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GrymmDAOC  Posts: 241
Registered: 2001-12-6 13:04:16
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JRPGs are to RPGS what rail shooters are to 3d shooters
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Yukishiro1  Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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cobane posted:
They never had it to begin with. Black Isle Studios was the talented one.
That may be correct now that I think back on it.
PS:Torment and BG were both Black Isle, weren't they?
All Bioware can do is make the exact same game over and over again with different shades of paint. Every game they have made since NWN have all really been the same template. Except for Jade Dragon. Which most BW fanbois didn't like because it wasn't the exact same game again.
DA2 was also a little different template wise and got panned for it too, although there were plenty of other things wrong with the game as well.
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Final Fantasy VI had a much better story and was overall a much better game than Final Fantasy VII. The Fanbois just got too caught up in Emo Sephiroth and the 3D graphics.
Terra, Locke, Cyan, Edgar, Sabin...all much more interesting and engaging characters than Cloud.
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cobane posted:
They never had it to begin with. Black Isle Studios was the talented one.
Yea, that too. Baldur's Gate I and II were awesome games. Didn't they do Planescape: Torment as well?
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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That's a fanboi's argument.
FFVII was the full package. It totally blew the industry away when it was released. FFVI might have had a better story and characters (a pretty subjective judgment anyhow), but FFVII had the immersion. It was the first video game that was a real "experience."
I can still remember putting the disc into the machine and watching the opening cinematic with the theme music and being genuinely excited. It may have been the first and last time in gaming history I felt that way.
FFVII absolutely knocked you flat. I doubt there will ever be another game that will be able to replicate its impact. It transformed what people expected out of a game.
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__Bonk__  Posts: 5,122
Registered: 2009-7-25 03:04:52
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Yukishiro1 posted:
That's a fanboi's argument.
FFVII was the full package. It totally blew the industry away when it was released. FFVI might have had a better story and characters (a pretty subjective judgment anyhow), but FFVII had the immersion. It was the first video game that was a real "experience."
I can still remember putting the disc into the machine and watching the opening cinematic with the theme music and being genuinely excited. It may have been the first and last time in gaming history I felt that way.
FFVII absolutely knocked you flat. I doubt there will ever be another game that will be able to replicate its impact. It transformed what people expected out of a game.
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GrilledCheez Title: The Lord's Balls
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I can't go back and play games like that again. The "action" isn't fun enough for me, and i already know the story." I am very envious of guys on here who talk abotu running back through and picking other choices and stuff, because they enjoy these games a lot more than I do. I play them once, if I can even get all the way through, then /uninstall.
I've still never played fallout 3 to max level.
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL
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Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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I am with you.
I can count the games I managed to replay on one hand and only one is an RPG (Dragon Age). Anymore I don't finish most games I start.
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GrymmDAOC Posts: 241
Registered: 2001-12-6 13:04:16
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Meh..rpg s reached their zenith with Ultima 7. The only one since that compares is Planescape Torment. Still, I like playing em anyways, especially sandbox games because I like the freedom to roam and explore.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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GrymmDAOC posted:
especially sandbox games because I like the freedom to roam and explore.
See that I don't understand at all. I find sandbox games the least satisfying kind of games to play because there is no narrative flow at all. A sandbox game needs extraordinarily compelling gameplay to work and almost no games manage that.
You usually end up with a TES-type game that has maybe 10-15 hours worth of good set piece content packed in alongside 50 hours of pretty boring stuff. Games like Skyrim I play for like 10-15 hours then get bored and never go back.
I also don't understand replaying games like ME2.
I've replayed PS:Torment and Baldur's Gate but that's about it. I guess I did replay FFVII once around 2008 just for nostalgia. It was amazing to me how much it DIDN'T feel dated. Just shows how little RPGs have really evolved in terms of storytelling.
The only real difference between then and now is now RPGs let you make 3 meaningless unsatisfying choices to give you the illusion of control.
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