CRPGAddict

[Iznaliu]

Seriously, how can soimeone be confused by M&M lore?

By playing a million other RPGs in between each one.

 

[FuckLiefeldGiveMeChew]

This guy is an arrogant, Narcissistic asshole with no imagination who runs his website exactly like such a man. He thinks that by playing one type of game over and over again he can avoid all conflict because he is a coward and a snob.

He refuses to accept anything outside of his comfort zone: Nothing but C.R.P.G.s because those are what he plays well-of course, half the fun of video games is developing your skills and overcoming challenges and most of the other half is finding new and creative works to inspire your imagination, but that would require imagination and effort. He refuses to accept cursing, except that he uses the word "ass" a lot as a hypocrite, and whenever you point out that games like Wizardry, Realms of Arkania and Might and Magic are dull and repetitive he will respond with passive-aggressive derision.

Look at that game he proposed, Downfall: It has no heart or imagination. He only described the gameplay, not the world, the characters, the technologies or the enemies. I asked him to go into more depth and he gave an evasive answer that basically admitted he had no ideas beyond that skeleton. This is a problem with a lot of C.R.P.G.s: They obsessi over the mechanics but forget the heart.

 

[Covenant]

I mean, hilarious as it would no doubt be if he eschewed RPGs entirely and started making posts about Street Fighter 2 Turbo instead, the guy refers to himself as the CRPG Addict. His blog does the same. To criticise him for his focus on the genre seems obtuse. It's like moaning that your favourite porn site never has anything family-friendly on it.

As far as his fantasy RPG goes, he wrote more than a dozen paragraphs. That's not bad for an idea he probably had while he was on the shitter. I mean fuck, have you seen the design document for Bard's Tale I? It's basically a padded out version of 'Yeah, let's rip off Wizardry'. At least he said enough about his idea to give it a bit of character.

Still, I'm not reading for his game ideas. Hopefully he'll go back to spazzing out about boobs soon, that's the good stuff.

By the way, are you the guy commenting on his game idea page with the freaky dream about shooting vibrating bears?

Obdurate Hater of Rhythm Games July 15, 2016 at 12:49 PM

I want a game based on a dream I had, as I have dreams that make Mario 2 look like Inception:

I was in a world where rocks were living things that assisted policemen. Everything was in strange, bright colors. This world's most popular sport was to take bears that could turn into racoons, put them on rafts until the vibration caused them to change and then shoot them. It was a spectator sport with some danger, as if the raft ran aground, the bear got loose.It was even weirder than it sounds.

 

[TigerKnee]

Look at that game he proposed, Downfall

I dunno, I think it would make a great game.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

They should adapt the Polish version of Downfall which differs slightly from the original:

 

[Iznaliu]

They obsessi over the mechanics but forget the heart

The "heart" is a nebulous concept invented to justify complaints about superficial things in this case.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Guess who likes Knights of Xentar?

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2017/11/game-271-knights-of-xentar-1991.html

 

[octavius]

The same guy who censors screenshots?

 

[abnaxus]

He'll drop it because there's a girl humping a tree and trees cannot consent

Spoiler

 

[Lhynn]

Guess who likes Knights of Xentar?

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2017/11/game-271-knights-of-xentar-1991.html

It has actually some fairly good systems, very unique. Remember playing it in 1999.

 

[TigerKnee]

Maybe he's playing the original pre-patched version with auto-censorship.

Also why am I not surprised he still has to bring Rance up in the writeup?

 

[Grauken]

Well, he has to make sure everybody knows he's no puritan, he just doesn't like fictional non-consensual porn, but as long as its vanilla, he's all

 

[TheEntitledOne]

Didn't the guy kill himself over Trump's election?

 

[Melan]

Lots of near-rape and implied rape in Knights of Xentar (it was, uh, eye-opening in those days), but I suppose it is at least tasteful near-rape and implied rape.

 

[Grauken]

So we can say the CRPG Addict is into tasteful rape

 

[abnaxus]

He finished it.

This gives us a subtotal of 42, a reasonably high score, from which I am going to subtract another 2 points for the horrendous pacing at the end. Forcing the player to sit through that much dialogue, one line at a time, plus such a meaningless final combat, is essentially unforgivable. But even the final score of 40 puts it in the top 25% of ranked games so far. If it had offered any serious role-playing, it could have cracked the top 10%.

As an aside Deimos is named ディ一ド in the original, which is Lodoss' Deedlit's nickname. In the Sega CD Lodoss game she's literally named ディ一ド

 

[Cosmic Bane]

This guy is an arrogant, Narcissistic asshole with no imagination who runs his website exactly like such a man. He thinks that by playing one type of game over and over again he can avoid all conflict because he is a coward and a snob.

He refuses to accept anything outside of his comfort zone: Nothing but C.R.P.G.s because those are what he plays well-of course, half the fun of video games is developing your skills and overcoming challenges and most of the other half is finding new and creative works to inspire your imagination, but that would require imagination and effort. He refuses to accept cursing, except that he uses the word "ass" a lot as a hypocrite, and whenever you point out that games like Wizardry, Realms of Arkania and Might and Magic are dull and repetitive he will respond with passive-aggressive derision.

Look at that game he proposed, Downfall: It has no heart or imagination. He only described the gameplay, not the world, the characters, the technologies or the enemies. I asked him to go into more depth and he gave an evasive answer that basically admitted he had no ideas beyond that skeleton. This is a problem with a lot of C.R.P.G.s: They obsessi over the mechanics but forget the heart.

