Here’s a list of the most recent pc role playing games, although purists would call a lot of these action titles rather than role play as such, they are all certainly classed as RPG in the generic sense of the word as it describes computer games.

Free, Downloadable RPG Games

Rappelz, Free downloadable MMORPG Game

Rappelz is an awesome downloadable MMO RPG, and what make it even better is that it’s 100% free! You can try it by downloading it here, and if it’s not your thing move on to something else. However be warned! Rappelz is addictive, so much so that hundreds of people have even made their own Rappelz fansites!

Fantasy PC RPG games published since 2005 or about to be released

Avatar : Ubisoft game based heavily on the James Cameron movie. Mostly action …very simple.

Evony: Age II

Divinity 2: Ego Draconis

Sequel to Beyond Divinity and Divine Divinity. Ride , fight or be a dragon in the world of Rivellon.

Dragon Age: Origins

To be released 2009 by Bioware,  play a Grey Warden and fight the blight.

Dungeon Hero

Set in a huge Dungeon made by goblins, this is a Dungeon like all other Rpg games should have.

Avernum 4, Avernum 5

Tile based adventure game. Huge.

Avernum 6

Aveyond, Aveyond 2, Aveyond 3: Lord of Twilight

Start as a street Urchin, watch out for vampires!

Avencast: Rise of the Mage

Beautiful game with incredibly original monsters like demon maggots.

Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One and Two

Rise of the Argonauts

Based on Jason and the Golden Fleece, set in a time of heroes and gods. Soon to be released

Neverwinter Nights 2 , Mask of the Betrayer, Storm of Zehir

Based on PnP D&D 3.5, this is the ultimate Rpg Game. Many races and classes.

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel

Cartoon style fantasy with awesome detailed world and great races to play.

Space Siege

Blast your way through hordes of space monsters.

Laxius Force

Simple tile based adventure game along classic lines.

Two Worlds: The Temptation

Rehash of standard RPG, beautiful world, nice character options, dull monsters.

Lightning Warrior Raidy

Soft porn RPG, nude girls to be ‘rescued’ (sex)  and naked warriors fought against. Cartoon.

RPG Tsukuru VX

Eschalon: Book I

Nice turn based tile adventure Rpg game along lines of old classics.

The Lord of the Rings: The White Council

Drakensang: The Dark Eye

Very nice medieval classic fantasy adventure RPG. Sticks to the basics, does them well.

Castle

Talisman

Project that never materialised.

The Witcher

Voted best game 2008 by IGN. Polish awesome! Nasty Vampiric monsters. Great single-player only story.

Hard to be a God

Late medieval intelligence officer for an Emperor.

Dawn of Magic

OTT Russian made game, bright colourful and surely weird. Play mage apprentices.

Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East

Cartoony WOW styled action RPG with knights on horses etc.

Call for Heroes: Pompolic Wars

Fight Demon Hordes from another dimension in high heeled Boots.

The Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, Oblivion,

Elveon

release of Elveon won’t be until the second quarter of 2009

Silverfall

Silverfall is an action RPG with a stress on tactical fighting

Geneforge 4: Rebellion

Shareware game where you play Rebels against the Shaper army.

Jade Empire: Special Edition

Martial arts action-rpg from Bioware.

The Fifth Disciple

Interesting adventure fantasy from Czech Republic

Gothic III

Mediaeval plus dinosaurs, awesome realistic ramshackle buildings.

Age of Pirates

Rpg using the STORM Engine 2.5, play either Blaze or Beatrice Sharp and pirate in the Caribbean.

Two Worlds

Nwn and WOW mix of fantasy Rpg.

Dungeon Siege II: Broken World

Expansion pack, classic fantasy action/Rpg, destroy the Dark Wizard and his mages.

Neverwinter Nights Character

NeverEnd

Players assume the role of Agavaen, an ancient fairy with magical powers.

DragonFable

DragonFable is a fabulous free browser-based flash 2d animated fantasy RPG.

SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars

WOW type dragons and titans RTS/RPG mix of fantasy. Control heroes and armies.

Seal of Evil

Set in the twilight years of the Warring States period of Chinese history (476 – 206 BC)

Unique graphics engine blends 2d and 3d for fast play

Barnyard

Playstation 2 game, but i just had to include it

Khan: The Absolute Power

Mage Knight Apocalypse

Fantasy Sci-fi mix along lines of Warhammer

Fable: The Lost Chapters

Play orphaned boy in Albion. Top selling game with Monty Python sense humour.

RPG Maker XP

Fun simple tool for building your own tile based adventures.

Dungeon Siege II

Classic fantasy action/Rpg, destroy the Dark Wizard and his mages.

Sacred Gold

Popular but silly Diablo clone.

Sacred: Underworld

Fate

Blood Magic

Kult: Heretic Kingdoms

Battle Mages: Sign Of Darkness

Sci-fi PC RPG games released since 2003

Alpha Protocol

Fallout 3

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 2 – Kasumi – Stolen Memory

Din’s Curse

Dragon Age: Origins Awakening

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

Hellgate: London

Star Wolves , Star Wolves 2

Disney’s Meet the Robinsons

Space Hack

X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

Neuro Hunter

Metalheart: Replicants Rampage

Restricted Area

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic , Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II

COPS 2170: The Power of Law

Deus Ex 2: Invisible War

Duality

Paradise Cracked

Massively Multi-player PC RPG games released since 2006

Supreme Destiny – India

Guild Wars 2

DC Universe Online

Champions Online

The Chronicles of Spellborn

The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria, Shadows of Angmar

EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction, Prophecy of Ro

Everquest II: The Shadow Odyssey, Rise of Kunark, Echoes of Faydwer, Kingdom of Sky, Sentinals fate

Wonderking

Spirit Hearted Deluxe

Divinity II: Ego Draconis

World of WarCraft: Wrath of The Lich King, The Burning Crusade

LEGO Universe

Star Trek Online

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

La Tale Online

WindSlayer

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Aion: The Tower of Eternity

Saga

CABAL Online

The Agency

Mabinogi

Pirates of the Burning Sea

Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus

Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess, Treasures of Aht Urhgan

Fiesta

Shenmue Online

Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Fury

MechQuest

NosTale

Guild Wars: Eye of the North

Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn

Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds

Lunia: Record of Lunia war

Metin2

Sword of the New World: Granado Espada

Wakfu

Dungeon Runners

9 Dragons

Titan Quest: Immortal Throne

Corum Online

Rappelz

All Points Bulletin

Ghost Online

Voyage Century

Last Chaos

Stargate Worlds

Guild Wars: Nightfall

Phantasy Star Universe

Infinity Online

Trickster Online

Imperator

Archlord

Hero Online

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Titan Quest

Space Cowboy

The Legend of Ares

Eudemons Online

EVE Online: Revelations, The Path to Kali

One of the best er online game expeirences

Guild Wars: Factions

Goonzu Online

Station Access Collection

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach

Crude approximation of the classic PnP D&D role playing game.

RF Online

Ragnarok Online 2

A game aimed at a younger teenager with cartoony ‘toons’. …

“After the long and gruesome war between God, Humans, and Demons…
Scarred during the dangerous moments in battle, and avoiding total destruction altogether, the Humans, God and Demons entered a long truce….”

Tabula Rasa

Well I hope we haven’t left any important games off this list of pc role playing games, and we will keep updating it as new games are released. Please send us any reviews of the above games to help us correct any oversights.

More on this soon….

In years to come Avatar will be remebered as the ‘Star Wars’ of this decade, revolutionising the film industy…but the pc game or RPG, weather online game MMORPG or whatever…this Avatar game will not be rembered at all. If I was James Cameron planning my two sequels.. I would get a new game company, or at least insist upon some original thinkers at the game company being brought onboard to develop and revolutionise what a RPG game can really be about. Head hunting the likes of film set and game play designer Philip Thomas from Weta Digital, best known for his work on the Matrix sequels and ‘The Lord of the Rings’,  might inspire some groundbreaking development in both console and pc games.

