I’m looking for a single player game, first person or third person, but something more action or role-play oriented. Not particularly a fan of turn based combat
Imagine the most trash isekai. There is an Adventure’s Guild that posts quests on a board. You fight monsters, level up, get new skills, some of which are some real OP shit. you spend that money so you can stay at an inn, recruit powerful people for your party, buy new equipment, etc.
I want to go on quest to fight bandits, pick herbs, fight a dragon. There’s gotta be a dungeon of some kind. A “defeat the demon lord“ quest is not a dealbreaker, but I kind of just want something I can play as an adventure for a while. I want it to be the most stereotypical “Adventurer Game” ever.
P.S.
I’d prefer to not reinstall Skyrim for the upteenth time.
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The most generic, stereotypical fantasy RPG I can think of is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
I really enjoyed Two Worlds as a generic RPG.
The new Dragon Quest games were fun too.
Also, the ‘Tales of’ series is fun if you can get into the combat mechanics.
Two Worlds is a gloriously bad game that is an absolute blast to play.
The game has a two-minute speedrun, because the main villain is right there when you start, and some invincible townsfolk NPCs can be tricked into ganging up on him.
Check out mystic quest legend. It’s old but it’s intensely stereotypical
AKA Final Fantasy Mystic Quest in Eagle-land.
Which is an invitation to address Square’s bizarre regional titles. It’s called Mystic Quest Legend because the only previous Final Fantasy game in Europe was Final Fantasy Adventure on Game Boy, retitled Mystic Quest. Except it was already retitled - the original game is Seiken Dentsetsu, AKA Sword Of Mana. (Secret Of Mana on SNES is a direct sequel.) And they combined it with the other Final Fantasy series on Game Boy, Final Fantasy Legend. Except that’s also retitled! It’s SaGa. As in Romancing SaGa and Frontier SaGa, not that Yurp ever got those games either.
So it’s a deliberately shallow spinoff of a series that’d already been renumbered from 3 to 2 and 6 to 3, rebranded to match a completely different franchise that was itself rebranded. This is Sierra adventure game logic. It’s making a fake mustache out of cat hair to match an ID card which you’ve drawn a mustache on.
Have you played Dragon Age: Origins? It’s an older title, but sounds like it has everything you want.
And, if your itch can be scratched with something other than dragons, I’d recommend Mass Effect. The very first game in the trilogy is very much an RPG while the second and third games are more story and character focused. Overall, it’s just a good gaming time.
Mass Effect is my most favorite series ever. Also played dragon age and liked it.
Dragon’s Dogma?
Castle of the Winds is a graphical roguelike, from the Windows 3.1 days. Pretty shameless in its ‘oh no your peaceful village’ trope. Also pretty shameless in ripping off other roguelikes… as was the style at the time.
I think you’re looking for Kingdoms of Amalur.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041720/Kingdoms_of_Amalur_ReReckoning/
I know you’ve said you don’t want Skyrim, but the first thing that comes to mind is Oblivion, I can’t think of a more generic, stereotypical fantasy RPG than that game.
In fact it makes me sad considering they retconned the lore of Cyrodil to a super generic LOTR fantasy land.
Yes, we all want a sequel to Skyrim.
If old graphics aren’t a deal breaker, try the Gothic series, 1-3. They’re about 20 years old but they’re the only rival to the Elder Scrolls series. First person, action RPGs in open worlds with great storytelling and branching decision systems.
