Review RPGDot... <i>likes</i> Dungeon Lords?!

[Volourn]

"They also cover Driver updates and Cleve Bakemore, I guess they're RPGs too."

Yes, yes they are. This is the Codex. They put the 'role' back into RPG. If they cover soemthing I have to automatically assume it is a RPG so if SP says that driver updates are RPGs then theya re. Period. Who are you to judge the Great Codex? Nobody.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

VOLOURN AND THE RPG CODEX SITTIN' IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

 

[Spazmo]

My God, imagine the ugly, ugly children you'd get.

 

[kris]

1. Jade empire had a customization option that amounted to nothing, the styles all work out to be the same in a game more simple than patty cake. The choice of what ninja turtle to pick and their weapon usage had more of an impact on game play. The only styles that mattered where the alts that everyone had, other than that styles where eye candy.

2. There is no inventory or equipment besides a necklace, which basiclaly equates to hearts in zelda, and zelda could upgrade his weapon also.

3. Character devopment is on par with deciding to cum in your hand and washing it off, or cuming on the bathroom floor and whiping it up: it just doesn't matter. Character developmet was really wasted and useless code that only served the purpose of helping retards make the silly claimthat this game is actually an rpg.

4. As to all the choices you could make throughout the game: wow. A whopping bononza of being forced to choice the "I'm a super duper guy" response, or "I'm a big meany" respose. When those responses don't matter at all. The game is the same, the events are the same, you get one different quest going close fist, and one different going open palm. Woopity doo.

5. There is no role playing in this game.

6. And the main reason why this game is not a roleplaying game= the LAW of noncontradiction and the rule of consistency. No twitch game can be an rpg. I can't play a role and be myself at the same time. For a Jade Empire example, when the master kung-fu expert whose, character i was supoosedly playing, was kicking the crap out of the air facing away from the person I wanted him to fight, was not really consistent with his role of a master kung-fu expert. A master kung-fu expert would probably face his opponent and kick at him, because he has mastered his body movements. But since I the actual one that has complete control over his body, and he is limited by my poor reflexes and button clicking abilities, I am not playing a role.

7. I am just playing myself.

8. I gaurantee the not so bright, who choose to live in the land of make believe and fallacy will have some argument about how twitch action games can be rpgs. But there is no argument and no one will tackle the law of noncontradiction and the rule of consistency. The fact is I cannot play a role and be a role, and if I'm not playing a role I am not playing an rpg.

1. That you think customisation amounts to little makes no impact on wether it is a RPG or not. Fact is, there is customisation and it do affect gameplay. Moreso since the styles are unbalanced. Little impact != no impact.

2. There is quite a bit of equipment besides the necklace. Anyway, equipment doesn't make it a RPG or not. In fact I would say JE use equipment in a much more realistic way than many other RPGs since a Kung Fu guy is not someone to carry around on a lot of loot. Most other RPGs handle equipment unrealistic. (Ok they still have no explanation as to why he can carry four different weapons and switch them however he likes...)

3. I'll try to imagine you are a normal person and say that character customisation DID matter. It mattered for conversation and it mattered for how you will end up fighting.

4. Having a good/neutral/evil choice of responses is nothing less than any other RPG ever. The responses matter in many many cases, some cases you affect the world slightly and in some other cases you affect it a lot. I have not played as a woman, but I suppose there is different responses for them too.

5. What is roleplaying to you then? Dressing up as a elf and running around in the woods? I agree you don't do that in a game.

6. Your not yourself only because the game have more action than other RPGs, silly you. It have even been stated it is a action RPG and that is exactly what it is. The rest is just hypebole to prove your point. The fact is that the abilities of the character DO affect combat. And combat is not everything in a RPG, in fact I was happy that there is not that much combat in JE as compared to some other RPGs.

7. PLaying WITH yourself you mean, right?

8. You proved it is a action RPG, what is ecatly what the developers of the game said it was. Congratulations. Oh and your silly laws still don't explain about all the choices you do in the game, they do point towards playing a role, not being one.