Tag Archives: Role Playing

Chickens are utter bastards in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (opens in new tab). They’ll attack your character without warning or cause, often in broods of three or more, breaking your cover at the most inconvenient times and even killing players too flabbergasted to respond quickly enough.  Read more The best games …

Not a lot of video games encourage their players to drink responsibly. Grand Theft Auto 5 (opens in new tab) happily lets you fly commercial jets while completely cabbaged, for Pete’s sake. But in The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep – the CRPG follow-up to 1988’s Bard’s Tale III – …

At approximately 9:00 UTC, February 28 2018, Atlus pulled the plug on Demon’s Souls’ online servers (opens in new tab), after nearly a decade of players fighting with and against each other in the kingdom of Boletaria.  Given that its unique multiplayer angle was such a key, compelling part of …

Nearly 18 months on from its original release on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Final Fantasy 15 (opens in new tab) is finally coming to PC via the Windows Edition, which will launch just next month, March 6, alongside the Royale Edition of the game on console.  In anticipation …

South Park: The Stick of Truth (opens in new tab) features just over 100 costumes and weapons to outfit your character with, offering various combat buffs as well as looking pretty jazzy too. If you’re planning to unlock the Clothes Whore and Full Arsenal trophies/achievements then this guide will show …

As a longtime, unapologetic fan of the Monster Hunter franchise, I felt my pulse quicken during the PS4 show at E3 2017 (opens in new tab) when I laid eyes on a character wielding a very Monster-Hunter-looking sword, battling very Monster-Hunter-looking beasts. When Monster Hunter World was properly announced, and …

It’s hard to believe that two months separated the first game in the Dragon Age series and the sequel to Mass Effect. They feel like RPGs from different eras: Mass Effect 2 is a modern-feeling shooter hybrid that moves away from traditional elements like lists of stats, while Dragon Age: …

What happens when a series suddenly, belatedly goes supernova? Shadows of Valentia presents Nintendo with a rare opportunity to capitalise on Fire Emblem’s unexpected recent rise by probing its past. This remake of the Japanese-only Fire Emblem: Gaiden isn’t so much a new beginning for the series as a look …

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 …

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 …