What makes this game..well for a start I really like the textures used on creatures. And the armours available to players. The designers have still struggled with dwarf armour particularly around the legs… which contributes to undermining the martial prowess of the dwarf. In my opinion all rpg games continue to give dwarves to long a torso and legs that are too short.

The architecture is a complete let down, poor understanding of how building elements go together erodes the believability at a subconcious level. But this is not just Dragon Age, its the low standard set by most game engines, and the Developers who employ them. I struggle with similar issues working in the digital film industry where the directors and bean counters undervalue the perfection in the environment that would truly elevate the average world.

Even so as a one of rainy weekend intense and bloody adventure the game is amazing a deserves all the awards it got.

At an interface gameplay flavour level Dragon Age appears to me as an attempt to bridge between a more serious game like Neverwinter Nights and a World of Warcraft audience. Purists I suspect will prefer the former whilst gamers sick of the cartoony nature of the later might be enticed by Dragon Age, but alas apart from the ontime adventure as you go through the story there is no massively multiplayer online game component to this.

As a last not: if you love dragons, you MUST play this game… check this out:

Fight Free Dragons in Game

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.

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.

Sundren a NWN multiplayer free game

Servers which host Mulitplayer Persistent Game Worlds typically divide each world into genres to help prospective players choose their game, genres are usually things like ‘Action’, ‘Role Play’, ‘PvP’, ‘Story’, ‘Social’, ‘Melee’, ‘Team’, ‘Arena’ and so on. This indicates the primary interest of the creators and the intention for the online game, PvP for example is a world where the intention is for players to take direct combat action against each other i.e. player versus player (PvP).These worlds really come alive though with the participation of DM’s or Dungeon Masters, the creators of the game world and experts in its myths and laws. These players create unique story lines and quests, award experience and gold to creative players.

Three excellent examples of  Mmorpg persistent RPG worlds designed for Neverwinter Nights are:

Forgotten Realms

This is the largest and most popular game world and is a mix of action and role playing, a vast world with great dungeons and good DM presence. If a vote was held amongst NWN2 players it is certain this place would be voted the best free online PC game.

Shores of Haldun

This is a beautifully drawn and detailed world specialising in exciting quests and thoruroughy worked out geography. The story line is unique and the Dm’s talented, many fun times have been had here.

RoME – The Return of Middle Earth

This server sets out to recreate aspects of Tolkiens Middle Earth many years after the end of The Lord of the Rings story. Extensive quests and a large world with great NPC AI to keep you on your toes. Completely different in feel and appearance to Lord of the Rings Online, which specialises in Middle Earth, and yet the creators of this persistant online game must have put hundreds of ours into this environment all to give you … remarkably… a free… place to play for as long as you wish.

Increase Your Army Cheat

Entry Location:
while in the playing screen good/evil

Type in the words “the army”

You will receive 500,000 command points! Now make an army general!

Resource Cheat

Entry Location:
Pause menu

At pause menu type “gold“. You will receive 700 resources.

Easy come, easy go

Eventually this page will list cheats for all your favourite rpg pc games.

Who needs to cheat?