Few games are as stuffed with things to do as Skyrim. It’s a game you can play for a hundred hours, and still not see everything. In this feature we’ll show you some of the game’s best kept secrets, along with videos to tell you how to uncover them. If you think you’ve seen everything the ancient homeland of the Nords has to offer, think again.
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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Barbas can be a real pain in the ass 'cos he keeps pushing you of the cliffs, to the traps etc. That little f*cker has killed me so many times and don't get me started about times he's blown my cover. Just try to sneak with a dog as your company...
i knew all of them
The majority of these are pretty obvious when you come across them in the game or pretty common knowledge when it comes to the exploites like the bucket over the head. But I guess if they came as a suprise to the author maybe he thinks they will come as a suprise to others. Things are never obvious until they are obvious.
Barbaos was too annoying to keep as a side kick. Not because he killed me but because I wear a headset when I game and he breaths so freaking loud. I couldnt hear myself think let alone what the merchants were saying. I sent him away until I was ready to complete the quest.
Serisouly the arrow assaination thing had me LMAO that is just stupid awesome!
In Skyrim, you can kill NPCs and they resurrect like retards 10 seconds later, oblivious to the fact that you just attacked them.
Didn't know you could still do that in a 2011 game but you can.
Awesome(ly bad)!