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State of the Western RPG
Filed under: Features, PC, Retro, RPGs, MMO Greetings, readers, and welcome to Joystiq's new weekly column on western role-playing games! RPGs are usually my favorite games, and they have been for...
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A Diversity of Roguelikes
Filed under: PC, Retro, Adventure, RPGs, CasualThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. Once...
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Ultima: Most. Important. Game Series. Ever.
Filed under: PC, Retro, Adventure, First Person Shooters, Online, RPGsThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity,...
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The Rhythm Of The Quest in Fallout 3 and New Vegas
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, RPGs, RhythmThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their...
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Dark Side 'Cause It Looks Cool: The Failings of Moral Choice in Games
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Online, RPGs, MMOThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their...
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East Is West: How Two Classic RPGs Prove the Stereotypes False
Filed under: Features, PC, RPGsThis 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...
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Lighten up!: On thematic consistency in role-playing games
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGs, StrategyThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their...
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No Violence Necessary: The case for The Sims as a role-playing game
Filed under: Features, PC, RPGs, Simulations, CasualThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity....
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The year role-playing games broke
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Retro, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, RPGs, MMOThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their...
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Fallout: The first modern role-playing game
Filed under: Features, PC, Retro, RPGs, GDCThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. It...
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Diablo's Descendants
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Retro, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, RPGsThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their...
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(Don't) Give me that old time RPG combat
This is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. The Kickstarter success of Wasteland 2 may be one...
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What makes role-playing game combat good?
This is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. Last week's column on changes in role-playing...
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The delightful smoothness of classic Japanese role-playing games
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Features, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Retro, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGsThis week, Rowan Kaiser and Kat Bailey have switched roles -- with Rowan taking lead...
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The surprising accessibility of older RPGs
Filed under: Features, PC, Retro, RPGsThis is a weekly column focusing on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. One major...
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Why skills are in, attributes are out in modern role-playing games
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGsThis is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their...
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How Mass Effect 3's roleplaying roots empower the multiplayer
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Online, RPGsThis is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their...
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Freedom Force: Superhero role-playing done right
Filed under: Features, PC, Retro, RPGsThis is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their...
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The glory of Quest For Glory
Filed under: Features, PC, Retro, Adventure, RPGsThis is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics,...
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Game Of Thrones and the paradoxes of adaptation
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Retro, Microsoft Xbox 360, RPGsThis is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their...
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