Japanese Students Save the World by Studying RPG Textbooks

[PurpleSky]

This is awesome,I wish I had this,instead of poorly payd teachers that don't know our names at math.

 

[Hashime]

Making school fun is always a good thing as long as the learning is not compromised, this is a good example of just that.

 

[NeedAUserName]

The treasure is either a successful career later in life, or a sticker.

So... do they get tho choose which one they get?

I'd choose tha sticker!

Who wouldn't?

 

[MetaKnight19]

If these were around when I was in school, I would have done so much better. And instead of waiting for a piece of paper telling me my grades, I would be expecting a rare item with which to impress the masses.

 

[elricik]

This sounds awesome, sadly I'm in high school so even if they implemented these things here in the U.S., all I could do was maybe steal one from my local elementary school. But way to go Namco for making school a little more tolerable.

 

[natster43]

That is pretty damn awesome.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

I want these in the United States.

Right now.

This, but England instead. Be so much better than maths as current.

WHY MUST ENGLISH PEOPLE USE "MATHS" INSTEAD OF MATH

/randomrage

 

[cobra_ky]

While the "RPG Genere" is new to this, I don't think it will be any more successful than other attempts at Edutainment software. The bottom line is that no matter what the pictures look like, and what noises the game makes, a math problem is a math problem, etc... about the time the equasion flashes up on the screen they are going to lose interest. Kids aren't as stupid as people have thought for years upon years.

I remember all those Apple II computers gathering dust in some schools.

To put things into perspective, when it came to "Oregon Trail" 99.9% of students spent all of their time hunting until everyone died.

Exactly. I don't see how this is really all that different from the educational games I had growing up. Mind you, <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28computer_game%29>many <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_Lake_%28computer_game%29>of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Munchers>those <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego>games <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoQuest>were <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmos_%26_Gadgets>awesome, I just don't see anything particularly newsworthy about this new one.

 

[Bullet Alchemist]

The treasure is either a successful career later in life, or a sticker.

So... do they get tho choose which one they get?

I'd choose tha sticker!

I got a sticker, this is the best day ever.
OT: If they don't come the UK I will be forced to kill somebody (drain their bood of course)

 

[A random person]

As someone who's been rather influenced by JRPG's in everyday life, I want these things in our schools. Now.

Exactly. I don't see how this is really all that different from the educational games I had growing up. Mind you, <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28computer_game%29>many <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odell_Lake_%28computer_game%29>of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Munchers>those <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego>games <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoQuest>were <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmos_%26_Gadgets>awesome, I just don't see anything particularly newsworthy about this new one.

For remembering Gizmo's and Gadgets, you win a sticker.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

There are RPG Textbooks!?! Why doesn't anyone ever tell me about these things?!?

I thought I just did.

...whoops, sorry about that, guess I wasn't paying attention. ^_^;

 

[Jared]

Sh they had used this when I was at school. Would have made it so much better to learn!

 

[Kurokami]

So when are american children going to be learning spelling and math with Master Chief and Halo?

"Ok now kids if I shoot this battle rifle 3 times at that grunt's head and each pull of the trigger fires three rounds how many bullets will be in that dead grunt?

In the words of Homer Simpson "They're YEARS ahead of us!!"

But in all seriousness I think this is a good idea. I'm a bit more of a visual learner and know it can be impossible to follow some ideas without visual representation to back them up so I do how this plan works.

Lets learn statistics and Probability with D&D!!!

Seriously though, I hate that I missed out on that period. =[

 

[Andronicus]

I want these in the United States.

Right now.

This, but England instead. Be so much better than maths as current.

WHY MUST ENGLISH PEOPLE USE "MATHS" INSTEAD OF MATH

/randomrage

Uh, you do realise that "math" is just American, right? The British and Australians (and probably everywhere else too) use Maths. Like the way Americans pronounce Aluminium while refusing to acknowledge the presence of that second "i".

OT: Wow, that'd be so great to have in school. I can only imagine how much smarter I'd have been if I was using these in primary/secondary school. I'd probably be a physicist by now.

 

[ShadowKirby]

Life is like a treasure chest. Sometimes you get a successful career, sometimes you get a sticker.

 

[Jonesy911]

Well Japan is awesome, this proves it.

 

[GiantRedButton]

Teachers are encouraged to induce amnesia by hitting students on the head with a log, after which the students will have to solve endless random equations to try to build up enough skill to kill the principal. >

Love the persona 2 [IS] reference If you haven't played it, one reason why it wasn't released outside japan is that you kill the principal as the first bossfight.
Edit:
Also one of your party members is homosexual (and the only one dressed lika a typical feminin rpg character, that oftwenn gets insulted for his makeup and hairstyle....what a statement) and he's a romanceoption.