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I have another theory why some open world games encourage natural exploration more than the others, and it's a rather simple one. Fast travel option and its implementation. Bear with me for a while. I think the reason why exploration in Morrowind feels more natural than in Skyrim is not the...

Another great article. Thanks, Mitch! Interestingly enough, I've been thinking lately a lot about Gothic series. I never played it, and for some reason it has a kind of iconic status here in Poland. I thought many times about trying it, but I was always taken aback by out of date graphics and...

I played two AoW games when I was young. I liked them a lot, I think they were more complex than HoMM3, but not as addictive. Actually, AoW4 is going under my radar. I haven't played a strategy game in a long time and I do have Total War: Warhammer 1 & 2 (thanks Epic for sharing it for free!)...

Actually, the first part of this sentence is the main reason of my original post. This is exactly what I realized recently and what hit me by surprise - how much writing style matters to me. Taking Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen as an example - I didn't even give the game a proper chance, I just...

I agree about Irenicus dungeon, it's really well done. I haven't played much of BG3 past the initial dungeon, so I can at least compare those two and I must say, the design and the tone of Irenicus dungeon is superior in almost every aspect. When I played Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous I...

Ever since I started to play computer role playing games, I evaluated my enjoyment of those games by the quality of the story. The more crpgs I played the more I started to contemplate, what exactly is this mythical "story"? Is it an actual story - events that unfolds during the course of the...

Of course, what I meant is totally subjective expectation. I played many Bethesda games (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and Fallout 4) and only Morrowind managed to surprise me, mainly because it was the first Bethesda game I have played. All other games I could usually describe as...

Another very insightful article. In my case the way I roleplay crpgs evolved with time. When I was younger the majority of such games started with the creation of more or less custom character, with selected race, class, stats and sometimes even look. Having the opportunity to shape my character...

The games I'm looking forward to in 2023 are (the order is random) : Starfield - I was following the development of Starfield for a long time, and whole the gameplay reveal shared by Bethesda couple of weeks was a little bit underwhelming, I realised that my expectations of this game are very...

Indeed, a great write-up. I'm especially happy you have mentioned Alpha Protocol. I think this is a heavily underrated gem, that suffered from unforgivable quality state. In fact I don't remember playing buggier game in my life than Alpha Protocol. But, it's also one of the more exciting games I...

I'm still continuing my Assassin's Creed: Valhalla run and I'm still having a ton of fun. Gameplay wise I'd put it on top (as I described in Assassin's Creed thread) and the main story is getting better and better. There is a ton of content in the game, not only places to visit, but many...

Itemization I wanted to write about it separately, because there are major differences in all games. Origins: The system is rather rudimentary and crude. First of all, you don't use armor, your aror doesn't do anythig except being a cosmetic thing. Period. Secondly, although your weapons does...

Combat This section is obviously spoiler safe. Origins: Combat in Origins and Odyssey are quite similar, although there are some significant differences. Firstly, you can use shields in Origins, while in Odyssey you can't. In Origins bows are deadly, often allowing to one hit an enemy. I...

So... for the past couple of months I've been doing a 100% playthroughs of Assassin Creed: Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla. Initially I haven't planned to play all 3 games in a row, but my positive experience with Origins, and comments from Antimatter and Urdnot Wrex made me start Odyssey right...

I'd say that would really be a decent compromise. I wonder how many players played the origin characters in Divinity Original Sin 2. I suspect if in BG3 origin characters would be fully voiced and custom character silent, the popularity of origin characters would be drastically increased. And I...

This reminded me of a fragment of the last Panel from Hell, where one of Larian writers said she is testing 700 lines of dialogue, which is basically 4 mouse clicks from a player. There were so many permutations of this dialogue. This implies there will be many options in BG3.

I believe silent protagonist works much better in isometric crpgs, where you can usually create a totally custom protagonist and the voice acting is sparse. I can totally relate with silent protagonist in such games without feeling off in any way. On the other hand, in most open world games...

I was in @Zaxares camp for a long time, but that has changed completely, when I started to play games that were fully or almost fully voiced over. As Antimatter or Urdnot Wrex said, it would be too much immersion breaking for me, if everyone around me speaks, but not my character. There is...

This! I still hope, Larian at least decides to voice the origin protagonist. I mean, the voice actors are already there, it's a matter of organizung more voice acting sessions, at the end of production cycle, when there will be no chance a single dialogue line will be changed. Voicing custom...

I'd say, Vampire Masqurade: Bloodlines. I played this game just after release, and it was buggy as hell back then, but it was still one of the best crpg I've played. There is an unofficial patch, that is developed for like a decade, which turns this game into much, much better experience. What I...