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The Best of 2016: Top 10 RPGs
After the success of games like Divinity: Original Sin and Pillars of Eternity, old-school isometric style cRPGs seem to be making a comeback, in addition to newer RPGs with beautiful and atmospheric worlds, and stories that will leave you begging for more. Here’s our list of the 10 ten RPGs released this year, in the order they were released. 1. Grim Dawn Release Date: 25th February, 2016 Platforms: Windows PC Grim Dawn is an isometric action-RPG coming from the engine on which Titan Quest was developed. Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. It feautures complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence. The combat is fast and action...
The Latest Elder Scrolls Online Update Doesn’t Want To Let You Go
Recently, Bethesda released an update for their latest MMO, The Elder Scrolls Online. It adds some features and fixes, but might have an issue in itself. The 5 GB update allows you to play with your friends irrespective of what allegiance you belong to, but also came with a glitch in the game servers. Players have reported that they are unable to log out of the Elder Scrolls Online megaservers. When trying to log out, the timer will count down to zero, but nothing happens. Any attempt to cancel the timer and retry is futile as well. In the end, players need to completely shut down the game and then restart to log out or switch characters. Way to be clingy, ESO. Bethesda hasn’t responded to any of the complaints yet, and has provided no details regarding what is causing this glitch. T...
Jeremy Soule Says He Has No Involvement In Upcoming Skyrim Concert
A concert featuring the music from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was announced recently, about which the composer Jeremy Soule doesn’t seem to be too pleased. “Concert? What concert???” he said in a post on his official Facebook page. “Anyone that knows me also knows that I care passionately about the integrity of my music. Skyrim took years for me to compose and it was constructed very carefully. Today, I’m seeing reports of a concert of Skyrim. This is the first I’ve heard of it.” Known as Skyrim in Concert, the event was announced by UK music promoter Senbla who has partnered up with Elder Scrolls makers Bethesda. Soule, however, says that he was never asked to be involved. “For the record, this concert has nothing to do with me, nor are the...
The Elder Scrolls Online To Get PS 4 Pro 4K Support
At the Sony PlayStation 4 Pro announcement event in New York City, it was revealed that The Elder Scrolls Online will be one of the first games to support the new PlayStation 4 Pro at launch via free game update. When the PlayStation 4 Pro launches on 10th November 2016, The Elder Scrolls Online will be immediately playable in native 4K resolution, whether purchased new, or with existing game discs. Since the game was originally designed for a wide range of PC specifications, ZeniMax Online Studios was able to scale up the presentation alongside the scaled up power of the PlayStation 4 Pro. For players, this means that if you play The Elder Scrolls Online on the PlayStation 4 Pro with a 1080p HD television, you will experience increased graphical fidelity; if a player uses a 4K monitor, th...
Skyrim: Special Edition – $60 Too Much For A Remaster?
Remasters of old games have become commonplace, and overpricing issues with these remasters even more common. This time, Bethesda’s getting heat for putting a $60 price tag on The Elder Scrolls Skyrim: Special Edition. As you may know, Skyrim is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series and has been a favourite game for many gamers ever since its release. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and all three DLCs with remastered art and effects, volumetric god rays, dynamic depth of field, screen-space reflections, and more. Skyrim Special Edition also has support mod support for consoles, thus bringing new quests, environments, characters, dialogue, armor, weapons and more, which until now was only available on PC. Now, most of the people will definitely ...
Paid Mods Coming Back for Fallout 4?
So Bethesda is planning to bring in paid mods back for Fallout 4. While the basic idea of, as Bethesda put it, “supporting modders for their work” is rather complex and has numerous pros and cons, the Skyrim community did NOT like it. There were flame wars and unending revolt until Bethesda and Valve cancelled it. What the community took the most offence with was the break-up of the revenue from mod sales: Bethesda got a meaty 45% of the whole sale (on top of the sale from the base game, which came out in 2011 and is still selling like hot cakes), Valve kept 30% (their usual cut from all sales on Steam) and modders got a rather measly 25% from their mod. Mind, 25% is the standard cut of the sales on the Steam Workshop. In an interview with GameSpot, Bethesda’s Peter Hines...