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Bethesda: Western RPG “More Realistic” Than JRPGs

i agree 148 57.14%
 
i disagree 49 18.92%
 
bethesda, lol. oblivion was crap 62 23.94%
 
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Carl on 05 August 2010
Machina said:
Carl2291 said:
Khuutra said:
Carl2291 said:
Khuutra said:

It's standard practice.

My personal score for God Hand is approximately 14.

Same here. 14/100

You are not the first person I've met who liked the game only 10% as much as me.

Nahh just kidding. Not played it.

I'm definitely curious to Machina's  "true" score for Uncharted 2 though

Best if I don't, I think. Much better to talk about positive things, like my personal score for Shadow of the Colossus, for example.

Fair enough, I can understand how it has the potential to cause something it shouldn't.

I do think you should mail me both scores though



                            

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Naum on 05 August 2010

I don't want "realistic" when I play games... If I want it I'll go outside instead.



If it isn't turnbased it isn't worth playing   (mostly)

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Aion on 05 August 2010

Yeah a lot more more realistic.



 

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Spagoodle on 05 August 2010

Their characters have more realistic personality traits. With JRPG its the same cliche unrealistic characters over and over.



Carl on 05 August 2010
Spagoodle said:

Their characters have more realistic personality traits. With JRPG its the same cliche unrealistic characters over and over.

What's funny is... WRPG's have just as many cliche's as JRPG's.

And to counter what you said, I'm gonna advise you to play Demon's Souls



                            

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Spagoodle on 05 August 2010
Carl2291 said:
Spagoodle said:

Their characters have more realistic personality traits. With JRPG its the same cliche unrealistic characters over and over.

What's funny is... WRPG's have just as many cliche's as JRPG's.

And to counter what you said, I'm gonna advise you to play Demon's Souls

I disagree. Characters in WRPG's engage one another in a more realistic way.  So how relationships develop and evolve is handled with more finesse. In JRPG's its all this melodrama between shallow archetypes. The writing is just better in a game like fallout 3 or ME2 in my opinion.

I would love to play Demon souls. As soon as I pick up a ps3 Demon Souls and Valkyria Chronicles will be purchased Immediately. I'm not a JRPG hater, I just think WRPG have been the better written games this generation.



darthdevidem01 on 05 August 2010
Carl2291 said:
Spagoodle said:

Their characters have more realistic personality traits. With JRPG its the same cliche unrealistic characters over and over.

What's funny is... WRPG's have just as many cliche's as JRPG's.

And to counter what you said, I'm gonna advise you to play Demon's Souls

So true

Just play Dragon Age Origins

Its plot is a mish mash of a thousand cheap fantasy novels.



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Carl on 05 August 2010
Spagoodle said:
Carl2291 said:
Spagoodle said:

Their characters have more realistic personality traits. With JRPG its the same cliche unrealistic characters over and over.

What's funny is... WRPG's have just as many cliche's as JRPG's.

And to counter what you said, I'm gonna advise you to play Demon's Souls

I disagree. Characters in WRPG's engage one another in a more realistic way.  So how relationships develop and evolve is handled with more finesse. In JRPG's its all this melodrama between shallow archetypes. The writing is just better in a game like fallout 3 or ME2 in my opinion.

I would love to play Demon souls. As soon as I pick up a ps3 Demon Souls and Valkyria Chronicles will be purchased Immediately. I'm not a JRPG hater, I just think WRPG have been the better written games this generation.

If you like character integration, have you played the Baldur's Gate series?

Some great dialogue used in those games



                            

Spagoodle on 05 August 2010
darthdevidem01 said:
Carl2291 said:
Spagoodle said:

Their characters have more realistic personality traits. With JRPG its the same cliche unrealistic characters over and over.

What's funny is... WRPG's have just as many cliche's as JRPG's.

And to counter what you said, I'm gonna advise you to play Demon's Souls

So true

Just play Dragon Age Origins

Its plot is a mish mash of a thousand cheap fantasy novels.

 

I'm not talking about narrative specifically. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout and Oblivion have pretty cliche story's. Its the individuals characters and their development that set WRPG's apart from JRPG's for me.

Dragon age is a great example. Look at the Arc of a character like Alistair and then compare it to a character like Hope from FFXIII. The depth of characters and the motivations for how they evolve are worlds apart. Alistair past is slowly developed and how the player chooses to engage Alistair and his struggles shape how he comes to terms with his past. His story has some depth and feels more grounded in reality. Hope listens to some bull shit corny speech and is all of a sudden he is magically changed.



Spagoodle on 05 August 2010

woops, double post.