Recommend some RPG games like mass effect .

I have been playing Mass effect 2 and i am totally in love with it , so can you recommend some RPGs like that , they don't have to SCI-fi , but i don't want them to be like FF , i want them more acton oriented .

Fable 2? I dont know why people rip it. Its a great game imo...

Fable 2? I dont know why people rip it. Its a great game imo...

DroidPhysX

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"]

Fable 2? I dont know why people rip it. Its a great game imo...

D-RS

You could play the 2nd one and know whats happening without playing the first one. (thats what i did)...but I dont know if you can get into the third one and know whats up

Games like Mass Effect? Gears of War? :PsiLVURcross

I was going to say that if he didn't add "RPG".

Anyways, try Fallout 3 or something.

Games like Mass Effect? Gears of War? :PsiLVURcross

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]Games like Mass Effect? Gears of War? :PSAGE_OF_FIRE

The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.DragonfireXZ95

Fable 2? I dont know why people rip it. Its a great game imo...

DroidPhysX

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.reaver-x

action rpgs like mass effect 2 Fallout 3 Demon's Souls The Elder Scroll's IV: Oblivion Fable 2 and 3 and theres a ton of them on the PC. ReaperV7

Star Ocean : The Last Hope is a great game, and has a lot in common with Mass Effect from a game flow standpoint.

Star Ocean has a lot more content then Mass Effect, with huge worlds to explore all with different themes, races and technology levels, huge open overworlds, non linear dungeons, towns, shopping and a massive item creation system.It also has a dictionary, monster manual, plot/even sysnopsis that provides great side info on everything. Tons of side quests and collections to complete.

The combat is real time, with a pause and play option, the game is very stat heavy, but the combat itself feels like a fast and fun action game.

Anyway, its great, and if you liked Mass Effect, you'll most likely find a lot of things to like about Star Ocean. I personally think Star Ocean is a better RPG.

Star Ocean is available on 360 and PS3, with the only major difference being some gameplay tweaks in the PS3 version, along with an option for the Japanese audio tracks. Also the game is on one disc on the PS3, so no disc swapping when warping around between all the planets endgame (something you will do a lot). Either way its a great game on both systems.

Games like Mass Effect? Gears of War? :PsiLVURcross

Totally, I mean you have the Choose to go to road A or road B! :P

but for serious. Go with Bethesda or other Bioware Games.

Star Ocean : The Last Hope is a great game, and has a lot in common with Mass Effect from a game flow standpoint.

Star Ocean has a lot more content then Mass Effect, with huge worlds to explore all with different themes, races and technology levels, huge open overworlds, non linear dungeons, towns, shopping and a massive item creation system.It also has a dictionary, monster manual, plot/even sysnopsis that provides great side info on everything. Tons of side quests and collections to complete.

The combat is real time, with a pause and play option, the game is very stat heavy, but the combat itself feels like a fast and fun action game.

Anyway, its great, and if you liked Mass Effect, you'll most likely find a lot of things to like about Star Ocean. I personally think Star Ocean is a better RPG.

Star Ocean is available on 360 and PS3, with the only major difference being some gameplay tweaks in the PS3 version, along with an option for the Japanese audio tracks. Also the game is on one disc on the PS3, so no disc swapping when warping around between all the planets endgame (something you will do a lot). Either way its a great game on both systems.

evilross

But who in their right mind wants to deal with all those annoying jrpg cliches Star Ocean has in spades?

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]Games like Mass Effect? Gears of War? :PLegatoSkyheart

Totally, I mean you have the Choose to go to road A or road B! :P

but for serious. Go with Bethesda or other Bioware Games.

The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.DragonfireXZ95

This. The Witcher is amazing. If you like post apocolyptic FPS / RPG hybrids, try Stalker.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.WhenCicadasCry

This. The Witcher is amazing. If you like post apocolyptic FPS / RPG hybrids, try Stalker.

Stalker has nothing of RPG. Just a Backpack menu that looks like some cRPG ones thats all.

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.glez13

This. The Witcher is amazing. If you like post apocolyptic FPS / RPG hybrids, try Stalker.

Stalker has nothing of RPG. Just a Backpack menu that looks like some cRPG ones thats all.

:?

Quests, an openworld, multiple dialogs... What? It's more of an RPG then Fallout 3, it just happens to have the best weapon ballistic / gameplay aswell as great RPG elements.

[QUOTE="glez13"]

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

This. The Witcher is amazing. If you like post apocolyptic FPS / RPG hybrids, try Stalker.

WhenCicadasCry

Stalker has nothing of RPG. Just a Backpack menu that looks like some cRPG ones thats all.

:?

Quests, an openworld, multiple dialogs... What? It's more of an RPG then Fallout 3, it just happens to have the best weapon ballistic / gameplay aswell as great RPG elements.

