Martin Harrison considers the subject of "glitching" and writes -
"When a game gets buggy, the developers need to get the exterminators in. Bugs can affect achievements, mission progress, any number of minor or major game aspects and no one likes having their electronic experience tampered with. Yet sometimes a bug or glitch can be a welcome break in the code. Kind of like seeing something unexpected in real life, like a dog walking on two legs and pushing a baby in a pram. Youtube it. In a video game mix up, the baby would be barking and the dog would by crying due to missing or incorrect audio files. This would be enormously funny or deathly unsettling. Glitches can come to exist through a breakdown of a game’s physics engine, graphics texturing or just about any clash in the delicate digital writing that holds the world together."
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
My favorite glitches are the ones in Skyrim and Fallout 3/New Vegas. Seeing a mammoth hovering in the air or launching a gecko 60 feet in the air is very entertaining!