The most stupid RPG you ever played

[klakkat]

Did we all up and forget Too Human?

That was an RPG? Oh well, I didn't play it anyway. I'd forgotten about Lionheart though; it would have been better if they'd just ripped off Diablo instead of also trying to incorporate elements from Fallout as well, because the two are from different worlds and don't mix well.

 

[Darathy]

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).

Can't really comment on most of the game, to be honest; I uninstalled partway through Port Llast. From what I've heard the gameplay doesn't improve much over the rest of the game. You should definitely try NWN2 - it's got a much firmer sense of plot and, once you get out of Act I, pace. You can also have a party of four CNPCS who you can directly control, KotOR-style. Plus it's prettier.

Also, NWN2 has probably the best piece of RPG written since PS:T for an expansion pack: Mask of the Betrayer.

 

[Woe Is You]

Oh yeah, now I remember that Russian RPG.

Hard To Be A God.

My God was that a waste of time.

 

[Zyxzy]

Infinite Undiscovery. Shut up Capel.

 

[rhyno435]

Final Fantasy 7.

ninja'd, even though FF7 is really good and I would be kidding.

 

[Zacharine]

Tabletop RPGs largely depend on the GM and players to determine if it will be stupid or not.

Actually no. While a good GM is essential for a good game, even a good group and a good GM can't make a shitty system with a story based on WTF-land work in any acceptable fashion. A certain basic level is required from any p&p RPG game, both in terms of setting and mechanics.

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).

Mmh, good point, I find myself agreeing with that statement.

 

[Lusional Sjenn]

Wow, all these people complaining about the various games in the final fantasy series when theres the perfectly susceptable FFX-2 to pick on. A game that they needed to release to bring closure to the atrocity that came before it, which didnt even bring closure to it unless you played through it 15 times and made sure to find every tiny piece of dust sitting in the corner for that 100% clear (unless you happen to be cheap and use a strategy guide but if your that desperate to see the endings you'll do what I did and watch them on youtube). Since the creators clearly couldnt figure out how a class system works for your characters (given their sphere grid system in the first game which essentially let every character be every class in the game by the end of it) they instead took the opposite road of letting each character be every class but only 1 class at a time... in skimpy jump suits. Combat is weak, story line is weaker getting so far from the original point that Id forgotten what it was by the time I found myself fighting the ghost of some guy who resembled our protaginists deceased lover who didnt actually exist in the first place on top of a giant robot (by the way, if your the kind of person who gets his panties in a wad over spoilers heres a warning, that last sentence contained a spoiler). Apparently the creators also got lazy (or ran out of voice actors) so decided to only give you three characters which may also be the explanation for why they are now allowed to change their class mid-combat at will... also that they were all single and lonely. Point is I hated that game... wow, Now I get a vague idea of what it feels like to be Yahtzee, bastard has the greatest job in the world.

 

[Kajt]

Final Fantasy VII, such a boring game.

 

[Lonely Swordsman]

Dungeon Lords. The plot is STUPID, the charater's are stock, the fighting is awful and it's all around just tidious and boring.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

In terms of mad ideas, I'm going to go with the Kingdom Hearts series. As much as I love the series, I admit that the story doesn't inspire confidence in the game. I mean, in a summary, it's this:

You're a kid who fights with an oversized key, alongside a duck and a Goofy. You fight the physical manifestation of the darkness of people's hearts, which collect hearts, in order to make a big heart for...some purpose, power I suppose. Oh, and there's some people called Nobodies who are the empty shell of a person, and they want to make a big heart as well. And don't forget the arbitrary love interest who can suddenly fight when called upon and the older "mentor/best friend" who turns evil.

However, having said that, I myself enjoyed the story and the games overall.

Personally, I think one of the stupidest descisons regarding RPGs was Final Fantasy X-2, but not because the game was bad, because it wasn't. I just think making a sequel to a game that good to try and explain it all away and then give it a happy ending was dull. I mean, can't a story exist nowadays that doesn't have a perfect ending? Do the hero and heroine always have to end up together? I don't think so - I thought the ending of Final Fantasy X was brilliant, and the whole love story thing of the sequel slightly spoiled it, in my opinion.

 

[CmdrGoob]

Final Fantasy 8. From the plot to the characters to the gameplay mechanics (draw, draw, draw ARRG!), everything about that game is perfectly stupid.

 

[VaultBoy]

storywise, Blue Dragon. For such a game with such potential, It is sad that it is wrecked by a god-awful translation

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Earthbound. Cue angry mob.

Angry mob is here

Screw you

/fangirlism

Sorry 'bout that. :3
Just wondering if you completed the whole game. 'Cause I know it can get pretty grindy at some parts but the ending is worth it. Also, you might enjoy its sequel - Mother 3 - more.

