In yet another edition of our Mass Effect interviews we chat with voice actor Raphael Sbarge about his character from Mass Effect, Kaiden Alenko.
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.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
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Good Read
I love all these little interviews you guys always manage to get, they're always a good read. I really liked Kaidan in ME, even though a lot of people seemed to think he was really dull and boring at times I found him as a character very interesting (and as a squadmate very useful) and am really looking forward to seeing what happens with him in ME3, he looks like he has changed a lot from the guy we knew in ME (and from the one we met in ME2).
Also I lol'd at the little story at the comic convention hah.
This is weird to me, since it was he that I sacrificed in ME1. This is kinda like listening to a dead man talking.
Kaiden is a dead man in my Mass Effect. Even when I rolled a femshep. Even though Ashley is a total bitch that I imagined I dated in High School. Even though he's significantly more useful than soldier Ashley. Even though Garrus begged me to spare him and he owes Wrex 5 space bucks, both of which I imagined.
I just don't like him.
he'll always be carth to me, dammit