Lilura's Blog: An Ongoing Codexian Obsession

[Gandalf]

I know a couple of girls that play mostly modern mainstream RPGs and RPG-likes. I know also a couple of my female family members that played modern mainstream ones in the past like Gothic, Diablo etc. and exotic ones like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy in the past.
The conclusion of this narrow research would be that girls have some interest in RPG genres, but it most likely started to became a thing in the middle of 90's. How does it relate to the whole population of womans is uknknown to me.

 

[Dadd]

Isometric RPGs have many similarities with the Sims games.

 

[whydoibother]

modern mainstream ones like Gothic

exotic ones like Final Fantasy

 

[Gandalf]

modern mainstream ones like Gothic

exotic ones like Final Fantasy

Gothic was big here, even HUGE. FF wasn't until 7 came out.

 

[whydoibother]

Gothic was big here, even HUGE. FF wasn't until 7 came out.

FF7 came out before 2000, Gothic came out after 2000.

 

[Gandalf]

Gothic was big here, even HUGE. FF wasn't until 7 came out.

FF7 came out before 2000, Gothic came out after 2000.

Yeah, but console gaming was smaller than PC here, so it was more exotic.

 

[whydoibother]

Gothic was big here, even HUGE. FF wasn't until 7 came out.

FF7 came out before 2000, Gothic came out after 2000.

Yeah, but console gaming was smaller than PC here, so it was more exotic.

Also the case here, but circa 2004 or so not everyone who had a PC played or even knew of Gothic. Seemingly every single PlayStation owner knew of and played Final Fantasy. All the weebs had figurines and posters, too. And I am speculating, but 99% sure that Final Fantasy, despite the lower system owners number, sold MANY times more copies than Gothic. PC gamers here pirate, PlayStation owners buy.
Anyways, girls are more likely to be weebs than into D&D, and therefore more likely to be into FF than Gothic, simple as.

 

[Yosharian]

Lilura lives and wrote a long piece griping about the state of cRPG commentary https://lilura1.blogspot.com/2022/03/cRPG-Commentary.html

Shots fired at MrEdders123:

Indeed, commentator literacy levels are laughably low. Thus the tendency of these twaddlers to take refuge in the more forgiving and informal video format in which marathon-length blabberings are not only par for the course, but celebrated by viewers with room-temperature IQs and free time in alarming abundance.

But if one were to skim over transcripts of such videos they would discover that, more often than not, almost nothing of value was said over the course of three hours. And what was said could be put into a bullet-list and skimmed over in a few seconds flat.

Mainstream RPG Game video-viewers are more impressed by rambling multi-hour videos than they are by concise writings that give them more information instantly. Possible illiteracy aside, that is because video-viewers are more interested in killing time than they are about being efficiently informed. Imagine having three hours of your life to waste on listening to what often amounts to naught but dribble.

We're reaching lack of self-awareness levels that shouldn't even be possible

 

[Dadd]

Lilura lives and wrote a long piece griping about the state of cRPG commentary https://lilura1.blogspot.com/2022/03/cRPG-Commentary.html

Shots fired at MrEdders123:

Indeed, commentator literacy levels are laughably low. Thus the tendency of these twaddlers to take refuge in the more forgiving and informal video format in which marathon-length blabberings are not only par for the course, but celebrated by viewers with room-temperature IQs and free time in alarming abundance.

But if one were to skim over transcripts of such videos they would discover that, more often than not, almost nothing of value was said over the course of three hours. And what was said could be put into a bullet-list and skimmed over in a few seconds flat.

Mainstream RPG Game video-viewers are more impressed by rambling multi-hour videos than they are by concise writings that give them more information instantly. Possible illiteracy aside, that is because video-viewers are more interested in killing time than they are about being efficiently informed. Imagine having three hours of your life to waste on listening to what often amounts to naught but dribble.

We're reaching lack of self-awareness levels that shouldn't even be possible

He's right though

 

[Dadd]

whydoibother point out where Lilura is wrong kid

 

[whydoibother]

whydoibother point out where Lilura is wrong kid

A 3 hour good review is more liked than a 3 hour bad review. Therefore the length isn't the goal, the quality is. ez pz.
Additionally, spending 3 hours with an audio-visual presentation of the game is objectively more informative than reading 100 pages of text with a few static images. Video games look and feel differently in motion, and many issues a game has or praises it might deserve are best demonstrated in video.
Furthermore, the point of a video review isn't just to deliver information as time efficiently as possible. It also has its own artistic goals, and attempts to look and sound good, and be funny, etc, in addition to being informative. Something that Lilura wouldn't know anything about, of course.
In conclusion, suck my dick, choke on it.

