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Cryomancer

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Of course, plebbit had to upload a completely rigged and unfair comparison.

For "modern" Western-style games, see Mass Erect 1-3+Andromeda for a "different character". Same with Dragon Age 2 and 3, the latter featuring the ugliest elves in existence. Or Disco Elysium, if you consider that a rpg, for a hipster cop Commie-friendly game with more walls of text than the average Obsidian title.

For atypical JRPG games, we have Shin Megami Tensei series such as Nocturne (granted, the MC IS mute, but he's not a swordsman), Radiant Historia's hyper-competent protagonist Stocke, or the entire trilogy of Shadow Hearts.

I never denied that modern WRPG's sucks.

The balance cult killed all variety and immersion from RPG's AND the consistency between lore and story, the accessibility cult killed all depth on RPG's and diversity cult killed the story telling. Now all we have is press A for awesome games that fells more like a boring work HOWEVER, this reddit user is comparing classics with classics. VtMB, Planescape Torment and kotor was classics. Just like FF7 and Chrono Trigger are considered classic JRPG's. And BTW, JRPG's tends to do awful protagonists with few exceptions, like Nocturne and Dirge of Cerberus BUT they do amazing villains.

And is not only with JRPg that it happens. Even on Anime, i love Hiatus X Hiatus, but don't like Gon. Black Clover, i dropped on 5 minutes of first episode due Asta. Sadly, according to what i read, a lot of villains and non protagonist "good guys" seems to have way better personality, backstory, and powers Black Clover with Yami as a protagonist or Vanessa would be a amazing anime. Just like Chrono Trigger playing since the beginning with Magus.
 

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rusty_shackleford texts aren't the focus, i'm posting these screenshots for people to admire 2D backgrounds.
 
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Just like FF7 and Chrono Trigger are considered classic JRPG's. And BTW, JRPG's tends to do awful protagonists with few exceptions, like Nocturne and Dirge of Cerberus BUT they do amazing villains.
The games I mentioned are JRPG classics too. Final Fantasy 6 also stars a fixed protagonist who's both a cute girl and not particularly annoying, for example.
Dirge of Cerberus? That's an obvious cashgrab and the first of FF7's "extended lore".

. Even on Anime, i love Hiatus X Hiatus, but don't like Gon.

I like him. Compared to annoying shit like Ichigo and Naruto, he's relatable and funny, and he only has an asspulled power-up ONCE (and he suffers a massive drawback in exchange of doing so). Not many shonen characters are like that.
In any case, I don't tend to follow shonen for the usual power-creep that inevitably destroys the story and setting's plausibility.
 

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Finished Arcanum. What an odd duck of a game. Not bad but very archaic and needlessly primitive in many ways.

Why do you say it's primitive?
It's been at least ten years since my last playthrough, so I don't remember much about the user experience side of things, but I recall loving it. Maybe I was just much more forgiving of certain things in games back then...
 

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Finished Arcanum. What an odd duck of a game. Not bad but very archaic and needlessly primitive in many ways.

Why do you say it's primitive?
It's been at least ten years since my last playthrough, so I don't remember much about the user experience side of things, but I recall loving it. Maybe I was just much more forgiving of certain things in games back then...

There isn't even a way to tell which buffs/debuffs you have going on, at least none that I could find. The map and movement around in it is also fucked, even with the Multiverse patch. Thank God for unlocking the camera at least.
 

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.

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GIRAFFE CAVALRY!! (Caveman 2 Cosmos)

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In the grim cyberpunk future, even the simplest seeds will be copyrighted by big corps. (Dex)

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No homo. (To Battle! Hell's Crusade)

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The AI Singularity suggests eugenics to fix all of humanity's problems :obviously: (Titan Outpost)

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I've had it with those merchants. (Troubleshooter)

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And now for a couple of screens from a weird, trippy text adventure. (Cryptozookeeper)

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JRPGs are not RPGs in the same way anime is not an art form :smug:
Speaking of ACTUAL RPGS MADE BY PEOPLE WITH SOULS:
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Finished Arcanum. What an odd duck of a game. Not bad but very archaic and needlessly primitive in many ways.
Your character build is very gay

A persuasion/harm caster build makes a first time playthrough infinitely more enjoyable
 

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Elves ages slowly. The unique race which is better than elves to marry are vampire brides. Since they are gorgeous, NEVER age and are always loyal towards her master. And yes, IMO mastering the life and death itself, raising a army of darkness, stopping the time, shaping the reality with wish is cooler tahn swinging a piece of metal.
 

ERYFKRAD

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Strap Yourselves In Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
And yes, IMO mastering the life and death itself, raising a army of darkness, stopping the time, shaping the reality with wish is cooler tahn swinging a piece of metal.
Sounds horribly dull, just snap your fingers and you get whatever.
 

Cryomancer

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And yes, IMO mastering the life and death itself, raising a army of darkness, stopping the time, shaping the reality with wish is cooler tahn swinging a piece of metal.
Sounds horribly dull, just snap your fingers and you get whatever.


Not exactly the case. However, i play video games to do things that i can't do IRL. I have a crossbow and can fire and practice with it. Same with a Axe, i can shop things IRL with an Axe. Unless the game allows me to do cool stuff on melee, i will use powerful firearms on fps and powerful spells on fantasy games.... On Mount & Blade is different. Use a heavily armored horse and a spear to charge and impale enemies is extremely fun.

One more thing about the Elf. She is the unique romanceable companion on nwn2 for male characters.

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