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What's wrong, spekkio? Are you a Christian? What do you have against superior input devices? Is it because you're PC elitist? Can you into new gen?

more importantly is dwarf fortress also an adventure game

is df a jrpg?

This seems like it might be a pretty good explanation of the mysterious reasons why JRPGs so often turn out to be terrible.

But what's the explanation for western games that turn out terrible?

Most Western party based RPGs are actually pretty good (DA2 being a notable exception), they just stopped making them and decided to make bad games instead.

JRPGs are more difficult to understand though. They have a lot of elements that you'd like to see in an RPG, parties, turn based combat, complicated, original mechanics. But they're surprisingly unpleasant to play and it is not always clear why that is.

no it is an adventure game
like Wizardry
am I right

Well, old western RPGs such as Wizardry and The Bard's Tale were fine because they were limited to constant fighting. They did so in a very RPG-like manner. Later, western RPGs began adopting non-combat skills and abilities to extend the RPG mechanics beyond combat. JRPGs initially copied the Wizardry model, which again was fine, but when they started adopting increasingly more non-combat situations but without governing them with additional RPG mechanics. This ultimately led to the lack of dialogue options and heavy cut-scenes.

In other words, a higher percentage of what your characters actually do is governed by statistics in the classic western RPGs. If you watch a typical Final Fantasy cut-scene you'll see your character say all sorts of shit and do all sorts of shit, without you having a say in the matter and without their statistics influencing them.

Of course, western RPGs went to shit when they turned into action games with bare minimum statistics. Even though JRPGs often contain large periods of scripted sequences (cut-scenes, automatic dialogue), they now contain more periods of turn-based, stat heavy gameplay than western "RPGs". I guess that makes JRPGs better nowadays?

I'm generalizing in all of this, though. There are plenty of modern Japanese dungeon crawlers that are still as pure as the early western dungeon crawlers. There are also plenty of really stat-light JRPGs with action combat.

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http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...-mass-effect-3-demo.69880/page-2#post-1987190

Jaesun moving stuff around again because... why not?

I would also request that this thread: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-mass-effect-thread.68704/page-157

Gets moved to GRPGD since it's about Mass Effect now.

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And you manage to be gayer than him has ever been Dicksmoker.

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http://www.ea.com/mass-effect-3

Genre : RPG, Action

Clearly indicates that Mass Effect 3 is considered as an RPG by the publisher. I can't see how anyone could possibly dispute that.

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And dissing retards, of course.

It's EA's site, not a store or anything like that. They happen to be as official as it gets when it comes to their games.

Only it's not an opinion. It's what is written on the publisher's website.

None. What does this have to do with the EA's website, which is not an online store?