The most stupid RPG you ever played
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10,000 Bullets or any game that involves crappy controls, poor plot, bad graphics and questionable dialog.
JRPG's basically.
JRPG's basically.
Can someone please give any valid argumentation why Final Fantasy VII is such a bad game other than 'It's popular, now it sucks' [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle6cd1cskka05i]? Because I thought it was and is a great RPG and a huge step forward for the genre.
Thats not too far from the truth. I found it really fun as an RPG specifically because it avoided all the worst parts about RPG's (Level grinding, turn-based combat system, valuable item drops, traders always inevitably ripping you off (you can actually behave as a trader))CD-R said:
I once managed to make 100,000 gold just by trading between the towns... and that was only half way through the game and with all three available houses bought at that point. (And rented out of course.)
Ah, bandits.
Two Worlds. Hands down, I haven't played a game that immediately made me want to drop the controller until I played this.
Two Worlds. Hands down, I haven't played a game that immediately made me want to drop the controller until I played this.
Anything turn-based. Oh-no, there's goes half of them.
Pokemon is excluded (if you count that as an RPG).
Pokemon is excluded (if you count that as an RPG).
NWN1. I was bored rigid by the opening scenes. By Port Llast I was ready to uninstall. Dull story, graphically lacklustre (it looks worse than stuff like PS:T), unimaginably irritating in quest design, which is banal, linear and about as inspired as a hole in the head, and dialogue which is as awful as it is pervasive. Oh, and samey levels design.
I thought that was Torment.CD-R said:
Going to elaborate on that?Bible Doctor said:
Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven.
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Seriously. It is the height of game retardation. Yet from what I hear of it, it's also oddly compelling. If you don't believe, there is a link with more information (and also download) below.
http://bimshwel.com/renk/moraff/unforgiven.htm
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Seriously. It is the height of game retardation. Yet from what I hear of it, it's also oddly compelling. If you don't believe, there is a link with more information (and also download) below.
http://bimshwel.com/renk/moraff/unforgiven.htm
Eh. After replaying it, I found it unspectacular. It falls way short in terms of story, characters, and even gameplay compared to more complex RPGs, many of which were created by Black Isle before it was destroyed. It isn't a BAD game, it is just way overrated by its fans. That, and the two spinnoffs (Advent Children and Dirge of the Cerberus) should never have occurred in my opinion.Aardvark Soup said:
Hence why I said "largely dependent" not "only determined by." There are settings in tabletop that are fucking retarded in their nature, but they tend to be much less well known than video games produced by people with similar mental disabilities. The inherently bad settings make up a relatively small portion of tabletop RPGs; all the mainstream ones are fairly solid (though I'm not much a fan of Eberron. If I ever play a robot of any sort, he is going to channel Bender or HK-47 constantly).SakSak said:
I enjoyed KOTOR2 a lot. Sure, the level design started to suck nuts and the gameplay was basically a big grind sandwich after about the 80% point and the whole system was fairly easily broken, but the character development was extremely deep and the dialogue was very well written.Bible Doctor said:
I'll agree with you for the most part; NWN1 (I didn't play 2) had a number of bad design decisions. I didn't really care about any character but my own, and the game gave me the feeling that I was a faceless voiceless jerk who could easily have been anyone, I just happened to have a camera floating about 30 ft above my head (also known as "Diablo Syndrome"). I often found myself completing objectives by wandering in random directions and killing things, with no initial idea why I was going there or why I was killing those things except they weren't human (or elf/half-elf/dwarf/etc). It certainly had a Diablo feel to it, where the only real choices are how you spec out your character to kill things. That said, it wasn't that bad of a game, just uninspired and simple (and a lot of the modules were really good; they should have hired those people to write the main story).Darathy said:
i'd have to say 2 worlds.
Also anything conjured from that hellish program RPG maker.
Even though i've tried to make something with it myself...
Also anything conjured from that hellish program RPG maker.
Even though i've tried to make something with it myself...
The interesting part about NWN was that the main campaign sucked...
...but the a lot of the modules made for it were absolutely awesome. Gagne's Penultima series for example got better as it aged. His last set of sci-fi themed modules sadly got nixed but he did upload what was supposed to happen after the second module.
As for an astonishingly stupid RPG, I remember this Russian RPG that was a thinly veiled commentary on how religion sucks. I can't remember it's name, though, and I've since gotten rid of it.
Another contender is Lionheart, a game that encourages you to spend your points in conversation skills in the earlier areas only to punish you for it near the end with enemies that have a stupid amount of hitpoints. Great idea, there.
...but the a lot of the modules made for it were absolutely awesome. Gagne's Penultima series for example got better as it aged. His last set of sci-fi themed modules sadly got nixed but he did upload what was supposed to happen after the second module.
As for an astonishingly stupid RPG, I remember this Russian RPG that was a thinly veiled commentary on how religion sucks. I can't remember it's name, though, and I've since gotten rid of it.
Another contender is Lionheart, a game that encourages you to spend your points in conversation skills in the earlier areas only to punish you for it near the end with enemies that have a stupid amount of hitpoints. Great idea, there.