RPG elements =/= RPG

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

[QUOTE="glez13"]

Stalker has nothing of RPG. Just a Backpack menu that looks like some cRPG ones thats all.

DroidPhysX

:?

Quests, an openworld, multiple dialogs... What? It's more of an RPG then Fallout 3, it just happens to have the best weapon ballistic / gameplay aswell as great RPG elements.

RPG elements =/= RPG

Isn't Mass Effect 2 classed as an RPG? :| That game doesn't even have an inventory system.

[QUOTE="glez13"]

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

This. The Witcher is amazing. If you like post apocolyptic FPS / RPG hybrids, try Stalker.

WhenCicadasCry

Stalker has nothing of RPG. Just a Backpack menu that looks like some cRPG ones thats all.

:?

Quests, an openworld, multiple dialogs... What? It's more of an RPG then Fallout 3, it just happens to have the best weapon ballistic / gameplay aswell as great RPG elements.

Multiple dialogs could mean its an adventure game, open world could mean it's from a lot of genres, only the quest part could mean it's a RPG unless I'm missing something. So by what you said it's more probably an Action Adventure game(FPS with some adventure elements). The worst part is that you consider it more of an RPG than Fallout 3:|

Isn't Mass Effect 2 classed as an RPG? :| That game doesn't even have an inventory system.

WhenCicadasCry

Since when RPG = inventory system. If you play like that then Adventure game = inventory system.

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

[QUOTE="glez13"]

Stalker has nothing of RPG. Just a Backpack menu that looks like some cRPG ones thats all.

glez13

:?

Quests, an openworld, multiple dialogs... What? It's more of an RPG then Fallout 3, it just happens to have the best weapon ballistic / gameplay aswell as great RPG elements.

Multiple dialogs could mean its an adventure game, open world could mean it's from a lot of genres, only the quest part could mean it's a RPG unless I'm missing something. So by what you said it's more probably an Action Adventure game(FPS with some adventure elements). The worst part is that you consider it more of an RPG than Fallout 3:|

Fallout 3 offered you fake choices, and bland, empty places to explore. I mean, you could become savior of the wasteland by repeatedly giving a hobo fresh water to drink. The first quest you do in Call Of Pripyat, is choose to give up an artifact. You think, if I give it to this dude, I might be rewarded, then you find out that the stalker just sells it, and leaves you pocketless. I'm sorry, but Fallout 3 is an embaressment to the RPG genre, and so is ME2. They're awesome games, but they offer simple black and white outcomes. It's synthetic, and predictable. Stalker on the other hand is brutal, and relentless.

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

Isn't Mass Effect 2 classed as an RPG? :| That game doesn't even have an inventory system.

glez13

Since when RPG = inventory system. If you play like that then Adventure game = inventory system.

Ok, explain to me how Mass Effect 2 is more of an RPG then Stalker. :roll:

Fallout 3 offered you fake choices, and bland, empty places to explore. I mean, you could become savior of the wasteland by repeatedly giving a hobo fresh water to drink. The first quest you do in Call Of Pripyat, is choose to give up and artifact. You think, if I give it to this dude, I might be rewarded, then you find out that the stalker just sells it, and leaves you pocketless. I'm sorry, but Fallout 3 is an embaressment to the RPG genre, and so is ME2. They're awesome games, but they offer simple black and white outcomes. It's synthetic, and predictable. Stalker on the other hand is brutal, and relentless.

WhenCicadasCry

All of that is true or may be true, but anything of it makes STALKER a RPG. You have a strange concept of what a RPG is.

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

Fallout 3 offered you fake choices, and bland, empty places to explore. I mean, you could become savior of the wasteland by repeatedly giving a hobo fresh water to drink. The first quest you do in Call Of Pripyat, is choose to give up and artifact. You think, if I give it to this dude, I might be rewarded, then you find out that the stalker just sells it, and leaves you pocketless. I'm sorry, but Fallout 3 is an embaressment to the RPG genre, and so is ME2. They're awesome games, but they offer simple black and white outcomes. It's synthetic, and predictable. Stalker on the other hand is brutal, and relentless.

glez13

All of that is true or may be true, but anything of it makes STALKER a RPG. You have a strange concept of what a RPG is.

I view an RPG that offers me to assume a role as a character, allowing me to make my own choices. In Mass Effect 2, you're funneled through extremly linear paths, offering hardly any freedom apart from calling an alien a "big stupid jellyfish", while Stalker allows me to hunt for artifacts, relax with fellow stalkers, listen to them play folk songs on an acoustic guitar, participate in a wide range of varied quests, making me think about what I'll need when I decide to venture back into the zone (do I take extra ammo, food, or medpacks), a day / night cycle that drastically changes the gameplay, various endings...

