Edwin Evans-Thirlwell: For years, I've attributed this common theme to the need to invest the universe with temporal depth, buttressing its bright, breezy surface with age-old secrets, forbidden knowledge you'll gradually uncover as proceedings, um, proceed.
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.
Don't forget the Zulus. Expansionist bastards.
Because humanity inspired it and Jesus got all the fame because of that.
"Such a game would give me hope for humanity"
Errrr...what the hell? O_o
i knew that economic crisis are bad
but i don't know it can give side-effect this bad for some people O_o
because no race no matter how advanced can last forever, and it makes a neat story for games if like you find out some ancient aliens (cue that one scientist with crazy hair) are responsible for the creation of mankind or life as you see it in the video game
By defintion, they had to become 'ancient' somehow.
Perhaps stupidity had a leading role in that.
If VG's 'ancient races' have taught us anything, they always leave behind obedient-protectors, and they usually despise humans existance. lol