Мор. Утопия
- Жанр: симулятор выживания, RPG, экшен
- Разработчик: Ice-Pick Lodge
- Дата выхода: 9 июня 2005 года
- Платформы: ПК
Раз уж мы коснулись творений Ice-Pick Lodge, то поговорим и о классике — игре «Мор. Утопия». Она объединяет в себе столько жанров, что плохо поддается привычной классификации. В общих чертах это выживач с элементами текстовой RPG, приправленный щепоткой хоррора.
В вашем распоряжении три врача, истории которых проходятся поочередно, а также жизни и судьбы тысяч жителей мистического Города-на-Горхоне, куда нагрянула эпидемия смертельной болезни. У каждого из врачей — свой взгляд на ситуацию и способы лечения болезни.
Жуткая атмосфера, без преувеличений запутанный слоеный сюжет и саундтрек, который будет сниться вам по ночам, — все это делает «Мор» уникальным, штучным проектом, аналога которому никогда не существовало и не будет.
Griftlands
Griftlands — Reveal E3 2017 Trailer HD
Griftlands is an upcoming turn-based RPG set in a sci-fi world of privateers. The goal of this pirate sandbox is to build a reputation among your peers and make a fortune in the process.
I really liked Don’t Starve and this game is shaping up to be more of the same. If the Stick of Truth style combat in the trailer is any indication, this might be where I spend too much of my time.
Play in a never the same twice procedurally generated world. Capture instead of kill to earn better reputation and profit.
Forge partnerships: Someone’s got to watch you back out there.
Everything is negotiable: Even morality.
Looking further ahead
Cyberpunk 2077: I’m not confident that will release this year—2019 seems more likely, if not 2020—but at this stage I expect we’ll start finally hearing and seeing more about the digital adaptation of the tabletop Cyberpunk game. For now, here’s everything we know.
Unnamed CCP MMO: It’s been a tough few years for EVE Online-developer CCP. First it cancelled its ambitious vampire MMO, World of Darkness, and sold the White Wolf license, then it laid off a swath of staff, including its whole VR department. Yet somehow, «CCP is currently building a team in London to lead development on a new and highly ambitious MMORPG,» reads a job description from last year. EVE’s brilliance at hosting player-driven dramas, with all their wars and betrayals, easily makes anything new from CCP exciting, despite its recent troubles. I wouldn’t expect to hear much more about this MMO for a year or two, but we’ll be eyeing its progress closely.
Wasteland 3: 2019 should bring us , another party-based RPG from the series that preceded Fallout. For Wasteland 3, inXile promises «story-driven synchronous or asynchronous multiplayer» and a «newly-revamped dialog tree system» all set «in the savage lands of frozen Colorado.»
Unnamed Obsidian RPG: We know that Obsidian is working on a new RPG and that it has partnered with Take-Two’s Private Division on the project, though little else is known. Will it be revealed this year?
Dark Souls Remastered
Dark Souls Remastered Gameplay (PS4 Pro): Let’s Play Dark Souls Remastered
Dark Souls Remastered is a graphical and mechanical update to the original third-person action RPG. Cursed to continually resurrect upon death you must explore a violent realm to help end or preserve the Age of Fire.
Visual effects seem to be the biggest overhaul compared to the original. Everything generally looks less blurry as well. I’m not so sure about Steam but this game is a significant improvement on console.
Many gameplay bugs and glitches have been fixed from the original. Player count and PvP have been updated to closer match Dark Souls 3 quality.
Very few gameplay changes: The same old Dark Souls.
Very few changes at all: A minor graphical facelift.
Final Fantasy 15
Developer: Square Enix | Release date: Early 2018 | Link:
From what I’ve seen from the backseat of a PS4 playthrough, FF15 is about mild moping, long drives, unrestrained use of particle effects—in an action combat system, this time—and photojournalism. Like the rest of the numbered Final Fantasy games, it diverges from its predecessors in setting and style but swerves into common themes and archetypes: a throne, a Crystal, chaos, chocobo. It’s also beautiful on PS4, so I’m excited to see what PC players can do with custom camera tools and absurd resolutions, and I expect FF15 to feature heavily in next year’s screenshot compilation.
