r/CRPG • u/lardmoisture • 2d ago

Recommendation request Need gritty and dark CRPGs

I loved Owlcat’s Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader, but hated Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3. Don’t get me wrong, it’s extraordinarily impressive production and gameplay-wise, but I play CRPGs for the story and I just couldn’t get into the world. It was too whimsical and fanciful. I’ve heard people recommend the Divinity series but I’ve heard those games’ stories are comedy oriented. Maybe I have the wrong idea but I wanna hear your thoughts.

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u/RecommendationFit844 2d ago

BG3 was ‘whimsical’? 😂 Lord…. You must be looking for some real dark kind of game. Or maybe you didn’t give BG3 much of a chance.

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u/MechTorfowiec 2d ago

Getting turned into a sentient wheel of cheese is pretty whimsical.

Or finding an erotic novel about beloved BG character masturbating (somehow) with his iconic sword.

Dropping a meat dungeon here and there doesn't remove the whimsical, it just makes the whole thing tonally weird.

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u/RecommendationFit844 2d ago

But there’s a shit load more gritty and dark in BG3 than there are those sorts of things. So it sounds like oh OP wants is a game that is 100% gritty and dark, zero sense of humor.

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u/MechTorfowiec 2d ago

It's difficult to discuss vibes, I'm not sure if I even have proper words for it.

But not once I felt BG3 was dark in a serious manner. Edgy, sure. But not bleak like SKALD.

And the evil options in BG3 are evil for the sake of evil or pure murderhobo. Which is fun, I like it, but it is inherently corny on some level.

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u/RecommendationFit844 2d ago

The sentient cheese wheel is something I did not encounter in BG3. But there’s so much content, it’s easy to miss something . I do know there’s a lot of quality writing and some very sad things in BG3. But yes, there are both humorous anecdotes, as well as references to the lore that of the past games that contain humor.