AllThatsEpic: Venture with us back to a time of dragons and epic forged steel weapons, a time where the people are ruled by kings and queens in the epic land of Skyrim. Here you will find Aela the Huntress, a companion and exceptionally talented thief who will steal your heart as she follows you around to aid you in fighting the most brutal adversaries the land has ever known. While you can choose between several followers in Skyrim, Aela has become one of the more popular characters to be brought to life by cosplayers over the last year. However, we have to raise our glasses of fresh mead and sing a merry song in honor of April Gloria Cosplay for crafting such an impressively accurate creation of the Huntress.
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.
Great cosplay.