As a big fan of action games, I’ve noticed they’ve gotten way more personalized lately. It’s almost expected now that you can tweak things like your character’s skills or stats. It doesn’t totally make the game, but it definitely adds to the fun and makes you feel more connected to what you’re doing.
Popular action game series like Far Cry and God of War have successfully added some role-playing features, which have actually improved the games. This demonstrates that action games can benefit from incorporating elements traditionally found in RPGs.
Far Cry 5’s Perk System Is the Best in the Entire Series
The Far Cry series is known for successfully combining fast-paced shooting with role-playing features. Most games let you improve your character with skill trees, unlocking things like more health or faster reloading. Far Cry 5 tried a different approach with a perk system instead of skill trees, and it proved to be a good change.
Unlike many games where you have to spend time gaining experience to unlock skills, Far Cry 5 lets you collect perk points and unlock abilities in pretty much any order you choose. The game is flexible not just in how you unlock perks, but also in how you earn the perk points themselves – you can get them by completing missions or just by exploring the world. This makes Far Cry 5‘s progression system very open and adaptable.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Lets You Upgrade Peter’s Entire Arsenal
The Spider-Man games from Insomniac have a simple way to improve your character. You earn experience points by completing missions, which you can then use to unlock upgrades in three different skill trees – these improve both fighting and your web-slinging. Plus, your health automatically increases as you level up, so you get stronger just by playing the game.
Upgrading Spider-Man’s gadgets is where the gameplay really shines. Improving his Web Shooters and Web Bombs requires tokens, which you earn by completing optional missions and discovering hidden items. There are six different types of tokens to find, so managing your resources effectively is crucial to maximizing your abilities as Spider-Man.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Is All About the Weapons
While the Spider-Man games are known for their hidden RPG elements, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart also features surprisingly deep progression. Unlike Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank don’t level up with skill trees; instead, you improve your abilities by unlocking and upgrading the game’s many different weapons.
In Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, getting new weapons is easy – just buy them with bolts at the shop and use Raritanium to make them even better. The more you use a weapon, the more powerful it becomes, unlocking additional upgrades along the way.
As you improve your weapons, their upgrade options appear on a growing, honeycomb-shaped grid. You’ll find lots of parts to unlock new weapons, and multiple ways to gather Raritanium to enhance the ones you have. Investing in the right upgrades with your in-game currency can significantly boost your power, and gives you clear goals to aim for.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits Mixes Skill Trees With Soulslike Combat
In Kena: Bridge of Spirits, you play as Kena, a hero on a quest to heal a forest threatened by darkness. Instead of leveling up Kena herself, you improve her abilities by upgrading her weapons. You’ll get help from the Rot, small, fuzzy spirits that Kena can collect. Gathering lots of Rot and earning experience are both important for unlocking better weapons and attacks.
While Kena’s weapon upgrades aren’t super complex, the challenging and satisfying combat more than makes up for it. Using Kena’s weapons alongside powerful Rot abilities creates exciting and manageable boss fights. Hopefully, the upcoming Scars of Kosmora will build on this system and offer even more in-depth RPG features.
Sonic Frontiers Unleashes the Blue Hedgehog’s Full Potential
Sonic the Hedgehog is known for his incredible speed and strength, and the new game, Sonic Frontiers, allows players to make him even more powerful. As you explore the expansive open world and complete challenging platforming levels in Cyberspace, you’ll earn skill points that unlock new combat moves.
The game focuses on Sonic saving his friends, and as you rescue them and recover their memories, you unlock new abilities. This creates a really engaging cycle of gameplay, putting it among the best in the series. If future Sonic the Hedgehog games explore open worlds again, the RPG features in Frontiers should definitely be included.
God of War Ragnarök Lets You Craft the Ultimate Warrior
In God of War Ragnarok, fighting is central to the experience. Both Kratos and the characters you play as can improve their weapons with new abilities and moves. You can also add powerful special attacks to each weapon, and upgrade Kratos’ armor, giving you a constant feeling of getting stronger.
Kratos’ armor sets each provide unique combat benefits that improve as you upgrade them with resources. The way you mix and match armor with weapons and special attacks is a key reason why God of War Ragnarok‘s combat is considered among the best in the series, creating a fantastic blend of gameplay and narrative.
Stellar Blade Gives Eve All the Tools She Needs
Many games let you improve either your weapons or your character, but Stellar Blade lets you do both. You play as an android named Eve and have lots of options for getting stronger. The game features five different skill trees, so players need to carefully decide how to spend their points. Should you learn new attacks, make it easier to parry enemy blows, or improve your shield’s durability?
The game gets even deeper when you start upgrading Eve’s weapons, equipment, and exosuits, unlocking even more helpful passive abilities. Once everything is combined, Eve becomes incredibly powerful, no matter how players choose to build her. Some players find Stellar Blade challenging, so these customization options are really valuable.
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