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ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
Posts : 10465 Points : 9425 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 44 Location : North Midlands, England
| Subject: RPG Stories Tue 2 Feb 2016 - 6:46 | |
| A place for us to gather around the campfire with our +1 steins of mead and tell tales of strange/funny/memorable things that have happened to us whilst playing RPG's. I'll share the first and last story I have about DS dross Children Of Mana. - Children Of Mana tale; spoilered up for length:
At university I had a couple of mates that I used to play games with when I could: we became known as 'The FIFA Crew' because we'd spend nights playing it on PC. When we all finished uni we'd arrange to meet up and seemed to carry on the tradition with RPG's. The GameCube's legendary faff of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles was one such, and also Children Of Mana. That one we only played co-operatively one time.
We decided to help out the lad who had played the least: Andy. I'd only gotten a bit further on than he had but I remembered the boss as a real tough guy. We loaded up and got everyone into Andy's game and into the boss fight. I decided to take on the boss's drones to keep them out of the way of the others. I got one and was heading towards a second when the screen froze. This was about five seconds after the fight had started. There was a surprised and disbelieving gasp, followed by a chuckle. The third member of our trio, Dave, was so overlevelled compared to the rest of us that he had killed the boss in one hit.
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Tue 2 Feb 2016 - 13:27 | |
| Your story reminds me of some of the Monster Hunter sessions I had with the GNamer boys...
I'll have a think, RPGs are not my most-played genre but I'm sure I'll have a few memories in the ol' noggin somewhere. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Tue 2 Feb 2016 - 14:28 | |
| Most of your favourite games are RPGs though Drunka, I guess last night on Persona 4 Golden I some how missed the mid dungeon boss in a puzzle that I had to back track a few floors. |
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The_Jaster Din
Posts : 11976 Points : 12068 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 40 Location : Underground Corpse Pile.
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Tue 2 Feb 2016 - 17:41 | |
| - Drunkalilly wrote:
- Your story reminds me of some of the Monster Hunter sessions I had with the GNamer boys...
While it's fun to smash a low level monster in minutes part of me kind of feels bad that you didn't get to experience said monsters with everyone having appropriate gear. I would usually change my armour, though that only impacts the damage I take not what I dish out. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Tue 2 Feb 2016 - 22:33 | |
| I'll always remember the first time I blasted through the end area of The World Ends With You. It's such an oddly calm area despite it being the endgame area, and the boss fights are something to remember. Ahhh, now I want to replay it again. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Wed 3 Feb 2016 - 7:59 | |
| - masofdas wrote:
- Most of your favourite games are RPGs though Drunka,
Kinda. Both Dark Souls and Mass Effect are technically RPGs, but feel more like Metroidvanias and shooters respectively. Pokémon is an RPG but feels like its own thing, and Monster Hunter is similarly unique. I have played through Dragon Age and Xenoblade, though. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Wed 3 Feb 2016 - 9:13 | |
| But we go of the Wiki for games in genre and all of those would come up as RPG, out all of those Pokemon is the most JRPG out of anything some how it feels unique but if you break it down it's the blueprint to a JRPG. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15094 Points : 15272 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Wed 3 Feb 2016 - 9:28 | |
| Mas. You've met me. Do you think I care what the man says? |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24038 Points : 24439 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Wed 3 Feb 2016 - 9:30 | |
| No as I still say Zelda is a Action-RPG but not to confuse things if there is ever any votes or even something like 20 questions if you ask the genre, it's Wiki. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Wed 3 Feb 2016 - 21:11 | |
| Genre debates. Back to RPG stories, I think one I'll always remember is the first time I used Auron's second Overdrive in Final Fantasy X. It. Is. Ridiculous. Burst out laughing when that happened. |
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ZeroJones I'M SO LONELY
Posts : 10465 Points : 9425 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 44 Location : North Midlands, England
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Sun 3 Jul 2016 - 9:40 | |
| A few moments ago I had this experience. - Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. late boss:
So I'm facing off against King Bob-omb. When the fight starts a 4 minute countdown begins, at the end of which he explodes and we all die. I know this because it's already happened once. So I'm on again and this time I figure out that if I kick his red bomb back to him enough times then one minute is added to the counter. Aces! So we bounce between 1 minute 30 and 2 minutes 30 for a bit. King Bob-omb gets angry, so I know I'm close. Then, on one of his turns, he doesn't do the red bomb attack! Disaster. Under a minute left. I speed through my turn and - relief! - he does the red bomb attack on his next turn. And... I miss it. Mario is a goner. We've now got less than 30 seconds left. Luigi hits a spot-on hammer attack - KB is still standing. Paper Mario is next. I hit the 'take the next single hit' card in the hope that the two of us might make it through the explosion alive. About 12 seconds left. Paper Mario lines up his hammer attack. I pray. The miracle happen. With 0:07 on the clock, because I am that awesome.
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26495 Points : 25327 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Sun 3 Jul 2016 - 9:48 | |
| Sounds like it was WORTH SEVEN SECONDS! |
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gjones Disciple of Scullion
Posts : 1671 Points : 1704 Join date : 2015-01-12 Age : 38 Location : Swindon
| Subject: Re: RPG Stories Fri 12 Aug 2016 - 23:49 | |
| Just spent a few hours on Fallout New Vegas and it was brilliant butfrustrating. Cleared out a large building of soldiers only to get to the end of the mission (which was to power on a generator - fun!) and it turns out you need to have 30 skill points for "Repair" to actually do it. Very annoying and a poor bit of game design. Obviously I can come back later and just fix it immediately given the path is now clear (ignoring the dead bodies, natch).
And then, after a tense stand off with various INVISIBLE ogre-like things with large clubs, I get to rescue a scientist in a research lab only FOR THE GAME TO CRASH. I really want to play this game but it's testing my patience.
Anyway, the point of this post. I noticed that I was shooting human enemies (as well as the monsters), but not the dogs. Dogs were deemed a waste of ammo (as they are quite weak) so I'd resort to the machete. Suddenly the game became Mortal Kombat where I was finishing off enemies excessively. Now, I know this is a video game, but while I was doing the right thing in terms of saving ammo, it did unsettle me. The fact I made my character a cannibal who eats his victims too, no that's fine. But putting the gun away to start hacking dogs heads off, that's a bit much. I guess that's something most players do in RPGs (kill the enemy with 1HP using a weak weapon), but it rarely involves machetes and dogs. |
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