Jennifer Hale is a voice actress who has performed in more than 120 video games. She's been nicknamed the Meryl Streep of gaming.
You've heard her in Mass Effect (Commander Shepard), Brutal Legend (Ophelia) and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Bastila Shan). The talented voice actress talks to Madeleine about her career in the expanding world of video games.
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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.
she's hot. this debate about video games not being art is crazy. games are a better art form than most movies. robert ebert started this crap.
Femshep FTW!
If games are ART then Mass Effect 3 gets the worst ART, theres nothing 'ART' about that game, you want ART look at Oblivion and Skyrim.