And sometimes, those little stops along the way make the journey all the more memorable.
The reason an RPG takes thousands of hours to finish.
More memorable, at times, than the reason you’re out on a quest in the first place.
8Fable
The Fable games have always stood out for their distinctly British style.
It is more tongue-in-cheek, less serious, and pulls quite casually from genuine folklore.
And while their main stories have never exactly been ground-breaking, they have been nice experiences all the same.
Except where Fable really excels is in the life sim elements.
Changing your look, settling down with your family, doing odd jobs.
To join an evil cult you have to eat baby chicks.
Help people seal up evil books, re-enact the events of Frankenstein.
Average day in the life of a hero.
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In a way, everything is the main story, and nothing is.
All of that is met in the side quests, the little stories you experience along the way.
It makesthe journey from place to placememorable and well worth the hassle it invites.
Maybe bits and pieces, but almost always in broad strokes.
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Trapped in the prisons of Markarth, helping vampire cults, hearing the requests of Daedric Princes.
Self-contained little stories that let you see just how much this world exists beyond the exploits of the Dragonborn.
You will enter homes and see the lives of their denizens, warped by the spell over the city.
Corrupt landlords, broken relationships, issues of hoarding, unpaid rent.
The way yokai and spirits intermingle with reality.
This is not to call them weak, but that they rely on tried-and-true methods here.
This is where the Witcher 3 truly excels.
It holds no extra baggage of previous entries and book knowledge.
It pulls from real folklore, lets Geralt show where his own expertise lies.
That’s what The Witcher is all about.
1Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xenoblade Chronicles X is the odd one out from the series in many regards.
In exchange, it has some of the most thematically-consistent quests in the series.
It is the Xenoblade game that most directly deals with xenophobia.
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