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Anon wants American companies to make a good RPG (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t Gary Gygax American?

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (15 children)

Intentionally lists RPGs not made in US

"Why doesn't my list have RPGs made in the US?!?"

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Elder scrolls, Fallout, Red Dead Redemption, and Mass Effect would all like a word

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mass Effect yet. Or Dragon Age, even with a picture of a cosplay of Morrigan in the OP.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

BioWare is Canadian

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If Elden Ring is Canadian, and Witcher is European, then we can just call Bioware games North American

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Of course, it makes perfect sense to describe Canadian products as North American, but OP asks about "American" RPGs. It would be strange to call Canadian Bacon "American food".

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I thought that was the joke.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

also GTA

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Yet another English L. USA number 1

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

So what you're saying is that Bethesda are RPG hipsters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Anything ever made by black isle studios. This includes fallout 1 + 2.

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