Excuse me...I seem to have been a bit too excited to read your topic name...

Anyway there's also Archeblade...

Proof or it didn't happen...

Then look no further than...

For Dark Crusade - FIRESTORM OVER KRONUS (3.6); It offers "RPG Elements" like....

1. WARGEAR DISTRIBUTION!! (Commander Units can pick different weapons from their default; and there are a good variety of them, meaning no 2 opposing Space Marine Captains are ever the same.)

2. PSUEDO-LEVELING UP SYSTEM (Just like C&C3's ranking system; it applies to Heroes and Infantry; but its a Game module called "Heroes")

AND MORE SUPER ULTRA GREAT DELICIOUS WONDERFUL FEATURES like...

3. DIVERSE MARKS OF CHAOS!!! (Remember Retribution's Eliphas having the ability to choose a mark?? The "Chaos" Race has SIX marks of Chaos From The Mark of Khorne, to the Chaos Renegades (Not Chaos Undivided...its a separate pickable mark). Oh and Wargear will be different for every mark...but "Chaos Renegades" have the most diverse commander units (The ability to choose a Mark of Chaos for themselves is a good plus.)

"pant"...there's SERIOUSLY a lot of ground to cover; just...get it in ModDB...FOR FREE!!!

http://www.moddb.com/mods/dawn-of-warhammer-40k-firestorm-over-kronus

There's also a Soulstorm version called PURGATION OF KAURAVA and it has a more recent version than FoK...

http://www.moddb.com/mods/purgation-of-kaurava

Depends ES is open sandbox rpg and ff is a jrpg i cant really say whats better because they are 2 seperate genre's made for diffrent tastes.

Goldrock

This is probably a topic to identify which tastes better for you...also Dark Souls is a JRPG...so its not equal to "turn based"..

Also I prefer Elder Scrolls...

I enjoyed the first Final Fantasy at some point, because you start off with four "Warriors of Light"; Sure its still straightforward (Kill the real bad guy lingo), but the real meat goes to the concept of freedom. The Freedom to have your OWN adventure, the freedom of having your own initiative and perspective in the journey and path you walk.

The Elder Scrolls has freedom as the very pedigree of expertise...you start off as an unnamed dude in a prison while the other dudes tell you to go to an immigration office of sorts to do something....like Signing your name, managing your race, your skills, and even your very own birthsign...the factor goes to what YOU choose to be. Even Skyrim (which many people dismiss as bad) still has that essence of freedom (other than being the "DRAGONBORN" and all).

If there's one thing that might be able to hold against the Elder Scrolls...its Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior)..

If you don't mind a bit of dated graphics..there's the first Dawn of War series...

The Vanilla DoW is the most balanced, and it has the same variety of races you see in Warcraft 2. Namely the Space Marines (Jack of all Stats, powerful but expensive troops), the Orkz (Spam Tactics, straightforward style of play as long as you know what your dealing with, Most of their buildings are loaded with guns), the Eldar (Long term planning, Hit and Run Tactics, Skill Micromanagement), and Chaos Space Marines (Jack of all Stats of sorts, has more troops varieties than vehicles; also INVISIBLE ARMY OF DOOM on higher tiers)

I'd talk about the expansions...but I'm probably wasting my breath...

Get Soulstorm and mod it with either Ultimate Apocalypse (SUPER ULTRA GREAT DELICIOUS WONDERFUL loads of new content, but...its "probably" a Spam Tier 3 kind of game), DowPRO (Specifically SSPro, rebalances EIGHT out of the Nine races and murders the infamy Iron Lore had against Soulstorm), or Purgation over Kaurava (Reworks EVERYTHING in Dawn of War and translates the Warhammer 40,000 Codexes into gameplay mechanics, also a BUTTLOAD of new units+a cool Wargear system for heroes and vehicles...also Major Graphical overhaul).

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There's still a lot more games...like the first Supreme Commander, Gundam RTS (lol, maybe), Total Annihilation, Dawn of War II: Retribution (No base building, great tactical variety), Company of Heroes (Basically a World War II-esque era RTS similar to Dawn of War), and maybe RUSE...there's also Lord of the Rings, Battle for Middle Earth if your into that..

I used to have a level 25 Imperial Spellbreaker...he had a lot of potential like the ability to eat magic, and has some nifty spells from mods.

Too bad one tiny update patch ruined the whole game for me...

So I'm going to start off as a Conjuring Archer and a trusty Cleric.

P.S. - Said spellbreaker never completed a single thu'um...not even the fus ro dah....

I was playing it pretty actively two weeks ago, but then I got Persona 4 and now I'm spending all my time on that instead :PNiKva

I don't care what other people tell me, but Skyrim's mods are what let you play the game YOUR way...

Dull combat?? There's a mod to fix that

Dull Character progression?? There's a mod to fix that..

Not enough choices?? The modding community will gift you TONS more for free!!

Want to simply live a carefree life in Skyrim?? There's a mod for that too..

Hate the scaled leveling system?? There's a mod to get rid of that or make it better.

Want tougher Dragons to slay?? There's a mod for that..

Hate the Race's starting specialties?? There's a mod to revamp every race while keeping it lore-friendly..

IT FIXES ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU FIND ANNOYING, THAT'S THE EXACT REASON WHY PEOPLE OWNING THE PC VERSION (includingme) ARE INCAPABLE OF SHUTTING UP ABOUT IT...

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P.S. - The Console versions of the game CAN be modded buuut....its complicated. But hey, its a start right?......right??....