Which PC RPGs of 2005 have you played? [top 100 voting thread]

[groundhog]

C'mon. Someone else other then me must have played Night Watch.

Are the Night Watch/Day Watch games available anywhere now?

Day Watch is sold by GamersGate, but I don't think I've seen Night Watch for sale anywhere.

 

[anvi]

Night Watch causes drowsiness so be careful with heavy machinery, Day Watch contains caffeine.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Wow that was a rough year.

 

[markec]

lol none. Are any of these any good?

The Silent Storm games (Sentinels, Hammer & Sickle) are pretty good even though they are more strategy games than RPG for me (particularly Sentinels).

Anyway, if you liked Jagged Alliance 2, go for them.

Avernum 4 and Geneforge 3 are also good but many people dislike Spiderweb games due their visuals, but if you can look past that they are well worth playing.

Freedom Force vs The Third Reich is also good but I do recall game being rather short.

If you are desperate for a Hack and Slash then Dungeon Siege 2, Sacred Underworld and Fate might provide some fun.

 

[Ebonsword]

That is one of the saddest lists of CRPGs I've ever seen...
Haven't played a single one of them

I think that maybe this was the year where MMORPGS started to kill off the traditional CRPG.

I know I was playing a ton of City of Heroes that year...

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Wow that was a rough year.

Yeah man, but the good thing is Oblivion came out the next year and did a really good job of revitalizing the genre.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

What's most telling about 2005 is that so far the highest played game only accounts for 54.8% of voters. On all other years so far polled there has been a front-runner that has never gone below 80% and many games have easily cracked 50%. Also, of the two closest chasers, both at 45.2%, one is from 2004 and will be put on the 2004 results list if it even makes it anywhere. After those three the drop-off is all the way down to 28.6%. And this isn't from a shortage of voters as there's already been about 45 voters plus likely a huge number of people who haven't played any of them who's lack of voting makes the % even smaller than the number even suggests.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Oh yeah, forgot to add, the RPG I played in 2005 was Fable: The Lost Chapters, which turned out to be a multiplatform re-boot of a console game (I always thought it was just a PC game), which I didn't complete (but got about 75% of the way through before a crash left me with a huge non-saved timeframe which, in that game, was quite a big deal, and I had already reached the stage in the game where I was just playing it to get to the end for getting to the end's sake).

Another reason 2005 (and on for a few years) were so lacking in good PC game content is because suckers like us actually tried to embrace the move to consoles and multiplatforms. "it'll be fine", "you're just being irrational" and lots of other associated hype with no real history of decline to act as a deterrent to thinking it'll all be fine. So these early decline years had the double barrel of console intrusion combined with a market that didn't care and was happy to let PC gaming pass out for a bit. The concept of "at least it's a PC game" wasn't as much of a consideration back then.

It didn't take too long for the objections to start mounting up though...

 

[anvi]

Codex is infested with millennials, confirmed.

 

[Alkarl]

Oh, wow, wtf are these shits? Rpgs? Are you sure?

 

[pomenitul]

I had given up on video games the year prior so, in a certain sense, the decline's egregiousness facilitated my turn to Real Life™, which is just what I needed at that point.

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

Fable the Lost Chapters got released in 2005 for PC.

I started playing it, farted at a couple of commoners, kicked a few chicken but then the savegame got corrupted and I uninstalled.
Molineux' vision of what roleplaying games should be like.

 

[Barghest]

C'mon. Someone else other then me must have played Night Watch.

Are the Night Watch/Day Watch games available anywhere now?

Day Watch is sold by GamersGate, but I don't think I've seen Night Watch for sale anywhere.

I remember Night Watch bricked an old PC of mine. Nasty copy protection.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

I guess it's clear 2005 was the year the decline truly began.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

a crash left me with a huge non-saved timeframe which, in that game

I started playing it, farted at a couple of commoners, kicked a few chicken but then the savegame got corrupted and I uninstalled.

That was it, not a crash but a corrupted savegame. Hence it was so long since the last point of saving.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

I guess it's clear 2005 was the year the decline truly began.

I would say its the year when it became obvious. It's origin was in development long before. I wouldn't say anyone noticed (in a large way) specifically until Oblivion was released.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Ah, I remember 2006, when Oblivion came out. I was pretty excited about it, bought it right away, raced through the sewers on the trail of Emperor Picard, was wowed by the purty graphics of the world when you first jump out of the prison sewers.

Back then, I wasn't thinking about it much, but after about 10-15 hours, I just got completely bored, without realizing why at the time, and quit.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

I think the next AAA RPG I bought after the failure of Fable was Dragon Age: Origins. I guess I was lucky because, for me, I didn't even notice Oblivion existing.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

Hammer and Sickle was nice, as was E5. Well, later was a mixed bag, actually, but it did gave us 7,62.

 

[Severian Silk]

I remember Night Watch bricked an old PC of mine. Nasty copy protection.

Why were the Russians so worried about us rigging their elections copies?

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

I think we should be more concerned about the russian hackers that could well have prevented 36 hours worth of voting?

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

bump

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

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[IncendiaryDevice]

OMG! only 12 hours to go!

 

[Beastro]

Avernum 4 and Geneforge 3 are also good but many people dislike Spiderweb games due their visuals, but if you can look past that they are well worth playing.

GF3 is the worst of the series and has been the one so far for me that really dragged and annoyed me.

It doesn't help as well that both sides are asshole. I don't mean in what they do so much as the characters you meet are so unlikable. Even the nice, friendly elder servile you run into from the other games gets a touch of douchines.