Current Events > what are some RPGs where non-combat skills can win you the game?

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skills like charisma, luck, etc

bonus points if theres tons of skills and most or all are viable. more than the standard 5-8 of most games
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In the original Fallout, I think you can convince the final boss to give up. Non-combat skills are important throughout the game also. 2 and New Vegas, and to a much lesser extent 3 and 4, are similar.

Planescape: Torment revolves around dialogue pretty much.

I'm not sure if there are many on the JRPG side. Some like SMT/Persona have non-combat elements of course, but revolve around combat just as much.

Age of Decadence

RuneScape
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luigi13579 posted...

In the original Fallout, I think you can convince the final boss to give up.

Let's be fair, it would take a ridiculous amount of cheesing the game to get through the entire thing without ever committing violence.

Alpha protocol IIRC allows you to stealth/hack past anything you can't convince to leave you alone, same as the original deus ex.
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luigi13579 posted...

Planescape: Torment revolves around dialogue pretty much.

Playing Planescape as a warrior is just a waste.
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Dash_Harber posted...

Let's be fair, it would take a ridiculous amount of cheesing the game to get through the entire thing without ever committing violence.

That's the case for pretty much every game, but I was mostly thinking of games where non-combat skills play a large part, rather than ones where they can be used exclusively, as those are extremely rare.

Blitz4532 posted...

Alpha protocol IIRC allows you to stealth/hack past anything you can't convince to leave you alone, same as the original deus ex.

True. There are bosses, but other than those, you can sneak, hack or talk your way through.

Literally Undertale.

Don't even like the game either.

Also Rune Factory kinda...
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Mass Effect 3 lets you talk the guy into killing himself if you have raised enough blue points, otherwise you have to do the QTE.

age of decadence

fallout 1

not really an RPG, but a great tabletop-like experience, steve jackson's Sorcery!
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