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Conn
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| Taiyz wrote: | | Conn wrote: | | since it'll be a regular cutscene, and then up pops a CODEC screen |
BUT IT'S FOR SECURITY, CONN. YOU DON'T WANT ANY NOSY SOLDIERS EAVESDROPPING ON RAIDEN TALKING TO HIS GIRLFRIEND |
Well obviously it makes sense when he's talking to Rose and Campbell
It makes less sense when he's talking to Emma over CODEC when she's literally standing beside him
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Jimbob the Beautiful
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| Dr. Casey wrote: | | all the options aside from 'Other' just look like a bunch of WRPG crap. |
3/5 is just an unacceptable amount of white people for Dr Casey
Not that I see a single actual WRPG in the list. |
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Dr. Casey
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:24 am Post subject: |
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| Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | 3/5 is just an unacceptable amount of white people for Dr Casey |
wat
But okay Jimbob, I will keep an open mind and not assume that these games are too horribly dry and boring |
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Jimbob the Beautiful
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| Dr. Casey wrote: | | Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | 3/5 is just an unacceptable amount of white people for Dr Casey |
wat
But okay Jimbob, I will keep an open mind and not assume that these games are too horribly dry and boring |
Well, you unambiguously stated that you thought every single game in the poll was a WRPG (and therefore automatically bad, obviously); such outrage is pretty amusing when whitey only dared to have a SIXTY PERCENT majority, but I guess that's enough to be sacrilegeous.
Alamur bankrupted Rhode Island, ME3 is a terrible shooter with gay sex minigames and XCOM is... actually an okay game, but gets boring in a few hours and offers no reason not to just play the original. They're all about as RPG as Call of Duty. Take your pick. I'm not sure why you think I'm going to defend them. |
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Dr. Casey
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | Dr. Casey wrote: | | Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | 3/5 is just an unacceptable amount of white people for Dr Casey |
wat
But okay Jimbob, I will keep an open mind and not assume that these games are too horribly dry and boring |
Well, you unambiguously stated that you thought every single game in the poll was a WRPG (and therefore automatically bad, obviously); such outrage is pretty amusing when whitey only dared to have a SIXTY PERCENT majority, but I guess that's enough to be sacrilegeous.
Alamur bankrupted Rhode Island, ME3 is a terrible shooter with gay sex minigames and XCOM is... actually an okay game, but gets boring in a few hours and offers no reason not to just play the original. They're all about as RPG as Call of Duty. Take your pick. I'm not sure why you think I'm going to defend them. |
Well... yeah, I do tend to automatically assume that any game that's a WRPG is a game I won't like, because I don't remember ever coming across a WRPG I do like. They're not bad games or anything, I respect them more than any of the other videogame genres I don't like, they just don't appeal to me much; though granted, I don't have all too much experience with the genre. I've generally shied away from them since the handful of forays I've had weren't too fun, but who knows, maybe said handful isn't all that representative of the genre, which I'm sure is just as broad and varied as any other.
And yeah, I did assume that these games are RPGs because... well, they're on a poll about the best PS3 RPG. Strange that they would be listed there if they're closer to being pure first-person shooters, as you make them sound. |
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Charlie
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | Alamur bankrupted Rhode Island, ME3 is a terrible shooter with gay sex minigames and XCOM is... actually an okay game, but gets boring in a few hours and offers no reason not to just play the original. They're all about as RPG as Call of Duty. Take your pick. I'm not sure why you think I'm going to defend them. |
Amalur's studio had financial problems before it was released. ME3 didn't even have any sex minigames. It would've been a lot more fun if it had.
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Jimbob the Beautiful
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| Dr. Casey wrote: | | Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | Dr. Casey wrote: | | Jimbob the Beautiful wrote: | | 3/5 is just an unacceptable amount of white people for Dr Casey |
wat
But okay Jimbob, I will keep an open mind and not assume that these games are too horribly dry and boring |
Well, you unambiguously stated that you thought every single game in the poll was a WRPG (and therefore automatically bad, obviously); such outrage is pretty amusing when whitey only dared to have a SIXTY PERCENT majority, but I guess that's enough to be sacrilegeous.
Alamur bankrupted Rhode Island, ME3 is a terrible shooter with gay sex minigames and XCOM is... actually an okay game, but gets boring in a few hours and offers no reason not to just play the original. They're all about as RPG as Call of Duty. Take your pick. I'm not sure why you think I'm going to defend them. |
Well... yeah, I do tend to automatically assume that any game that's a WRPG is a game I won't like, because I don't remember ever coming across a WRPG I do like. They're not bad games or anything, I respect them more than any of the other videogame genres I don't like, they just don't appeal to me much; though granted, I don't have all too much experience with the genre. I've generally shied away from them since the handful of forays I've had weren't too fun, but who knows, maybe said handful isn't all that representative of the genre, which I'm sure is just as broad and varied as any other.
