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Codex's Heretic
Garbage like this is why I want to organize a proper round-table with some RPG devs... show PC Gamer how to do it right.
Garbage like this is why I want to organize a proper round-table with some RPG devs... show PC Gamer how to do it right.
CRPGAddicts master game list contains nearly 3000 entries, and it goes only up to 2007. Such a compedium would be completely unfeasible.I was reading your book expecting like a compendium of all the pc rpgs that came out (I assumed that given the lenght of the book) but there are many rpgs I know that aren't there, so what are you going for?
Didn't you read all the "PREVIEW" and "WIP" bits? The book is still being written, that's why obvious stuff like Neverwinter Nights and Fallout 1 are missing.I was reading your book expecting like a compendium of all the pc rpgs that came out (I assumed that given the lenght of the book) but there are many rpgs I know that aren't there, so what are you going for?
I love how they featured artwork from Bioware and Bethesda games without inviting anyone from those respective studios.
“I feel like in spite of what some people have been saying, there’s been a lack of really amazing RPGs for a few years now,” says Katherine Holden, a Cumbria based manga artist and designer whose projects include the RPG series Vacant Sky.
“I’m sure that’ll be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like all these ‘create your own character, run around doing busywork in a sandbox and meet NPCs who all fall over themselves to give you power and authority’ games get a little tiresome after a while.” Holden points to 2015’s incredibly accomplished but slightly uninspiring Dragon Age: Inquisition as evidence of this stagnation. “Inquisition wasn’t bad, but it was such a shallow, toothless game compared to Dragon Age II, which featured deeply flawed, yet likeable characters and also a very timely story about refugees, prejudice and religious tension.”
Katherine Holden, a Cumbria based manga artist and designer whose projects include the RPG series Vacant Sky
- Wookiee spelled as "Wookie"Kashyyyk written as "Kashykk"
- 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!
If this is the good part of the book I don't want to know how the bad ones look.
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Organize round table and execute them..?Garbage like this is why I want to organize a proper round-table with some RPG devs... show PC Gamer how to do it right.
At this point, "personal story" is such a pointlessly charged, murky and overused term as far as video games and genre fiction go, that you can safely tuck it up with your saving-the-world trope.There should be more RPGs with personal stories
Precisely because they are doing what they are doing solely because they are paid for it, not because they find any fun or intellectual satisfaction in it.I cannot understand how people who are paid to write about playing fuckin video games, cannot write about playing fuckin video games. It's like a fry cook who cannot cook fries.
Bananas, apples et al aren't half the fruits these writers are.
A truly hard question indeed.
Is banana less fruit than an apple?
Precisely because they are doing what they are doing solely because they are paid for it, not because they find any fun or intellectual satisfaction in it.
This field, as it is, is filled with nerds with useless degrees, nearing or well into middle age, who are doing this solely because they already wasted good chunk of their life on it and because this is the only safe money-earning opportunity open to them.
That is a good point and I get that. But, do they not have any professional standards or integrity? I mean, I have worked jobs that were fucking horrible (slight exaggeration, I have not worked in a coal mine or forced prostitution in a third world country), but I was getting paid a living wage, and I did the best I could (I also have a totally useless degree). I would not have been able to sleep at night if I half-assed a job while I was getting paid for it. I just really do not understand the mindset of these video game reviewers.
Not even that. Take someone like Rowan Kaiser - he's a freelancer, he has no fixed income. Apparently he doesn't even have a journalist degree, so there's really no difference between him and a random dude on Youtube.Professionals? What professionalism? Only difference between a random [monetized] Youtuber who covers games and someone playing/writing for a site or magazine is that latter has a fixed income.
Highlights include:
Saying 2003-Today is when RPGs "grew up",