So far I have never seen a single post from the guy that actually proved to me he played even one of those games to completion. Every little review is full of mistakes and non sequitir opinions that say otherwise. So I will believe he actually does all that only if I see a realtime video of him slogging through the entire thing.

As for the blog comments and stuff I never bothered to post on his blog, but anyone who is making something like this should try and keep it game-related only, and accept any kind of post so long is it is related to the game and not drawing in politics, talking about other commentors and crap like that.

This guy also really fails on that front and makes everything highly personal and politicized, then throws a shitfit if anyone disagrees with him.

In essence while in theory it sounds great to have someone play all these games, in practice this guy is a disaster. He seems like he does not really understand RPGs and is not much of an RPG fan, he makes so many basic errors in every post I question his honesty that he has ever played the game at all, and his writing is full of childish atopical crap. It's like kotaku fired up an old school RPG column. His review criteria is a bizarre and a joke, too.

It's worth it to just skim the blogs to find games you might have missed but other than that every post I've read shows zero insight and is full of all kinds of unnecessary retardation and baggage. Not to mention the verbose writing style and inability to ever get to (or often even make) any real point about anything. Especially not points about the actual game, which he seems to spend less time talking about with each installment.

It just boggles my mind something like this even exists to be honest.

 

[Iznaliu]

Every little review is full of mistakes and non sequitir opinions that say otherwise. So I will believe he actually does all that only if I see a realtime video of him slogging through the entire thing.

Shockingly enough, if you play a whole bunch of games, they all become a morass to you and you find it difficult to remember details about them, especially if you don't get enough sleep (which I believe he has). Somebody seems awfully upset about his post about supporting Clinton, since he hasn't made any personal opinions clear other than that.

 

[Cosmic Bane]

Every little review is full of mistakes and non sequitir opinions that say otherwise. So I will believe he actually does all that only if I see a realtime video of him slogging through the entire thing.

Shockingly enough, if you play a whole bunch of games, they all become a morass to you and you find it difficult to remember details about them, especially if you don't get enough sleep (which I believe he has). Somebody seems awfully upset about his post about supporting Clinton, since he hasn't made any personal opinions clear other than that.

You have read his blog in the same fashion as he has played all those games if you think that, and I totally skipped over whatever post that was probably because it is not vidya related- I only remember it now because you bring it up. And also, I have pointed out what a retard he is in this thread with previous alts long before then.

I could accept that he might get confused about M&M lore after he played the games 20 years ago. Except that I actually did play them all then and I still remember clearly after all this time, and he writes the reviews right after he plays the games so it really makes no sense.

Whenever he reviews any games I played, virtually everything he posts about it is just factually wrong. Like punishing difficulty in sierra adventure games such as Liesure Suit Larry for example. How the fuck can anyone possibly think that? That is what he posted in his Hero's Quest review, which is especially ridiculous when you realize that Hero's Quest is MUCH more difficult than LSL in ANY incarnation. In addition to the fact you instantly die if you are outside when it turns dark, there's also lots of puzzles where timing is very important and it can take dozens of tries to get it right, something made about 10 times worse playing it on modern machines. LSL puzzles all have a certain perverse logic and are extremely easy for the day.

If it were one time then I could think he is just having a brainfart, but no it's painfully obvious he is a complete fraud because every single game he reviews which I have played (and that's a lot of them) is full of glaring factual errors and he NEVER has any real insights into them or points out anything I missed, which is often the case when I see a user review of some game by a codex user for example.

It's obvious he is just compiling reviews from other sources, maybe using trainers to whiz through some of the games and take a few screen caps. It's just impossible to make all these reviews and be wrong about absolutely everything on the game every time if you are actually playing it.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

eschewed RPGs entirely and started making posts about Street Fighter 2 Turbo instead

hey now

 

[Sigourn]

I don't think the cRPG Addict is lying. What I have to wonder is what does he expect to get out of this. I had a short-lived run of "cRPG history" before I realized I was wasting my fucking time. Life is short, and I'd rather have fun with my cRPGs than playing every cRPG ever made, in chronological order, for no real reason.

I commend his patience, but literally that's all I can commend: playing old cRPGs isn't a virtue, patience is. The only worthwile thing we get out of his cRPG habit is to check up on hidden gems. Look at his "best rated", "cRPGs that give you a full sense of the history" and so on lists, and realize he isn't really discovering anything new: Omega is pretty much the only outstanding game when it comes to "obscure yet good". I don't want to call his blog pointless because he is obviously enjoying what he is doing, but drug addicts also love drugs and...

 

[Grauken]

No cRPG addict isn't lying (Cosmic Bane, you sound like a prime piece of retard, what's up with that), but he also doesn't sound like someone who is enjoying what he is doing and he makes a lot of games sound worse due to this "style" of his

 

[aweigh]

there is no amount of CRPGs that can be played that can counter the fact that he loves Oblivion and Skyrim and FO3 and he's called Skyrim the ideal RPG.

it's like electing a senator who is a child-molester. there's just no getting around the bad parts.

 

[Sigourn]

No cRPG addict isn't lying (Cosmic Bane, you sound like a prime piece of retard, what's up with that), but he also doesn't sound like someone who is enjoying what he is doing and he makes a lot of games sound worse due to this "style" of his

I mean, it's either believing that or believing he enjoys masochism.

there is no amount of CRPGs that can be played that can counter the fact that he loves Oblivion and Skyrim and FO3 and he's called Skyrim the ideal RPG.

it's like electing a senator who is a child-molester. there's just no getting around the bad parts.

Truth is... the blog was rigged from the start. For all we know, a lot of trashed games may have actually been great. We just needed a more addict.

 

[Grauken]

I think he's just majorly OCD about his "mission"