 

[PeaceFistCreations]

Playing the Two Worlds demo was one of the worst game related things that ever happened to me.
My friend said that the games PC version received a patch, and was actually pretty decent now.
I doubt it. Improving Two Worlds in my mind is like lovingly sprinkling a few rainbow jimmies on top of a steaming pile of shit being roasted on a red hot rusty metal surface.

The same friend said I had to see this character in the early Xbox 360 RPG Enchanted Arms.
He loaded it up, and the game started off with a flashback to some battle that I guess was supposed to happen in the future or something. I hated the combat system and the controls, but that was my opinion, I'm not the best with JRPG's, and it didn't make the game bad.
Then I heard the story, which was so stereotypical and hollow (my opinion), that I successfully predicted and plotted out plenty of events in my head before anything happened. Still, not a bad game, or story, just my opinion.
The main character and his friend were also typical and predictable, and looked and dressed horribly(my opinion). Still, not a game ruiner, but I hated it.

But now, we get to the "good" part. Apparently, they have a third friend, whole is not "just a little gay", who does not "have some feminine elements to his personality and looks", nor was he exactly an "Bishounen character with sexy underlines of homosexuality for the fangirls to gush over".
What he was, was the most gayest flamboyant character in fucking video game history. He had a lisp, he had a crush on one(or both, I think) of the main characters, and just bleed, breathed, and exhaled pure gayness.
If the game was rated M, he would have been verbally sucking every body part of the main character(or his friend, I forget which one he had a crush on). Hell, he got some pretty nasty shit under the radar with his steel hammered innuendo. He wasn't even gay in a fangirl-pleasing way, just hilariously fruity beyond belief, outshining the feminism of several of the female npcs you meet along the way.
Me and my friend could not, for the life of us, stop laughing when we entered a dialogue scene with this little rainbow of homosexuality.
I have very little against gays, and was good friends with a few for several years. I'm slightly interested in seeing a gay character in a future game that is handled well.
But this fruitcake was just so unbearably GAY. There was no way I would play that game seriously after seeing that.
I do plan on renting it to show to my new friends for kicks. I think it will blow their minds and rib cages open.


(BTW, yes, I'm sure you've seen an even gayer character in another game, and would like to destroy my pedestal of gayness that I've set up for the Enchanted Arms fag.
Yes, I'm interested in seeing if you can one-up my chosen homo, just don't get all excited, like your going to make my day. You'll probably just creep me out)

 

[R.O.]

Probably Chrono Trigger. It had so much hype and I wanted to buy it ever since a kid. When I finally crack it open for DS, it has aged horribly. Nothing about it was fun, it was tedious, the plot was slow, the story was garbage. I mean, FF6 at least had some fun and pep going for it. I think because the animations were by the same person who did Dragonball Z people ran out and bought it just like what happened with Blue Dragon.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Earthbound. Cue angry mob.

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Blasphemy.

I agree. How can you hate something which was everything good about Japanese gaming? God I need to dance to the retro hippie song now.

 

[DragonChi]

Fallout 3 (could have been done A LOT better)
BioShock (not saying its a bad game, i personaly love it..im just saying from a RPG stand point, it was WAY off)
Eternal Sonata (made me wanna shoot myself)
Oblivion (...ugh *sighs and closes eyes with my thumb and forefinger holding the top part of the bridge of my nose*..)

 

[UnearthedArcana]

Earthbound. Cue angry mob.

Angry mob is here

Screw you

/fangirlism

Sorry 'bout that. :3
Just wondering if you completed the whole game. 'Cause I know it can get pretty grindy at some parts but the ending is worth it. Also, you might enjoy its sequel - Mother 3 - more.

I certainly did. I don't feel qualified to make a judgment like this until I've played something to the end. Only Sonic Heroes was bad enough that I didn't get to the end - I snapped the disc into several pieces and threw them across the room.

Anyway, it's the whole atmosphere that gets to me. The characters were annoying, the storyline was annoying, the dialogue...you see?

Oh yeah, and...Pokey Minch. The single most annoying character in the history of gaming.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Children of Mana was just awful. Form the get-go, repetitive crappy, and long.
Oblivion was also a massive disappointment to me. I played it on pc first, got bored, bought it on ps3 and finished it (all of the main quests and most of the sidequests, as well as building up most of my skills). It was just a big letdown for me. I wish the battle system had been as interesting and dynamic as Might and Magic: Dark Messiah. That game pwned.

 

[AboveUp]

Oblivion. EVERYONE, including the thieves, are fighting for a good cause. Including the emperor and the Blades, who in previous games were extremely corrupted and evil.

Way to destroy your own fantasy world, Bethesda.