Cryomancer
Arcane
3D and FPV RPGs should go to hell.
Dark Souls is a great game.
Can you explain??
About Final Fantasy being a stupid game, i strongly agree.
The main reason? The main characters
And overall design
V1ctor, you must be one of the most retarded users in this page, I swear to god, I was happy just lurking but each time you post I feel like I'm going to have a brain aneurysm. Not only your arguments are shit most of the time, you are a disingenuous fuck.
First off, did you made those image macros yourself? That would explain why the first one is actually a lie. That character is Van, from FF XII. He fucking sucks for two reasons:
1º: He was added very late because the suits though that the japanese public wouldn't like that the actual protagonist of the game, Balthier, was too old. And it shows, as you play the game, Van has 0 involvement with the events, in contrast with Balthier.
This guy is the true main character, a Sky Pirate, basically a Han Solo kind of guy.
2º: You even misrepresented the personality of that character. Van is a retard, happy go-lucky, thief that wants to behokage, a sky pirate one day.
So you proceed to generalize and say all JRPG has the same kind of main character, despite even FF having very different MCs each game. VII has a no nonsense mercenary with mental issues, IX has a womanizer thief, X has a retard football player, IV has a Dark Knight conflicted with his actions, etc, etc. In fact, the only character that fits your idea is the main character from VIII, which is by many considered the shittiest FF, and Noctis from XV, which I don't think I need to stress how shit that game is.
Also is really nice how you seem to ignore the fact that XII takes place in an Arabic-esque world, therefore the characters wearing this kind of clothes, including Van who probably represents a very stylized arabic thief similar to Aladin.
I do not even want to defend FF or JRPGs in general, far from it, but I see you constantly making retarded arguments after retarded argument, repeating yourself again and again. You are just obnoxious.
But if I take a bigger issue, is with the second one. Amazing way to cherry pick you disingenuous fuck. I will assume you criticize the design of the right for being either; a) ridiculous, or b) too sexy.
Ok, take a gander at this:
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
First 2 exhibits are from Planetscape Torment. The other two are two female characters, the armored one from FF XII, the same as the guy you posted in your first picture, the second one from Tactics Ogre: Let's Us Cling Together, a TRPG. By your logic, the first two are retarded, while the other are perfectly fine. But the thing is, these four designs are great, and you cannot take them just out of the context were they appear and just claim "See? Those design suck". Of course, there are designs that are objectively bad, but I fail to see in any of your examples why they are bad, unless it is the fact that they are skimpy dressed, which is beyond retarded, specially without taking the while picture. Just stick to jacking it off to dragons if it bothers you that much.
Also, see, I can cherry pick too, in fact, I will just post a typical image macro I found out searching in google.
Doesn't fucking means every CRPG or Western game have fucking ugly and shitty female characters, doesn't it?
Your arguments consist mostly of "its not like PnP, so its bad", when others point out that RTwP isn't like the PnP rules, you change and said "but old games did it, therefore is good". You repeat the same shit over and over, usually "popular" opinions in the Codex, to the point which is hard not to think that you are fishing for "brofists" like some cheap whore after its next fix. Fuck even in this same thread the "unpopular and controversial" opinions you posted are just parroting the general sentiment of codexer, including the post I'm quoting. Which also is hilarious, as the simple mention of JRPGs made you so mad, and your fixation with with the "androgynous teenagers with big swords" and hate for skimpy clothes makes it seem like you are afraid of discovering something about yourself you don't like, uh?
I probably won't even post anymore, I'm content with lurking, but sometimes you just see some retard one to many times and is hard not to say anything. Also, why do you write suspensions points after almost all your post?
LOL... I agree that Balthier should be the MC, he looks much better than Van but honestly, my point is that jRPG's often force a androgynous swordsman teenager upon you while western RPG's allow you to be anything, from a knifght charging and impaling enemies on M&B to a Lich on M&M VII~IX. But the "sexualization" on WRPG's is very different than on JRPG's. A underage green haired girl fighting SCI-FI troops wearing a miniskirt is completely different than a prostitute in a nightclub wearing the same miniskirt. As for modern AAA WRPG's, everyone agrees here agrees that they sucks. That BioWare, BUGthesda, etc are awful companies. But you can look to kickstarted WRPG's project like pathfinder kingmaker.
But prove me wrong once for all. Show me one jRPG protagonist who is :
- Non androgynous
- At least 25 years old
- Fight at range, AT least use a polearm instead of a sword
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I like anime, but i the mainstream anime has the same problem of "Generi-kuns" of jRPG's, non mainstream anime has interesting MC's.