44. Treasure hidden behind a waterfall
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
45. "Would you like to hear what I said again Y/N?"
46. "There used to be a well in this village, but now it's all dried up"
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
47. travelling to the top of a mountain, you get this sinking feeling that the only thing at the top is a boss encounter.
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
I used to live for this game when I was a kid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenders_of_Oasis it was amazing.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
48. You get separated from your party/best friend and you rejoin at a later date, with everyone stronger and wiser
― Spectrum, Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
49. pointless weapons/armour/items/mana draining battle with the evil character's main henchman.
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
50. End of game Boss drains you down to 1% of your life force with his first blow. You then have to do a clever thing that manages to boost you into super killer mode.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
51. Some dude who's been self obsessed with his own crazy theory for aeons, is amazingly talked out of it in 2 seconds by yourself just because you have a high enough speech level.
― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
Sadly, it rarely works out that way ILX.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
52. potions
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Friday, 21 December 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
I just realized it's a little odd that every time you encounter a critter in the forest you have to FIGHT TO THE DEATH
― frogbs, Friday, 21 December 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
lol
53. Just 'running away' is never an option.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIJzsF8mn9I
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Friday, 21 December 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
54. we have to get to the castle IMMEDIATELY before the wizard completes his SPELL to DESTROY THE KINGDOM unless obv you wanna spend six months in the mountains killing ice spiders, training's important too
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
hahahah yeah totally, love how exactly at whatever moment it is that you're done killing ice spiders and start sneaking through the sewers to the wizard's castle is the exact moment that the long ritual begins
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
55. some skill that you haven't bothered levelling up in at all because it didn't seem to be any use turns out to be essential for completing the game
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Friday, 21 December 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
56. coolest NPC on the whole motherfucking planet, with amazing stats and unique abilities, joins your party for one short, on-rails sequence that culminates in his/her death, not before he/she realizes he/she was wrong about you all along, and provides a crucial piece of information/password/quest item
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 21 December 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
57. at least one dungeon takes 4 months to beat
― tell the kids it's 卵 (clouds), Saturday, 22 December 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
god damned motherfucking marsh cave
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 22 December 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
58. "That final boss battle was much easier than I anticipated!" ~moo hoo hoo ah ha~ *final boss morphs into his True Form, has 666hp*
― Clay, Saturday, 22 December 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
59. the sequel may or may not contain any of the characters w/ which you grew to love from the last game — apart from vague legends abt their struggles mentioned in passing, or dubious fan-fiction retcons written by nerds.
― tell the kids it's 卵 (clouds), Saturday, 22 December 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
60. Every one in your home town is surprisingly well-informed on the world's general down-turn, the old prophecy of a hero that would save the world from darkness, the legendary magic sword, and the rumors about the emperor suggesting he has become eccentric and melancholy. Oddly, the next town you visit couldn't care less about any of these things; everyone there is all business except the little girl looking for her dog.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 22 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
61. After kicking shit out of everyone in a friendly town, you can return a few days later and all is forgiven.
― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Saturday, 22 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
2. talk to every single person in every single town
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (diamonddave85), Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is why i can't play RPGs any more, no patience for this shit
Are there any rpgs that can somehow influence the player so that, for instance, they can walk into a room full of containers and the player will NOT feel like they have to explore every single one. I would love to see a game that could enforce this sort of behaviour. Akin to not having to talk to every single bugger in the game too.
― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Skyrim kind of manages that actually, by filling every sack and barrel with carrots or potatoes. Still takes a good few hours to stop thinking "but maybe this will be the one with magic dragonscale armour instead" but eventually it sinks in and you stop looking.
― JimD, Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
interesting. Another way I was thinking was to actually fill containers with the obvious items that they would contain. ie fridges don't normally contain cash.
― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
(but that sounds pretty much what skyrim was aiming for doesn't it)
― These are my every day balloons (Ste), Saturday, 22 December 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
RPGs have nothing on beat-em-ups for moronic object/container match-ups (punch a trash can to bits, find inside...a single, perfect hamburger) but yeah, the obsession with opening things is terrible. I haven't played a lot of new games but I sort of figure old ones have an edge here because so much less of the world was interactive in the first place.
