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If there’s one thing I can’t get enough of, it’s ragdoll physics in video games. While their inclusion can ruin the mood of some of the best RPGs by pinging people (and players) around like they’re made of jelly, there’s just something hilarious about them. Like puppets. And if this Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Special Edition mod is half as good as it looks, I worry for the guards always chasing me out of Makarth. Seriously, I can’t remember what I did there years ago, but they’ve never let me live it down. Launching today, the Drag and Drop mod for…
Realtime strategy games the dizzying pace of professional StarCraft or stumble into the arcane lore of Total War: Warhammer and you might get the impression that the entire genre is comprised of systems-driven time sinks, where it takes hours of research on a community wiki to even understand how the menus work.With its straightforward, pared-down mechanics, Age Of Empires 2 is a sharp contrast to that uninviting stereotype. There are only four resources (wood, gold, food and stone) and the research tree, such as it can be called, consists wholly of material upgrades for your military and agriculture. If you…
The Legend of Zelda timeline was a matter of intense debate in the forums I frequented as a young Nintendo fan, but by the time it was ultimately revealed in the 2011 Hyrule Historia book, I had moved on to caring about topics other than whether there were multiple Links and Zeldas. But Nintendo had a secret document detailing the whole thing all along – even if Shigeru Miyamoto himself didn’t care about it all that much.”For every Zelda game we tell a new story,” Miyamoto explained in a 2003 interview with the Swedish Superplay Magazine, which was translated and…
While World of Warcraft is still struggling to wrap its head around player housing, ageing MMORPG Lord of the Rings Online – a game I convinced myself had released a Witch King expansion alongside WoW’s own Lich King DLC all those years ago – is finally letting players buy up real estate in one of its most idyllic settings. On April 30, the adventurers of Lord of the Rings Online will finally be able to retire to Rivendell, the glistening city of the elves, where Bilbo decided to live out the rest of his days after nearly dying several times.…
Despite being the star of the series, Metal Gear Solid actor David Hayter says he doesn’t fully understand the story of the series either.Speaking to Fall Damage, Hayter is asked about the series’ storyline, responding, “Do I understand the story of Metal Gear Solid? Uh, basically I do; Do I understand all of it? Absolutely not,” adding, “I didn’t understand all of it while we were recording it.” Can Metal Gear’s Snake Remember His Iconic Lines? – YouTube Watch On “I’d be like, ‘What does this mean?’ and they’d say, ‘just say it. And I’d be like, ‘Okay.'” Hayter recalls.…
When it comes to looking for games that I know I can easily put 100 hours into, I always return to the best tactical RPGs. It’s a sub-genre that is always waiting to suck me in with detailed systems, fun strategic thinking, and grand stories that feel straight out of the best war movies or fantastical political dramas like Game of Thrones. It’s also a genre that’s packed with gems. However, I’ve found the 10 best RPGs out of the bunch for you to play today.Below are my top tactical RPGs that primarily focus on battle strategy instead of the…
Given the vast range of mods Capcom games typically lend themselves to, it’s downright refreshing to see the first half-decent tweaks for sci-fi action game Pragmata stay squarely away from everyone’s favorite android daughter. While there are a couple of mods aimed at mixing and matching elements of Diana’s many different skins (like having android-style limbs of her Shadow Executor skin while keeping her adorable default fit), it’s her guardian getting a glow-up. And in the most sensible way, too. Hop onto a mod database right now, and you’ll see a trio of new mods made to deck out Pragmata…
For every week I spend not playing Crimson Desert, I have more fun with it. I’m collecting this fun passively, bottling it up and letting it age. Soon, I’ll uncork the stuff and play the game for real, and it’ll be a delicious reminder that waiting to play new games is simply the best.It’s not that Crimson Desert was unplayable when it came out on March 19. Our Crimson Desert review gave it high marks even pre-release. The game was just filled with problems that have since been fixed. Ugly AI-generated assets and wonky controls were patched. Movement bugs were…
The way Fable 2 handles death – or doesn’t, shall I say – was shaped by the developers’ experiences playing The Legend of Zelda and World of Warcraft.Fable 2 has a pretty unusual approach to dying, even now, almost two decades on from the Xbox 360 RPG’s launch. When your hero’s health bar completely depletes, instead of ‘dying’ and then reloading to the latest save point, your character simply props themselves back up with a few new, sometimes stylish scars.A no-death system would be odd enough these days where AAA games largely try not to rock the boat too often,…
Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki ‘Yoshi-P’ Yoshida has pledged to poke developers of the MMO about one highly-requested option: butt sliders.Butt sliders have been one of the Final Fantasy 14 community’s most-requested features when it comes to character customization, so much so that the question bounced right back up again at a panel during Fan Fest 2026 in Anaheim, California.”We really tried to consider this,” Yoshi-P says via a translator to a crowd that was on their feet cheering, “but now that we’ve done our graphical update, I’m going to go back once more, and talk to the…