1UP - Once I wrapped up Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC -- except not really, because it turns out I actually missed several quests and map destinations -- I returned to the mainland only to find a ridiculous number of incomplete quests waiting for me. Inexplicably, they hadn't completed themselves in the break I took from the main game for a year (minus a few days to dabble in Dawnguard, of course).
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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I've plugged 95hrs and am not even close to finishing.
I knew before even buying Skyrim I would never finish. :)
Skyrim is one of the few games I've ever platinumed spent 130 houses with one character, insanely awesome and addicting
I have about 170 hours right now. I don't think it will ever end....
Kma, I too have gotten my first platinum on Skyrim, and have easily clocked 100 hours and then some!! This game is so epic...I might have tet Morrowind, I already have oblivion! This is what all games should model after...but keep the bugs out, my experience with bugs has not been a downer by any means!