Every RPG Ever Discussed at once (Warning: Very Large Image)
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Posted on: 2010-10-21 18:26 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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He's copying an article from the latest Game Informer that lampoons standard RPG tropes.
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Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
on the one i finished with over a hundred hours, this was not the case at all. the lead went from using a fan to claws to his bare fists, only one female lead healed that well and even she was better with a sword or spear. the other was better at buffing and having pairs of wolves rip things up, and the final one was the party tanker.
in fact, i can name several off the top of my head where none of those were true. in one older one, the princess is the team buzzsaw and her priest companion is the main healer, along with a fortune teller. in another the main is a spear user bandit presently, and the "main female" went from being a black mage to bard. the whiny emo kid is usually the healer. or shall i get into the one where i really am me, and the kid that myself and an alien prefessor with a trans-species dog kidnapped primarily uses his fists, unless he is a chef or fisherman, and the ambiguously evil group is a j-pop band with a monkey. oh and maybe the caffeine is dulling my senses, but i have no idea whatsoever what marcian is going for here, could you dumb it down for the caffeine addled? |
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toss me a PM on these ones. I'd like to know what they are.
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Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
on the one i finished with over a hundred hours, this was not the case at all. the lead went from using a fan to claws to his bare fists, only one female lead healed that well and even she was better with a sword or spear. the other was better at buffing and having pairs of wolves rip things up, and the final one was the party tanker.
in fact, i can name several off the top of my head where none of those were true. in one older one, the princess is the team buzzsaw and her priest companion is the main healer, along with a fortune teller. in another the main is a spear user bandit presently, and the "main female" went from being a black mage to bard. the whiny emo kid is usually the healer. or shall i get into the one where i really am me, and the kid that myself and an alien prefessor with a trans-species dog kidnapped primarily uses his fists, unless he is a chef or fisherman, and the ambiguously evil group is a j-pop band with a monkey. oh and maybe the caffeine is dulling my senses, but i have no idea whatsoever what marcian is going for here, could you dumb it down for the caffeine addled? |
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Actually, get me in on that, that first one sounded neat.
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Originally Posted by Reiraku
toss me a PM on these ones. I'd like to know what they are.
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Some of you guys failed your Sense of Humor check.
Thank you, Marcian. I lol'd.
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Yeah, I got it when I read it in this month's Game Informer. I think Marcian wanted to bypass the "no video games" rules by having us discuss RPGs based upon how they do or do not follow the chart, and then compare those flowchart diversions without ever dropping the name of a single actual game.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Some of you guys failed your Sense of Humor check.
Thank you, Marcian. I lol'd. |
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Sounds cool. Mind telling me what game that was Rikis ? |
Originally Posted by Rikis
The JRPG I'm thinking of which only follows the flowchart till the amnesia part (no festival no nothing) has a main character who fights with his fists, sleep spells work surprisingly well (just not on bosses), the main lead female has heal spells, but her offensive spells are much more kick *** but even still, her physical attacks are best (though she does has a baton/rod, not a staff) , and the party has the following, a 30-something master swordsman, a 30-something grand champion wrestler, a 3000 year old nanomachine colony (admittedly taking the form of a teenage girl who, following a sidequest, changes her appearance to an older female). Granted, there are still four teenagers, a 10 year old girl (who rides the biggest mech of all), and an animal.
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A wrestler in an RPG , I wanna give it a try
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The chart wasn't that funny as they were just trying too hard. It didn't have any real point either so it failed to provide much interest.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
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Thank you, Marcian. I lol'd. |
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we need a video game based on building flow charts. maybe genealogy, feynman diagrams.....that'll get the blood pumping. 
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My version of explaining JRPGs: The main character has a sword, Sleep spells never work, the lead female is always a healer with a staff, and 16 year old kids are better at combat than even the most battle hardened space-marine.
The End.
in fact, i can name several off the top of my head where none of those were true. in one older one, the princess is the team buzzsaw and her priest companion is the main healer, along with a fortune teller. in another the main is a spear user bandit presently, and the "main female" went from being a black mage to bard. the whiny emo kid is usually the healer. or shall i get into the one where i really am me, and the kid that myself and an alien prefessor with a trans-species dog kidnapped primarily uses his fists, unless he is a chef or fisherman, and the ambiguously evil group is a j-pop band with a monkey.
oh and maybe the caffeine is dulling my senses, but i have no idea whatsoever what marcian is going for here, could you dumb it down for the caffeine addled?