Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

Games like this
I am posting this in several game forums to help me build a list. Thank you if you contribute.

I am trying to come up with games like these in case I start to crave playing a new one and for other people to have the same.

===Type of Game Requirements===
Medieval Fantasy
Top down or isometric perspective
Dungeon crawl/action rpg
Characters scaled to environments (Not only world map)
Serious game and no cartoony characters
Real time (Not turn based)
Companions do not die permenantly (Less realistic but less tedious)
No dev extra money grabbing or control (daily rewards, micro-transactions, ads)
Indefinite play offline if want
Offline multiple save & load files (can have online saves as an extra option)
Versions for Android or PC
Co-op is okay as long as you are not punished in some way if you don't

===In Game Features Requirements===
Class Choose/Create/Leveling/Gear (At least one of those) to Build Uniquely Played Characters
At least a fighter and magic user build be buildable if not other unique builds
Buy/Sell

Must have a version playable on at least one of these
D Dos (Dos Box on PC)
S Scummvm (On PC)
W Windows (On PC)
A Android (On phone or tablet)

Here is what I have so far...

D The Summoning (1992)
D Darksun
W/A Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance games (2 is not on A now)
W Diablo games (I only played 3)
W Dungeon Seige games (Almost forgot this one)
W Fate games
W/A Exiled Kingdoms
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Koby Oct 25, 2024 @ 12:37pm 
Champions of Norrath and Champions Return to Arms are probably the two closest games you'll get. Made by the same folks with the same game engine and camera angles, etc.

Unfortunately they've yet to be ported to PC and are exclusive to the Playstation 2.
Originally posted by Koby:
Champions of Norrath and Champions Return to Arms are probably the two closest games you'll get. Made by the same folks with the same game engine and camera angles, etc.

Unfortunately they've yet to be ported to PC and are exclusive to the Playstation 2.

Oh. Are they recent enough that they may still have some hope for ports? I know old games like BGDA can be but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
DIRU Oct 26, 2024 @ 2:00pm 
Champions of Norrath and Return to Arms are undoubtedly the best. Snowblind studios is the original developer of Dark Alliance and the Champions games. They went defunct a long time ago so odds of them being ported are nonexistent. The only reason Dark Alliance got this remaster is because Black Isle was involved with the original release. Likely your only option to ever play the games is to emulate them. Coincidentally, the Norrath and Return to Arms have been among some of the most difficult to emulate PS2 games in the past. Though pcsx2 is greatly improved these days with the 2.0 version release. You will need a decent CPU though.
Last edited by DIRU; Oct 26, 2024 @ 2:05pm
Originally posted by DIRU:
Champions of Norrath and Return to Arms are undoubtedly the best. Snowblind studios is the original developer of Dark Alliance and the Champions games. They went defunct a long time ago so odds of them being ported are nonexistent. The only reason Dark Alliance got this remaster is because Black Isle was involved with the original release. Likely your only option to ever play the games is to emulate them. Coincidentally, the Norrath and Return to Arms have been among some of the most difficult to emulate PS2 games in the past. Though pcsx2 is greatly improved these days with the 2.0 version release. You will need a decent CPU though.

Thanks for the effort. When I was looking for games like this I did not mean on a similar released console or by the same devs. I just meant played like it, like the other examples I gave. Same console or devs is not even on the radar for importance.

My computer can run pS3 emulators fine. So pcsx is not a problem for cpu. I am hoping to mostly play these games without console emulators, mostly only old pc os if any emulators. The reason those are okay when console ones I use less... I grew up using dos and that emulator runs just like it with little configuring. Console emulators have more settings you need to tweak to work with your current version and updates of windows with your graphics hardware and software.

I like console emulators for games I already played and loved them. But for something like these games if it is a new one to me I would probably not go through the trouble unless I am absolutely sure I would really like it. But that is unlikely without playing them. Chicken and the egg. Good for others to know. For me though, I am not gonna go back to fiddling with console emulators based on a recommendation. Thanks again though.
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