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Decline PC Gamer Presents: The Ultimate RPG Handbook

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Are there any nuggets of new insider info there at all or is it all just PR blather?
The only new articles are the 28 pages of Richard Cobbett's extremely rushed history of RPGs, the Future of RPGs article I talked about above, a feature on TW3's Bloody Baron quest, a feature fapping to DA:I's amazing storytelling, a preview of the Skywind mod, 4 pages on Gwent and 4 pages on EVE Online. the rest are old reviews & articles they just reprinted, like the Fallout 4 review (88) and a goddamn Fina Fantasy X/X-2 HD review.

I enjoyed the 6-pages about the Bloody Baron quest, but it's nothing amazing. The dev quotes are really far and between, instead of an interview they just pour q few comments here and there. It's interesting because the quest's designer actually has a PHD in Psychology, going back to what Darth Roxor was blabbering about.

And what are their reasons for that?
"If there was any doubt that BioWare was king of the genre, KOTOR obliterated it".

But really, this section is poorly told. It's titled "2003 onward" but talks about Deus Ex - a 2000 game. He doesn't keep any track of time and list all Witcher, BioWare and Bethesda games as example of a glorious era, but doesn't mention the massive gap between them or the lack of anything non-AAA of notice.
 
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Burn this, tape it on a video and put it on the internet. This will boost the only true cRPG handbook visibility:)
 
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All future RPG games will be just adventure games with some numbers here and there.
The crazy thing is... That is exactly the kind of game I was saying needed to be made in like 1993 or something. I had played Monkey Island 1 and 2, Sam n Max, Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, etc...etc.. They were fun for kids, mostly story and dialogue but semi interactive too, but they needed more gameplay than just click this item on this. If they just made those types of games have a few bits of character building, and a bit of action, they would have created what we have now but 20 years ago. Instead we have had 20 years of devolution of the RPG genre until it becomes what they could have just made to the Adventure Game genre way back then.

Adventure Games were the big budget FPS of their time too. They were the biggest games with the biggest budgets and the biggest audiences. But the whole genre just died because it never evolved and more fun stuff came along and took over. The gaming industry is so retarded.
 

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Seriously? They sell a ‎£9,99 "special issue" made 50% of re-printed material, then take the only noteworthy segment and re-print it on the regular issue like 2 months later?

Fuck you, PC Gamer. Also, learn how to correct aspect ratio, FFS.
 

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Seriously? They sell a ‎£9,99 "special issue" made 50% of re-printed material, then take the only noteworthy segment and re-print it on the regular issue like 2 months later?

Fuck you, PC Gamer. Also, learn how to correct aspect ratio, FFS.

:deathclaw:

Just wow.
 

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I just hate so many things about this... even the screenshots. The two images for Fallout are just renders of the helmets... DragonStrike is a flight simulator/RPG, so here's a cutscene...

Gameplay, what's that filthy word? We just look at nice pictures here.

Imagine a movie magazine going:

And here you see 1993's Jurassic Park, by Steven Spielberg:

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"... yeah, and there were some Goldbox games, yeah, with some spin-offs, kay, let's move on to the next title.."

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If this is the good part of the book I don't want to know how the bad ones look.
But I do! felipepepe give us some more abysmally bad PC gamer tidbits!
Just look at last page. 1 paragraph to Gold Box series, 2 pages to Deus Ex: Invisible War. Those are PC Gamer's priorities.

Also, just look at the 2003-today bit talking about BioWare:

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Yes, 50% of what PC Gamer wrote about BioWare games from 2003-2016 was "they had sex & gay people".
:bravo:
 

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Kashyyyk written as "Kashykk":)
- Wookiee spelled as "Wookie"
- Tatooine spelled "Tattooine"
- Ebon Hawk being as popular as Millennium Falcon, HK-47 apparently being as popular as Luke, Leia, Han, Darth Vader etc.
- pretty much spoils the big plot twist for those who haven't played the game yet, or at least makes it impossible to not see it coming

And that's just one paragraph!
 
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Kashyyyk written as "Kashykk":)
- Wookiee spelled as "Wookie"
- Tatooine spelled "Tattooine"
- Ebon Hawk being as popular as Millennium Falcon, HK-47 apparently being as popular as Luke, Leia, Han, Darth Vader etc.
- pretty much spoils the big plot twist for those who haven't played the game yet, or at least makes it impossible to not see it coming

And that's just one paragraph!

Actually true :) Haven't noticed that other two!
 

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