Anyway… as for roleplaying a Hobbit. If you wish to try your hand their is of course LoTRO (Lord of the Rings online), but for something differnt try RoME, The Return of Middle Earth, a persistant world for the gam Neverwinter Nights Storm of Zehir. Here you can even play a corrupted evil hobbit race known as Angmaran hobbits, which are Gollum like. The game is set far in the future in the sixth age, well after the reign of Aragorn, this is good because it means whilst you are in Middle Earth.. you are not polluting your view of the world as found in the books. As a role playing PC game this is one of the best.

Hobbits or ‘halflings’ as they are sometimes known are always great because they are sneaky and small and very full of personality. Tell us about your favourite hobbits!

Each class has specific strengths, weaknesses and special abilities which will help you on your role playing quests within the Diablo 3 world. We expect more classes to be announced but here is a brief overview of what we know so far.

The Barbarian

The Barbarian is the staunchest, toughest class available in Diablo 3, absorbing melee damage like a punching bag, he takes a pounding again and again and still gets up for more! The Barbarian can wield two weapons at once which is a tradition established in Diablo 1 & 2. Blizzard refers to the Barbarians as ” immense, relentless, dual-wielding furies of combat”.

The Barbarian’s Special Abilities

The Barbarian has some awesome moves, some new and some old. They include:

1. The Cleave
2. Ground Storm
3. Leap
4. Seismic Slam
5. Whirlwind

We’ll have more on the Barbarian for you soon.

The Wizard

In the early stages of role playing the Wizard can be one of the weaker classes, a little soft and squishy, but as you level her up, her abilities increase and she becomes one of the most powerful and awe inspiring classes available. She wields ice, fire and electricity to dispense her foe.

The Wizard’s Special Abilities

The has some really amazing tricks up her sleeve – used with a little thought they can get you and your fellow rpg gamers out of a tight spot!

1. Disintegrate
2. Electrocute
3. Teleport
4. Magic Missile
5. Slow Time

We’ll keep you updated with more news on the Diablo 3 Wizard class as it comes to hand.

The Witch Doctor

The Witch Doctor is a new class to Diablo 3 and looks to be a stunning combination of magic and spiritual powers. He can summon undead creatures to fight for him but also utilizes swarms of insects and mind control powers to dispatch his enemy.

The Witch Doctor’s Special Abilities

1. Firebomb
2. Horrify
3. Locust Swarm
4. Mass Confusion
5. Soul Harvest

I have to say “”Soul Harvest” sounds liek the freakiest and most macabre ability I’ve come across in a long while! I look forward to trying this one out on the evil beasties

We’ll bring you more news on the With Doctor and other Diablo 3 classes as it becomes available. Stay tuned.

How about some variety, calling all serious role players, what of the stoic venerable statesman dwarf like Thorin Oakenshield, or the meak mocked by more martial dwarves inventor artificer dwarf? The old veteran who disapproves of the young blood who have no sense of decorum, who wouldn’t be seen dead running anywhere – what of dignity and auctoritas?

If you play Neverwinter Nights I highly recommend roleplaying a dwarf who is hugely fat, always comments on being hungry, has an Obelisk type attitude to food, and as a result has maximum constitution. Tip: if you maximize constitution and get the toughness feat then the damage you can take is almost better than high armor class (AC). Sure you need a good stack of potions because your fight style is to take the hits, but this is a roleplay opportunity where potions of ‘heal’ become ‘munches down another beef sandwich’, a dwarf who wouldn’t waste his breath to comment on elves, and who NEVER says ‘bah’.

