Just coming to learn what new habits I need for a young baby. Ordered myself a moderately good gaming laptop & looking for some things easy to pause, save & abandon at a moment's notice. I'm quite into turn based RPGs right now (loving Andor's Trail on Android) and have got myself an emulator to replay some old SNES favourites, give DA:O another bash, check out a few RPGs from Steam that've been gathering virtual dust...

Anybody come across anything afk-friendly on the RPG tip they'd like to enthuse about and recommend?

I know fuck all about console games but good pc list there Distributed ! Vampire the Masquerade is glorious, omg.
Fallout. Xcom series.

First Witcher,  Anachronox, System Shock, Knights of the old republic -  excellent "action rpgs".
Age of Wonders 3, Disciples 2, Heroes of Might at magic 4 - more like turn based strategies with rpg elements.

And new Divinity.

Shit I want to install everything now.

I am a huge fan of Turn Based Strategy games.

The old ones mostly.

Final Fantasy Tactics- classic and deepest of the bunch

Tactics Ogre and earlier version titled  Ogre Battle -shitty name great game

Wildarms xf -probably the most balanced one out of all because swapping classes/jobs counts most.

Spectral Force 3 -might be my favorite. While not as deep and balanced as FFT and Wildstar. The finisher type special attacks are so over the top glorious.

Dungeons & Dragons Tactics why not, right? cute but too short and not deep enough.

Fire Emblem series.

Havent played any in many years since getting into MMOs. Dont know about any new ones and most of the best are Japanese only. Damm u Japan y u so gud at this?

Planescape Torment... Bloody hell... Need to find a disk now... ( mine was on long deceased floppies... it was that time when you could find games in both 1 CD or a heap of floppies. )

Distributed wrote on Sep 7^th, 2014 at 10:43am:


wait, you buy your games 

Psst, Dist - I use

dir /w /b >dir.txt 

when I'm only half lazy, in case you didn't know.

If you like D&D type games, I was a huge fan of the Temple of Elemental Evil game that Troika developed for Atari.  It had a unique UI and was a great implementation of D&D rules.  Get the mods though.  The base product is buggy as hell.

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Sep 8^th, 2014 at 1:41am:


The Infinity Engine rocks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Engine

Any of these games will be a lot of fun.  Although technically real time vs. turn based, your ability to pause at any time gives you great AFK ability.

You did fail to see Shadowrun Returns.

Ooh thanks. Was too late sadly but appreciated.

Heh your Paint skills would be sorely missed, ofc. Thanks for all the further suggestions, all. Some I've played but nowhere near the majority. Some are also good reminders that some greats are due a replay.

Distributed wrote on Sep 6^th, 2014 at 5:46pm:


Nice list.  I'll add in Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue for Playstation.  I had fun with both games.
Arc the Lad, a tactical rpg series, is on PS1 also. I haven't played those yet but they look fun.

Opposite of gratz I'm afraid, I want to subtract it from the world population already. Always thought babies were shit and now I've been proved right. Hopefully he'll be an interesting toddler soon. Meanwhile, I can work through all these lovely recommendations whilst I wait. Thanks all!

Yes Stick of Truth is on the wishlist, thanks - wasn't sure if it was any good but figured it was worth a shot. Good to hear it's worth it! Thanks all others too.

kum-gulp wrote on Sep 11^th, 2014 at 4:42pm:

He did, he's fucking brilliant now. As you can see by this necro, I still come back here looking at these recommendations as to what to get next, thanks again folks!