If the third time's a charm, then holy crap, they weren't lying. Good friend of the show Stephanie Gutowski of RipTen.com returns to complete the hat trick and discusses newspaper theft, the betrayal of a SWTOR friend, and her anger towards Kaidan Alenko.
Also, Boots takes a minute to vent about online job searching, Tim grows disconnected with Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, and the two of them share a Mass Effect sleepover, of sorts.
Things get heated later on as the trio talk about the online abuse of BioWare writer Jennifer Hepler and ideas of how to control the situation.
Sadly, Holly couldn't join the group as she fell ill this week and couldn't record, but the boys wish her a speedy recovery and await her grand return.
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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.
