Ashton Mills "Bethesda and Skyrim: the fall of an Empire"
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.
Am I the only one who is having no problems with the game? Other than game crashes sometimes after playing for hours (and I suspect it is my own hardware problem)
Skyrim is way better than any previous elder scrolls in every aspect. It is the most stable game from Bethesda as well. I remember Morrowind very well and you would be lucky to finish the game because it was too buggy. It had crazy crashing issues and things you may do that will break your whole goddamn game if you did not back up a savefile. They fixed most of problems after maybe 4 patches.
If there is a real complain, I would say enemies get way easier to kill in a higher levels. Ulfric's stormcloaks now die with one sword hit.
Your not the one, I am 52 hours in and it's been better than i ever thought it would be!
140+ hours in, three lock ups, one incident of lag, and no immunities. Happy as hell regardless of the issues.
130 hours in and my only issue is my spouse (in game) dissappeard so I get no money. On and the occasional lockup during long gaming sessions.