Five Of The Easiest CRPGs

Just talking about what I consider to be some of the easier cRPG's you can play!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:29 Wasteland 3
03:00 DOS2
04:56 BG1
06:47 PoE2
09:07 Shadowrun Returns

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[Lemurion]

Funnily enough, I have all these games. Still as a person in my (very) late fifties, I really appreciate games that rely on knowledge rather than reflexes. I can still learn... I don't have quick motor skills.

[kalmar]

Divinity 2's combat system boils down to one simple thing: "How much can you cheese the teleport abilities." Still, a pretty good game

[Jadegreif]

One personal point I'd like to add is, that a game like say Divity 2 or Pillars2 offer great posibilites for role playing setups, basically your own house rules. My most fun run in Divinty 2 was an all Undead party. Or a character who will only use one type of weapon, or going with a smaller party again for roleplaying reasons etc. The easier games offer you much more options here to still finish the game with a setup the Devs wouldn't have considered in their balancing.

[drth]

Recently my struggle with cRPGs isn't the difficulty per se, it's more of build paralysis. I'm constantly torn between doing what's *fun* and min-maxing. I suppose those would be the two wolves inside me haha

[scalpingsnake]

One thing that is interesting with DOS2 is how larian specifically add cheese tactics into their games. Other developers would eradicate it from their games but if you pay attention to their games and how they talk about them (noticed it with BG3's dev logs too) they add the cheese tactics in and then let you as a player decide if you want to utilize them.

[frontendchaos]

Found your channel a couple weeks ago, loving your content. Sooo many of these games sit in my backlog without trying them, after watching your vids I definitely want to give them a shot.

[briane]

I agree for the most part. The only one I'd push back a little bit on would be Divinity 2, because here it felt like 'knowing the system' was incorporating 'knowing what's going to happen'. For a lot of the fights, the first time you encounter them can put you in a very disadvatagous situation. For instance the fight you can run into soon after escaping the prison where you are just walking along and a fight spawns in where your party is completely surrounded and on low ground. Now I can clear that fight pretty easy because I know when it's going to happen and where the enemies will be, and I can position my party in advantageous positions and trigger the encounter either with a high survivability character or one that can reposition easily... but that's not system knowledge, that's game/story/plot knowledge, whatever you want to call it, and for many of those unexpected triggered fights that spawn in, I had to reload saves and approach the fight anew with that knowledge of how the fight would start, the position of the enemies, the skills they use, etc.

Compare that to Wasteland 3 where, as long as the character builds were solid, I could pretty much steamroll just about every fight.

Pillars of Eternity II has an interesting element system wise, which is how dexterity value changes based on whether you are using RTwP or Turn-Based mode.

[MrGouldilocks]

The BG series got harder as I got older. When I played it as a teenager, I knew the system inside and out and the game was a cakewalk. I tried replaying it a year or two ago and found it quite a bit harder since I had forgotten many of the quirks and intricacies of the system.

[Spitefulrish]

Agree with this list. I struggled with Divinity 2 the first run because it didn’t quite work the way I expected. But once I wrapped my head around a few things it’s a walk in the park.

[LORDOFDORKNESS]

Shadowrun: Returns is my go-to example I'd use for somebody wanting to get into RPGs.
Simple systems that get introduced as you play, with the more complicated stuff typically held back. A good yet simple story. An interesting world with both tech & magic. And it's got some really good visuals & music for an indie, AA title.
It's only real flaw is the amount of text without voice-over. (And some bugs.) I've heard folks complain about that even in Returns, but I'd argue that's a personal preference in RPGs anyway.

[kaidorade]

I’d also like to throw in Pillars of Eternity 1 and Tyranny in there! IMO the games do a good job explaining the mechanics of these wonderful adventures. Also yes I did a “he said what!” When you mentioned BG1 lol

[Commandasaurus]

I agree with you assessment. I had problems with DOS2 and POE2DF, but after playing some hours, restarting with new characters, learning the ropes... the mechanics got very familiar and from then on I just could play. It is practically the same with tabletop-rpgs, since if you study them carefully and begin playing, you get better eventually. The learning curve is very fair, rough start, but once it clicks, very easy.

[Joshcoshbagosh]

this video must be for people who are extremely well acquainted with cRPGs because DoS2 fucked me up far more than I care to admit.

[scullyy]

Funny seeing Deadfire, but you're right. I've been struggling with solo runs on Potd and constantly think to myself just how insanely easy it would be with just *one* extra party member, let alone four.

[Biouke]

My order of priority when building a character/team :
1. Roleplay/theme
2. "Fun" factor (ie. find a playstyle that I enjoy)
3. Min-maxing

So I still find some "easy" games difficult because I try to do things my way as much as I can.
I think judging by the amount of save-scumming needed to progress in a game I agree Shadowrun is the easiest of the bunch. Divinity 2 and Encased would come next.
Now I'm more a White Wolf guy than a Wizards Of The Coast dude so I remember having a hard time with Baldur's Gate 2 and both Icewind Dale titles, I tried and tried but never finished them. There was always a point I got stuck on some battle gauntlet, not impossible to go through per say, but requiring too much planning ahead and getting lucky during fights to make it a chore. I really get bored by door-monster-treasure design. Often in CRPGs there's too much separation, like you spend hours going around a city hub doing errands then spend hours in a dungeon. When I think about it urban settings alleviate this a bit, intertwining fights, puzzles and story is easier and the game flows better as a result. But you see it more in immersive sims and action-RPGs than CRPGs. Again Shadowrun does a great job with this, Dragonfall in particular.

[OffShotGaming]

I know I'm a noob with these kinda games. Divinity original 1 and 2 kicked my butt. i've probably got a lot to learn

[daniel.holbrook]

I think DOS2 has a reputation of being really hard because it's one of the only CRPGs in recent years that's managed to attract a playerbase beyond those that typically play CRPGs. It can be tricky if you don't cheese it but it's super easy to cheese and the ruleset is very easy to learn. DOS1's a lot harder to me, I dunno if that's because of the game's jankiness or lack of balance or just because I'm so used to the second one

[azazel]

Honestly why don't you have 1 million subscribers already man.. I found your channel maybe about a year and a half ago and ever since then I've had a pretty dedicated watcher. Do you have basically completely turned me on to the CRPG genre and I am so happy to have found your channel because that made such an impact on my gaming life. Anyway just wanted to comment because usually never do that and say that your channel is amazing and I really look forward to watching your videos for a long time to come!

[Davlavi]

This channel deserves way more views. Keep up the great videos.🙏

[نونيم-يح]

Fallout 1 with a sniper/crit build turns you into a walking death machine.