This brilliant parody of The Elder Scrolls was made possible with pre-made assets

Bethesda RPGs are known for two things: unparalleled immersive open worlds where the possibilities feel endless, only to be undercut by often embarrassing yet hilarious bugs, something that even the new The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster doesn't appear to be immune from.

This cringey and heavily memed aspect is however something indie developer Dionysus Acroreites leans on in his parody first-person RPG called, well… The RPG. "I'm a huge fan of the RPG genre, but I wanted to make a game which encourages the bugs that in developers' eyes are usually immersion-breaking and frustrating," he tells me. "The bugs are the features."

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Alan Wen
Video games journalist

Alan Wen is a freelance journalist writing about video games in the form of features, interview, previews, reviews and op-eds. Work has appeared in print including Edge, Official Playstation Magazine, GamesMaster, Games TM, Wireframe, Stuff, and online including Kotaku UK, TechRadar, FANDOM, Rock Paper Shotgun, Digital Spy, The Guardian, and The Telegraph.

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