A lot of people (yours truly included) consider Planescape: Torment one of—if not the—best RPGs on the PC. A mix of Baldur’s Gate and Final Fantasy, the well-written tale pretty much got me into RPGs years ago. Unfortunately, the game had quite a few bugs and missing features the developers wanted to put in, but [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 21, 2008
A year and a half after Japan got the Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories PS2 remake as part of their Final Mix+ release, American Kingdom Hearts fans finally get their hands on the anticipated port. So ... how do Sora and Riku’s handheld adventures transfer to console?
Continue reading...Saturday, December 20, 2008
While the English-speaking world is still waiting for Drakensang, another role playing game based on the popular pen & paper rule set and universe of The Dark Eye appears on the horizon. Demonicon, the new game in question, is completely unrelated to Drakensang as The Dark Eye is not exclusively licenced by either company. It also [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Famitsu isn’t exactly the most reliable publication when it comes to review scores, but when a super high profile game created by a top-class Japanese developer and lots of advertising scores below a 30… Well, it’s definitely time to take notice. In the latest issue of Famitsu, Level-5’s White Knight Chronicles does just that, scoring a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
Today, Square Enix has confirmed a release window for the PC version of their underwhelming epic RPG, The Last Remnant. Utilizing Unreal Engine 3 and combining elements of Western and Japanese RPGs in an attempt to appeal to a worldwide audience, the game looked very promising on paper, but ultimately just didn’t deliver. While there’s still [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 14, 2008
Namco Bandai had previously confirmed that a Tales game is under production for the Nintendo Wii, and a trailer has been rumoured for the 18th of December. It seems that the internet was a little faster than they wanted, as a teaser trailer is now available on YouTube, and possibly other video outlets, thanks to [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 14, 2008
Some of you might have previously heard of Age of Decadence but I'm sure that most of you have not, so I'll first let its developers introduce it, before going ahead with the good news. The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 12, 2008
Fancy, award-winning, German, old-school, party-based, role-playing game. These are all words and phrases that can describe The Dark Eye: Drakensang by Radon Labs. While I've been longing to delve into its medieval fantasy world -- which I hear is based on a very popular pen and paper RPG -- for quite some time, a certain [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
Bioware's Dragon Age doesn't seem to be making much of a splash in the gaming world just yet -- probably because Bioware choose to keep a low profile for now -- but fans of role playing games are certainly keeping up with any news, media and information that happen to come up. While the official [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Publisher Deep Silver and developer Piranha Bytes, famous for their Gothic franchise, announced that their next role playing epic, Risen, will also appear on the Xbox 360. This is big news for console gamers, as all of Piranha Bytes' past games have been PC only titles. After the company's arrangements with publisher JoWood fell through, costing [...]
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Monday, December 22, 2008
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