Looking for a specific type of game

[georwe]

Hello to all

I?m trying to find a specific type of game. It?s a little bit of a precise thing, but I hope I?ll get some answers. I already made a very similar post a long time ago, and got answers that included pretty cool options, but now I would like to make a post again, to see if I come across other examples. Btw I?m not a native english speaker, so excuse the mistakes.

I?m looking for a game with these features:
- similar to the elder scrolls (being open world/roaming etc)
- where your inventory is not full of gear and armor right from the start, because this doesn?t make it very immersive. Rather starting out with very little stuff, and gradually, slowly getting better with gear and character building
- having a character creation feature

That?s it. Also, I was thinking of something like starting really from zero when it comes to the stats, and slowly, through your actions in the game, making them increase


Thanks for the help


Greetings

 

[Smygskytt]

A good game to check out is Mount & Blade: Warband. It is an action RPG and has a much greater focus on combat and inventory than TES. TES focuses on exploration and worldbuildng, M&B doesn't. You will also have a large warband (100+ large) that you'll have to pay each week and that gives the vulnerability a real edge. For example, losing a fight means you have to hire and train new recruits to be back at the top. But, there is little else more satisfying than being the greatest lord in the field with your retainers and slaughtering the enemy beneath you.

Another suggestion is, and this is a more conventional game, is Dark Souls. There are few games where you start out weaker, and where it feels more satisfying to kill those same enmies when you've grown stronger.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I think there are numerous mods for both Skyrim and the Fallout games that would satisfy you.

But actual games, I can't help you there.

 

[Stewie Plisken]

Said it before, I'll say it again; if you get past the low-budget production and the cringy bits (which are many), Two Worlds fits the bill for the first two of your requirements. However it lacks a good character creation feature (the first game offers only a few options and they're all human male, though there is a mod to play as a woman).

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

Ah, I wish I knew something better to attribute as a recommendation. I guess...King's Field? They are way older games though, actually by the same developer that makes Dark Souls today.

They are first person adventure RPG's, but they play very slow and may not be exciting to most people. However they are first person and require quite a bit of strategy, even if the combat it clunky.

There's no character creator though, I'm afraid.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

About the first and third criteria..
Does it also have to be third/first person or would top-down/isometric work?
How complex does the character creation have to be?

 

[georwe]

About the first and third criteria..
Does it also have to be third/first person or would top-down/isometric work?
How complex does the character creation have to be?

Well,
- third/first person
- not super complex character creation. Actually I think the hairstyle is the most important thing (lol)

 

[09philj]

There's Dragon's Dogma, I suppose. Not exactly a classic but not a bad game.

 

[georwe]

Said it before, I'll say it again; if you get past the low-budget production and the cringy bits (which are many), Two Worlds fits the bill for the first two of your requirements. However it lacks a good character creation feature (the first game offers only a few options and they're all human male, though there is a mod to play as a woman).

Thanks for the recommendation Stewie, but I tried out a demo of Two Worlds, and moments after beginning the game you already are full of gear, and this is the kind of feature I'm not really fond of. The other recommendations are interesting, but I'm afraid they are not not exactly what I'm looking for.





Isn't there a game where in the beginning you have limitations and can't evolve and get full of equiment and armor right away? This would make it more immersive, slow, and adventure like. Risen gets a little bit close to this (even though you can already amass a lot of objects in the beginning) but it doesn't have character creation. Skyrim/Elder Scrolls basically let's you get full of weapons to choose from in the first parts of the game.


I'll specify again the criteria I would like the game to have:
-- open world/roaming
-- 1st/3rd person (not top-down)
-- character creation (basic, because I would say hairstyle is really the most important thing)
and the last two:
-- starting with limitations and not being able to have a bunch of gear, equipment and objects to choose from when the game is just beginning.
-- and easy to understand skills and stats, where they just increase if you're doing the needed actions. Like, just a list of characteristics, not these hard to grasp charts of skill points

From searching around, the games I found that meet at least one of these criteria I think are: Risen, Two Worlds II, and Skyrim, but they're not enough.


Does anybody know one that gets relly close to what I'm saying?


Thanks for the help again. I wish I knew personally some rpg guru-know it all, so I could ask him that directly and more intuitively (lol)



Greetings

PS: I'm from Spain, sorry for the English mistakes.

 

[Stewie Plisken]

Thanks for the recommendation Stewie, but I tried out a demo of Two Worlds, and moments after beginning the game you already are full of gear, and this is the kind of feature I'm not really fond of. The other recommendations are interesting, but I'm afraid they are not not exactly what I'm looking for.

I assume the reason why you don't want to be decked out in full gear once you start is because you want to gradually level up your gear to something awesome. I don't remember if the game starts out with full gear and for how long (I'd swear I remember fighting bandits in my underwear, but I may be wrong), but the primary reason I recommended the game outside of its open-world environment is because it offers a gear-leveling feature, which requires combining weapons of the same type to level them up to glorious death tools. It's hard to describe it without experiencing it yourself, but I'll stick to that recommendation if that's the type of thing you're looking for.

PS: I'm talking about the first Two Worlds, I have yet to play the second game.

 

[EHKOS]

I think something like Minecraft (you can change your skin online pretty easily) or ARK: Survival sounds like something you'd be interested in.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Hello to all

I?m trying to find a specific type of game. It?s a little bit of a precise thing, but I hope I?ll get some answers. I already made a very similar post a long time ago, and got answers that included pretty cool options, but now I would like to make a post again, to see if I come across other examples. Btw I?m not a native english speaker, so excuse the mistakes.

I?m looking for a game with these features:
- similar to the elder scrolls (being open world/roaming etc)
- where your inventory is not full of gear and armor right from the start, because this doesn?t make it very immersive. Rather starting out with very little stuff, and gradually, slowly getting better with gear and character building
- having a character creation feature

That?s it. Also, I was thinking of something like starting really from zero when it comes to the stats, and slowly, through your actions in the game, making them increase

As much as I hate to answer with what you've already put, a modded Skyrim is probably your best bet.

There's a mod for Skyrim called "alternate start", which lets you pick from multiple different ways to start the game instead of having to do the usual "you're a prisoner and then the Dragon shows up" beginning, and depending on which one you pick you start off with basically nothing.

I did a Skyrim playthrough where I started off left for dead at an ambushed carriage, and when you wake up I think you have a shirt and a pair of pants, and that's it: no gold, no armor, no weapons, no lockpicks, you don't even have shoes. I literally had to steal a knife from someone's house just so I could go murder some bandits and get some clothes and gold.

Especially when you combine this mod with mods like "wet and cold" (which adds a degree of realism to cold weather, and you can actually get hypothermia) or "Skyrim survival" (where you have to eat, drink, and sleep) suddenly having no money and very little clothing becomes a huge factor (you have to sneak into places just to eat and sleep, so you really feel like you're truly starting from scratch in a hostile world).

 

[georwe]

Thanks for the answers. I?m intrigued about ARK: Survival, but I think that what I?m looking for (with these kind of features) doesn?t exist lol. Two Worlds II seems like a good option, because you don?t seem to have a lot of equipment when beginning the game. It seems more like a slow gear progression, where you are limited at the beginning (I hope I?m actually right)