my favorite classic roguelike is tales of maj’eyal with a(n ancient) dual classing mod installed. my favorite final fantasy is XII the zodiac age. my favorite borderlands is wonderlands (still kinda mid though). i loved baldur’s gate 3 and the owlcat pathfinder games. my peak arpg is path of exile with titan quest 2 earning an honorable mention.
what are your favorite rpgs and rpg adjacent games that include in depth, flexible class systems?
For this one specific thing? The Elder Scrolls and Ultima series. As well as Shadowrun in the TTRPG space.
They don’t have classes. They just have attributes and skills, so you can make whatever class you want just mix and matching stats and skills together.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I’m a sneak archer.
I find that trope funny as hell because the way I play, I start being sneaky and end with just sprinting into people’s face with a giant hammer as loudly as I can because you eventually become an expert in every single skill and nothing can hurt you because you have four bajillion points of armor in just your bracers.