]]> http://roleplayingpcgames.info/dwarf-maligned/feed/ 3 http://roleplayingpcgames.info/dark-elves-rule/ http://roleplayingpcgames.info/dark-elves-rule/#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:46:02 +0000 GameLover http://roleplayingpcgames.info/?p=131 I have played many Role Play games over two decades and I have to say of all the races I have played, the Dark Elf is a real favorite. I started playing the old and mysterious PnP rule set ‘Chivalry and Sorcery‘ a game which still holds a magical power over me. There were not even Dark Elves as an option but the Dungeon Master let me make one up anyhow, a character whose elvish name I forget but who went by the common tongue translation ‘Windfallen‘.

Nowadays the Dark Elf has become synonymous with evil and the Underdark. In Neverwinter Nights, where these Elves are known as Drow, and in many other role playing games the Dark Elf lives underground and has penalties applied in game when in daylight. While this makes them formidable foes who have a revulsion for weaker races like the humans I still miss the Tolkien type of ‘dark’ Elf upon which my early character was based upon. In Middle Earth lore, the dark Elf describes those lesser Elves who never traveled to the lands of the Gods, the races of Elves who preferred the light of the stars to that of the moon or sun. They hid away from men remaining in the woods and vales, were secretive and of the ‘dark’ unlike their brethren, but were not evil. They contrasted rather with the ‘high’ Elves whom followed the ways of light, learning, trade, civilization and empire building.

In this vein Windfallen who formed my first experiences of role playing was a grey-green clad master-ranger of the deep forests, expert with his yew longbow, a worshiper in an almost pagan or native American Indian way of Stag’s and Eagles, and had a reputation for stalking and murdering those who preyed on the forest creatures. Defender of the forest creatures to other ‘dark’ Elves, murderous waif to the humans who lived at the forests edges. I totally recommend playing a good/neutral alignment Dark Elf in any role playing PC game, focusing on detesting ‘weaker’ Elves for their soft habits and human-like behaviors, playing a superior aloof Elf of ascetic habits who looks down upon the Light or High Elves. this makes a fun variance to the definition of Dark Elf.

Neverwinter Nights was published by Bioware but the current version Neverwinter Nights II is an Obsidian product. The game now has had two expansion packs released, ‘Mask of the Betrayer’ during 2007 and in November 2008 ‘Storm of Zehir’. Overall this is a very engaging and addictive game with a fascinating storyline.

The rule set is based on Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 so that players create a character race from the following list; Dwarf, Elf, Human, Halfling, Planetouched, Gnome, Half-Elf, Half-Orc and within each of these there a sub-races such as Drow a kind of dark elf. After choosing a race players then elect what class or classes their character will be such as Bard, Barbarian, Wizard, Sorcerer, Rogue and so on. As the play the game and gain higher levels ‘Prestige’ classes become available such as Eldritch Knight, Pale Master or Weapon Master. The classes determine what skills and abilities you character can develop but also what strengths and weaknesses physically. A wizard for example will not be able to suffer much physical injury or ‘hit points’ before death, whereas a fighter is much more resilient. On the other hand a fighter will not resist spells cast on him as easily as a mage. Skills available include learning spells, how to craft and make magic items, picking locks or pockets, survival and tracking in the wilderness.

Having made your character you start the game and set off exploring the game world, killing monsters, completing quests and gathering items and treasure – all the time gaining experience and getting new and more powerful skills and spells. The adventure story that comes with the game is a pick a path type adventure where you meet characters that can be interacted with but depending on your characters morals an attitudes you may have a different outcome to another player. This adventure game can be played multi-player on a network, in which case you and your friends form a party and travel together to complete the story as a team.

The game can also be used to join free MMORPG worlds. There is a large community of creators who make persistent worlds using the tool-set which are online 24 hours a day. Some of these emphasize play style which is action based and others require a commitment to role playing and staying in character. One of the longest standing, popular and largest of these is Forgotten Realms, but other beautifully constructed worlds are Shores of Haldun and Return of Middle Earth II. There are many others too which make great choices as role playing PC games.