Luminous, FromSoftware, Cygames Veteran Launches New Studio in Tokyo to Make “Games for Game Lovers”

TheNamelessOne1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Haven’t played, myself, but I hear the choices of the past games are basically non-existent here, there’s not a lot of choice/agency to be had in the game, itself, and that it’s made impossible to actually play an evil/renegade character. So, essentially, they took all the roleplaying out of a classic roleplaying series. That’s a hard pass for me, in and of itself.

I grew up playing games like Baldur’s Gate, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, Deus Ex, Morrowind. Then New Vegas, Risen, Mass Effect, and (yes) DA Origins. Now we have games like the Witcher, Pillars of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin, Disco Elysium. All games that really let you shape the world and your character in substantial ways. I want agency in my roleplaying games.

A mostly linear experience with a couple inconsequential dialogue options and a skill tree isn’t what I consider roleplaying.