Posted on: January 8, 2019
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Most unique & immersive RPG
It is old. It has flaws. It lacks instant gratification and many quality-of-life features of "modern" RPGs. But I think there is one thing that sets this game apart from any modern AAA-RPGs released over the last two decades: the people who made this game poured their heart and soul into it to create a unique, meaningful, fun and lasting experience for the players. It was not designed with profit maximization in mind. None of it's parts are very special, by today's standards at least. Graphics are indeed retro at best, especially the 3D parts (exploration is mostly 2D, dungeons are 3D). Character development is superficial apart from stats-boosts gained at level up and combat ability points earned via trainers in exchange for money. Music and sound effects lack the bombast of the genre's modern contemporaries, and the combat is very standard round-based RPG stuff. Suprisingly, combined they make for the most beautiful, well-sounding, unique and immersive RPG experience I ever had the pleasure to play through. The premise: You are a shuttle pilot on board of a colossal spaceship sent to a remote, unexplored world by a megacorp in order to strip said world of its resources. Upon getting near your destination you and a scientist are sent ahead to scout the situation on-site. Something goes wrong, and... the plot that unfolds is hundred times deeper than modern standard cookie-cutter RPG garbage. It is mostly not predictable, unique and full of surprises. To this day I re-play Albion every year for 17 years straight. Need I say more? It's a true gem. With any kind of marketing or adivertisement (which it lacked completly) it would have been an all-time classic.
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