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dtewi on 03 July 2010
Weegee said:

No , I simply think that most of the pokemon game fan are gamers and they know the rpg genre and they also know that the pokemon game are rpg.

When pokemon diamond/pearl have landed on DS , 16 million have bought the game, probably a couple of million were casual. But do really think that the 8 million who have bought almost the same game twice (pokemon platine , heart / soul) were casual gamer who do not know the genre ? No , i'm pretty sure that the 8 million guy/girl were hardcore gamer who want the entire collection or/and want to puts another 100 hour to capture monster and beat the team rocket.

And all these hardcore gamer probably think 'pokemon' when there hear rpg and not by reflexe, by instinct.

Listen to what I'm saying.

The common people, the 6 billion people on earth, do not consider Pokemon to be an RPG because they don't know what it is.

Stop looking at it from a gamer's perspective, I'm talking about the entire world.



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Boutros on 03 July 2010

Final Fantasy of course.



Khuutra on 03 July 2010
dtewi said:

Listen to what I'm saying.

The common people, the 6 billion people on earth, do not consider Pokemon to be an RPG because they don't know what it is.

Stop looking at it from a gamer's perspective, I'm talking about the entire world.

Dtewi, stop this

Wat dos this have to do with ANYTHING?

This ame logic applies to every game in this topic except maybe WoW



themanwithnoname on 03 July 2010

I'd have to say KOTOR. It was the first one I sunk a whole bunch of hours into.



themanwithnoname's law: As an America's sales or NPD thread grows longer, the probabilty of the comment "America = World" [sarcasticly] being made approaches 1.

twesterm on 03 July 2010
Khuutra said:
twesterm said:
Khuutra said:

That is not what "standard" means.

And I think of Dungeons and Dragons, like any decent, God-fearing nerd.

Different definitions of the same word. 

When I hear someone say standard, I think of the thing that most people think of.  In the case of RPG's video games, I think Final Fantasy.  When I think role playing games, I think DnD.

By the way, completely random questions-- is there a magic item in 4th that lets you communicate between long distances?  I remember there were rings in 3rd that let you do that but I can't seem to find them in 4th.

Context dictates definitions, and you're using the wrong one. Standard is the qualitative example against which other works are emasured, typically referred to by an artistic authority or a communal consent - and no, popularity is not the same thing as a communal consent of a qualitative standard, especially when the majority do not partake in a dialogue.

I really have no idea. I have yet to play 4e (sadly).


You need to play 4th, it's great.  It really is just a general improvement on everything.  It's pretty cool how they made even 1st level awesome and classes like fighters have more to do than basic attack and flank.

Also, I want to make one of these:

And no, ontopic, let me first start by saying this:

I know Pokemon is an RPG, don't bother "correcting" me on the following.

Looks like I was completely wrong about the Pokemon commercials, but Pokemon isn't really marketed to people as an RPG and most people, even Nintendo fans, don't think of it as an RPG.  They think of it as Pokemon, as in Pokemon is its own entity.

A kid doesn't play Pokemon because of its RPG elements, they play it for its brilliant marketing.  An adult doesn't play Pokemon because it's a deep RPG or rich narative, they play it because, again, brilliant marketing campaign.

To most people Pokemon is just not an RPG.  Aside from people that generally hang out on forums like this, which are the minority, I don't know anything that actually thinks of Pokemon as an RPG.

I really don't know how I forgot about Gotta catch them all. -_-



 

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Jo21 on 03 July 2010

final fantasy, the best RPG.



Dgc1808 on 03 July 2010

None really. I just think generic anime characters in colorful odd clothing shouting cheesy stuff and swinging weapons and using spells against random freaky looking things.



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Porcupine_I on 03 July 2010

Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant

 



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tingyu on 03 July 2010

Final Fantasy series, though the quality has gone down hill since Sakaguchi San left Square-Enix



Zkuq on 03 July 2010

The first words that came in my mind were 'Dragon Age', but then I was like 'no, not Dragon Age but  Baldur's Gate II instead'.