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21) Fallout: New Vegas

You wish you could look this cool

Official E3 Trailer

Fallout New Vegas is the slightly less-known but no less excellent title to the fallout franchise. 

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic open-world in what would be California. The player assumes the role of a character named ‘Courier 6’. This character is as you would guess, a courier, that was supposed to take an unknown package across a desert to the New Vegas area. However, you are soon attacked and left for dead. Fortunately, you are saved by a doctor and start your journey to track down your murderer.

Fallout: New Vegas’ combat system features the cool V.A.T.S, or “Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System”. This allows the player to slow down time and target an enemy’s individual body parts before firing with accuracy. This makes for incredibly satisfying kills and is often accented with dashes of slow motion showing the damage done to the enemy.

Fallout New Vegas features a third person and also a first-person perspective. Both camera settings featuring a ‘fine aim’ or ‘aim down the sights’ action for that accurate sniping. 

Screenshot of a satisfying kill in Fallout New Vegas

One of the more unique features of Fallout New Vegas is the newly implemented weapon modification system, allowing the player to buy or scavenge goods and parts and create some pretty impressive weaponry.

22) Fallout 4

Official Fallout 4 cover

Official fallout 4 trailer

Bethesda might be dominating this list but it’s certainly for good reason. Their latest addition to the Fallout franchise took the world by storm. 

Fallout 4 takes place in the post-apocalyptic world of Boston. The game begins with you living at home with your wife/husband and your child Shaun. Suddenly there are multiple reports of nuclear detonations, and you rush your family into a vault to protect yourselves. However, you 3 are put into Cryo-sleep, when you wake up you can see your wife being killed and your baby being kidnapped. When you escape, it’s your mission to fight through the post-apocalyptic world to find your son.

Someone inside a suit of Power Armor

In Fallout 4, the year is 2287. You can make allies, enemies, collect such an incredibly large amount of items and endlessly search for fusion cores for your power armor. 

The gameplay could be described as similar to Skyrim, but in a post-apocalypse setting with lots of guns, radiation and strange creatures trying to kill you. It’s played in a first-person or 3rd-person perspective and is in a completely open world. The player’s experience is very open ended and they can do whatever they wish. 

They can even leave a conversation at any time, how rude. The game features a new layered Armor system, base/area construction and a new type of dynamic dialogue system of over 111,000 lines. Obviously, the crafting system remains intact, but here’s where the crafting gets interesting. The crafting element implements every single lootable object in the game. You can even make a gun that shoots junk and teddy bears!

Fallout 4 is actually the first game in the series that has a fully voiced protagonist. 

Fallout 4 Gameplay

23) Dragon Age: Origins

Dragon Age Origins cover

Dragon Age Cinematic

Set in the fantasy kingdom of Ferelden, take control of the Grey Warden character. A Grey Warden is part of an order of elite fighters. You are tasked with defeating the Archdemon in the form of a powerful dragon. The demon controls what is known as the Darkspawn which are invading the world.

Dragon Age: Origins is played in 3rd person, but it also features a top-down perspective. 

During your playthrough, you will find various companions, each with their own unique set of skills, they also play large roles in the game’s plot.

 

Please don’t eat me

Characters are allowed to create their own character and customize them fully. This includes race, gender, and class. There are Warriors, rogues, and mages. Then the races are Human, Dwarves, and Elves. Your choice of race and class will determine 1 of 6 game stories that the player experiences. 

You will encounter many enemies, monsters like giant spiders, dragons and even walking trees. Luckily the player can switch between characters in their party and can issue orders to them in real-time, putting some Real-time strategy elements into the game.

Dance formation, go!

Dragon Age Origins gameplay 

24) Dragon Age 2

Dragon age 2 cover art

Dragon Age 2 Trailer

Dragon Age 2 is set in the same world as the previously mentioned Dragon Age: Origins.

Dragon Age 2 has you playing the role of a character named Hawke, a human, and can choose their class, gender, appearance and can choose their given name. The combat specialities are similar to that of Dragon Age Origins; Warrior, Rogue, and a Mage.

 

Magic looks like fun, doesn’t it?

You start out in the city of Kirkwall as a lowly refugee who climbs the ranks and becomes a legendary champion. The Story begins with a former partner of Hawke, the ‘Champion of Kirkwall’ being brought in for interrogation. His interrogator is trying to figure out whether or not Hawke was responsible for starting a war between the mages and Templars.

Much like Dragon Age Origins, the player isn’t restricted to just playing as the main protagonist, and can switch between allies in their party. Each, of course with their own skills and assets.

Dragon Age 2 Gameplay

25) Dragon Age: Inquisition

The flashy cover of Dragon Age Inquisition

Dragon Age Inquisiton Trailer

The Dragon Age games are on this list for good reason, trust me. 

Like the other 2 games, in each one, the player takes the role of a different type of character. Dragon Age Origins gave you the Grey Warden, Dragon Age 2 gave you Hawke the Human, and Dragon Age: Inquisition gives you the role of a character called The Inquisitor. Of course, there is character customization, featuring different races and classes again.

As the inquisitor, you embark on a journey to repair the civil unrest currently present on the continent ‘Thedas’. Oh, you also have to find a way to close a gaping hole in the sky, called ‘the breach’. The Breach spews forth all manner of monstrous creatures and demons that wreak havoc upon the world. Come now, get to work.

The Inquisitor is known to some characters as ‘the chosen one’ due to the mark found on his hand, which power allows him or to close the breach. It’s your job to play the role of Inquisitor and close the Breach that is causing demons to enter our world.

Gameplay-wise, it’s quite similar to the previous Dragon Age games, if only more refined and with absolutely beautiful magical spells and gore effects. The player can go on side-quests, interact with NPCs and do the main story.

A cool feature of this game is that as the inquisitor, you can ‘judge’ people based on their actions and behaviors and decide their fate.

Ultra Graphics Gameplay

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