And yeah, I did assume that these games are RPGs because... well, they're on a poll about the best PS3 RPG. Strange that they would be listed there if they're closer to being pure first-person shooters, as you make them sound. |
I'm not questioning why you think they're RPGs. At some point, the western definition of "RPG" became "Really Profitable Game". Every western RPG made in the last ten years - of which there have been maybe three or four - has been terrible, except Knights of the Chalice. I'm not going to defend the genre, because it's dead. It might yet be resurrected by Wasteland 2 and the Kickstarters that followed in its heels, but I'm not going to defend it on those grounds until they're proven. I was laughing at your assumption that every game in the poll was a WRPG because you don't like the look of it, not laughing at you for dismissing them on those grounds.
Think of it like this; you like eggs but hate chickens, and the poll is split between eggs and chickens. You don't like the look of any of the eggs, so you perform a feat of mental gymnastics that allows you to dismiss said eggs as actually being chickens. I pointed and laughed at you for thinking eggs were actually chickens, while saying, yes, the chickens that are there smell pretty bad. You respond solely by arguing that you think chickens are smelly.
| Quote: | | ME3 didn't even have any sex minigames. It would've been a lot more fun if it had. |
True, I accidentally made Mass Effect sound mildly entertaining, which by God I'd never do on purpose.
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Dr. Casey
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| I actually figured they were all WRPGs based on their names, I don't know anything about them otherwise, other than the super mainstream Mass Effect. XCOM and Mass Effect 3 both seem decidedly American (since gritty military shooters or whatever these are don't seem very Japanesey), and I figured Dragon's Dogma and Kingdoms of Alamur were Western because they sound like Dragonlance-style high fantasy, a setting that WRPGs tend to use more than JRPGs. Rainbow Moon could go either way, it's a pretty name though. |
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Jimbob the Beautiful
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Alamur is absolutely hilarious, please play it if you get the chance. It's the most 90s thing I've ever seen. Gigantic, weirdly cartoonish shoulderpad-men wandering around with giant hammers doing terrible fetch quests by the guy who got chucked off the Elder Scrolls team for not being a good enough writer (no, really, that's how bad he is) and the... the guy who is RA Salvatore. Wrapped up in the worst game ever made. It's like Tales got together and decided to make a game based on everything they think WRPGs are about. Which is about as close to reality as what reddit thinks feminism is about, in that it's hilariously wrong but it occasionally comes true.
Rainbow Moon actually sounds like it could be pretty fantastic. I still don't like that what should be the basic criteria of an RPG now make something a ~TACTICAL RPG~ but I'll take what I can get. Has anyone noticed it at all?
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Woosh
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*Spits into hands* Jimbo, you leave me no other choice but to go full on Mass Effect fanboy mode. I congratulate you, my friend. Few have made be go into fanboy mode...but they dare did not ever speak of it. 
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Jimbob the Beautiful
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Child, I have been arguing with your kind since you were six years old. I walked the internet when you were trying to work out what a tree was. I was entrenched in websites when you were first being shown what a computer was. I have brought to their knees communities a thousand strong, and I have made mods ten thousand have loved. I have sat alone at the head of Web 1.0. I'm in my fourth year of a law degree and by god pushing out tedious 10,000-word arguments about nothing at all is what I consider a break from studying. I'm no elder, I wasn't around for usenet, but at least I remember what it was. You are new. Child, do you even know the Goatse Man? The Goatse Man? The Goatse Man?
My presence leaves footsteps; my words have been stolen verbatim and used as dialogue in Adventure Time. Do you grasp the meaning of this?
I am the high-level boss and you are in the mid-level dungeon. You can reach me now. But I am old.
I have long passed from this place. This account is but an echo in a ripple of time.
You will not understand. |
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Aha Disco Elf
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I...actually liked Kingdom of Amalur. Granted, it's not going to be in my top 10 list of anything but I had fun with the game overall. The crafting system is praise-worthy, but that's mostly because I like being able to create custom weapons with my desired effects that are borderline game-breaking. And I certainly love the flashy magics and skills; chakram is very fun to use.
The monster designs is very boring and repetitive, though. Everything is repetitive actually, especially when they give you a whole lot to explore ever since the beginning of the game but never tried to vary the things you could do. However, I liked Amalur more than Skyrim, especially for the brighter use of colors; I'm shallow like that. |
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Flamfas
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:33 am Post subject: |
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voted togf because it was the only 2012 PS3 RPG I played.
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| Flaming Tonfas wrote: | | voted togf because it was the only 2012 PS3 RPG I played. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:37 am Post subject: |
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WRPGs generally don't appeal to me.
whoops.
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