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My top 25 RPGs of all time.

May The 4th Be With You ✨ My Star Wars favorites: Film: Revenge of the Sith TV show: Ahsoka Game: Knights of the Old Republic II Book: Darth Bane trilogy Hero: Obi-Wan Kenobi Villian: Kreia (Darth Traya) Droid: HK-47 Planet: Dantooine Ship: Ebon Hawk Lightsaber color: Green

@Lulsed02 @starwars Why not?

@wesleytypes @starwars Agree with mostly Everything but not ahsoka

@apathy_s_death @starwars I don't get the hate lol

@wesleytypes @starwars broo, it was 10/10 list until I saw this

@JezCorden Starfield

What's a game everyone seems to hate that you actually really loved?

@Arron_TK Nah easy choice. Triss can go away. Lol

When you have to choose between Yennefer and Triss in the Witcher 3

@SpIinterCaI Vampire Crawlers is AWESOME

Played 20 mins of Vampire Crawlers and realised this could be another awful addiction of mine 😭 At this point I might have to shelf Hades 2 and come back to it

@iriscal I won't be ready to declare it until we're looking back and appreciating Sandfall in the past tense, but don't get me wrong I'm totally on their side. Haha

Fair, but it will happen if the next Clair Obscur is as good as E33.

No other RPG maker will ever match Bioware at the height of their power.

@imbratorX @ElderScrolls @CrimsonDesert_ Please don't let them touch my Morrowind

The Elder Scrolls needs Pearl Abyss. Imagine if Bethesda partnered up with Pearl Abyss to develop a Morrowind or Skyrim remake.

@iriscal I love E33 but they gotta have more than one great game to compete with these. I think they can do it but we're not there yet.

@wesleytypes It has already been matched. And surpassed.

Ride or die RPG companions:

@petrichor_choir @starwars This is the Restored Content Mod.

@wesleytypes @starwars Is this the latest content restoration mod or an official update?

"Once upon a time, organic meatbags bred out of control and filled the galaxy..." - HK-47, Knights of the Old Republic II

@MythicMgames Oh yes, yes you are. I've been replaying them for the first time in a while and it immediately made me realize why I love them so much.

I think I’m due for another round soon. (So are you)

@Sonnie_Slim @Helexzura That's why I said in terms of style

@wesleytypes @Helexzura Hmm I don’t think either have the portfolio yet that is as iconic. As it is CDPR has 2 games like that

@Epsilolz @SleepisforT Do you think money and manpower is what makes a game special?

@SleepisforT @wesleytypes I don't agree with that. Well, I do, but the context is completely different. In the 2000s, games took a year to make, and with small teams. A current game is worth at least six games from the 2000s. BG2 took a year and a half to make. BG3 took seven.

@calledthezealot @starwars Exactly

@wesleytypes @starwars I agree, I think people who haven't played it a million times feel like it adds more than it did. Great mod though

Of all the many times I've beaten Knights of the Old Republic II, I just finished my first playthrough with the Restored Content Mod (TSLRCM). I love what the mod adds to the game and I can't see myself playing without it in the future, but at the same time I don't think it was very noticeably different from all of my playthroughs on the original Xbox. I'm actually even more impressed now that Obsidian was seemingly able to make all of the right calls cutting content under duress. Sure, the ending that the game shipped with is a bit choppy and it would have been better if Obsidian didn't cut anything, but after this experience I can confidently say that it's not missing anything vitally important. Kreia's motivations are still revealed, the Exile still travels to the Unknown Regions to find Revan, and Malachor V is still destroyed. As Kreia would say: "There is no great revelation, no great secret." The meat of The Sith Lords was always in the nuance of its writing and the depth of its characters. That is the reward in the end, as it always has been.

@Epsilolz Sure but you said "no cutscenes". Mass Effect and Dragon Age are still modern era games in the grand scheme of things.

@wesleytypes Not at all the same scale as current games.

@Epsilolz Three of these 4 games definitely had cutscenes lol

@wesleytypes Developing games was much simpler back then. The music was more basic, there were no cutscenes, let alone motion capture, and the graphics were simplistic. Today, a large-scale AAA RPG requires a highly experienced and sizable development team. Not comparable.

@SleepisforT Oh absolutely, and at the end of the day this is just my opinion of course. Owlcat and Larian feel especially inspired by early Bioware. I can't wait to play more from them.

@wesleytypes Due respect, I think that may be true. There have been many other greats for sure. Larian, Obsidian, Owlcat, of course BGS and CDPR--but the number of games with quality of writing, systems, and emotion '98-2012 from Bioware were astounding