Dragon Age is pretty good, made by the same devs and although you don't use guns, it's really similar.

Maybe it's because everyone talked the game up so much but I found nothing but disappointment with The Witcher. So many pointless fetch quests and conversations that bored me to tears. That, and the breasts were just there to be there; something teenagers would get worked up over I guess.

These are the aspects that I think are key to Mass Effect:

• A modicum of leveling
• Some type of choice of the character you play
• Decent dialogue options
• Party management including relationship-building

So I'm going to say Jade Empire. Made by Bioware, but in a fictional ancient China. Cool party members. Great story. It's last gen, but still good game. May be a little on the easy side, but I think it does more right than what it does wrong.

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]Games like Mass Effect? Gears of War? :PLegatoSkyheart

Totally, I mean you have the Choose to go to road A or road B! :P

but for serious. Go with Bethesda or other Bioware Games.

These are the aspects that I think are key to Mass Effect:

• A modicum of leveling
• Some type of choice of the character you play
• Decent dialogue options
• Party management including relationship-building

So I'm going to say Jade Empire. Made by Bioware, but in a fictional ancient China. Cool party members. Great story. It's last gen, but still good game. May be a little on the easy side, but I think it does more right than what it does wrong.

VoodooHak

glad to see someone else who liked Jade Empire, got bad reviews, but it was good, I tihnk people here just werent ready for a game about chinas history

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These are the aspects that I think are key to Mass Effect:

• A modicum of leveling
• Some type of choice of the character you play
• Decent dialogue options
• Party management including relationship-building

So I'm going to say Jade Empire. Made by Bioware, but in a fictional ancient China. Cool party members. Great story. It's last gen, but still good game. May be a little on the easy side, but I think it does more right than what it does wrong.

gamer-adam1

glad to see someone else who liked Jade Empire, got bad reviews, but it was good, I tihnk people here just werent ready for a game about chinas history

Star Ocean : The Last Hope is a great game, and has a lot in common with Mass Effect from a game flow standpoint.

Star Ocean has a lot more content then Mass Effect, with huge worlds to explore all with different themes, races and technology levels, huge open overworlds, non linear dungeons, towns, shopping and a massive item creation system.It also has a dictionary, monster manual, plot/even sysnopsis that provides great side info on everything. Tons of side quests and collections to complete.

The combat is real time, with a pause and play option, the game is very stat heavy, but the combat itself feels like a fast and fun action game.

Anyway, its great, and if you liked Mass Effect, you'll most likely find a lot of things to like about Star Ocean. I personally think Star Ocean is a better RPG.

Star Ocean is available on 360 and PS3, with the only major difference being some gameplay tweaks in the PS3 version, along with an option for the Japanese audio tracks. Also the game is on one disc on the PS3, so no disc swapping when warping around between all the planets endgame (something you will do a lot). Either way its a great game on both systems.

[QUOTE="glez13"]

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

Fallout 3 offered you fake choices, and bland, empty places to explore. I mean, you could become savior of the wasteland by repeatedly giving a hobo fresh water to drink. The first quest you do in Call Of Pripyat, is choose to give up and artifact. You think, if I give it to this dude, I might be rewarded, then you find out that the stalker just sells it, and leaves you pocketless. I'm sorry, but Fallout 3 is an embaressment to the RPG genre, and so is ME2. They're awesome games, but they offer simple black and white outcomes. It's synthetic, and predictable. Stalker on the other hand is brutal, and relentless.

All of that is true or may be true, but anything of it makes STALKER a RPG. You have a strange concept of what a RPG is.

I view an RPG that offers me to assume a role as a character, allowing me to make my own choices. In Mass Effect 2, you're funneled through extremly linear paths, offering hardly any freedom apart from calling an alien a "big stupid jellyfish", while Stalker allows me to hunt for artifacts, relax with fellow stalkers, listen to them play folk songs on an acoustic guitar, participate in a wide range of varied quests, making me think about what I'll need when I decide to venture back into the zone (do I take extra ammo, food, or medpacks), a day / night cycle that drastically changes the gameplay, various endings...

[QUOTE="evilross"]

Star Ocean : The Last Hope is a great game, and has a lot in common with Mass Effect from a game flow standpoint.

Star Ocean has a lot more content then Mass Effect, with huge worlds to explore all with different themes, races and technology levels, huge open overworlds, non linear dungeons, towns, shopping and a massive item creation system.It also has a dictionary, monster manual, plot/even sysnopsis that provides great side info on everything. Tons of side quests and collections to complete.

The combat is real time, with a pause and play option, the game is very stat heavy, but the combat itself feels like a fast and fun action game.

