Bitmob Intern Kyle Russel: Not sure if Skyrim will be for you? After having the opportunity to play for several hours, there are three types of gamers who I think need to get their hands on the new title from Bethesda.
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.
Guess I should give it a try then.
What about gamers who didn't like Oblivion?
Was expecting a category labeled "People who are breathing."
Hmm...I like to think of myself as a "smart action gamer." We'll see if I really am, since I'll be picking up Skyrim no matter what.
I don't care what type of gamer I am though, I'm really just looking foward to the moment when you first walk out of the cave/dungeon/vault/whatever and see some amazing vista. Oblivion's was great, Fallout 3's was...bleak (but great!)
So excited! Am all three...but also a completionist. I'm doomed.