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WRPG vs JRPG thread

2009-12-25T23:55:04Z

Copying my posts here for archival reasons.

TypeLunatic !mbjwN8Mg4c 12/25/09(Fri)18:43 No.45237558
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I like how casually the term RPG is thrown around.

JRPGs hardly classify as RPGs in my opinion. There is no role playing involved. I'd hate to say it, but even the paper thin 'illusion of choice' Bethesda games offer is still more role play than jrpgs "Will you do this?" "no" "You have no choice. Will you do this?" "no" "You have no choice. Will you do this?"

You cannot determine how your main character will react and grow throughout the game. Let's take, oh, FF7 for example.

Cloud is the same no matter how you play through the game. Regardless of what you do, what choices you make, he's always going to become that vegetable in a wheelchair in disc 3.

Even though people claim Dragon Age's story is forced and linear, there are multiple ways to achieve it, that are indeed, examples of role play.

Earl Eamon's son is posessed? Do you want to risk everything, including the city of redcliffe, to travel to the mage tower and waste time there gathering Lyrium to do the ritual safely?

Do you want to sacrifice the boy's mother to do the ritual?

Do you want to kill the child?

Sure, they all come to the same (well, similar) solutions, however it's up to how you play your character to decide. Is your character a person with no sense of value for a human life? Are they a paragon of good who feel no innocent should be slain, even if they are possessed by a being of complete evil?

THAT is what makes WRPGS and JRPGS different.
Stats, bars, exp, and leveling up does not an RPG make.

Of course, that's why I also play WoW on RP servers. People don't really understand the purpose of RPGs anymore.

TypeLunatic !mbjwN8Mg4c 12/25/09(Fri)18:50 No.45237940
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>>45237558
To follow up, this isn't to say that wrpgs are all TRUE TO ROLEPLAYING GAME style.

This heap of shit here is classified as a "role playing shooter" but there is no ROLE PLAYING involved. In short, JRPGs are like borderlands. RPG in name only.

I enjoy both W and J RPGs. However, WRPGs will usually be superior in terms of having actual ROLE PLAY and the fact the character is your's to shape in terms of more than just stats.

FF14

2009-12-22T13:11:58Z

http://kotaku.com/5431965/final-fantasy-xiv-features-robust-character-creator

>The creator allows for a variety of skin tons, eye colors, lip colors, hair colors and styles, tattoos, facial scars as well as waist, hip and bust size. Of course, these sorts of character creators have become increasingly standard and now they're in FFXIV.

>skin tons, eye colors, lip colors, hair colors and styles, tattoos, facial scars as well as waist, hip and bust size

>Bust size

Fucking. Sold. MMO of the year, every year.

Oh god

2009-12-12T12:36:33Z

I've been watching a stream that marathons nothing but Gaki no Tsukai and similar shows with the cast.

This shit is great.

hasuke @ 2009-11-24T20:47:00

2009-11-25T04:47:25Z

For those of you unaware, there's a youtube 'series'/meme called Homo-Genius: A history of gay inventors.

It's basically a series of videos from fighting games (primarily) that involve players doing stupid shit, or being caught by moves that shouldn't land, etc etc. Well, I'm finally in one of my own.

I'm the one getting KO'd. (The move is only SUPPOSED to hit people diagonally above him.)

Walt

2009-11-24T09:53:07Z

Y U always log off when i find relevant shit to your interests? Super SF4 chars revealed.

hasuke @ 2009-11-07T01:44:00

2009-11-07T09:44:33Z

Dear trillian, please to be flashing windows when people IM me.

Piece of shit.

Competitive Gaming: How to be a poor sport and get paid for it

2009-10-29T11:44:49Z

So, as most of you know, I'm not very big on people who play fighting games and the like by tournament rules. Now, some will jump off the handle and say "WELL YOU'RE JUST A SCRUB AND CAN'T PLAY LIKE THE PROS" or some such bullshit.

However, from an onlookers standpoint, "competitive gaming" is probably the WORST thing to happen to the video game player base in modern times. I'm not saying competitive games are bad, not at all. The majority of "pro" players, however, are awful and may not (or may very well) be aware of how they're hurting the game community.

Now, you might say "how can playing a game at advanced levels hurt it?" Well, for starters, Super Smash Bros has become somewhat of a laughing stock, and competitive players have tried to make what started as a family friendly party game out to be some kind of serious 1 ON 1 TOURNAMENT BRAWLER.

That aside, competitive gaming weeds out everything in the game that isn't 'efficient' or 'guaranteed to win'. As such everyone uses the top items/characters in order to secure a win. Ok that's fine. But what crosses the line is when these "top ranked items/characters" dominate the charts. In this case, fighting games are big offenders. Sometimes, interesting characters are cast aside because they are "shit" or "worthless" and no one really puts the effort into using them to their full potential. It also makes it difficult because EVERYONE is using one of two (or maybe THREE) of the "top" characters.

