Fallout, Wasteland, The Elder Scrolls.
Also smaller games come to my mind, like Child of Light or South Park: The Stick Of Truth which are made by Ubisoft Montreal.Yeah, “western RPGs” from a couple decades ago were mostly made in the US. Then Bethesda bought interplay and it all went to shit.
And thanks for reminding me of Child of Light, I’ve had it in my library for ages, installing it to my steam deck right now :)
Stick of truth was developed by Obsidian
You’re right it was only published by Ubi. The Fractured but Whole was developed by Ubisoft*
well… fallout, wasteland.
pillars of eternity? I don’t know if americans made it, but it was pretty intensely american.
You’re never gonna believe this friend, but Montreal is actually in Canada.
Fun fact Canada is in North America
Still not Europe or Asia, innit?
Oh yes the three continents. Europe Asia and everywhere else.
Ah Canada famously not in the same continent as the United States. Absolutely not in the Americas
Never in my life have I seen someone say “Americans” and mean “People from the continent of America.”
South American banger RPG when?
North America*. Besides that, people often group Canadians and Americans together quite often. The two countries are very similar culturally. I have seen it become more and more common to say North Americans when talking about things culturally. When it comes to politics or the specific country itself, of course it makes sense to separate them.
Yup, Canada is our hat, and we’re Canada’s pants. Not sure why we’re not wearing a shirt though…
Well, it would be a bit unfair to talk about “European” games and “Asian” games, and on the other side “USA-made” games.
There are three countries in North America, we should at least include the two others.Would be nice to include S. America as well, since at least some areas consider that part of the same continent as N. America (not sure why though, esp. when those same people claim Europe is separate from Asia…).
Fallout and TES are “alright” at most, and extremely boring theme parks at worst
Fallout? And I mean the Black Isle fallouts.
Speaking of Black Isle, they also did Planescape and Icewind Dale.
Also: Bioware made Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2; they’re Canadian not European. Unless they just mean 3.
And of course, the OG RPG: D&D. Pretty sure Gygax was American.
dont limit just to black isle fallouts lol
3 new vegas and 4 are great and even 76 is good
4 is not even remotely great it is genuinely awful 3 is fine I won’t insult 3 I enjoyed it not as much as nv I loved nv but I enjoyed it it was good even but 4 is an insult
4 is a great shooter. It’s a terrible RPG.
wow really cause i played 4 and it was a great time because the game was great. you must have a very high standard. never played a single game under 90 score on metacritic (but that would mean new vegas is worse than 4)
As a big fan of fallout, imo, 4 is the weakest of series. Engine was outdated, repeated time wasting quests, boring world building, the base building was their new exciting feature but it fell kinda flat. Now with 1k+ mods game can actually be a lot fun though. Also 74 didn’t exist.
Not even in the same league. Barely even RPGs. New Vegas is the best of them and it still pales in comparison.
didnt know it was contest of most rpg game and not just great game
Did you not even read the meme? It’s about good RPGs.
yep i read that. its why i brought up those games. they are good rpgs. did you read the meme? they are not talking about the game with the most rpg elements
Is Neverwinter nights American? That’s a good one.
NWN1 was from Bioware, NWN2 from Obsidian. Both are from the USA, but NWN2 is nearly 20 years old by now.
Still newer than the Infinity Engine games mentioned (BG1 & 2, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment).
I didn’t know we were ignoring old games. It was just what came to mind, sorry.
I don’t know what we are doing, but anon listed recent games ¯_(ツ)_/¯
(Although it irritates me to no end when people say “Baldurs Gate” while talking about BG3)
Bioware is from Canada, not the US.
After 20 years you need to do something new. You can’t live forverer on your legacy.
Swiss person here:
What’s that supposed to mean?
Are you trying to say we aren’t recognized as the supreme military power in Europe anymore?
Surely you’re joking, right?!
What the fuck does this mean? I mean that no studio in America did anything good in decades. Baldur’s gate 2 was 2003. What good rpg was there? Mass effect was good. 2 and 3 didn’t deliver to legendary grade. Bioware is dead. Blizzard is dead. Bethesda did nothing since skyrim.
you can’t live on your legacy forever
Was what i was playing on
The joke is that we Swiss have a glorious warrior-past that noone remembers anymore.
I was supporting your point with a joke. That’s"the fuck" that it meant
Bethesda alone.
Wizardry, Ultima… Rogue?
The entire genre of RPGs exists because of geek-ass weirdos on American mainframes in the late 1970s. I got nerd-sniped wondering what could’ve come out on Channel F, and every trope was established and waiting before literally the first proper games console.
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Wasn’t Gary Gygax American?
Yeah, Americans created the RPG genre…
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Is Rockstar US? I considered the red dead series a quite hellacious RPG. Is GTA an RPG?
I have not played Red Dead but GTA is definitely not an RPG. It’s an action adventure and at least from what I’ve seen from the former I’d expect it to be the same.
Red Dead is just GTA with horses and a way better story. Calling it an RPG is a massive stretch.
What elements that you consider core to the genre is it missing?
Generally, RPGs involve character progression through stats, and RDR really doesn’t have that. It’s an action adventure game with an emphasis on storytelling.
For an Action RPG, decision making, conversation options, and of course a skill trees are necessary. Basically you need to be able to shape your character to “play a role”.
The publisher is but the studio that makes GTA games is in Scotland. Not sure about Red Dead. Probably a collaborative effort between their studios, most of which are in the UK.
Rockstar is a US company, but the developers of GTA are Rockstar North in the UK. They used to be their own company developing GTA, when they were bought by Rockstar.
Red Dead is definetly an american game though.
Rockstar is a British company that has a studio in the US but they’re not an American company. Rockstar North is their original studio.
Rockstar was British, but it’s American now. HQ is in NYC, along with their parent company, Take Two.
There was once a game called Warcraft 3. I refuse to play the remake.
That’s an RTS anyway.
Ameritards can’t even handle being a country, let alone creating decent content.
The job market is such that we’re too busy fighting over scrap metal and food like it’s the aftermath of an apocalypse. We don’t time for fucking game development
Yeah game devs get paid so little here, they’re the ones fighting the hardest over the scrap metal and food
I’m gonna defend the Americans on this one.
Fallout and Elder Scrolls are two of the most obvious examples that could have been listed, but they weren’t.
also GTA
GTA and RDR have zero decision making or conversation options or skill trees. They are open world action games that took some design notes from open world RPGs. But Rockstar is a British studio anyway.
Yet another English L. USA number 1
Anything ever made by black isle studios. This includes fallout 1 + 2.
Last mainline TES game is a decade old and Fallout 4 is also nearing that decade. Meanwhile almost all games in OPs list have released in the last decade.
There’s Obsidian but besides them I really can’t come up with another good RPG studio from the US that has released a game in the last decade.
So what you’re saying is that Bethesda are RPG hipsters.
Anon baits people into recommending good RPGs
Wit da SKALD reference
Give me like 15 years.
Wants good RPGs
lists Solasta, one of the mid-dest games I’ve have the neutrality of playing
America invented the entire RPG genre - thank you Steve and Dave (d&d). Anon isn’t just wrong; he’s a complete idiot.
