Kombo: I take my good sweet time with games and have also built myself up quite a backlog of games to get through, but excuses aside, I am yet to finish Mass Effect 2, so if there are any late-on surprises that conflict with anything I say in this blog, please forgive me.
In Eric Frederiksen's recent article he was spot on about almost everything, but he was so wrong about the inventory side of things. Now, I'm a hoarder. In Fable, I owned every item in the game, absolutely every piece of clothing and every weapon, no matter how powerful or weak. The traders had nothing left to sell me.
In Oblivion and Fallout 3, I took over fifty hours in each just scrounging around for cool things to hoard, sell, trade, swipe and swap with before finally attempting the main missions. I have pretty much everything in Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Mass Effect, Resident Evil 4 & 5 and all the other appropriate games. I know my inventories.
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier
it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me
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.
Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.
