Phantom Knight shares his thoughts and love for the 5th Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim.
While Bethesda celebrates Skyrim's anniversary, it is worth remembering that the long-awaited Starfield should have launched this month too.
It’s foolish to say that one RPG is "better" than all the rest across systems and generations. This is merely the 25 RPGs we feel are the best and nothing more!
Dragon Quest 11 isn't even the best Dragon Quest game, it's a good game, but not the best. Dragon Quest 8 is superior to it in almost every way.
OK let's end this, in order
Xenogears
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Legend of Dragoon
Breath of Fire 4
Breath of Fire 3
Dragon Quest 8
Dragon Quest 11
Vagrant Story
Saga Frontier 2
Chrono Cross
Suikoden 2
Suikoden
Threads of Fate
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Lunar 2
Some of my personal favorites are Planescape: Torment, New Vegas, Morrowind, Kotor 2, Wasteland 3, Witcher 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Deus Ex, Disco Elysium and Vampyr.
As far as jrpg, while I'm not as big a fan as I am for Western RPGs, I love Persona 3 - 5, Dragon Quest 8 and 11, Rogue Galaxy, Final Fantast 6,7, and 12; and Lost Odyssey.
Skyrim: Anniversary Edition has been announced, and so has new content for the base game.
Honestly at this point I just wished they remastered Oblivion for a change instead of this every 2 weeks.
Would be nice if the new content came to the existing editions on various consoles.
Since Skyrim VR was my first time with the game beyond watching a few minutes here and there of someone playing the flat version, it is truly and otherworldly experience. And the immersion of being a Mage/Archer blows the doors off of any other way to play that game.
You can sit and watch as people live their lives day by day. You could sit in a tavern and listen to bards play and sing. You could read dozens of books about the place as a scholar would. You can journey from tip to tip in so many adventures.
I'd say the only thing missing is dreams when you sleep. A cool feature would be to show short clips of of your last adventure as you're supposedly dreaming. Kind of a replay of you walking or in battle or talking to someone. Maybe a collage of clips for 10-15 seconds. Would be cool in and out of VR to have that. I mean, you can eat, train with weapons, train with magic,etc. Why not dreams. Or, since he's Dragonborn, he dreams of flying above Skyrim.
It's buggy sometimes. But definitely a great game coming from a guy that played D&D, Adventure Atari 2600, Dragonstomper, Balder's Gate, etc when I was young. This is on another level. Would be crazy with 2-4 player co-op. Like Skyrim Together is trying to do. Maybe next gen.