This is an excellent checklist for companies to go by when making an RPG :P.

lol, these are so true. I like how the main characters village allways burns down when he isn't around. :D

LOL, I was trying and google the reason why this Top 10 http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/82653/top-ten-most-over-used-japanese-rpg-cliches didn't cause an uproar and I stumbled across this encyclopaedia!    Still read little more than 60, but I can already say that WRPGs contain a lot less clichés than Far Eastern ones...  (tries to whistle innocently and walks away...  ).

Fantastic list! Everything's so true! :D

i like them cliches... i can't imagine em RPGs without em i think some of them make the game fun. Why do people seem to hate cliches anyway?

Isn't this more a jrpg-cliche thread than console rpg?

Me too, some of those were so funny and true. But you shouldn't take the levels too seriously in rpg's, its hard to make the starting monsters lvl 80 or so while you're still lvl one. I just imagine that there aren't any lvls in the game at xD Though mechanisms to make the monsters lvl up with you is a bit more realistic, it still seems weird.

I saw this a while ago and loved it

What usually happens:

1)  A good rpg comes out and makes lots of money.

2)  Another company wants to make money too and tries to use the same formula.

or

1)  A good rpg comes out and makes lots of money.

2)  For nostalgic and other purposes, some elements become staple elements in said series.

Although, I would argue that some on the list are pushing it, as they kind of come with the genre, like saying shooters that use guns are cliche, because they all use guns... *goes off to make a list of shooter cliches*

does this include the clicé about breaking down seals that no bad guy can break, just to look if the world destroying artifact is still there?