Obsidian asked the Internet: would you like it if we ignored all that 3D action nonsense and just used a modern engine to make a retro-style RPG in the style of Icewind Dale and BaldurвЂ™s Gate? The Internet said, yes please and here is a (then record-breaking) $4 million to do it with. If youвЂ™re just gagging for an unapologetically old school CRPG, but running at a resolution that doesnвЂ™t make your modern monitor produce small sounds of disgust and distress, Pillars of Eternity is for you. If you're into real ale, Kingdom Come: Deliverance will totally be your jam. There are so many good ideas here, and although the AI and environments can be janky in the extreme - probably owing to the fact that CryEngine was built for FPS games - it presents a potential for medieval roleplay thatвЂ™s second-to-none. The first-person physics-based combat is exciting, innovative, and maddening in equal measure a theme that permeates almost every part of Kingdom Come. In practice though, it starts to creak under the weight of its own ambition. Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a great premise: a вЂњdungeons without dragonsвЂќ historical representation of 15th century Bohemia built in the beautiful CryEngine and packed with deep RPG systems. The game was released 20 years ago, and yet it still manages to make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And finally being granted access to Flammie the dragon? Seeing him fly above a ground rendered in 3D? Being able to ride him? Forget about it. With a banner real-time battle system, jaw dropping graphics, and a stellar soundtrack, for some of us, it is one of the greatest games ever.Д®ven though the menu system was overly frustrating at first, and the story was very Japanese for some, it was unique with fun co-op and super smart AI for its time. Never had we blown so hard on a worn out SNES cartridge, just to get you working again. When the dust settled, the blood had been mopped, and everyone had apologised to their fellows, we shook hands and agreed that we'd mined a deep vein of precious truth, the ore that powers our rampaging video game justice machine. Half of us are still not speaking to the other. We had enough squabbling in the staff meeting, and as for the secret edit wars. Nobody is allowed to argue with our list of the 50 best RPGs of all time. There are a few new entries since we last went through, even some from this year. We count down the 50 best role-playing games ever made. Pick your character class, choose your weapons and recruit your comrades.

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