But yeah, it'd be cool to do an RPG set in a world that actually contained no chests or cabinets or end-tables in the peasant's hut. All items reach you in some other way than opening things and searching for them.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 22 December 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
62. Except for two cows and/or sheep sometimes seen at the periphery of towns, the entire animal kingdom seems to consist of apex predators. This oddity may or may not be explained as a sign of how out-of-balance the world is becoming in these troubled times.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 December 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
crushing poverty for first 1/2 of the game, carrying around the nation's GDP for the 2nd
― goole, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ yes! Going from 'hours of wandering around with only just enough resources to get by' to 'more weapons/armour/spells and shit than you will ever need' in about ten minutes.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
(although not an RPG, Minecraft suffers from that big style)
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
its basically an rpg, it has swords
― "Iron" (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
63. mana
― diamonddave85, Friday, 3 May 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
64. female party member is healer/sorceress/love interest
65. forced stealth section despite having slaughtered everything in sight a minute ago
― chilli, Saturday, 4 May 2013 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
66. cutesy integration of game programmers - or alternately their pets/kids/love interests - as NPCs, forest animals, dolls you can try to win at a carnival game, etc.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 4 May 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
67. Dickwolves
― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Saturday, 4 May 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
68. sub-boss tough enemy becomes routine mook later on
― goole, Saturday, 4 May 2013 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
68a. ...with garish palette-swap and synonymous name.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 4 May 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
that's great
― clouds, Saturday, 4 May 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
69. boss is obviously dead in the battle mode, but comes back to life afterwards for some dialogue ("i can't believe you beat me" etc)
― chilli, Saturday, 4 May 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
70 boss kills the hell out of you in battle mode, then same
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Sunday, 5 May 2013 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
71 fight to top of castle/tower/floating castle/floating tower, defeat placeholder boss and find magical barrier on bottom floor now allows you to go down to the eight floors of basement and fight important plot boss / defeat important plot boss and find magical barrier on bottom floor now allows you to go down to the etc and fight surprise even more important plot boss
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Sunday, 5 May 2013 11:14 (eleven years ago) link
72 strangely absent good guy mentioned in early scenes is final boss
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Sunday, 5 May 2013 11:15 (eleven years ago) link
73 final boss kills god
74 final boss is god
75 sewers
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
76. you wait too long to return to the peaceful town that teased a side-quest for much later in the game; it's been blasted off the face of the earth by the final boss
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
(I gave up entirely on FF9 because at some point I skimmed a walkthrough to solve some particular problem, and discovered I'd missed dozens of side quests, none of which could now be attempted because of event x, y or z.)
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 May 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
i kind of like that as a thing tbh
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
it adds replay value for sure
― clouds, Sunday, 5 May 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
It's fine up to a point, but when the quests are poorly-telegraphed it just means the first play is harder and less rich than it could be. Just seems punitive.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 May 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
all this is making me want to play chrono trigger again
― clouds, Sunday, 5 May 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
25. A point at which your character/party levels up to the point where the exciting challenge of battle evaporates entirely and each confrontation from then on becomes a repetitive chore which you force yourself to undertake again and again until you reach the game's endpoint or you run out of patience and smash the disc with a hammer.― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 19 December 2012
^^^ skyrim after level 40
xxxp I used to kill the NPCs in Ultima: Exodus. All you had to kill was one and the town guards would start hunting you down, though.― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:14 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e55P2XF38O0
― am0n, Monday, 6 May 2013 06:32 (eleven years ago) link
77. At least one or two traps from this grim series of books
http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/gifs/grimtooth4.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
78. mithril
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:30 (nine years ago) link
looking for some youtube actual play videos of RPGs that go a bit off the beaten path? toon is the one that comes to mind.
suggestions of both games and channels that gravitate towards that kind of stuff appreciated
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 18 November 2023 11:03 (ten months ago) link
Undertale is a game that goes off the beaten path in a creative way.
― octobeard, Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:24 (ten months ago) link
Where are the Paranoia actual plays?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 19 November 2023 02:24 (ten months ago) link