But then, if you've ever played an actual roleplaying game, no video game rpg actually lives up to the name roleplaying.
I do own a Wii, in fact I've owned two. But after getting fed with my first and trading it in for s shiny new PS3, I sold most of my Gamecube titles. Then I bought a second Wii when Skyward Sword came out. Of course, Skyward Sword wasn't that good and I soon remembered why I traded in my first Wii in in the first place
Which is why they are loving Steam or Nintendo Switch every second.
P-P-P-P-Preposterous! Preposterous I say!
So much yes!
I get it, but at least you are still able to play GC games on it, unless you got the Wii console that does not play GC games nor use GC memory cards.I do own a Wii, in fact I've owned two. But after getting fed with my first and trading it in for s shiny new PS3, I sold most of my Gamecube titles. Then I bought a second Wii when Skyward Sword came out. Of course, Skyward Sword wasn't that good and I soon remembered why I traded in my first Wii in in the first place
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It's not a masterpiece but...
I couldn't get through playing RDR1 (got to Mexico), the gunplay was so freaking boring and simplistic.
So very much THIS a million times. People don't understand what RPGs are anymore and they confuse them with gameplay systems/mechanics that have nothing to with actually being an RPG. Guess what, RPGs don't even need a leveling system or classes or progression of any kind (there's tons of one-shot PnP RPGs out there). Or you can play as say a master (of anything) and thus be at max progression at the start of the game or start at master status and actually lose skills over time to aging. Why isn't there an RPG about that, choosing what skills you lose as the character ages vs choosing what skills you gain?
Couldn't agree more, From uses the same game design over and over again, even in new IPs like Bloodborne and Sekiro.
OMG, YES YES YES!!!
So much this. I really don't even understand how people can play Rockstar games and not get massively bored. Pandemic's Mercenaries on PS2/Xbox vastly outclassed Rockstar's "breakthrough" 3D GTAs in the very same generation. Rockstar has yet to make an open world game that has even outclassed Mercenaries.
Use the extra hardware power for stuff that's hard to do like AI instead just increasing polys.
Lock-on became antiquated
Mass Effect series, you spend more time role-playing than anything else in the series. Also, this old Escapist podcast (starting at basically 6:30 and going for 10-15 minutes) perfectly encapsulates what an RPG is to me and how video game RPGs made them a mechanics-based genre when RPGs literally don't have single required mechanic to be an RPG. Disco Elysium as well of course. Divinity OS series has some decent RPing in them. I've heard Fallout New Vegas (never played), Alpha Protocol (never played), and Wasteland 3 (just started playing) have solid RPing in them. Gamedec is very much going to be a cyberpunk RPG unlike Cyberpunk. Devs are lazy and prefer to do the easy stuff like making combat the main gameplay of an RPG or putting in progression systems (what games no matter then genre don't have these now?) because combat is easy to do whereas giving the player real agency with story/dialogue choices and the world reacting to your decision is hard.
I read this after typing the above part out...
Here's the thing, I actually liked Red Dead Redemption 1 well enough. I finished the whole game, and played the DLC.
Lock-on can still serve its purpose, but when you put it in an action game that punishes you quite strongly for making a mistake, put the input on R3, and make the distance at which it activates and remain active limited and hard to judge, then it sucks donkey balls.
I actually replayed again recently - trying to give it second change 'n all that - and I found if I approached it purely as a sim I got some enjoyment out of just riding around nature, turning off the mini-map and letting the environment guide me, and just taking it slow while I discover my surroundings. So basically not approaching it as an actual videogame, because the game hates you for doing that. I got about as far as the third chapter when I realized this was as good as it was going to get.
On a related note, to add to my first take, FROM's lack of any kind of movement besides "run, roll and hit things" feels extremely arbitrary(though Sekiro allowing you to grab ledges and swim feels like they kinda understand this....finally). The fact there are numerous places in the series where a chest high wall is an insurmountable barrier because your character can't seem to figure out how to get past it(Dark Souls 2 is really bad about this). Even the Team ICO games, which feel kin to souls games in their presentation, have basic traversal like swimming and the ability to clamer over a ledge which make FROM games feel lazy in comparison.
Agreed to an extent. They will fix that in the sequel. At least Ghost had multiple stances you could switch between on the fly. Sucker Punch better not make the same mistake where they lock stances behind observing or killing camp/enemy generals. That was stupid and senseless padding.
Same. I went into RDR2 with a "take your time and enjoy the world" mindset and enjoyed the hell out of it for that reason. I also enjoyed the characters a lot, which is great since the plot is basically "Dutch tries for big score, brings the heat down, repeat until everyone is dead or has fled out of a sense of self preservation".
