Avernum. I know you aksed for first person, but still these games are all lore and story :)

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+1 for everything done by Spiderweb!

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Bought every game they have on steam. I knew them years before they came on the platform :)
50+ hours of gameplay for each game, it makes an eternity lol

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With the ones You have I'd install Sacred 2 and Fable.

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Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Icewind Dale, Wasteland 2.
I'd also recommend Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 and Planescape, but those aren't on Steam at the moment.

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Do I get it corrently you already played Enderal?
You... didn't play SWKOTOR? D:
Oh, and while I'd say Oblivion is worse than Morrowind, it's still very much worth playing.

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I did! I just rebought it on steam so my hours don't show up (this is the case for a lot of games). same with oblivion, I had the retail copy.

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Ah, good. What about Dragon's Dogma? You didn't like Vampires the Masquerade?

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just bought, and I did. I can't remember why I stopped playing -- I just got to the bit where you find the guy in the coffin I think? I feel like I played a lot more than the 15 hours steam says I did.

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You own Alpha Protocol but only played it half an hour. Its a good Action/Espionage/RPG Mix.
Same goes for Banner Saga, nice Tactic RPG with a good story.

Gothic/Gothic II if you want to try out a classic RPG (and havent already, because that game was released before Steam was there).
Same for Beyond Good and Evil

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I can't remember why I quit playing alpha protocol. Something didn't work or I didn't like it, can't really remember. Banner Saga I just didn't like in general -- I can appreciate it's a fantastic game, but I was just bored. Maybe sometime later when I'm in the mood for it.

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+1 for the Gothic games.Besides Skyrim, they are my favorite medieval RPGs, because the worlds feel so alive. Also, Gothic 3 is great and way better than it's shitty reputation, which comes mainly from being released way too early and full of bugs. Fortunately, the devs released a patch which fixes most of the bugs.
You can ignore Gothic 4 (Arcania). It's like the Star Wars prequels: we don't talk about that and pretend it never happened.

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Tales of Zestiria maybe, there's a little bit of fanservice with the DLCs, but without them there's none ( at least I don't recall any, which, for a Tales of game, is common )

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definitely will consider getting this in a sale, but not when it's £40 xD

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You just missed the sale on bandai site.
1 copy was for something like 6.7$

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If you're a fan of Tales of ( which you don't seem to be ) £40 is worth it entirely, but I understand you wanna wait ^^ Also, if you like it, there's also an anime releasing right now ( maybe it's over )

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+1, that RPG was the bomb back in my day

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Yeah, this will definitely blow your mind!

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Hum as I just finished Dragon's Dogma in a gaming marathon, I would recommend that. But I know it's kind of weird and difficult to compare to games like skyrim, the witcher or dark souls. Still, it might be worthwhile checking it out!?

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literally just bought it on a friend's recommendation. xD downloading it now.

what was your favourite thing to do in it?

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The best and unique thing about it was upgrading my pawn. It's really nice to "lend" my personal mercenary to other people and seeing him coming back from those missions with more experience and stuff. Sadly that pretty much stops after level 70 (less players).

After that I started the expansion, which is a bigger dungeon with a lot of high end loot, which was just plain fun to explore and then upgrading my gear :P

Sadly it falls short in other categories. It's missing this vibrant world the witcher has and the combat-difficulty relies a lot on your equipment. Felling a big ogre is impossible until you have the right gear, which means grinding or recruiting an over-powered pawn from someone else. However i couldn't really stop playing this game. Although the world is a bit empty and the story ... confusing at best - i just loved exploring the world and finding interesting new stuff.

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Lack of players isn't really an issue, Past 70 most players won't need pawns. I only get my own to deal with certain resistances so I didn't have to change equipment. As for knowledge it's more a case that once you get past two stars the requirements for some of the enemies/locations become really specific.

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i think the majority of players stop playing after 70 when they have finished the main story, that's why there are significantly fewer players that hire pawns.

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I just started playing that one yesterday. So far it's enjoyable. The combat in particular is actually really good (being able to grab onto and then climb bigger creatures is just amazing) and the way you progress your skills is also pretty interesting.

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What I found annoying, and you may find out about that, too if you go after quina, is that suddenly some enemies have a much higher level than you without any indication about that.
So in that particular case I found a group of bandits, like I had slain before, but one particular guy was so much higher in level that he just slashed through my group. The problem with such enemies is, that they also have significantly higher defense (again without looking different than their brothers), and if you still only have your normal equipment and don't know much about the mechanics you won't be able to break their "damage treshhold" and thus not be able to injure them at all.
That's quite different in Dark Souls, where you, at least in my impression, do see if an enemy is beyond your means just because of it's design and/but if you still think you can handle them you are at least capable of hurting said enemy - it will just be difficult.

