Sounds like a skill issue. Joking aside I play largely old school games as a baseline, but maybe try playing some newer CRPGs to ease into it like Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, or really any of Owlcats games. Also it could be worse ya couldve tried playing Arcanum which is rough even for me to play.

I want old games back! Give me more Old School CRPGs damnit, hell give me janky as unpolished Fallout 1 and 2 CRPGs.

Might I suggest playing some modern CRPGs? Rogue trader and Wasteland 3 have a good bit of that, though im pretty sure everyone ends up turning Abelard into an Angron tier melee combatant in Rogue Trader.

Ive met enough old bastards who lived through the great depression and while most of them are dead they wouldve all laughed. One of them got porn banned on a base dedicated to R&D because of the sheer quantity of privates caught jacking their privates in the toilets. That man was my great grandfather who was one leg on the porn smuggling market.

STALKER 2 is okay. Yeah I aint got nothing else besides high grade Slav jank.

Im a Utilitarian to a fault, of course I think the windows 95 version is just as valid. I wear everything down to scrap.

The fact that this business model earns moneu rather than car bombs annoys me.

Its fucking solitaire you can play the old version from windows 95 online for free. This is beyond fucking stupid.

Why, how, the fuck do you add microtransactions to fucking solitaire?!

Which is annoying cause the game world itself is usually pretty fun just to explore.

Honestly im pretty sure every stealth attempt in star wars turns to shit. The only successful one I can think of is maybe some of Kyle Katarns missions, and a single mission in KOTOR 2.

Yeah sounds about right for newer games. Prolly should stick to older and more niche games on that side of things.

Which ones are ya going to? Cause the forums I see are either tech support for various weird issues or in the case of paradox games abject schizo posting.

You can install mods directly into the OG game directory, why OpenMW doesnt tell you that I dont know. Only problem is that ya need to do trouble shooting the old fashioned way.

If you are cool with CRPGs may I suggest Arcanum? Probably has one of the most weirdly in depth magics systems.

Oh its fine on that front, id say it probably has a out as much content as Pillars of eternity. Though I do suspect they will give more endings in time, but that is moreso owlcat being full of perfectionists than anything else.

Its pretty solid but… limited. You can tell just by looking at the map that they intend to fill it out with DLC over the next couple years. Which is honestly on brand for a TRPG based game especially a games workshop IP.

Is it bad that I dont consider it all that bad since expansion modules have been a thing in RPGs for decades and DLC are just a further evolution therein?

Inexile though its been a bit since wasteland 3 and owlcat games.

I find it fun, gives me an excuse to act like a knowledge goblin and collect new shinies. Just as the Allfather intended.

Hey now some of them are weird ass intelligents. But yeah a lot of them aint that great.

Ya need to play more grand strategy games and CRPGs. Theres plenty to sink your teeth into such as eugenics and war crimes, im thinking specifically Crusader kings and Tyranny with these two examples.

Go play Deus Ex for the 1,567 time, itll hold ya over.

As someone who is into CRPGs I swear to fuck y’all are drowning while we have a nice comfy supply of Kentucky bourbon. The immersive sim guys are ripping up floor boards looking for anything and licking the condensation off of pipes.

This aint a diversity thing, this is a someone in character design needs to be shot type of thing. They all look simultaneous bland, garish, over designed, and under designed. This is a fuckup that ruins folks career’s.

Or youtube, I get far more entertainment watching dankpods replace a cars oil with fucking chocolate than I do watching your average marvel movie. Deadpool and Wolverine was good though.

Ive found some weird but fun games through them ATOM RPG, Bomber Crew, and Dawn of Man come to mind.

Yeah, though my tastes seem to be a rather close to a venn diagram circle with Mandaloregaming which is disconcerting at times. Maybe a bit more post apocalyptia on my part.

Its a solid CRPG but be ready for slav jank. Really good story.

I found weird ass games like Age of Decadence because of steam. I dount I wouldve found that lovingly crafted load of slavic jank without steam, or atleast it wouldve been until Warlocracy made a video on it.

Its restrictive because Bethesda has no creativity anymore. A lot of the old ideas cor the world back around the time of Van Burens development is really interesting. For example a solid chunk of the south was supposed to be overrun by a jungle from a corrupted GECK. The midwestern Brotherhood of Steel had more in common with Caesars Legion, and also recruited ghouls, super mutants, and sapient deathclaws. And just look at the New Vegas DLC for an idea of what the plans were for in the southwest, most of the DLCs are based on different areas in the Van Buren design Docs.

If not outside of America at least less common areas Chicago, Nasheville, Atlanta hell even rural regions like West Virginia. Hell if you are gonna do it in California or New York do it in less known areas, like Albany or San Bernardino yes I know Albany is the capital of New York but well New Yor, New york gets all the attention.

I feel like the main difference is that Elden Rings difficulty is innately linked to its game design. A similar game in a largely different genre is Underrail which is basically designed with CRPG fans who want to be kicked in the dick… repeatedly. Seriously Underrails combat is weirdly complex and frankly speaking even on easier difficulties is still a bitch.

I get that accessibility is a factor and all but theres only so much one can do thatll help without compromising the game design. I think the current situation is for the best, folks can mod the game to make it easier but there shouldnt be any official fuckery.

Also go play Underrail if you like Isometric CRPGs it hurts so good.

Also depending on how theyre counted some games have beta servers and shit listed separately also mod kits and the like can be included in this.

Really do need to play that, played the Terminator game awhile back and it was solid. But yeah I really hope outer worlds 2 is more akin to Fallout 2 in improvements rather than Red faction Armageddon. But ill just have ro wait.

Bit too Rick and Morty esque for me. I was hoping more Robo cop style anti corporatism.

Itd be fun but I suspect most folks would be paranoid to shit after playing such a game.

Yeah it had some neat concepts and lets be honest here a game based off The Thing is just asking for a remake, hell imagine a game akin to alien isolation.

No bad, Fallout shouldnt have fucken magic. Its pulp Sci-fi sure but at most it should have NPC psychers nothing more. We dont need to fucken have special magic abilities in everything.

They dont even need to use the engine, chuck the IP at Inexile and let them make a new Isometric Fallout game again.

I think theres also the secondary unstated factor some of us have, that being that Steam is working as a solid buffer against more malignant groups. The fact that Steam is for a lack of a better term incorruptible is frankly very useful, especially with groups like the Saudis and China investing a lot of money and influence into gaming recently. Better a flawed but ultimately decent corporation than whatever the fuck the Saudis or China would replace it with.