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Rogue Galaxy is a great "final PS2 RPG"

The folks who made Dark Cloud, Dark Cloud 2: Electric Boogaloo and Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King have released their latest – and last – PS2 masterpiece. Developer Level-5′s Rogue Galaxy is being billed as the last great PS2 RPG, and it lives up to that billing.

While the game isn’t a next-gen, open world masterpiece like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, that allowed you to do everything from becoming a vampire to taking up a job doing presentation folder printing, Rogue Galaxy does its best to offer a game that pushes the boundaries of previous-gen gaming.

The graphics and soundwork are solid, the game is over 100 hours long, and the writing is witty and light-hearted without losing an element of heart. Anyone who has owned the PS2 and loved it for its wealth of RPGs need to get this one. It’s a great capper to a great run on a great platform.

I just hope PS3 will do as well. Level-5 is working on their first PS3 title, White Knight Story, though… so the signs are promising!

Oblivion fans will shiver at this!

Despite boasting up to what some estimate to be 500 hours of game playing time to complete, the makers of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have decided it’s not enough… thank goodness! 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks today finally made the official announcement that they will release, this spring, the first full-fledged and official expansion to the game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles.

The expansion will open up a new area on the map to explore, offering a 40+ hour main quest and possibly at least another 100 or more hours of total gaming time. There were also new screens released from the expansion.

While adding content to this ground-breaking RPG may not make the list of anyone’s ideal first communion gifts, for series fans, it’s pretty spiffy.

Oblivion gets first-ever GOTY honors at DigNews.com

I’m happy to say I was part of the decision-making in naming 2K Games and Bethesda Softworks’ Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as DigNews.com’s first-ever Game of the Year winner. Our site’s never named a game of the year before, and there’s no guarantee we will again, but Oblivion is a game that’s made a huge next-gen impact.

There’s a lot of freedom in the game to do whatever you want to, from farming to setting up a retail business to – probably – printing up professional business cards for your fellow adventurers. Well, maybe not quite, but you get the idea.

It’s a game that has turned a lot of people who don’t normally play videogames into addicts. That’s rare, and that’s why we game this first-of-its-kind honor to the game. What fun!