To mark the new year, PSLS takes a look back at the mythology of dragons throughout history, and their role on storytelling in games. - PSLS
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.
Interesting read!
Skyrim has rekindled my love of dragons :D
The history channel actually had a pretty good documentary on dragons a while back (yeah, CRAZY, I know). There was some interesting stuff there, not the least of which were some accounts of Roman armies encountering dragons on the field of battle (which, as you can guess, was totally the ONLY reason the Romans lost).
Personally, I'm not sure I fully buy into the idea of dragons being ancient interpretations of dinosaurs. It's makes a lot of sense, I know, but I think the "cross-polinization" theory/mystery plays a certain role, too--after all, dragons are not the only creature to exist (in the same role) in nearly every culture on the planet. Like the fact that foxes or similar creatures represent mischievous tricksters everywhere on the planet. ~Everywhere~. And there's no real explanation for why. And that's just one example, mind you. Dragons may be unique in that there's a single, clearly plausible explanation for their existence in human cultures around the planet, but there are many similar cases with no such justification.
But hey, here I am going off on a tangent when all I really want to say was, "I came to N4G, I clicked on an article with a promising premise, and I was not disappointed. I am pleased."
That NEVER happens.
Great, now I have to pull my VCS out again and play with some duck dragons in Adventure. Really interesting read, well done!