GATT’s GamerX: It is on a rare occasion that you come across a turning point in a franchise’s history. I played, but never finished Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, and Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion; Why? Simply because I got bored in the games before the arc was done. Enter The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a game lauded by many people as one of the finest games in history, and with good reason it is. In fact, playing Skyrim for 130 hours without even knowing that I had been playing that long made me re-think game reviewing as a whole.
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.
Good review.
For the first time,after reading hundreds of reviews,I feel like I need to pick this game.man,you just said the right words.
I didn't write this review, I swear. I you check my history you will see I am a huge Morrowind fan.
I agree with everything except loosing interest in Morrowind. May be he was still to young to appreciate Morrowind. It was a game ahead of it's time.
Great Review , One of the best .
Too many reviews get into all this silly detail and miss the big picture ...... speaking of big . This game has swallowed me whole . I can remember only a handfull of games that have so completely consumed me ...... but not for over 300 hours .......... and even more shocking I have only seen half at most .
Excuse me ...... Click , Whir )) )))))