PSX Extreme: "Not long after the insanity of the holidays, PlayStation 3 owners are suddenly faced with one of the most difficult purchase decisions of the year: both LittleBigPlanet 2 and Mass Effect 2 are set to go today and if you can't buy one, which would it be?"
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 already own ME2, so LittleBigPlanet. Let`s be real though, even if I didn`t own ME2 my answer would still be LittleBigPlanet.
Sackboy today, Shepard whenever it's $29.99 (shouldn't take too long)
Not really that difficult. I won't be getting either. There are other PS3 exclusives and multiplats coming out later in the year that I'm more interested in.
I'll pick these up after I've burned myself out on the game a year down the road, when they're on sale for $30 or less.
DC Universe online for me on the PS3 first, then MS 2 when it gets cheaper