I do like that grapple mechanic, too, and I really enjoyed fighting in the game, but after those encounters I changed my playstyle and hired a lot stronger pawn, that could help me at least in a situation, where I stumbled into something as described above. It's not that I think it's wrong to add enemies that are beyond my means, but other games do a better job in making clear that I am literally unable to beat the enemies in a specific area. In this game I had to use trial and error, which let me then think about, how Quina was actually able to run past them.

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Fallout 1-2

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Highly recommended by me:

My favorites:
{
Witcher 1, 2, 3
Gothic 1, 2, 3
Risen 1, 3
Two Worlds 1, 2
Moon Hunters
}

Hyper Light Drifter
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Arx Fatalis
Grim Dawn
Mount & Blade series
Darkest Dungeon
RAGE( Post-apocalyptic)
The Elder Scrolls series ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Highly recommended by People:

The Banner Saga
Shadow of Mordor
Pillars of Eternity
Divinity series
Hand of Fate
Mass Effect series (sci-fi)
Dead Island series (modern time)
Shadowrun series (cyberpunk)
Borderlands series (sci-fi)
Dishonored(steampunk)

Sorry for a bad design, must be not so easy to read =\

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Did you try Caesar 4 and Age of Mythology series?

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Are those RPGs? I thought they were TBS...

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These are CMS games

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CMS? What does that mean?

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Construction and management simulation

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I don't know what to recommend that you don't already have. I prefer isometric style party based RPGs, but Fallout New Vegas was the first, first person RPG I really enjoyed. Edit Again: I take that back, the original Deus Ex was the first, first person RPG I enjoyed. If you count the old AD&D Gold Box games where the adventuring takes place in first person but the combat is from a top-down, tile based perspective, then that would be the first. I don't like third person that much, but maybe try the Witcher series. I have all of them on GOG, but I haven't played them yet.

Did you not like Pillars of Eternity? It has a lot of story, lore and dialog. I played several hours of it offline when my internet was down one weekend. I really liked it, but I decided to hold off until I had time to devote to it.

I saw your comment above about Divinity: Original Sin, and I can understand. I started out playing with a friend, but he moved and we couldn't get our timing right to get back to it. I've started twice playing with my niece, but she's never played an RPG before and wants to break into every locked door, get into fights and not doesn't pay attention to the quests or what people say when she talks to them. I started a solo game a while back, but it's not the same once you've played it coop, so I've never gotten very far.

The new Deus Ex is OK, but I haven't been impressed with any of the dialog yet. So far all of the dialog options are just asking for more information, not making actual choices. I'm still in the starting hub area, so maybe it opens up later. I keep getting distracted. So many of the NPC citizens just ask to be punched in the face, and then I end up fighting off the cops. I'm trying to play non-lethal, so after I've scratched my violence itch, I have to reload and get serious again.

EDIT: Check out Dex. It's a side scrolling RPG. I thought it looked interesting, so I picked it up during the Summer sale.

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I just looked at DEX and it looks really cool, wishlisted.

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Deus Ex is indeed worth it, play "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" first and see if you like the gameplay and story, because it is pretty much the same but improved on almost every single aspect, not to mention that HR takes place before MD.

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I liked HR, which is why I want to play MD. But it's too expensive at the moment.

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If you enjoy Deus Ex maybe "Remember Me" could be for you.
It is not really an RPG more like an Action Adventure.
It has a female protagonist, cool Story in an dystopian world and the combat is really intuitive and even on the hardest difficulty doable without frustration.

Basically this game was so good that i started to play action adventure type games after it.
Never bothered with this Genre before.

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I see you have Dragon Age: Origins, which is a fantastic game. I'd also recommend Dragon Age: Inquisition, though that's just on Origin, not Steam.

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hahahahaha....

I have like 500 hours in dragon age inquisition >> <<

i pretty much had to start a new game for every romance.

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Now we just have to wait for DA4 ...

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ikr? so hype about tevinter. and the possibility of more solas.

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Amen. Which is your favorite of the three so far? And who is your favorite character?

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From what you have ans still not played: Legend of grimlock, bioshock 2, divinity II, eschalon, fable. kult heretic kingdoms, then elderscrolls morrowind and oblivion.

from what you dont have: system shock (1 and 2), underrail, lords of xulima.

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well if you have a ps 3 i recommend ni no kuni

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SW:TOR. I know it is an MMO but it plays best as a single player rpg. The questlines are awesome, it's Star Wars and it's free* :D.

The Banner Saga (which you idled?) is one that I strongly recommend giving a go and Valkyria Chronicles is another. South Park: The Stick of Truth is a bit short for an rpg and the humor may not be for everyone, but I really enjoyed and it is worth checking out.

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Grandia II is really fun. The first one needs to come to Steam, too.

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How would it compare to let say golden sun(Which i enjoyed immensely.) or what game is similar?(just to get the idea what to expect story wise)

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Grandia has a bit more of a varied cast compared to Golden Sun, and I found the story a little more interesting compared to GS's. The series comes from the same studio that made Lunar if you're familiar with those games.

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