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30 Best Action RPGs of All Time [2021 Edition]

Ravi Sinha — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 07:02:06 +0000

Ever since the release of Dragon Slayer in 1984, the action RPG genre has grown by leaps and bounds throughout the decades. Various sub-genres and franchises have been born, each presenting their own compelling combat loops and gameplay systems. Let’s take a look at 30 of the best action RPGs of all time.

Dark Souls Remastered

More than a decade after its original release, it’s still impressive how much Dark Souls has influenced gaming. Dark Souls Remastered is a fairly straightforward enhanced edition, providing a 60 FPS frame rate, higher resolutions, and improved lighting and alpha effects among other minor improvements. But the core of the title, from the excellent pacing and pitch-perfect design, the madness of levels like Sen’s Fortress and Blighttown, and the wonder upon finding Anor Londo remain to this day, as does the solid combat and boss design.

14 Jump Scares In Games That Were False Alarms

Ravi Sinha — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:27:01 +0000

Scaring people is a lot harder than you think especially if it’s a movie or game. You can’t just have some blood and guts and call it a day. That’s why so many games employ both jump scares and, get this, jump scares that aren’t actually life-threatening. It’s novel, breaks up the flow and creates tension over whether the next scare is legit or just a prank. Let’s take a look at 14 games that have such jump scares when really, they’re just playing around.

Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion

Come on – it’s literally the name of the game. You traverse from room to room, waiting for the inevitable jump scare. Most of them are pretty harmless though, consisting of cut-outs of bread and other lame thing. Of course, you eventually encounter the sinister notes…and then the monsters. And suddenly things aren’t so lame.

15 Most Underrated Role Playing Games

Ravi Sinha — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:29:47 +0000

Amid all the big-budget RPGs, loot shooters and free to play titles of our time, there are a number of role-playing games which have faded into history. Many are still excellent to this day or enjoy a small but passionate group of fans. Let’s take at 15 of those underrated RPGs here and what makes them worth playing.

Shadow Hearts: From the New World

Imagine an alternate reality Prohibition era America with ninjas, talking cats, vampires and of course, demons. That’s Shadow Hearts: From the New World in a nutshell as players assume the role of teenage PI Johnny Garland. The game starts in a fixed path but quickly expands after a job that Johnny takes quickly goes off the rails. With a combat system dependent on timed button presses and combos, strange plot twists and an endearing cast of oddities, From the New World is perhaps the strangest and yet most endearing PS2 RPG of its time.