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griffinA on 30 March 2009
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Riot Of The Blood said:
Demotruk said:
You can make RPG's interesting from the start. You either have to get an interesting premise going right away or make the characters worth caring about as quickly as possible, as well as trying to minimize any issues that might get on the player's nerves, like bad voice acting or dialogue. Many RPG's do this.

I've never played an RPG like that, then.

I give RPG's around 10 hours or so to prove themselfs. It usually takes around 8-10 for the RPG to actually be interesting story wise from my experience.

 

 I haven't played many 3-d JRPGs but off the top of my head Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana both jump into an intriguing story in the first 10 minutes, let alone the first 10 hours. Chrono Trigger especially was well told and had great sympathetic characters.



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