 

[whydoibother]

Dadd oh I know you read it, kid

 

[Gandalf]

Gothic was big here, even HUGE. FF wasn't until 7 came out.

FF7 came out before 2000, Gothic came out after 2000.

Yeah, but console gaming was smaller than PC here, so it was more exotic.

Also the case here, but circa 2004 or so not everyone who had a PC played or even knew of Gothic. Seemingly every single PlayStation owner knew of and played Final Fantasy. All the weebs had figurines and posters, too. And I am speculating, but 99% sure that Final Fantasy, despite the lower system owners number, sold MANY times more copies than Gothic. PC gamers here pirate, PlayStation owners buy.
Anyways, girls are more likely to be weebs than into D&D, and therefore more likely to be into FF than Gothic, simple as.

Oh man, I think you made a good point thast FF7 is perhaps more known game than Gothic and sold better. As far as I know PS1 games were pirated too. I knew a guy that had most of his ps1 games pirated and his machine was changed to read those, as far as I remember.

 

[Poseidon00]

Wait, there's girls who play cRPGs?

My mom played RPGs for my entire childhood. Got into a lot of obscure PS1 gems that way. No joke, one of my first memories is watching her and my dad play Chrono Trigger.

 

[Infinitron]

Lilura lives and wrote a long piece griping about the state of cRPG commentary https://lilura1.blogspot.com/2022/03/cRPG-Commentary.html

Shots fired at MrEdders123:

Indeed, commentator literacy levels are laughably low. Thus the tendency of these twaddlers to take refuge in the more forgiving and informal video format in which marathon-length blabberings are not only par for the course, but celebrated by viewers with room-temperature IQs and free time in alarming abundance.

But if one were to skim over transcripts of such videos they would discover that, more often than not, almost nothing of value was said over the course of three hours. And what was said could be put into a bullet-list and skimmed over in a few seconds flat.

Mainstream RPG Game video-viewers are more impressed by rambling multi-hour videos than they are by concise writings that give them more information instantly. Possible illiteracy aside, that is because video-viewers are more interested in killing time than they are about being efficiently informed. Imagine having three hours of your life to waste on listening to what often amounts to naught but dribble.

Infinitron November 13, 2023
Hello Lilura. Were you thinking of a certain YouTube channel whose owner has three consecutive numbers in his name when you wrote this?

Lilura1 November 13, 2023
Hi, Infinitron. These are general observations on video-based cRPG commentary (retrospectives, guides etc.)

 

[agris]

I'm not sure why she calls Civ 2 and xcom crpgs though. They're clearly not.

i really hope she's using "RPG game" ironically

edit: forgive me father, for i had lost faith. now i have seen the light

 

[Dadd]

I'm not sure why she calls Civ 2 and xcom crpgs though. They're clearly not.

i really hope she's using "RPG game" ironically

Probably an attempt at search engine optimization

 

[Roguey]

i really hope she's using "RPG game" ironically

It's underneath "general crpg" so of course.

 

[Darkwind]

Lilura is my waifu TROON

Fixed that for ya...

 

[laclongquan]

I'm not sure why she calls Civ 2 and xcom crpgs though. They're clearly not.

i really hope she's using "RPG game" ironically

Probably an attempt at search engine optimization

Yeah~
SEO lead us to do some strange writings and wordings.

 

[Gromoer]

I'm not sure why she calls Civ 2 and xcom crpgs though. They're clearly not.

i really hope she's using "RPG game" ironically

edit: forgive me father, for i had lost faith. now i have seen the light

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never doubt my waifu
Never!

 

[samuraigaiden]

I fantasize about Lilura tying me up and punishing me for liking Morrowind.

 

[Latro]

I fantasize about Lilura tying me up and punishing me for liking Morrowind.

She’d hang ya from a lamp post as the cruel, yet authoritative daiymo of cRPG criticism

 

[Fedora Master]

You bumped the thread for this?

 

[Dadd]

She's probably over 60 by now