The real issue with 'competitive gaming' is that it's actually driving a rut between players. People who choose to enjoy the game their way or challenge themselves by using "low tier" characters/tactics/items are scoffed at and mocked, driven away so everyone can continue using the same two things against each other in a repetitive, 'professional' cycle.

Meanwhile bad blood brews between "casuals" and "pros", further splitting the game world apart and causing more pockets of elitism.

In the end, it's not worth it. This competitive gaming shit needs to stop, and sadly, it won't. So next time you tune into some EVO stream, or hear some goons bragging about Halo online, remember. This is the problem with video games.

Hey Leo

2009-10-25T13:46:26Z

Remember how I swore up and down Tony Oliver voiced a character in WoW, but it was never listed ANYWHERE?

Skip to 5:32. "YES...YES! ANOTHER! YOUR WILL IS MINE"

Warden Mellichar in Arcatraz

Also, turns out Tager's voice actor is Sartharion and Yogg-Saron. As well as Kotomine and Nero.
THE POWER OF SCIENCE.

Oh boy

2009-10-16T10:59:34Z

New holiday inspired LJ layout. What with a holiday I can no longer benefit from due to being an adult (plus I can get candy whenever I want now) being right around the corner, I felt festive.

have some semi-'halloweeny' music

hasuke @ 2009-10-15T12:49:00

2009-10-15T19:51:23Z

Well, fuck buying SF4

2009-09-24T20:26:00Z

New 'version' was leaked.

from a blog post or something:

"New leaked info:

"All rumoured returners from ST(DJ,Hawk), Alpha(Final Fighters, Adon) and 3S(Dud, Mak, Ibu) are true.

Everyone has 2 Ultras.

Hakan - arabic grappler obsessed with oil.
Juri - evil asian girl fighter working for Seth.

some ppl have played this updated version and one was quoted as saying "It doesn't play anything like IV currently does."

Announcement should be made at TGS and the Japanese SF4 blog later this week.

Also, they're calling it SSF4.

Cody is the only character with an Alpha Counter. Yes, he has the knife.

Mak has her super as Tanden Renki. May be possible to activate with an Ultra charged to commence the rape time.

Juri's top may bear a vague resemblance to Shiki, with a bit of Hinata hair.

Expect the return of the many familiar supers, and a few new ones like Metsu Shoryuken. Return of Kikosho, Sonic Hurricane, Denjin(Gouken), Tiger Cannon.

Expect sick names like Breathless, Yoga Shangri-La, Psycho Punisher and Demon Armageddon.

Expect a lot of air activated ultras, i.e; Siberian Blizzard, Gief's fucking air 720.

Yes, you read that correctly."

Makoto? Dudley? Adon? ALL the Final Fighters?

hasuke @ 2009-09-13T19:02:00

2009-09-14T02:03:47Z

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/14/darwin-film-too-much-for-americans/

The 2ch comments are funny, considering the majority of moonlanders are still shintoists, and shintoism is about as goofy and fairy tale filled as it can get, what with EVIL SPIRITS, ONI, KING ENMA and all that junk.

Also, praying to dead ancestors and leaving offerings at shrines.

2ch is worse than /b/ at trolling.

Proof Funimation is full of faggots

2009-08-27T11:17:19Z

It seems they ordered the deletion/suspention/whatever of the account on youtube that made Dragonball Z Abridged.

and people wonder why dub companies are so hated.

(well, aside from always casting awful people who have no fitting voice for a character as the majority of characters in shows and only including one or two people with talent)

hasuke @ 2009-08-21T15:44:00

2009-08-21T22:44:47Z

Mother of GOD

Eroge Taliban pt2

2009-08-20T18:37:29Z

"The UN has told Japan it must ban adult games and erotic manga featuring themes of rape, calling Japan’s protection of fictional women from fictional rape “inadequate.”

The demands come by way of the UN’s radical feminist arm, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW. Extreme feminist pressure group Equality Now previously vowed to make them seek such a ban, and it seems CEDAW happily complied.

Calling Japan’s treatment of women “inadequate” and “regrettable,” CEDAW formally demanded Japan end “human rights violations” against women by banning games and manga featuring themes of “rape and sexual violence.” It is not clear whether they extend their demands to anime, AV or literature, though this seems likely.

The suggestion that fictional works such as manga serve to promote sexual violence is entirely unproven; it is notable that Japan has some of the lowest rates of crime and sexual violence in the world, and yet some of the most abundant pornography, much of which deals with such themes.

