Hardcore Gamer: Video game music has steadily been rising to prominence over the last decade, but this year, it’s made a tremendous mark in the realm of orchestral and classical music, as shown by various game music composers successfully entering the Classic FM Hall of Fame.
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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Great to see so many of them on the lists. The Facebook comments from the classical snobs are quite entertaining. They believe video game should not be allowed.
Needs more Shoji Meguro!
I am very pleased for Grant Kirkhope for Banjo Kazooie.
Classical music is a genre- or in some modern usage an underlying theme. It is not a timescale! Its roots were evident throughout some pop of the 1960s, some prog and Abba of the 70s, some rap and power pop of the 80s and beyond.
The same is true of classical architecture- if it's been relatively recently but looks classical it IS classical. It's not necessarily trying to be postmodernist (although it can be).