This year’s gaming calendar is just starting to roll out the big guns, with the latest versions of Soul Calibur and Final Fantasy hitting the shelves last week. This week sees the launch of a potentially ‘major’ new IP in the form of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. In recent years EA have had a lot of success with launching ‘big’ titles earlier in the year than a more traditional publishing schedule would normally dictate. Dead Space 2 did very well this time last year and EA are possibly hoping for a similar success with Reckoning… but those hopes may have taken an arrow to the knee shortly before Christmas.
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