The PC version of Square Enix’s sword and machinery road trip will include some amount of mod support, an unexpected treat from a series that has a tumultuous history on PC, from the trapezoid-boxed Final Fantasy VII port I never finished because it crashed halfway through to the shambles that was Final Fantasy 14: Online before A Realm Reborn’s correction. Here’s hoping for a great port, and for someone to mod in Randy Savage. Final Fantasy 15 is due out .
Vampyr
Cry Plays: Vampyr
Vampyr is a third-person action RPG that takes place in London during the Spanish flu outbreak. You play as Jonathan Reid, a doctor struggling with a new-found lust for blood.
This game truly presents you with the option of choice that other games boast but never really get right. You can feed on others and become more powerful or maintain your cover as a doctor and get a special ending for not killing. Either path you chose will be accompanied with an unsettling soundtrack and atmosphere.
Save or destroy 4 highly detailed London districts. Feed on human blood and gain access to a number of active and passive vampiric powers.
Maintain your identity: Wouldn’t want to attract attention.
The future of London depends on you: Stay a man or become a monster.
Dauntless
The Hunt Begins | Let’s Play Dauntless Open Beta Ep 1 (Intro & Tutorial Gameplay)
Dauntless is a free-to-play action RPG in a fantasy world full of man-eating Behemoths. You play as a Slayer and it is your job to take down a wide variety of monsters and save humanity.
If you’re a Monster Hunter fan this game is made specifically for you. If you’re not a Monster Hunter fan you can’t beat the low low price of free to try it out.
Use pieces of slain Behemoths to Craft new weapons. There are 26 different Behemoths to hunt with more to come with the full release.
Fight solo: If you’re up for it.
Fight together: Coordinate with up to 4 other players.
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Let’s Play Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire Gameplay PC Walkthrough Part 2
Pillars of Eternity 2 is an isometric RPG on a series of islands in the world of Eora. As a Watcher you must use your ability to see and speak with souls to find out what the god of life and rebirth is up to.
Pillars of Eternity is one of the closest experiences you get to Dungeons and Dragons without pulling out your D20. The combat almost looks like Diablo but leaves you with much more time to strategize. Someone clearly put a lot of time in to this game.
Choices made and followers earned in the previous game can be carried over. Set sail in to a huge open world full of mystical beasts, pirates, and islands to explore.
Use strategy to overcome challenges: They give you a pause button so might as well use it.
Sail where ever you please: Watch out for random events along the way.
Code Vein
Code Vein Preview — Let’s Play
Code Vein is a third-person action RPG that takes place in a postapocalyptic future inhabited by ravenous ghouls called the Lost. You have been given the power to survive in this world at the costly price of your memory and humanity.
This game looks and plays better than its source material. The anime style also does great for setting it apart from the many others of its kind. It has all of the challenging combat of Dark Souls offers with all the charm of a JRPG.
Choose from a wide assortment of weapons from massive swords to long range rifles. Find over 7 AI companions with unique powers to team up or feed off of.
A little bit like a JRPG: Ridiculously oversized weapons.
A lot a bit like an anime: Ridiculously oversized everything.
The Surge 2
The Surge 2 — First Gameplay Footage
The Surge 2 is a third-person action RPG set in a dystopian future exhausted of natural resources. Slash your way through armies of robotic foes with the help of a cybernetic exoskeleton to find out how to save your dying world.
This is the case of another Dark Souls like game that does it better. This one allows you to target specific body parts to remove or disable. It also features finishing moves that slow down time for you to really take in that robo gore.
Fortify your exoskeleton with a plethora of modular upgrades. Major improvements to enemy AI provide a more challenging experience than the first installment.
Interesting theme: Explore the ruins of a slowly dying planet.
Tough combat: Fight bosses that make HAL 9000 look like a broken toaster.
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Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Developer: Obsidian | Release date: 2018 | Link:
I wish were out now—a long, singleplayer isometric RPG is an excellent way to pass these recently frigid nights. Sadly, there’s no release date beyond ‘2018,’ so for now I’ll just have to freeze while enthusing about the ideas Obsidian is putting out there. Pillars of Eternity was one of our favorite games of 2015, and I’m keen to see how Deadfire builds on it. What we know is that the story sets us on a hunt for a god among the islands of an archipelago. Looking down on Obsidian’s lavish towns, oceans, deserts, forests, and dungeons (with «vastly improved graphics,» says Obsidian), we’ll build parties whose «personal relationships and interactions unfold» with a new companion system, as well as sail around in an upgradeable ship. Plus there’s a cat. Check out our interview from March for more on what’s new in Deadfire.