Anyway, its great, and if you liked Mass Effect, you'll most likely find a lot of things to like about Star Ocean. I personally think Star Ocean is a better RPG.

Star Ocean is available on 360 and PS3, with the only major difference being some gameplay tweaks in the PS3 version, along with an option for the Japanese audio tracks. Also the game is on one disc on the PS3, so no disc swapping when warping around between all the planets endgame (something you will do a lot). Either way its a great game on both systems.

dreman999

Mass Effect is a clone of KotOR, Dragon Age is a clone of KotOR, KotOR is a clone of Neverwinter Nights. See a pattern with Bioware's games?

There is a lot of similarities from a game flow standpoint between Star Ocean and Mass Effect... but plenty of differences in a game play prespective. The OP said he was interested in an RPG with a active battle system that was something like Mass Effect, not like the turn based Final Fantasy systems.

Yes, Star Ocean is a lot more of an RPG then Mass Effect, and there is more to do/explore/create/collect. Yes the Private Action dialog system for character interactions while onboard the ship is not as robust as the backstory system that Bioware uses in its games. Still, while not being a carbon copy, there is enough alike in the core games that I find them similar enough to be in the same genre.

Its not like I'm comparing Mass Effect and Demon's Souls, or Mass Effect and Gears of War. Depending on how much RPG you like in your RPG's Star Ocean is a great game, and I would recommend it whole heartedly to the OP.

[QUOTE="WhenCicadasCry"]

[QUOTE="glez13"]

All of that is true or may be true, but anything of it makes STALKER a RPG. You have a strange concept of what a RPG is.

dreman999

I view an RPG that offers me to assume a role as a character, allowing me to make my own choices. In Mass Effect 2, you're funneled through extremly linear paths, offering hardly any freedom apart from calling an alien a "big stupid jellyfish", while Stalker allows me to hunt for artifacts, relax with fellow stalkers, listen to them play folk songs on an acoustic guitar, participate in a wide range of varied quests, making me think about what I'll need when I decide to venture back into the zone (do I take extra ammo, food, or medpacks), a day / night cycle that drastically changes the gameplay, various endings...

The day / night cycle present a living, breathing world. You FEEL like you're in the zone, like you're PLAYING THE ROLE of a Stalker. In ME you feel like you're controlling an avatar on a set path. In Stalker you can join factions, choose to kill a friend to loot their items, heal them and gain their trust, you can choose to completely disregard the main plot and just go wondering anywhere you want. Me2 is extremely restricted in design, and only offers you black and white choices. Compare Stalker to say, Killzone, or COD. It's an FPS / RPG HYBRID.

The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.DragonfireXZ95

[QUOTE="dreman999"][QUOTE="evilross"]

Star Ocean : The Last Hope is a great game, and has a lot in common with Mass Effect from a game flow standpoint.

Star Ocean has a lot more content then Mass Effect, with huge worlds to explore all with different themes, races and technology levels, huge open overworlds, non linear dungeons, towns, shopping and a massive item creation system.It also has a dictionary, monster manual, plot/even sysnopsis that provides great side info on everything. Tons of side quests and collections to complete.

The combat is real time, with a pause and play option, the game is very stat heavy, but the combat itself feels like a fast and fun action game.

Anyway, its great, and if you liked Mass Effect, you'll most likely find a lot of things to like about Star Ocean. I personally think Star Ocean is a better RPG.

Star Ocean is available on 360 and PS3, with the only major difference being some gameplay tweaks in the PS3 version, along with an option for the Japanese audio tracks. Also the game is on one disc on the PS3, so no disc swapping when warping around between all the planets endgame (something you will do a lot). Either way its a great game on both systems.

evilross

Mass Effect is a clone of KotOR, Dragon Age is a clone of KotOR, KotOR is a clone of Neverwinter Nights. See a pattern with Bioware's games?

There is a lot of similarities from a game flow standpoint between Star Ocean and Mass Effect... but plenty of differences in a game play prespective. The OP said he was interested in an RPG with a active battle system that was something like Mass Effect, not like the turn based Final Fantasy systems.

Yes, Star Ocean is a lot more of an RPG then Mass Effect, and there is more to do/explore/create/collect. Yes the Private Action dialog system for character interactions while onboard the ship is not as robust as the backstory system that Bioware uses in its games. Still, while not being a carbon copy, there is enough alike in the core games that I find them similar enough to be in the same genre.

Its not like I'm comparing Mass Effect and Demon's Souls, or Mass Effect and Gears of War. Depending on how much RPG you like in your RPG's Star Ocean is a great game, and I would recommend it whole heartedly to the OP.

Play KoTOR and KoTOR II. Both game stomp the Mass Effect series into the ground.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]The Witcher - best RPG I've played this gen easily.rr2Real