XMNR: Video game music has gone from simple bleeps and bloops to full on orchestral arrangements that have made them a popular selection for kids in music classes and bands. One Massachusetts high school recently decided to take on the theme song for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and put up a video of their performance.
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 new Partner Spotlight Sale is now live on the Switch eShop, including Skyrim, lowest price ever for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and more.
I think I'll prefer it in Skyrim. I want to hit the guy conducting.
I still prefer the tone of the Morrowind one. (I'm not using this vid as comparison lol).
It might be because I have 500 hours of it embedded in my brain :/
That. Was. Epic.
Great song, completely ruined by the lack of cow bells.
Probably the fault of lack of proper recording equipment but this sounds like total shit.