Do you miss generic fantasy games?

[Tazor]

I don't mean generic fantasy in a bad way. Stuff like World of Warcraft vanilla, Oblivion, Heroes, Dark Messiah, Gothic. Where you got your classic spells, classic class archetypes, classic fantasy races, classic enemies, classic locations etc.

I played a bit of Dungeon Siege which I never played back in the day and I like the atmosphere. A reminder of the things we lost.

It feels like every fantasy game today tries to "be different" through who knows what. There is also the epidemic of Souls clones that have varying degrees of quality. I can't remember the last major title that was just a generic fantasy game.

[ChickenTacos]

Oh, you mean all of the garbage trash that mobile ads advertise all of the time, these days?

Yes. I do miss those. All of those.

::blank stare::

[the vampire of time and memory]

I've seen it too much, I'm looking for novelty these days

[Tazor]

Originally posted by ChickenTacos:

Oh, you mean all of the garbage trash that mobile ads advertise all of the time, these days?

Yes. I do miss those. All of those.

::blank stare::

I haven't seen any. I got ad block. Not even sure I can call them games considering the rock bottom quality and pay model. They feel more like scams. Not even minimum viable products.

[Tazor]

Originally posted by the vampire of time and memory:

I've seen it too much, I'm looking for novelty these days

I miss it. Just how I miss World War 2 games. They were everywhere. Now almost extinct. From 100 to 1.

[Rio]

I HATED when Tod forced elder scrolls to return to generic fantasy after morrowind.

[SecretDragonSludge (Drugs)]

The thing is during their time they weren't generic games. Some of them had pretty deep and intricate lore.

Oblivion is much better than anything Bethesda made since then. It was the last time their worlds had depth to it.

Blizzard got bought out by Activision and the dev team got replaced by hardcore EverQuest raiders

[Psycho]

i miss world of warcraft. i played that a lot as a kid.. the closest thing i felt to it since then was playing New World when it came out. it reminded me a lot of WoW. i was hooked on it for a while

[SecretDragonSludge (Drugs)]

Originally posted by ⛧⸸ Violeta ⸸⛧:

I HATED when Tod forced elder scrolls to return to generic fantasy after morrowind.

Oblivions setting is how it is because it's in Cyrodil, which is a more diverse mix of all the races on Tamriel. Morrowind is mainly dominated by the Dunmer.

Skyrim is an extremely generic game they took everything interesting about the nords previously and just replaced it all with viking tropes.

[Dracoco OwO]

I honestly really do. We ironically don't have enough of these. I mean generic fantasy can also uniquely use it's environnement and world building. I just want cool fantasy games.

[Silverlight]

I posted this on another thread but I'll post it here too. I haven't tried this yet, but I am going to because it looks cool.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/monomyth

[Electric Cupcake]

Cryptmaster just came out a couple months ago.

[St✩rlight]

Not really, there are too many of those and they are uninspired. I prefer something more interesting.

[Crazy Tiger]

The games mentioned in the OP also tried to do things "different", they all do that. They all wanted to do things their own way and find something that catches players.

[Dadpool]

We didn't lost anything, all of these games still exist, you can play them if you want to. There were times when a lot of games like that were released, the concept become overused and it wasn't appealing anymore so now games don't go into that direction, although a sort of revival might happen in the future if people will crave it.

[peppermint hollows]

Originally posted by SecretDragonSludge (Drugs):

Originally posted by ⛧⸸ Violeta ⸸⛧:

I HATED when Tod forced elder scrolls to return to generic fantasy after morrowind.

Oblivions setting is how it is because it's in Cyrodil, which is a more diverse mix of all the races on Tamriel. Morrowind is mainly dominated by the Dunmer.

Skyrim is an extremely generic game they took everything interesting about the nords previously and just replaced it all with viking tropes.

What you said about Skyrim can really be applied to Oblivion too. Cyrodiil is nothing like how it was previously described in the lore (which prior to Oblivion releasing, it was described as being a dense jungle), and many of the interesting aspects of Cyrodiilic/Imperial culture that exist in-lore were completely absent or retconned in Oblivion. The Nibenese and Colovians were supposed to be two very distinct subcultures of the Imperials and that wasn't really represented at all in Oblivion.

Also, Cyrodiil is the home of the worship of the 9 divines and it barely touches upon the lore of the 9 divines (even the Knights of the Nine only gave us a little bit extra lore) or on Tiber Septim. There's also the Ayleids who really only exist as set dressing for boring dungeons. Compare that to the Dwarves in Morrowind who get a ton of lore in that game, they aren't just a dungeon theme.