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Greatest RPG shop of all time

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Giscorls. Giscorl wash cloth, sell cloth. I must have spent fuckin hours tryin to find a use for cloth in Torment, none that i've found but there seems to be something there maybe a cut feature.

Nah but seriously, Renesco the Rocketmans or Vrischika's Curiosity Shop probably best i've played in for CRPGs, dint just buy an sell but were involved in a few quests. In tabletop its Bazaar of the Bizarre, portal in Greyhawk city leads to this multiplanar market place, kind of a proto Sigil, just as dangerous an mysterious though.

Nah thinkin about it fuck all them, i'd choose Siege Tower an its Golem caraftin weapons for entropy, fuckin cool.
 
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I honestly think QfG is the right answer.

I loved the shops in that series. Especially in QfG 3, the one people like the least. Every single store has a story; a unique shopkeeper with a story and personality, unique descriptions for everything you can buy, lots of descriptions and things to look at. QfG 3 was my first QfG game, so I am particularly attached to it. I remember going to the inn and sitting down, and they served you some wonderful authentic African dish and it was so lovingly described it made my mouth water.

For children, and me at that time, these games were absolutely perfect. The whisked you away into another world with such a strength that you could almost feel the sun of Tarna beat down on your hero, could taste the food they sold him, could experience the danger as you clashed with monsters.

God, I miss being a kid.
 

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When I was a kid I liked the shops in Dungeon Master II where you'd physically place items and coins on the table to barter. I thought that was cool little gimmick that made child me feel like I was actually bartering instead of clicking on icons in a menu.

Also, the shops in Daggerfall are shit, but I desperately need an excuse to post this fucking song that's been stuck in my head for a decade now:

 

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PS:T is actually a bad example, in my opinion. I understand where you are coming from, and the curiosity shop was awesome in its own way (the same weird way that PS:T was awesome as a game), but it wasn't that great in the typical RPG shop way. That's primarily because PS:T in its cliche-busting ways, largely did away with "loot". There were some weapons/tattoos/objects to buy/find, but most of them aren't particularly cool or powerful, so there is never that rush of feeling like a kid in a candy store in a typical RPG.


Roast the pork!@#$!@# :mob:

I almost always buy a lot of tattoos like STR+2 or CHA +2 because you dont always stay a mage (or the duration is too short) but you need the boost. And that's the ordinary stuffs. The expensive stuffs clean my early-to-middle-game wallet. End game I have a collection of bought goods.

Morte? Teeth. The first teeth is free and usable until end game, but before it level up you need the dmg and toH now, and therefore you buy his teeth.

Dakkon? He share his demand of scrolls with TNO-mage, so we buy spells when we can.

Anna? Dagger.

The HP stuffs also are in high consumption so fly and ointments are bought regularly.
 

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Best shop?

Miltiades' store of great armours at affordable prices, of course.
 

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every single shop in fallout

every single shop in fallout 2

the junk dealer in tarant who would buy all my garbage no one else wanted


./thread
 

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every single shop in fallout

every single shop in fallout 2./thread

So you think the scruffy dealer who sells a knife and a Iguana-on-a-stick in a half-assed random encounter in Fallout is a superior RPG shopping experience in all respects

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I fondly remember Thunderhammer Smithy and Sorcerous Sundries of Baldur's Gate, despite their itemization flaws.

BG2 went full munchkin itemization in Ribald's Adventurer's Mart.
 

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When I was a kid I liked the shops in Dungeon Master II where you'd physically place items and coins on the table to barter. I thought that was cool little gimmick that made child me feel like I was actually bartering instead of clicking on icons in a menu.

Also, the shops in Daggerfall are shit, but I desperately need an excuse to post this fucking song that's been stuck in my head for a decade now:


Here, kill yourself.
 

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The shops in Arcanum were p. cool. They made sense in terms of placement and stuff they offered depending on your character and it felt like they really belonged there and not just placed for the player to dump his money.

Morrowind was cool too, teasing the player with all the gear on display. Too bad stealth was so poorly implemented in the game so stealing stuff wasn't that fun.

Other obvious answers are BG2 and Fallout 2 of course. Scrapping all that cash and those drugs was soooooo worth it in San Fran.

edit: I think they tried a similar thing in NV with Gun Runners but the game was so easy anyway that by the time you got there the guns were just some extra stats. Unless you were going with some cookie-cutter build ofc.

Shops in G3 were hilarious. I don't know what was the reason behind not having doors but it made stealing things a lot of fun. I can't remember if you could pickpocket sleeping NPCs though.
 

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Not for what he had for sale, but for what he was willing to buy. The only true bro in the game who would pay full price for your shit, making Ghorak Manor the de facto player's house.
 

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tell me a shop thats better


and i will explain why fallout is better


./thread

Bobby Ray's Guns and Things

How is Iguana Bob, for example, better?

Not that I expect an answer other than 'BEGUS FALOUD IS DA BESTEST GAEM EVAR LOL'.
 

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Mudcrab Merchant in Morrowind. I'm sure it wasn't really awesome if you looked him up on a wiki or something, but if you found him by accident like I did, it just made your day.

(It isn't really a shop but I also like the scamp hanging out in Ald Daedroth that gives you free sujamma)
 

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