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• Thread starter Zlaja
• Start date Jul 7, 2023

• Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel

  Votes: 1 1.1%

• Victor Vran

  Votes: 0 0.0%

• Warhammer: Chaosbane

  Votes: 0 0.0%

• War. 40k Inquisitor: Martyr

  Votes: 0 0.0%

• I'm VERY upset this thread is in "General RPG"

  Votes: 13 14.1%

• Harbinger (EDIT)

  Votes: 0 0.0%

• Total voters 92

• 1

This is obviously not the complete list of titles in the genre, but it's gonna have to do. You have 5 votes and the poll is public. And yes, a few of these titles are hybrid titles, but I felt like they kinda belong in the poll.

Last edited: Jul 8, 2023

• 3

Added it, just for you.

• 4

Thanks! I voted Diablo 2 anyway.... :D

• 5

Why no Space Siege?

• 6

Where's Icewind Dales 1 and 2? Literally dumb hack n slash games. Not that I'd vote for them.

• 7

None of these Diablo clones has managed to be as good as D1 and D2.

• 8

  Where's Icewind Dales 1 and 2? Literally dumb hack n slash games. Not that I'd vote for them.

The only real and not dumb CRPG ever made is Disco Elysium. Everyone knows that.

As to OP. I'd say Diablo 1 because it isn't a Diablo 2 wannabe like most of the games on the list and is a decent game at the same time. There a few more non-D2-clones but they are either bad (like Inquisitor) or they might be decent but i never played them (Nox perhaps? Prince of Qin?).

Edit: Hellgate: London should be on the list. Not that i'd vote for it but it deserves a place.

Last edited: Jul 7, 2023

• 9

Divine Divinity. Maybe Nox too, but i haven't finished yet

• 11

  Edit: Hellgate: London should be on the list. Not that i'd vote for it but it deserves a place

I left it out because it's third-person. Isometric titles only (updated OP).

• 12

Oh! You mean ARPG.. Diablo 2 cause you can play as a sexy sorceress, atleast in the og. Sacred because you can play as a sexy sorceress, Sacred 2 because you can play as a sexy sorceress and Blind Guardian performed Sacred Worlds in the game, Divine Divinity because you can play as a sexy sorceress, Nox because you get to hook up with the sexy sorceress at the end.

• 13

1. Revenant 2. Nox ... 3. Dungeon Siege ... 4. Path of Exile 5. Grim Dawn

But Dungeon Siege is different from the rest because it has RTWP combat with fairly large parties.

Grim Dawn and Path of Exile have great build porn, but the gameplay itself is often primitive clickety-click. So I feel ambiguously towards them.

Revenant has the most interesting gameplay conceptually because it combines a fighting game and hack&slash.

• 14

Missing Silverfall and LOKI. They suck, but still.

• 15

I am torn between dungeon siege 1, 2 and diablo 2.

Man the memories these games bring me can´t compare to anything.

• 16

How the fuck is Prince of Qin hack and slash? If that's on this list, BG1 and 2 ought be here too.

• 17

Didn't expect that number of votes on Sacred. Thought it didn't make much noise on release. It seems to have aged pretty well, looks even better than TQ.

• 18

Poll is missing Underrail for the underrailfags.

• 19

I don't see Dark Messiah of Might and Magic on the list. Granted, it is very nominally an RPG, but the same could be said about a bunch of games that are already on the list, so...

Other hack'n'slash titles (don't expect RPGs though), if someone is looking for them:

Vermintide series, Chivalry series, Mordhau, Die by the Sword.

Some opinions on the games on the list:

• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic - cool use of physics and magic. I also liked that weapons completely changed your playstyle.
• Diablo 1 - the most atmospheric hack'n'slash.
• Revenant - cool anti-hero protagonist. I also remember liking how combat worked on keyboard, allowing for different combos.
• Dungeon Siege - a novel approach to real-time hack'n'slash party management.
• Inquisitor: Martyr - Different weapons = different playstyle. Tarot was a nice idea, but it wasn't executed properly (same thing with the cover system).

Last edited: Jul 8, 2023

• 20

How the fuck is Prince of Qin hack and slash? If that's on this list, BG1 and 2 ought be here too.

What are hack and slash games called?

It is a sub-genre of beat 'em up games, which focuses on melee combat, usually with swords. Third-person hack and slash games are also sometimes known as character action games and spectacle fighters.

Is Diablo a hack and slash?

Diablo 4 Story is the best of the hack and slash genre hands down.

What was the first isometric RPG game?

Released internationally in 1982, Zaxxon was a piloting game where the goal was mainly to avoid being shot down while taking out as many targets as possible before reaching the boss room. These were games that defined the perspective, but Knight Lore would be what began developing the identity of the genre as a whole.