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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.
The Souls-like genre remains popular, along with FromSoftware's classics there are many contenders. But which are the best Souls-like games?
Hmm... In my opinion, the 7 best are the 6 made by FromSoftware (DeS, DS1, DS2, DS3, BB and ER), then Lies of P. But each to their own.
Still DS1? You don't feel it's been surpassed yet?
Demon's Souls has the remake of course, but DS1 has surely been outdated?
I think that the DS1 remake is better looking than DS2. The interior lighting matched with the low resolution textures in DS2 is very garish, IMO.
Besides graphics, what do you mean by DS1 being "outdated"? I'm someone who played through Elden Ring and just recently played through the DS series, and as far as gameplay went, there were all very similar.
I haven’t played many but Bloodborne and NIOH1 are on top of my list.. had a blast with these 2
For world design and interconnectedness (that's a word, right?) DS1 is yet to be beaten.
Saad from eXputer: "Almost a decade later, it's time to take the nostalgia goggles off and accept that Bloodborne has long been surpassed by its successors."
Yes, yes it does. It’s still a great game. Elden Ring isn’t better just different and a bit easier . I like that you have to be aggressive but smart in Bloodborne
I literally replayed it recently and it's better than I remember. I think it's like going back to a beloved book and noticing things I hadn't before.
Yo! I was getting ready to reply with the exact same four words you started with lol. Yes, I think Bloodborne has withstood the test of time and remains a great game. That’s why all the fans are hoping for a sequel someday. Hoping that we can catch that magic again with a new storyline.
Yes. Just replayed it a few days ago. My first Platinum. And yes. I rage quitted so many times and called it BS too when I started. It's tight. The combat is amazing and the lore is rich.
Elden Ring was easier? I don’t know about that at all. I remember leveling up in Bloodborne and breezing through it. In Elden Ring no matter how powerful I got I was still catching a beat down from every boss.
That's due to scaling enemies. I remember not doing Haligtree untill near the end and having enemies withstand almost a full blast from Azur's Glintstone Staff Comet Azure. My level was quite high.
Melee characters are not fun in that game, especially for the Elden Beast.
I can agree with that list even though I never played Fallout 4 or Life Is Strange. Which the only reason I didn't get Fallout 4 is because I'm only half way through The Witcher 3 and I can't seem to get back into it. So I didn't want to start another huge open world just for the fact I have so much already invested in The Witcher 3. Season Pass and the C.E. strategy guide, I have some dollars in TW3.
Needless to say I'm on my second playthrough of Bloodborne right now, pretty much just leveling up in the Chalice Dungeons, I think I'm level 125 now. I'd be more leveled up but I messed up about halfway through my NG+, so I started completly over. The game is a little more unforgiving and you can't go back and fix situations like you can in any other open world game today.
Just prepping for the DLC area before I go there. Bloodborne is my game of the year. It has the best combat system I've ever seen in a game. Really puts TW3's combat system/118 hours of dialog to shame. I never played Fallout 4, but.....I'm just guessing its nothing like Bloodborne. Which not many games are.
Fallout 4 > Witcher 3
Witcher 3 > Fallout 4... Fallout 4 needs an new Engine seriously. But I still enjoyed the game.
Fallout 4 was just so unappealing to me for whatever reason. I think it was the rounded, colorful art direction they tried to do, as well as stripping the semi-horror quiet atmospheric feel from it, making it an overpowered shooter where you get power armor from the start of the game. Also the story was atrocious.
Witcher 3 was fantastic, except for the boring combat.
Bloodborne had the best atmosphere, level design, and character design in a game I can remember to date. Gameplay was also phenomenal, as always. Genious in every way, except for the world's ugliest menu UI.