A Skyrim player leveled up to "level" 30 simultaneously in the game and in real life – but still never got to the main quest
The main quest in a big RPG is usually considered the backbone of the game, but that rule doesn't apply to Skyrim. There, the core storyline has turned into an optional formality players can put...
A Skyrim player radically solved the overload problem – he transports extra items in a cart inside an enemy's corpse
Overloaded inventory is one of the oldest and most hated mechanics in role-playing games. Sooner or later every player ends up standing over a pile of loot, agonizing over what to drop. But sometimes, instead...
A Skyrim player shared a clip of a Riften guard flying out of a tavern at cannonball speed
Physics in Bethesda games has followed its own rules for almost a decade and a half, and players have seen pretty much everything by now. Giants send heroes into orbit, baskets turn into invisible helmets,...
Dragon Age: Origins co-director called the shadow missions "not very high quality content" and regretted not cutting them from the game
If you took a survey of every Dragon Age: Origins player ever, I'd imagine most of them wouldn't have the most positive impression of the game's Fade sequence, which whisks you off to a bizarre...
Skyrim fans hope that in The Elder Scrolls 6 you'll be able to find the grave of the last Dragonborn
Any Bethesda hero eventually turns into a line in a history book that the next nameless protagonist skims between two dungeon crawls. But sometimes you want something more grounded – like a stone gravestone, for...
New Fallout 4 player at level 37 couldn't find a suitable target for the Fat Man and asked other gamers for advice
Any RPG inventory eventually turns into a museum of items that never get used. Elixirs, scrolls, rare ammo just sit there gathering dust until the credits roll, and Fallout 4 takes this to an absurd...
Control Resonant in 4K without ray tracing and upscaling can only be handled by the RTX 5090 – but with DLSS 4.5 you can play with path tracing even on the RTX 5080
DSOGaming continues testing new video game releases. This time, they turned their attention to the action-adventure game Control Resonant. For the benchmarks, they used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM at...
A Fallout 4 player noticed the Children of Atom symbol on Vault 81's Tina's forehead and came up with a whole backstory before finding out it was just a bug
A tenth playthrough of the same game works like a magnifying glass: the story gets memorized by heart, dialogue gets skipped on reflex, but the eye suddenly latches onto some tiny detail that got ignored...
Skyrim player realized he was an idiot when he enchanted a helmet with water breathing while playing as an Argonian
Long RPG sessions put the brain on autopilot – hands craft, enchant, and sort loot faster than the mind can ask "why." Usually that ends with three hundred spare arrows lying around. Sometimes, though, it...
A Fallout 4 player stumbled upon three legendary Deathclaws at once and survived only thanks to power armor and a river
Power armor in Fallout 4 gets sold to players as a walking tank, the kind of gear that makes regular combat armor feel like a pile of rags. That reputation holds up right until three...
Ten years later, Fallout 4 players noticed they'd been picking safes without keyholes with bobby pins the whole time
There's a special kind of discovery that happens on the thousandth hour in a familiar game. Not a secret location or a hidden dialogue option, but the sudden realization that a mechanic you've been using...
A Starfield fan showcased his 20 best screenshots taken over three years of playing the game
Photo mode has long stopped being a side feature and turned into its own discipline, where patience matters more than texture resolution. Add a level editor and a willingness to put up with ten frames...
Skyrim fans shared the locations where they retire their Dovahkins
Big RPGs have an annoying quirk: they never really end. You kill the main villain, the world cheerfully announces it's been saved, and then invites you to keep collecting butterflies – so you're left to...
Fallout 4 fan showed how to turn a supermarket shopping cart into an equivalent of power armor using Bethesda's famous game physics
Power armor in Fallout 4 is presented as the pinnacle of pre-war engineering – nuclear cores, servomotors, a dedicated entry animation. But the most reliable shield in the Commonwealth turns out to be a rusty...
New patch for The Blood of Dawnwalker removed that infamous red pipe and stopped dead people from talking to Coen
Rebel Wolves, the studio founded by CD Projekt RED veterans who worked on The Witcher 3, keeps supporting its vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker with post-launch updates. The game only came out a few...
Gamer spent three hours in Skyrim's tutorial dungeon to grind hapless Ralof up to level 81
Any RPG with a leveling system eventually runs into a player who finds more joy in breaking the mechanics than following the story. And when the system can be broken without even leaving the tutorial...
Fallout 4 fans recalled the best companion interactions – Strong and Hancock, and Danse and Valentine are the most memorable
Companions in Fallout 4 usually exist for two reasons: carrying loot and soaking up bullets meant for the hero. But what actually sticks in people's memory isn't their combat stats – it's the moment a...
A Fallout 4 fan noticed that Desdemona from the Railroad crosses out the player's name from the list of living agents immediately after teleporting into the Institute
Usually a hero dies in an RPG behind a loading screen, and the world around them never even notices. Much creepier is the other version, where you're alive, well, and locked inside a suit of...
Skyrim fans continue to argue about which playstyle is more effective and spectacular – the stealth archer or the sneaky throat-slitter
Fifteen years after release, Skyrim players are still finding ways to work around the combat system in ways Bethesda probably never intended. The "stealth archer" meme has long been a series trademark, but more and...
Skyrim player pulled dragon armor from a chest at level 24 and was surprised to learn how the Anniversary Edition broke progression
Any RPG runs on a simple rule – first you fight in rags and rusty scraps, and only later do you earn the right to wear something legendary. That formula breaks instantly the moment a...
