Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...

Elden Ring has widely been accepted as one of the best games ever made, yet director Hidetaka Miyazaki is apparently still searching for his "ideal fantasy RPG." While talking about old TTRPGs from ...

To deliver a strong epic story and keep the players invested for hundreds of hours (a common runtime for the genre), fantasy RPGs first need equally great worlds as their foundations, ones that blur ...

Katsura Hashino talks about moving away from real-world settings with Metaphor: ReFantazio. Katsura Hashino talks about moving away from real-world settings with Metaphor: ReFantazio. is an ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

I think it is fair to say that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrimhas held an ironclad grip over the first-person fantasy RPG genre for quite some time, and rightfully so. It may seem like a bit of a niche ...

Despite RPGs being ostensibly about inhabiting a particular role, one core requirement is that you'll continually grow in strength. It doesn't matter if you're playing Dragon Age Origins, Baldur's ...

RPG Larian's main focus for Divinity is 'to see how far we can push the diversity of companions' so intra-NPC relationships can feel more natural and complex RPG I'm the biggest Baldur's Gate 3 fan, ...

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