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  1. Amazingly deep thoughts regarding the classification of RPGs

    *Games* aren't good literature. Not these days, not any days. However, the few JRPGs I played are at least in the soap-opera league in terms of narrative quality, which makes them superior to feeble efforts of most Western RPG writers. Grinding and number crunching comes from Western RPGs...

  2. Amazingly deep thoughts regarding the classification of RPGs

    If I recall correctly, it was Japanese ports of Wizardry that served as a template for pretty much all early JRPGs. Based on my limited experience with JRPGs, I would say that Japanese developers recognized the genre's narrative potential and mostly focused on telling good stories in their...

  3. Amazingly deep thoughts regarding the classification of RPGs

    Replace bullshit like "Final Fantasy", "Disgaea" and "Eternal Sonata" with something along the lines of "Fallout", "Ultima" or "Darklands", and I can almost agree with those amazingly deep thoughts. Fact is, Japanese developers, unlike their western counterparts, aren't afraid to make their RPGs...

  4. has an rpg ever made you cry?

    I never cried while playing an RPG, but I'm pretty I *made* a few people cry in Diablo. I distinctly remember once teasing a guy named "SquallX" about dating an Aeris blow-up doll or something and feeling kinda sorry for him when he ran off all teary-eyed. Back then I was 14 and still capable of...

  5. Obsidian working on a New Game - Feargus Urquhart interview

    skyway is such a compelling debater that I can't help but question my anti-Obsidian stance.

  6. Fucking Graphics Whores!!!

    I concur with FeelTheRads that NWN2 is poorly optimized, though I must note that this is most likely due to Obsidian's new renderer and not the Aurora game engine (which does have its own problems). That said, Elzair's complaint is still stupid, as his inability to run NWN2 on daddy's...

  7. rate the last RPG you played on a scale of 1-10

    Geneforge 2. However, about one third into the game I put it on hold due to various real-life obligations. Still, so far I have been impressed by the roleplaying complexity and drawn in by the story, so I'd rate it 8/10 for now. Last RPG I played all the way through would be either Mass...

  8. GameDaily - Top 25 Hardest Games of All Time

    I'm pretty sure a comatose chimp with both thumbs tied together would be able to iron-man Portal in under two hours. Seriously, the only prerequisites for successfully playing that game are a functional nervous system (not necessarily human - anything above gastropodic ganglia should be...

  9. Vapourware KOTOR 2 Restoration Project (not the Restored Content Mod)

    Didn't they already release like two different trailers? How many trailers *can* you make for a project this size without showing the same things over and over again? One would think they are working on some massive-scale add-on and not merely reactivating a couple of disabled scripts and audio...

  10. Mod News Hi-res Arcanum patch on its way

    Looks gorgeous. Looks just the way I always wanted it to look. I hereby demand that Drog make a hi-res patch for every 2D game I ever enjoyed. So will your face.

  11. "The bomb is us. The bomb is Atom."

    Why the hell does that guy have the exact same facial expression in every screenshot? Children of Atom? More like Children of Botox. Which reminds me - we need FO3 avatars.

  12. PC Gaming is dying.

    Who the hell still buys games in a store?

  13. Game News Star Wars: The Old Republic - It's about being an hero

    My Gran always says: "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." What's with all the self-loathing?

  14. when was the last time you played an rpg?

    I played Mass Effect last month... Oh, wait, the poll says RPG. My bad.

  15. Why do developers refuse to use this formula?

    How come whenever Volourn says something I get an urge to stab people? That argument makes no sense at all. It is impossible to point out such a literature piece because linearity is an intrinsic property of literary narrative, much like non-linearity is an intrinsic property of RPG narrative...

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