Tag: RPG

“Fateless One” – Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Reckoning with when a new game being a decent take on a genre stopped being enough…

“They still die when you shoot ’em” – Mass Effect 2

When Bioware struck out from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic with their own space opera RPG setting in Mass Effect, they planned for it to be…

“Radio Free Wasteland” – Fallout 3

Fallout 3 eases you into its world particularly gently. Your initial exposure to its post-apocalyptic nuclear future is through the filter of a prologue within a sealed shelter,…

“Bard to the bone” – Fable II

When it comes to pivotal moments in British video game history, Populous is one of the more significant games overlooked by Super Chart Island (Robocop’s half-year run at…

“Toutius Sextius, do you know him?” – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

I had saved the town of Kvatch from falling completely to the demons of Doom-world (alright, ‘Oblivion’), but it wasn’t that simple. Death and damage had already been…

“The exercise will do us good” – Final Fantasy X-2

Square Enix, PlayStation 2, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 21 February 2004

I’d go anywhere – Pokémon Gold

Game Freak/Nintendo, Game Boy Color, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 7 April 2001

Not to forget our past, but to learn from it – Final Fantasy IX

Square, PlayStation, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 17 February 2001

It said so on TV – Pokémon Yellow

Game Freak/Nintendo, Game Boy, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 17 June 2000

I’ll be waiting – Final Fantasy VIII

Square, PlayStation, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 30 October 1999