The PlayStation Store update this week finally brings some long-awaited awaited games and add-on content to the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita. Fans of Skyrim on the PlayStation 3 will be excited to know that not only has the first of the incoming DLC's, Dragonborn, finally arrived in the PlayStation Store today, it also comes with a 50% discount for this week to begin celebrations for its much anticipated release. Meanwhile, Wipeout 2048 on the PS Vita is now available free for PlayStation Plus members as well as new characters, Kat and Emmett Graves, for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale on both the PlayStation 3 and Vita.
Sega's newly released and eerie Aliens: Colonial Marines also makes an appearance in the PlayStation Store today (featuring a 20% discount for PS Plus members) along with the heavy-hitting and action packed multiplayer brawler, Anarchy Reigns, and a new range of PS2 classics.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
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.
A 'heads up' to YESTERDAYS update? How does that work?
Will there be a mgr digital version?..