CheatCC says - Back in the days of the SNES and the PSOne, the Japanese RPG was the leader of the role-playing pack. While these JRPGs were crafting epic linear tales about time travel and killing god, we in the American RPG crowd were controlling faceless, nameless protagonists looking only to roam a few randomly-generated dungeons and make a quick buck while doing so. Now JRPGs are struggling, and ARPGs have taken the throne. But gone are those pleasant little dungeon crawls, replaced by post-apocalyptic adventures and sci-fi epics. Where are the Baldur's Gates and Diablos of our youth? Well, in Dragon Age and Demon's Souls, I suppose. But if you are bored with those games, you might also want to check out an upcoming title from inXile and Bethesda called Hunted: The Demon's Forge.
by Caspar Leblanc:
"When you first started playing Spec Ops: The Line , you might feel that it’s just another brainless third person shooter, and some parts are kind of boring, that’s what I thought as well, but I was really into shooter games so I finished it and I was totally impressed by its story, don’t worry not spoilers, If you want to know why this game is on the list, and you are interested in good stories, go play it and pay attention to the plot, you will agree my opinion afterwards."
The Saboteur was great, nice art style and such a good soundtrack. Hunted was cool but very flawed.
Alice the Madness Returns is still really cool for those who like the premise. The original Dead Space holds up well. Catherine has aged incredibly well. The Suda 51 games are all still great if you can dig quirkiness (Shadows of the damned, Lollipop Chainsaw, Killer is dead). There are lots more, many have had remasters already though.
Totally agree, Alice the Madness Returns was good, and Split Second mentioned in the article was not bad as well
I always felt that Saboteur was under appreciated, I really did like that game a lot. It was a real shame when Pandemic got shut down.
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Forbes: At the PAX East Composer’s Panel, an interesting question was posed to composer Kevin Riepl: aside from Aliens: Colonial Marines, had he ever poured so much time and work into a soundtrack only to have the game suck or go largely unnoticed? When a game does as poorly as Aliens: Colonial Maries did, critically, it’s very rare that people then attempt to hunt down the soundtrack. Likewise, when a game releases to a mediocre or lukewarm fanfare, the soundtrack rarely sees publication.
