Explosion.com's Dave Walsh takes a look at Skyrim and why it has become a measuring stick for games in 2012 and beyond.
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.
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Liking back at Skyrim, it was nothing special. It got boring bring 100hrs, I haven't played the game since it came out last year. I've played FFXIII, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey longer than Skyrim.
Played it for about 8 hours, got bored out of my mind, just A LOT of mediocrity and bugs, and that's after I bought it year later after release and installed crap load of mods that improved and fixed bunch of things. Still wasn't impressed.
I am a Fallout fan more than a Elder Scrolls fan, but I enjoy Skyrim. I personally was disappointed by Oblivion after the amazing Morrowind, and I think this is a step in the right direction. The game has technical issues, but the team is doing something right and that is perfecting a living world. It's more about the unmarked quests that make Skyrim so amazing. Finding a note on a bench somewhere and 2 hours later you are deep on a really epic adventure. What Bethesda needs to do is make a game and then beta test the hell out of it for many weeks before release. Yes, there are some boring moments like in any game, but I do feel they did a good job. Oh I am playing this on PS3, so I can't speak for the DLC. :/
I can't wait for Fallout 4 more than anything. FO3 and New Vegas are some of my favorite games this generation.
Console skyrim 7/10
Pc skyrim with mods 10/10
Enough said!
I don't recall any experienced reviewers using Skyrim as a measuring stick for other unrelated games.... Well, except for Far Cry 3 but that actually became somewhat of a joke with even Ubisoft using "like Skyrim with guns" in one of their ads.