Any recommendations for Zelda-esque games on PC anons?
They don't have to be outright Zelda clones, but I'm interested in anything with a decent mix of exploration, combat and puzzles, some story, and preferably third person and played with a controller.
Just got a new set-up and I'm dying to kick back for the entire winter and get comfy as fuck.
Yeah, Darksiders is basically Zelda of War, and it has a premise based on edgy christian mythology if you're into that Hyper Light Drifter is sort of like a 2D zelda, both in perspective and level design(so no real puzzles)
Easton Wilson
2D: download Mednafen and play Alundra 3D: download PCSX2 and play Okami
Brayden Hughes
Darksiders is pretty much the only thing I know of.
Charles Miller
brain damage huh?
Juan Walker
No excuse not to play Alundra user. If you're a fan of Zelda you owe it to yourself.
Ryder Ramirez
Wasn't Beyond Good and Evil a bit like that ?
Ethan Wilson
I'd say the Legacy of Kain games had a lot of that going on, especially Soul Raper. There's that Oceanhorn game that appears to be quite the clone but I haven't played it yet.
Henry Cook
Off the very top of my head Dork Soles was kinda like playing a more combat-focused Zelda, and there's a shitton of games available through emulation, including the Zelda games themselves.
Logan Evans
Witcher 3
Connor Sanders
Post guts, faggot and check em
Robert Russell
There's Solarus, which is basically an open source ALTTP engine.
Buy a cheap pee U off of eGay and install homebrew, you'll be able to play literally every official Zelda in existance. If not, fuck off back to /r/pcmasterrace.
Gavin Perry
hyperlight drifter is a terrible game
op, play the ys games.
Jeremiah Cox
YS is shit I'd rather clock 10000 hrs in drifter
Dominic Harris
you may wanna drink draino cuz your taste can't get any worse
Lucas Walker
Just a reminder that zelda is for faggots.
Sebastian Sanders
Anodyne isn't half bad but it's built on some shitty engine that's capped at 30fps
James Gutierrez
She'd better start asking for it because there's no other way she's gonna get it
Samuel Jones
I played a bit of Hyper Light Drifter. It was pretty good until I inevitably stopped caring about it like every other game.
I'd recommend it to scratch a Zelda itch.
Easton Davis
That's called "action-RPG".
Dark Souls Darksiders Dragon Age Dragon’s Dogma Fable Gothic Jade Empire Kingdoms of Amalur : Reckoning Mount & Blade Silver Sudeki The Bard's Tale The Elder Scrolls The Witcher Vampire the Masquerade
Caleb Walker
I hope you all get cancer and die. And if you gave money to these cucks I hope you get even more cancer.
Mason Howard
are you retarded
Dominic Clark
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Jose Hill
There's always an imbecile like you, who cut off half of the name to complain that the other half is wrong.
Oliver Smith
No no, Zelda is a girl. Link's the boy who'll appeal to the faggots like you and me.
Eli Russell
Filthy shotafags are why LoZ cannot be discussed on nigger cave drawing walls productively.
Lincoln Phillips
You asked for shota?
Carter Sanders
I'm surprised no one mentioned Outcast yet.
Daniel Green
There are genres for action games that do not have rpg elements, such as action-adventure, which I think is pretty appropriate for Zelda.
Christian Gutierrez
if its run in PC, its ok
Connor Miller
The scope of this game blew my mind when I was younger.
Connor Adams
← No, this is action-adventure.
Noah Cox
and Zelda isn't?
How? Why?
when they are pretty much the same deal
Camden Williams
shit taste
Elijah Bennett
Zelda has always been action-adventure, it contains almost no elements of rpg. It has no stats, and no player abstraction (which is the heart of the RPG tag).
the only time this has ever changed was in spin offs (like the light-gun shooter, for instance) and some which are also considered side-scrolling platformers.
Zachary Mitchell
Well why do you think we have you around, user?
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Jack Murphy
The Legacy of Kain games Darksiders Redguard The Bard's Tale(the 2004 one) Drakan Ys Rune
Isaiah Perez
Oceanhorn is okay. I haven't run into extremely clever puzzles yet, but I'm only past the first dungeon or so. It's closer to 2D Zelda. Soul Reaver is the only LoK game I've played, but I thought Blood Omen 1 and 2 were fairly different from the rest? I know Defiance is more similar to SR1 and 2.
Dylan Parker
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Brandon Williams
How in the name of fuck was HLD a bad game? Admittedly I pirated it and the final boss was lackluster, but I can't think of much else that was wrong besides that.
The gameplay was fun, and I really enjoyed the colorful backgrounds as well as the atmospheric music.
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I didn't see this when I played it, but oh well. At least those dykes didn't outright ruin the fucking game.
Caleb Reed
THIS. But only the first Blood Omen and Soul Reaver. Avoid the sequels.
I didn't like it, but at least I could see its appeal, much like CK2 and ther gsg (I'm too stupid to play these but I can see how it'd be fun) and similar.
Adrian Green
I understand user. I will admit, the story-telling was pretentious.
I too, am too stupid to play CK2.
Anthony Brooks
There's always a doofus who goes "Zeruda has no elements of RPG, experience points, level ups, armor class, THAC0, yadda yadda". Shut the fuck up and go back to your D&D campaign. That's not the reason. It's about tradition and history.
See, Zelda was similar to some earlier action-RPGs that were more "RPG-like" as you think of it, but it was more streamlined. But since it became so massively popular, it hijacked the "action-RPG" term. Much like PC used to mean any kind of home computer, but IBM's PC got so popular that it took over the once generic term.
So that's what gaming magazines in the 80s and 90s all called Zelda and similar games. Zelda doesn't have to fit a definition to be an action-RPG, Zelda became the definition of action-RPG.
You make a mistake in demanding an exact correlation between the individual words in the name of a genre and the nature of the genre itself. Is Castlevania a survival horror? After all, it has horror themes and you have to survive. Or is any action game an adventure? But that would be wrong, these terms mean specific things in this context.
Ryder Sanchez
lets see
Psychonauts?
Brayden Green
it's an action adventure you mouth breathing retard
Isaac Anderson
So nothing. The nature of RPG is the abstraction of the character from the player. The zelda series is in no way, and has never been (Except for, possibly one might argue, the 2nd one, but that would be a stretch) an RPG.
You mean everyone in the thread except for you and him?
Matthew Torres
HLD isn't a bad game, it's just a bit underwhelming in the grand scheme of things. Combat is good in that everything is clearly telegraphed and failure is on the player's head rather than the developers', music is okay for what it is but works poorly in boss battles, and graphics are hit-and-miss, but the gradients honestly do look better in motion. Pretty much the only downside is that kb+m controls are hot nasty trash, and that every boss after the one in the western area is underwhelming.
Daniel Young
Coming from this thread full of suggestions for game clones