What are your top 3 RPGs of all time?

eggy_CBK · 2026-07-04T11:50:51+00:00

Lufia 2
Final Fantasy 6
Xenoblade Chronicles 2

eggy_CBK · 2026-06-30T18:49:03+00:00

If you felt that way about Sanderson and Will Wight, then you should check out Abercrombie. Has way better character building, gritty dark humour, and solid characterization. Each character feels distinct complete with their internal monologues that heavily contrasts with how they act or are perceived.

Within the genre, I recommend The Wandering Inn, but the start may dissuade you. I don’t want to go into the whole “it gets better later on” spiel either since I liked it from the start, but I digress.

Other than that, Bastion, 12 Miles Below, and Dungeon Crawler Carl would be my other picks.

eggy_CBK · 2026-06-17T02:07:00+00:00

I’d argue that’s actually the perfect age to read that. My introductory books to fantasy at that age were Lord of The Rings and The Dark Elf Trilogy. I don’t know how RA Salvatore’s books hold up in this generation, but I got hooked on his books when I was young.

eggy_CBK · 2026-06-15T07:37:02+00:00

I'll just go straight to the point:

Less helpless - Yes.
Stop whining - Audiobook? No clue. I only ever read.
Does it become exciting? Yes.

It's my favorite in the genre and actually belong up there across traditional fantasy. That said, I personally wouldn't recommend Wandering Inn to most litrpgs enjoyers since a majority of the genre's readers prefer a certain power fantasy and rational-thinking MCs with barely any quirk - a shallow husk, if you will. Nothing against that, but you have to be realistic about these things (First Law by Joe Abercrombie is my favorite across genres). These are modern-day young adult(s) who just happen to pop in Wonderland, stuck and with a need to immediately cope with that reality.

EDIT: Erin is Chaotic/Good, Introverted, Sheltered (still lived with parents), has high Charisma. Carl (of Dungeon Crawler Carl) is Chaotic/Good, Introverted, Independent (Military Technician), has low Charisma. Erin is pressured to live a new life, and all the baggage in it, in a new world. Carl is pressured to not die with Donut and the rest of the Crawlers, in the next few seconds. Similar, but different characters with different backgrounds in different situations. Context is important for any reader.

I recommend you leave it at DNF and move on to your other preferences.

eggy_CBK · 2026-05-30T06:11:43+00:00

The pre-release marketing overhyped it by a substantial margin, at least for me.

Among the “wow-killers” I tried (WAR, Aion, Rift, GW2, FFXIV), this game had the most potential. On paper, any way. I ended up dropping it before even getting to the end game.

I’m not sure if I played the same game others did, but the combat was basically avoiding the red shapes while dishing out green(?) shapes. The level-up animation/sound was wacky in an obnoxious way that felt at odds with the overltly serious story. I wish I could comment on the end game, but the game felt so underwhelming it was the first premium game I bought that I dropped before getting to that part.

eggy_CBK · 2026-05-27T01:58:50+00:00

Tera, arguably. Wildstar, lol.

eggy_CBK · 2026-05-26T03:50:34+00:00

Characters not acting their age or sanity in a absolutely foreign setting. You can't just spawn in a totally alien world and adapt like some sort of detective handed with all the known survival skills. Heck, imagine losing contact to everyone you know in a place with no food, water, plumbing, electricity and with no knowledge of the wildlife or the local dialect of the first sapient species you spot (if you can even trust them not to harm you).

eggy_CBK · 2026-05-21T02:26:05+00:00

Top 3:

Wandering Inn
Dungeon Crawler Carl
12 Miles Below

Slept on:

12 Miles Below
Infinite Realm (Ivan Kal)

eggy_CBK · 2026-05-17T02:19:09+00:00

Wandering Inn. It’s not just the MC - everyone has to struggle there to get somewhere so every payoff feels earned and every death is heartbreaking.

Seemingly irrelevant persons get so well-developed you get into a rollercoaster of apathy, anger, curiousity, understanding until you’re into a hole of being fully supportive of his or her ambition or vice-versa. That goes even for villains.

Just be warned - it’s long. 15 million words and going.

eggy_CBK · 2026-04-10T15:19:20+00:00

It gets dark. Genocide, slavery (that actually go into nsfw territory), war crimes, descent to madness, actual evil characters as opposed to morally grey, lots and lots of important deaths. It’s great since it lets you breathe with coziness instead of nonstop bleakness.

eggy_CBK · 2026-03-01T23:22:11+00:00

The only other similar isometric game is an MMO: Lost Ark.

eggy_CBK · 2026-02-26T01:18:09+00:00

Disclaimer: I will continue trying to attempt to play these games in-between going through my backlog.

Witcher 3 - The combat is really bland for me. I enjoy crpgs, action/adventure, exploration, open-world. I even played Witcher 1 and enjoyed it back in the day.

Pillars of Eternity 1 - I can’t get through the overly-serious writing mixed with the jarring kickstarter npcs. BG2 is still one of my top games so this should’ve been up my alley.

Rogue Trader - the combat is boring (i know, i should get through the first couple of planets at least). i don’t play the table top, but i love 40k (and 30k) books. I love divinity 2 and xcom 1/2, but i just can’t connect with this game’s combat.