This is of course undoubtedly tied to the intervention of busybody international feminist groups in Japanese politics after the Rapelay scandal…"

I like how all this shit is over CARTOON WOMEN, and yet no one seems to realize that Japanese LIVE ACTION PORN is as full of the shit as CARTOON PORN is, if not moreso.

ha ha ha. oh wow.

Adventures in bussing!

2009-08-20T07:12:41Z

If a restaurant is going to close a 10:00 PM, do not be a fucking faggot and come in to eat at 9:55.

Vanguard Princess

2009-07-07T02:34:53Z

So I stumbled across a doujin fighter when browsing the net. Turns out it was freeware. Typical moe fanservice all female fighter. Yawn.

Then I saw screenshots. Wow. Fucking WOW. This is a FREEWARE game, and yet it's graphics, i can safely say, put Street Fighter 3's animation frames and even BlazBlue's sprites to SHAME.

While it's undoubtedly a T&A fanservice game (with loli sidekick support chars) the engine is reminiscent of old fighting games, before LOLOLOL COMBOS came into effect. Of course, since it was made it using a FighterMaker style program, it's got some bugs and exploitable aspects.

Regardless, the person and/or group behind this deserve jobs. The screenshot above, I'm playing the girl on the left. Now, you see a chick in barely any clothes, with 2 big guns (hurhur c wut i did thar?) and figure "oh hey, yeah, shallow fanservice char"

It seems her fighting style revolves entirely around gun-fu stuff like in equilibrium. Dashing causes her to spin and get into the stance in the screenshot. Dashing again causes her to change stances. Using certain buttons causes her to kick/fire and change stance/fire and return to neutral/do a super.

it's practically like Siegfried from Soul Calibur in 2d form...with guns.

SOMEONE GIVE THESE PEOPLE A FUCKING JOB.

Why Tourneyfags are a cancer to gaming.

2009-07-01T13:02:43Z

Any time someone argues with me about tourneyfag rules being the best and "perfectly fine, not breaking the game" I'm posting this.

HA HA HA OH WOW.

2009-06-28T01:03:51Z

Reviewers wouldn't know a good game if it kicked them in the ass.

Literally.

Eroge Taliban cont'd

2009-06-27T23:26:40Z

So. Lolicon erogames and such are being censored/banned/what have you, due to this crazy feminist group.

A poster on 4chan mentioned...there's no ban for shotacon stuff. Last I checked, wasn't stuff dealing with underaged boys just as bad as underaged girls?

ha-ha! hypocrisy.

Feminists sappin mah erogames

2009-06-23T22:21:21Z

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/06/24/eroge-taliban-take-over-all-fetishes-banned-in-eroge/

Some of these are really stupid. Adultery? Do they know how WIDE the scope is?

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/12/equality-now-we-should-censor-other-countries/

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/05/08/feminist-group-japan-must-ban-adult-games/

What's funny is, the introduction of rape and lolicon in erogames lowered the rate of rape and child molestation, if I recall right. Outlawing them will only cause the problem to rear it's ugly head again, because otakus and creeps will have no medium to turn to and vent their frustrations. If I remember right, lolicons tend to hate real life pedophiles, too...Huh. Well, the times are chaging, I suppose.

FUCK YEAAAARGH

2009-06-18T20:56:41Z

Someone's actually scanlating the Sunabouzu manga. GOOD TIMES

Final Fantasy 14

2009-06-04T17:31:52Z

Squeenix, let me just say.

Thank you. Really.

You've learned from your mistakes in ff11, and everything you say you're doing in 14 sounds so fuck awesome.

<3<3<3

Refer to Icon

2009-06-02T07:46:40Z

Fuck you, Valve :(

Of Erogames and Ronery

2009-05-31T02:59:23Z

So as many of you are (not) aware of, there was a certain shitstorm that arose over the selling of a specific Japanese erogame on Amazon. The game in question was called "RapeLay" and, as the name suggests, revolved around rape.

Well, some American watchdog groups or some such business found out about this and unleashed the dogs of war. While this resulted in Amazon no longer selling said game, something rather hilarious has surfaced because of this.

Illusion, the circle responsible for RL and other erogames such as Artificial Girl, Sexy Beach, and Schoolmate, are releasing a new game. The kicker? Because of the shitstorm over RL, they're supposedly coding this game to be impossible (or at least extremely difficult) to get running on non-Japanese PCs, let alone English patch it.

This brings me to the point of my post. I find it rather hilarious that they go out of their way to keep Americans from playing these games on account of what happened with a previous release of their's. It's as if they actually care about what the American people think about them, which is rather amusing.

...Looking back at the earlier content of this post, I'm starting to think I know too much about some things for my own good. Hm.