Greedfall
I’m fond of Spiders—the developer, not the arachnids—because even though its previous RPGs have been clunky, buggy, and underdeveloped for their size, the undaunted ambition in each of its games is admirable. Spiders keeps striving to outdo the best of the best, your Dragon Ages and Witcher 3s, in its own way, and clearly with a far smaller budget. So despite The Technomancer and Bound by Flames being disappointing, I’m not counting Spiders out—I think it has a great RPG in it. , which is teased with an ‘imperial soldier v badass dryad-type’ trailer, is another opportunity to see what Spiders’ growing experience can do.
Greedfall
GreedFall — Reveal Teaser
Greedfall is the name of an upcoming fantasy action RPG set on an island paradise of Elves. Invading Colonial forces have discovered this island and you must choose a side in the coming war.
Instead of the usual middle ages fantasy, Greedfall is a 17th century fantasy complete with muzzle loaders and tri cornered hats. I’ll probably side with the guys who have the 50-foot moose though.
Choices you make through your story will inspire loyalty or betrayal in allies. Sneak, fight, or negotiate your way to success.
A hostile new world: The native wildlife might have a change plans for the colonists.
An inhabited new world: As well as the native population.
Серия Heroes of Might and Magic
- Жанр: пошаговая стратегия, RPG
- Разработчик: Nival
- Платформы: ПК, iOS, Android
Ну конечно же, не написать о «Героях Меча и Магии» было бы святотатством. Если вы не слышали об этой серии игр, то как оно там, на Луне? Первыми частями на пузатых ПК наслаждались еще мамонты, знающие назначение пейджера, а последние влюбили в себя и новое поколение игроков.
Фэнтезийная стратегия с элементами RPG в семи частях — классика современной игроиндустрии. Пошаговые исследования глобальной карты, сражения за города, ресурсы и артефакты, а также изучение магии — в «Героях» так много элементов и возможностей, что описать их одним абзацем просто нереально. Остается только запастись лишней сотней часов и изучить все самостоятельно.
Wasteland 3
Wasteland 3 — A Frosty Reception
Wasteland 3 is the same top down turn-based RPG as always now in a frozen postapocalyptic Colorado. You play as the last surviving member of a Desert Ranger team far from home.
Turn-based combat is one of my favorite styles but it’s very rare in western games. I am so excited to see another game with modern graphics that picks up where Interplay’s Fallout left off.
Now you can take on the wasteland with a friend in multiplayer. Manage a Ranger base to build a reputation across Colorado.
Survive the frozen wastes: Watch out for cannibal gangs.
New environments: Finally, a postapocalyptic game that doesn’t take place in an arid desert.
Vampyr
Developer: Dontnod | Release date: Spring 2018 | Link:
Originally a 2017 game, Vampyr was delayed late last year to spring of this year. It casts us as a vampire in 1918 London—and also a doctor who’s trying to cure the flu that’s wiping out the city. Quite a pickle. I’m excited to find out just how open Vampyr is. Apparently our thirst for blood can be quenched by stalking and feeding on anyone in the game, and civilians can even be turned. Other standard vampire lore plays into it as well, such as mind tricks and being unable to enter buildings unless invited. Fun stuff, and I like the inherent dilemma of being an oath-sworn doctor and, unless you take the hard route, a bloodthirsty murderer. Read Steven’s preview from last summer for more.
Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time
I love Little Witch Academia, which I never expected to be my cup of tea until the mood for something cute and uplifting struck me last year and it stepped in with aplomb: here, have a witch who sucks at magic, an anti-Potter (that annoying dweeb) who joins union picket lines and fights a missile. The game looks just the same, and I have high hopes for it—whether or not really succeeds as an RPG isn’t too important to me, so long as it succeeds in a Little Witch Academia story.
It comes with a pang of sadness, though, as the show’s screenwriter, , passed away late last year. I’ve been enjoying her work my whole life—may she rest in peace.