Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale trailer shows off its loot

Atari and Bedlam Games know what we really care about when it comes to fantasy action-RPGs: getting new stuff. The newest trailer for Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale shows off a lot of the game's stuff, which we anticipate we'll be able to use to fight more monsters, who will drop even more... (Continue Reading...)

East Is West: How Two Classic RPGs Prove the Stereotypes False

Filed under: Features, PC, RPGs
This is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity.
"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," - Rudyard Kipling

Conventional wisdom holds that role-playing games are easily divided into two categories: Japanese and Western, or, before the technical lines got blurred a decade ago, console and computer games. We can name the stereotypes easily. JRPGs are story-based, WRPGs are system-based. JRPGs are action-based, fast, and simple, whereas WRPGs are strategic, slow, and complex. JRPGs have bright, cartoonish graphics and catchy music, WRPGs have realistic graphics and darker music. JRPGs linear, WRPGs open. In JRPGs, your characters are given to you, in... (Continue Reading...)


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