RPGLand: "Usually, fans vote in our monthly top 5, but now, we’re gonna have some of the fun for ourselves.
"I’ve tried to post this for like a month and a half but I’m convinced it’s cursed. Other updates were fine, but when it was time to work on this one, I’d either get a huge headache or start coughing up gunk any time I tried. Remember my most recent trip to the hospital? Yeah I was chipping away at this before that all went down. So, a couple of these games are out now. Well whatever, here are our “Most Anticipated Games of 2011,” broken down by platform and then a multiplat category."
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.
Skyrim, Witcher 2, and Guild Wars 2 are too much; I'm officially buying a new PC this year. My hand is forced (into my wallet).
Looking forward to getting tactical with Disgaea 4 and Valkyria 3, even though the latter is not yet announced. I'm sure it will come.
Most of the best RPGs are on PC and HandHelds.
2011 the year of the PC. Oh hang on that's every year.
Deus Ex please.
Tales of Graces f