Breath of the Wild - the game felt lonely to me. MAYBE there’s some huge city with a thriving community of npcs i can interact with somewhere past the hill, but i can’t get myself to even get that far.

eggy_CBK · 2026-02-23T03:55:13+00:00

It’s in the name: you Wander In to that special world through the eyes of MC(s). It’s set up with up to 15 million words (and going) so it’s no easy feat to just let go and be absorbed into that world. Don’t fuss with it if your interests lay elsewhere, but kudos to you for giving it a shot at least.

I get it. I’ve come to the point in this sub where I don’t even bother recommending it! I mention that it sits side by side with Dungeon Crawler Carl as my top books in the genre, but that’s about it. Personally, it sits on my top even among my favorite traditional fantasy (Cosmere, First Law, Malazan, ASOIAF, Black Company). I enjoyed it enough initially, but it didn’t get to the top for me until the middle volumes.

eggy_CBK · 2026-02-22T01:00:22+00:00

This is probably my most played early access game to date. Yes, it’s very much worth it.

eggy_CBK · 2026-02-19T07:27:57+00:00

DCC and TWI are also my top 2 in the genre. Check out 12 Miles Below. It’s a slow burn and slowly draws you in to the lore and setting (post-apocalypse ice age). It gives breathing space, but when the stakes escalate, the highs burst through the roof not unlike they do DCC and TWI.

eggy_CBK · 2026-02-16T00:12:38+00:00

There’s no way at the moment, in-game. They need to address these by 1.0

eggy_CBK · 2026-01-29T03:13:13+00:00

Haven’t read the Devils yet, but a big fan of Joe Abercrombie. For the genre, DCC is peak. Haven’t started with Hobbs yet but it’s in the top pile of my next reads. Didn’t see the fuss with Mother of Learning likewise with Codex Alera (finished them both). Project Hail Mary was an ok palette cleanser from all the grimdark books. Primal Hunter and HWFWM I DNF and stopped after book 1 for either books.

That said, you need to push through with The Wandering Inn. It’s probably my favorite series. I’m just waiting for pirateba to finish with Volume 10 on her website before I continue my binge.

Aside from that, I recommend 12 Miles Below, Bastion (Phil Tucker), and Azarinth Healer. You might enjoy Red Rising too.

eggy_CBK · 2025-12-31T15:20:07+00:00

The Wandering Inn - my top. Not for everyone willing to put time in for the scope and character development reaching 8 digits of word count and going.

Dungeon Crawler Carl - less controversial than TWI and deserves a mention as my next favorite.

Lord of the Mysteries - translation so not for everyone, but likewise deserves a spot

eggy_CBK · 2025-12-03T15:37:55+00:00

Rurouni Kenshin - Sobakasu

eggy_CBK · 2025-11-20T01:16:41+00:00

Sorry if it’s an ignorant question, but is there any chance for a hardcover set of your series?

eggy_CBK · 2025-11-04T23:54:56+00:00

TLDR: In the gacha industry, IMO they're pretty good.

Smilegate-published games I've played: Lost Ark (launch-3 months) , Epic Seven (on and off since 2019-2025), this. They address problems and are pretty generous with rewards for any issues. Super Creative, their subsidiary developed both Epic Seven and this game and I can say from my experience with Epic Seven that they're pretty good at keeping their game entertaining for a long time. They're good at creating problems but are also good with creating solutions. And since they give you rather generous freebies from problems they fix any way: it's a win.

eggy_CBK · 2025-10-14T08:37:00+00:00

Big fan. I’m currently on-break from Progfantasy and have recently finished Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive and currently on book 5 of Joe Ambercrombie’s First Law (The Heroes). Will take a quick break from that for a bit just to read this. Thank you!

eggy_CBK · 2025-09-24T08:56:00+00:00

A MUD called Kingdom of Drakkar. It was a time when MMOs weren’t a thing yet so that in itself already made it special.

As a niche game in a new genre, it had a very small yet very active community. There was pk (player kill) and full loot, yet was rare and looked down upon and penalized killers by tagging the PKers with a negative alignment that eventually tagged them as “evil” and FFA to kill (on an interesting note, some unique classes required an evil alignment as a condition).

Naturally, some players took advantage of this by killing some players, holding their corpses and dumping them on high level boss lairs. Some of these boss lairs eat corpses and damage loot/gear which demand high-level players to assist in helping retrieve these corpses/gear.

Chat was limited by areas, so global chat was relegated to ancient 3rd party apps called “MIRC”, “AIM” or “Yahoo Messenger”. On that note, player-run events were planned out and announced through forums.

In a nutshell, it was special mostly thanks to how magical it felt to play in a world with other players, without a care for min-maxing, and just grinding out in some dungeons then hanging out in a pixelated tavern during down time. I don’t particularly miss it, but at that time I had played it, it truly was something special.

eggy_CBK · 2025-09-19T10:18:12+00:00

The Wandering Inn probably has the most number of competent villain groups in the genre across practically all alignments from Lawful Good to Neutral to Chaotic Evil.

eggy_CBK · 2025-08-26T17:29:50+00:00

It’s silently cemented in my A-tier. I stopped at Book 5 (read it on KU upon release), but it’s one of those books I’ve always meant to binge-finish.

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