Apeman42

I don't know why, I'm not even a big fan of the anime, but I kind of want to pick up a Dragon Ball game for PC while a bunch of them are on sale. Maybe it's just because I like Toriyama's style in cel-shaded 3D but am recently Dragon Quest-ed out.

Now I know that naturally, many of them are going to be straight, fairly traditional fighting games. But it looks like some of them might be closer to action RPGs, and the line is a little blurry trying to look them up.

So, can anyone recommend Dragon Ball games on PC that are closer to the ARPG side of the scale and good for single player?

I was looking at Kakarot, which definitely seems to fit, and seems to be kind o a TL;DR of the Goku story, from what I can tell?

Xenoverse looks really nice, and custom character is always great, but I can't tell how much of a pure fighter this series is?

I know, I know, it LOOKS kind of crappy and juvenile, but if you liked the regular non-Heroes Might and Magic series, try the demo.

It's like a throwback to MM6-8's engine, with 3-5's turn-based combat, that seems to have been revealed to the developer in a Nyquil-soaked fever dream.

There's something about how solidly the gameplay recreates MM while the design is so amateur (the dev makes all explosion noises with his mouth) that just makes it ooze a strange sort of charm.

Not the deepest discount, but if you've been waiting for any decent sale as an excuse to pick this up, it is a historic low.

This is a fantasy roguelite beat-em-up that's kind of drawn like a Saturday morning adventure cartoon. I adored the demo, and this is the first sale I've caught for it that's better than 20% off.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2407919/

I was watching the show because I like John Goodman and Pete Davidson, and my dad used to have some of the comics,. And I hear a familiar voice I can't quite place. Then more parallels to Claire came up and it clicked. If it's a coincidence, it's a weird one.

I've been filling out my emulator collection and thought I'd poke my head into the world of Sega consoles, which I have no experience with.

What classic Master System/Genesis/32x/Game Gear/Sega CD games should I try? I'm more of an RPG guy, but I'll play a good retro platformer or whatever.

What I've found so far from my own research (mostly Genesis):

• Altered Beast

• Beyond Oasis

• Castlevania Bloodlines

• Comix Zone

• Crusader of Centy

• Death and Return of Superman (I just really liked this comics arc)

• Earthworm Jim 1+2

• Gauntlet 4

• Golden Axe 1+2

• Landstalker

• Might and Magic - Gates to Another World (I think this is MM2?)

• OutRun and OutRun 2019

• Phantasy Star 1-4

• Shadowrun

• Shining Force 1+2

• ToeJam and Earl

• Ys - The Vanished Omens

What I have no interest in:

• Sonic

• Fighting games

• Sports games

EDIT: I'll definitely take note of any Saturn/Dreamcast recommendations too, but my plan is to start with the older consoles and work my way up.

This is an excellent love letter to classic CRPGs, and quite possibly the best game for people who like intricate TTRPG character building. This has, I believe, all the DLC including the one that includes a standalone roguelike mode, and the one that has a Mass Effect 3 Citadel-type party in the last chapter.

There's a decent modding scene for it too. Here's what you're gonna want to start with:

ToyBox - https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderwrathoftherighteous/mods/8

This one lets you activate tons of QOL features, fix bugs on the fly, and straight up cheat if that's your bag.

Bubble Buffs - https://www.nexusmods.com/pathfinderwrathoftherighteous/mods/195

This one lets you define a set of buffs to apply to your characters in 1 click. You're going to want this, buffing before fights is essentially mandatory, and gets pretty tedious to do by manually casting each spell after about level 3.

I'm thinking Halfling is a given, 1 level of Nature Cleric to get all armor proficiencies, guidance, and most importantly Shillelagh for the vibe of whacking things with a magic stick.

Then 6 Swords Bard for Extra Attack and several on-theme spells. If I make sure Bard is always my most recent new class, Shillelagh should run off Charisma.

Round it out with 5 levels of some sort of Rogue for 3d6 sneak attack that should play nicely with Durge's invisibility cloak. Swashbuckler plays off Charisma further, but Arcane Trickster gives more spell slots? Thief would give two bonus actions so I still have one after I Shillelagh up.

Thoughts?

I just got done installing OpenMW and setting up the I Heart Vanilla mod list. I also added Daisy's Lua Multimark to help with getting around a little better.

My only real requirement is that I want my first character to use spears as a primary weapon, because I miss them so much when I play other Elder Scrolls. Medium armor synergises well with spears and Bonemold looks sweet, so I'm leaning towards that, or maybe a medium/heavy mix later when carry weight's less of a problem.

Other than that, I'm open to suggestion on race, the rest of the build, and factions to seek out. What do y'all think is the most fun for someone coming back to Vvardenfell after so long?

EDIT: A few people liked my writeup of character creation, and it's helpful to have a record of what I've been doing in a game like Morrowind, so this is now a Let's Play-type journal that I'm calling Morrow(Re)wind.

I'll be posting updates on !morrowind@lemmy.world so as to not spam this community.

Part 1

Part 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo_Deng

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(monkey)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimothy_(raccoon)

I am NOT afraid of H.O.W.A.R.D.