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Anon wants American companies to make a good RPG (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm gonna defend the Americans on this one.

Fallout and Elder Scrolls are two of the most obvious examples that could have been listed, but they weren't.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Last mainline TES game is a decade old and Fallout 4 is also nearing that decade. Meanwhile almost all games in OPs list have released in the last decade.

There's Obsidian but besides them I really can't come up with another good RPG studio from the US that has released a game in the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

So what you're saying is that Bethesda are RPG hipsters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Anything ever made by black isle studios. This includes fallout 1 + 2.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

also GTA

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

GTA and RDR have zero decision making or conversation options or skill trees. They are open world action games that took some design notes from open world RPGs. But Rockstar is a British studio anyway.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Yet another English L. USA number 1