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Review EuroGamer trash Rise of the Argonauts

Discussion in 'RPG Codex News & Content Comments' started by DarkUnderlord, Feb 2, 2009.

  1. DarkUnderlord Bringing that old Raptor magic.

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    Tags: Rise of the Argonauts

    <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/rise-of-the-argonauts-review_1">EuroGamer looked at Rise of the Argonauts and didn't like what they saw</a>:
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    <blockquote>But these relative successes are marred. Phaedon's philosophical jousting, for example, is the other side of a crude memory game, and followed by a dull boss fight, while decisions about how to treat the people you encounter are often trivial. You simply pick the response that serves whichever god you're currently trying to get some powers out of, aware by this stage that the structure of the game is rather more linear than it lets on. Choice is generally an illusion, if it's even offered, as it isn't when you're invited to either bludgeon your wife's murderer to death, watching on from his perspective after ten minutes of playing, or stand there motionless and not play the game any longer.
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    But if this is a cautionary tale, it's one of this player's misplaced, increasingly desperate hope to derive some greater meaning. There is only one path, and while you meet a few interesting people and solve a few worthy problems on the way, the fundamental paradox at the heart of Rise of the Argonauts is never explored or resolved. Instead, the game concludes disagreeably, as virtually everyone Jason is supposed to protect is left tortured and dead by his original departure, and he simply has a party because he got what he wanted. For an action RPG elevated beyond its serviceable components by the allure of rich mythology to end in such a desperate contradiction is comprehensively self-destructive.</blockquote>
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    Normally this would be the part where they then say "but forget all that, the game is gr8!!1" but you'd be wrong. 3/10.
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    Spotted @ <a href="http://www.rpgwatch.com">RPGWatch</a>
     
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  2. mondblut Arcane

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    And the blame goes to piracy!
     
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  3. Avu Liturgist

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    Someone forgot to pay his review.
     
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  4. JarlFrank I like Thief THIS much Patron

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    And still I enjoyed the game more than most of those mainstream RPGs that get 9's and 10's.
     
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  5. Twinfalls Erudite

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    Must be a rape scene somewhere in the game, then.
     
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  6. DefJam101 Arcane

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    :x
     
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  7. Witchblade Scholar

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    I have no idea why publishers of action games have to mess it up by bringing the term "RPG" into the picture. There is nothing in this game that makes it an RPG. I haven't finished it yet, but so far I've enjoyed it as an action-adventure.

    Why raise RPG fans' hackles by calling it an Action-RPG? Gamers who enjoy POP and Devil May cry and the Cain/Soul Reaver series, etc., should find this game pleasing enough as an action game.

    I'm liking it so far. It's definitely more interesting than a lot of hack 'n slash Action-RPG's out there.
     
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  8. Avu Liturgist

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    What RPG fans are you talking about? Oblivion lovers? Fallout 3 lovers? JRPG lovers? Bioware Extreme lovers? You do know our little minority here is quite irrelevant both to publishers and the so called gaming journalism.
     
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  9. Witchblade Scholar

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    Oblivion, Fallout 3, Final fantasy, -even Mass Effect, have more RPG elements than this game. I'm not trashing the game at all - it's actually a very nice game, with pleasing graphics, gameplay and story, there just really are no character/stat building elements in the game at all.

    The only progression you get in your fighting skills, are added weapons and "abilities" that you get from your favoured gods. These are also elements that you find in any FPS and action-adventure out there.

    Even an Oblivion-lover should stop in his tracks and go:"Wait a minute - they called this game an Action-RPG... - WTF?"

    Still, as I said, to me it's a nice game. I had read a review or 2 before I got it, so I was not expecting it to be big in the RPG dept., and once I got over any expectations in that regard, I started enjoying the game for what it is- an enjoyable hybrid.
     
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  10. Hümmelgümpf Arbiter

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    Did... Did you just lump Prince of Persia, Devil May Cry and Legacy of Kain into one category? These games are very different from each other: PoP is a platformer, DMC is a slasher, and LoK is an action/adventure heavy on puzzle solving. Needless to say, a person who likes one may hate the other two.
     
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