Decline PC Gamer Presents: The Ultimate RPG Handbook

[pippin]

At the same time, iirc it's not illegal in the US to mock the competition in advertisement, for instance. Genesis does what Nintendon't and all that jazz. The problem imo is that most of them are just passive and tamed.

 

[anvi]

This thread is dumber than the article.

 

[felipepepe]

After 2 months, it finally arrived:

Spoiler

AND IT'S ABSOLUTE HARAAM.

Highlights include:
Saying 2003-Today is when RPGs "grew up",
An article about Immersive Sims that doesn't mention Arx Fatalis;
An article about "The HISTORY of ARPG" that starts in the 2000's with Diablo II;
A 4-page review of Deus Ex: Invisible War that says it's respectable because it tried to make Deus Ex accessible;
Calls DA:I a "slightly uninspiring sign of stagnation" on one page and "one of the most exiting, persona, dramatic and funny stories ever bought to PCs" on another;
NOT A SINGLE MENTION of Legend of Grimrock, AoD, UnderRail, Gothic, Darklands, Realms of Arkania, etc...
This article on the future of RPGs:

The image speaks for itself.

 

[Black Angel]

 

[HoboForEternity]

After 2 months, it finally arrived:

Spoiler

AND IT'S ABSOLUTE HARAAM.

Highlights include:
Saying 2003-Today is when RPGs "grew up",
An article about Immersive Sims that doesn't mention Arx Fatalis;
An article about "The HISTORY of ARPG" that starts in the 2000's with Diablo II;
A 4-page review of Deus Ex: Invisible War that says it's respectable because it tried to make Deus Ex accessible;
Calls DA:I a "slightly uninspiring sign of stagnation" on one page and "one of the most exiting, persona, dramatic and funny stories ever bought to PCs" on another;
NOT A SINGLE MENTION of Legend of Grimrock, AoD, UnderRail, Gothic, Darklands, Realms of Arkania, etc...
This article on the future of RPGs:

The image speaks for itself.

gross

 

[Infinitron]

"The creator of The Witcher 3"? What does that even mean?

 

[Prime Junta]

it finally arrived

Well, it was only supposed to be the ultimate RPG handbook.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

one of the most exiting,

That it would've been. Plenty would've exit the game in what, 4 hours?

 

[Berekän]

"Flip for more ->"

Should be quite telling that their target audience needs a tutorial on how to use a magazine.

 

[Somberlain]

inb4 turns out this handbook was funded by Brian Fargo as a 'fuck you' to Codex.

 

[Reinhardt]

With tournament funds.

 

[Severian Silk]

What is the cover price for this magazine?

 

[felipepepe]

"The creator of The Witcher 3"? What does that even mean?

Marcin Blacha, TW3's narrative director.

That whole article is actually by a weird selection of people:
Alexis Kennedy, Sunless Sea director
Tyler Sigman, Darkest Dungeon designer
Katherine Holden, a manga artists who made a series of RPG Maker games called Vacant Skies
James Silva, former Traveller's Tales (who apparently never did RPGs, BTW)
Michelle Silva, artist from Salt & Sanctuary
Brain Fargo, current arch-enemy

It really makes you wonder what was their criteria for selection.

inb4 turns out this handbook was funded by Brian Fargo as a 'fuck you' to Codex.

Well, he's here, pimping Wasteland 3 and dreaming about one day being in the big league with Bethesda:

Note how "Any isometric game = Infinity Engine style".


Also, funny they give the spotlight to Fargo talking about concepts & plans for W3 instead of Larian who has a game that does exactly that in Early Access. Again, funny selection of people.

What is the cover price for this magazine?

£9,99

 

[ERYFKRAD]

£9,99

That's 500000$ too many.

 

[Infinitron]

Brian Fargo and inXile hope to introduce multiplayer to a roleplaying campaign

Oh ffs

They even mention the Infinity Engine that already had multiplayer in the same sentence!

 

[felipepepe]

Seriously, this whole book is just "The History of RPGs according to BioWare, Bethesda and some of my buddies"

They twist the truth in such a bizarre way. Like, when talking about Baldur's Gate 2 they say "made save files imports work for the first time in a (then) modern RPG". WHY you need to write garbage like that instead of giving credit to like, every goddamn RPG from the 80's?. Also, Realms of Arkania 3: Shadows over Riva is from 1996, retards.

 

[Infinitron]

It wasn't even really a save import in a "modern" sense, it just extracted your character stats and inventory from the saved game. No world state data was imported.

 

[Prime Junta]

Are there any nuggets of new insider info there at all or is it all just PR blather?

 

[Cadmus]

Rofl this is the worst shit I've seen all week.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Are there any nuggets of new insider info there at all or is it all just PR blather?

More shit in this book than in all of India.

 

[vonAchdorf]

Fargo admits that he runs an underfunded team.

 

[felipepepe]

OMFG, I just noticed this: they don't even MENTION a single Might and Magic game!

146 pages on this "History of RPGs", 4 pages to Invisible War, but not a single WORD about Might and Magic. This is just what I was talking about, history being curated by PR. BioWare and Bethesda are around, so most of the book is spent jerking them off, while Ubisoft doesn't care for M&M do they don't even mention it. ON A BOOK ABOUT RPG HISTORY!

 

[eXalted]

Darkest Dungeon is RPG? What defines an RPG?

 

[eXalted]

All future RPG games will be just adventure games with some numbers here and there.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Saying 2003-Today is when RPGs "grew up",

And what are their reasons for that? Scan the whole thing, this trainwreck may be amusing.
Have you thought about ritually burning this garbage?