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well, the alternative was crying to sleep every night for the last 20 years

then again, some people are really adamant about proving their point

And from now on everything RPG-related will go into GRPG. Simple and efficient. All hail DU.



2. I've ment Dark Souls, PS3 - my bad.

3. I hope you've noticed that my last 2 points was about Metro's post (JRPG/weeaboo subforum), not yours (PC/console RPGs). But I find both ideas equally retarded. Jaesun tried a mixed approach (not on PC -> GG and/or weaboo art -> GG) but it was aborted recently.

PROTIP: 99% (or maybe 1%? who knows?) of people who post here don't give a flying fuck about the platform, as long as the game is good/interesting/has gay elven sex / whatever.
What's the fucking difference if a game is on PC or not? Everything except Xbawks and PS3 can be emulated these days. And PC games have more spyware/shitware than console games ATM. And most of "PC games" are botched console ports optimised for gaypad.
What makes PC games superior? That you have to use installer?


What's the difference between "PC RPGs" and "Console RPGs" from gameplay perspective?

PLZ EXPLAIN.

How much a person should love gaming to be swayed into buying a different platform just to play 2 games?!(stupid verb before noun in questions, how does it work?) Weeboos, consoletards and no-lifers. This thread went full-circle.

Heeyyy, big boy - since ~2004 same thing can be said about PC as a gaming platform.



In my case I just wait till emulators are available - ATM I'm slowly going through my PS2/GCN/NDS library. In 2-3 years it will probably be PSP.
Plus most of current consoles are (more or less) compatible with previous platforms, so you can complete Final Fantasy 7 for the 7th time on your PS3.
I've never owned a console and I don't think I ever will.

Are you sure about this? So you're saying that 99% of the people who visit this forum own every single platform there is, including all game consoles? I doubt that very much.

I never said PC games were superior. Why do you think this? Inferiority complex or something?

Right. And which games does the RPG Codex actually cover in terms of news and content? Skyrim and Dragon Age II. That's what.

My entire point revolves around the central idea that there should be a forum/sub-forum for the types of games that this site covers. I don't see what's so offensive about it. I, more than most, hate what PC RPGs have become. But that's nothing at all to do with my point.

The former allow their gameplay to be experienced on the PC, the latter on the console, so if you don't have a console and don't intend to buy one, the latter simply offer no gameplay at all.

No, they use emulators for old games and some of them are consolefags who own "current-gen" 1-2 consoles. Horrible creatures.

Damn, you've seen right through me. You proposed a separate sections for "PC RPGs" and "Console RPGs" co I was curious WTF is the difference between them.

Depends on the author. Mostly hipster inde vaporware shit (AoD) and things related to stuff that some guys "previously known for developing RPGs" do ("Tim is joining Obsidian - ZOMG ZOMG, ITZ gonna be EPIC!!111).
I hope that Croeaked Bee will change this for the worse better.

tl;dr

You're either trolling or not that good at it this "I think people have large enough brains" thing...



*Edit: ITT we learn that 2 elite PC users are not smart enough to download and set-up emulator...
Or maybe they're still butthurt about Demon's Souls and Dark Souls being console-only.

I don't know what to make of that mess. It has to go down as one of the worst posts of all time. You start off by not addressing my point other than by saying that you hope Crooked Bee turns the Codex into a console and PC RPG site, then you call me a troll, and then you bitch about PC elitists. It'll be hard to top, mate.

That was the only right decision to take, what do you want to speak about in the grpg forum ? Discuss how bioware and bethesda are doing it wrong ? Bioware no longer matter they are not even trying , bethesda is left and they only do the same type of action rpg subgenre once every few years, nothing will change except graphic overhauls .
Indies ? not a lot, and even promising titles like kotc2 will never happen. Dont pretend you want to discuss old C64, Apple II, Amiga, IBM-PCrpg, theres like 15 replies at max on those when kingdom of amalaur, a mediocre console action rpg spawn a megathread.

I demand Mobile Phone and Tablet Gaming sub-forum!

Phone/Tablets ppl shouldn't be associated with console plebeians and pc elitists.

Real men don't like anime.

100% agreed, anime is shit.

You are right. Instead of a PC RPG forum and a console RPG forum, it would be better to have a General RPG forum and an East Asian RPG forum.

Because while glorious Nippon dominates console RPGs, it is also extremely competitive in terms of PC exclusive RPGs, as you point out.

I'll be the first to admit that Japan is producing more commercial RPGs than everybody else and that Japan is producing better commercial RPGs than everyone else. But that is the problem. (see below).

The policy change was just implemented and any change in thread types will occur gradually. But make no mistake, we face the possibility of a fundamental shift in the culture of the general RPG discussion forum.

RPGs are a dead genre in the West and we only have a few indie games and shooters with stats to discuss per year. But Japan still produces quite a few commercial RPGs and they often have a fair amount of traditional RPG mechanics.

Because Japan is producing more RPGs and better RPGs, we can expect that the focus of General RPG discussion will slowly shift to Japanese games. This would be a large and fundamental shift in the culture of what has traditionally been a WRPG focused forum. (In 5 years we could find ourselves buried in Sephiroth avatars.)

Better to move Japanese RPGs into their own sub forum and reserve the General RPG discussion forum for threads where we complain about how we've already discussed everything.

graphics art direction >>> gameplay

thats how we hardcore gamers roll, biatch. Now, go back to your adventure games

Perhaps. But I'm not convinced that this fate would be much worse than the current situation where GRPGD is swarmed by "Bethesda should be proud" and "game's terrible but I'm having fun anyway, FU haters" threads whenever a new AAA Best-RPG-Since-Arcanum comes out.

Only a paradigm shift* in WRPG design can save this place. Otherwise you might as well sign up on abandonia and try to monoclize their forum. At least that's PC exclusive.


*note I have no idea what that term actually means; I saw it in a jRPG once

I think I know exactly what would revitalize WRPGs without diluting their RPGness.
It's just that it would drive all the spreadsheetfags up the wall.
Oh and no one attempts it because the gaming industry is uncreative as fuck and because no one there can afford taking any risks.

It's like internet 'dating' -- you get to know someone and think they have a great personality and then they show up at your door and:



Deal-breaker~

'tis better to lay with a fattie that fucks like a tiger, than to lay with a buxom redhead that fucks like a dead fish

No.