RPG games are my favorite genre of games. Who doesn’t want to live a completely separate life from the one they do now and be a character that has badass abilities and talks to cool people?  In this blog post I will discuss some of my favorite RPG games and why they are my favorite.

First and foremost, I consider Elder Scrolls Skyrim to be my favorite RPG game. The game is about being a character who is the dragon born and has the ability to speak dragon, which comes off as powerful speaking magic to humans, known as thu’um. In this game you are able to do a wide range of quests and missions to make your character much better and stronger. But it is not the main story that makes Skyrim awesome, it is the amount of side quests that there are in the game. There is a whopping 500 hours of gameplay if you decide to take on every single quest, and that’s quite a lot considering many games that come out now are boasting about 40-50 hour gameplays. This game definitely made an impression on me when I first began playing RPG games. 

The next RPG I would like to discuss is Fallout. While Fallout is made by the same company as Skyrim, the gameplay elements have many key differences. For example, Skyrim focuses mostly on hand-to-hand combat or sharp weapons like axes and swords, but Fallout takes place far in the future and mostly features guns and explosives. This game is just as long, and feels like there is some tension in the world, which is exactly what I like in games. A sense of place in an RPG game is one of my favorite elements because it makes your actions significantly more important in the game.

Finally, on the topic of having a place in the world in RPG games, there is The Witcher. The Witcher is a game about a monster hunter for hire that experiences immense racism everywhere he goes for siding with the side that pays more. However Geralt of Rivia actually shows that he has his place in the world by solving many problems along his travels and killing bad monsters everywhere he goes. This game was also so beautiful that the player almost feels guilty using fast travel because they may miss out on the scenery around them. This game was one of the first games that i got so lost in that I forgot what day it was in the real world.

Overall, most RPG games are here to take you for a ride in someone else’s shoes and I’m excited to see what the next few years of RPG games hold. Considering the technology that is coming out soon with the PS5 and Xbox Series X is supposed to be much more powerful, I hope to see a lot more new concepts and ideas in the next generation of RPG games.