Modern cRPG List

[Pareod]

Recently, there have been a lot of great cRPGs released, or releasing, that not everyone knows about. So without further delay, and in no particular order:

Released or Early Access:
- Age of Decadence
- Divinity: Original Sin
- Wasteland 2
- Underrail
- Sui Generis
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Shadowrun Returns
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall
- Might & Magic X
- Paper Sorcerer

Developing and Unplayable:
- Pillars of Eternity
- Sword Coast Legends
- Planescape: Tides of Numenera
- Serpent In The Staglands

I have not included un-funded kickstarters. Comment any games I forgot.

[Ananoriel]

What does cRPGs mean?

[Pareod]

It stands for classic role-playing games, such as Baldur's Gate. "Modern cRPG" is an oxymoron, but the genre is coming back and has yet to be renamed.

[Billy Blackgun]

VRPGs - vintage RPGs. The hipsters will love it.

[Pareod]

Originally posted by Saul Dagenham:

VRPGs - vintage RPGs. The hipsters will love it.

That's actually really good. Can someone make one of those popular redit posts about this? I can never seem to figure out how lol

[El poco nuez del muerte]

Originally posted by Saul Dagenham:

VRPGs - vintage RPGs. The hipsters will love it.

I was into RPGs before they were called RPGs...

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by Pareod:

It stands for classic role-playing games, such as Baldur's Gate. "Modern cRPG" is an oxymoron, but the genre is coming back and has yet to be renamed.

Actually, cRPG just means computer role=playing game. It's often used in relation to isometric, party-based, turn-based RPGs like Baldur's Gate that we consider to be "classic", but "classic rpg" isn't what it stands for.

[Pareod]

Originally posted by El poco nuez del muerte:

Originally posted by Saul Dagenham:

VRPGs - vintage RPGs. The hipsters will love it.

I was into RPGs before they were called RPGs...

Well you're vintage, buddy.

I have this thread on Age of Decadence's game forum, so I updated the list. The dev of that game recommended Spiderweb's games, which I had never heard of. My only problem with this is that... they never really stopped making their games... so are they cRPGs? Should I include them?

[Pareod]

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by Pareod:

It stands for classic role-playing games, such as Baldur's Gate. "Modern cRPG" is an oxymoron, but the genre is coming back and has yet to be renamed.

Actually, cRPG just means computer role=playing game. It's often used in relation to isometric, party-based, turn-based RPGs like Baldur's Gate that we consider to be "classic", but "classic rpg" isn't what it stands for.

Oh right, my bad. I had seen this before, but for some reason I forgot.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by Pareod:

It stands for classic role-playing games, such as Baldur's Gate. "Modern cRPG" is an oxymoron, but the genre is coming back and has yet to be renamed.

Actually, cRPG just means computer role=playing game. It's often used in relation to isometric, party-based, turn-based RPGs like Baldur's Gate that we consider to be "classic", but "classic rpg" isn't what it stands for.

So, basically this just means "western RPG"/"WRPG".

[Icecreamhater]

COOL

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by Quintelligent Calcium:

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Actually, cRPG just means computer role=playing game. It's often used in relation to isometric, party-based, turn-based RPGs like Baldur's Gate that we consider to be "classic", but "classic rpg" isn't what it stands for.

So, basically this just means "western RPG"/"WRPG".

After a fashion, yes. The terminology arose to basically distinguish between computer RPGs and console RPGs. At its most basic to distinguish between Wasteland and Final Fantasy. Those do tend to divide between WRPG and JRPG lines, but that's not necessarily a hard and fast rule.

When every style is now represented somehow on PC, it does lose some of its significance, which I think is how it's grown to represent more the isometric, turn-based RPG (like Baldur's Gate) vs. an action RPG (like Diablo), but traditionally it still included roguelikes and dungeon crawlers.

It also originally seemed to include what we'd consider now to be primarily strategy games or the turn-based tactical RPG, which tends to make what I'm saying even more clear as MUD.