The brilliance of TheElder Scrolls role-playing games isn’t in the freedom it gives to tell your own story, but in the freedom to discover the stories happening around you. Because when it all boils down, Skyrim’s is a simple story that’s been told a thousand times: You’re a stranger in a strange land, and you will save the world.
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.
1 day!
It's the only RPG game you need this gen.
11/10
[Complex Magazine] Review: "Skyrim" Is The Only Role-Playing Game You Need This Winter, because you've already played the hell out of Dark Souls. - FIXED
Can't wait for Skyrim!!! I am pre-loading it on steam as I type this!!
game will be awesome! only rpg this gen tho? dark souls/demons souls says hi, but all 3 of these games must be played!