Tag Archives: Role Playing

I have discovered a weapon that encapsulates Dark Souls. It’s a door. Or more accurately, a pair of doors, which I can shut fast to hide behind, or rush forward and open dramatically as if I’m about to burst into a medley of showtunes. It represents the series perfectly: a …

The ‘chosen one’ main quest trope needs to stop. That’s just a fact. At best you’re in Aloy’s shoes striding through Horizon: Zero Dawn (opens in new tab) – she’s ‘special’ because her genetic code is tied to the game’s backstory. It makes sense to have her as the chosen …

Andromeda should have been a smart new chapter for the Mass Effect series. As far as the story goes, it is. 634 years since setting off into deep space, a colony of ships from the Milky Way – representing most of the major species from our galaxy – arrives in …

This interview was conducted by Xbox: The Official Magazine As the western RPG grows ever more cinematic – inspired by BioWare and CD Projekt Red, fuelled by mega budgets – Brian Fargo and his team at inXile are keeping a more modest dream alive. Having shaped the RPG scene in …

Shoot to (do anything other than) kill We’ve pretty much come to accept that video games have no problem giving players a firearm and letting them shoot anything that moves. Our gaming heroes have probably sent more bullets downrange than there are drops of rain during a thunderstorm. So when …

Rogue-likes are really not my thing. Most of them feel tedious or stressful, and that’s hardly a recipe for fun. Loot Rascals, which I spent time with during PlayStation Experience, is a turn-based rogue-like that manages to upend expectations and deliver not just fun, but glee. Let’s set the scene. …

With surprising regularity, the dog days of summer bring us role-playing games. This year, as the sun starts to beat down on us with slightly less enthusiasm and the light gets slightly lower, we’re playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (opens in new tab). It joins a long tradition of end …

If you think about it, many inventions are a direct response to humanity’s inherent laziness. So when Pokemon Go (opens in new tab) asked players to walk 2, 5, or even 10 km to hatch eggs that contain rare and powerful monsters, many people reached for their thinking caps instead …

Pokemon Go (opens in new tab) just keeps shattering records. Forget Clash Of Clans or Fallout Shelter: Nintendo’s critter-catching app is already well on the way to being the biggest mobile game ever released. Oh, and it’ll shortly surpass sales of the incredi-popular original Pokemon games, despite having been available …

Far Harbor has a vast territory to explore, and in true Fallout 4 fashion, it doesn’t take long to get inundated with quests. You can blast through the main story if you want, but much of the game’s more unique moments come from the random side missions or the surprises …