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  1. Innovative old games.

    Jagged Alliance 2 and/or X-Com are about as must-play as you can get if your RPG umbrella extends that far into war game territory. Ultima IV's 'be the avatar' schtick was a great idea, but unfortunately not as influential as it might've been. Fallout and Geneforge are worth looking at for...

  2. The Codex Top 10, take 2

    It's a snapshot popularity contest, not a definitive bestest RPGs evar, so of course it's slanted in favour of more recent titles. Many won't have played much older stuff at all, and even those who have, assuming they played it vaguely near release, are likely to have more recent releases...

  3. Consoles are good for hardcore PC gameS!!!!

    Geometry Wars was initially console only, though it did originate as a mini-game in some huge budget monstrosity. Throw in Blast Works for Wii (whether retail or VC I don't know), too, assuming that's still in development, but that, again, originated as PC freeware. These are all marketable as...

  4. The Witcher has gone gold.....

    Well, German is less corrupted, for want of a better word, by Latin, so it kind of makes sense that it'd have a more appropriate feel for your basic beardy men in codpieces ranting about ancient evils setting. I think setting atmosphere is more attributable to quality of writing (and of...

  5. The Codex Top 10, take 2

    Hm, lists. Yay! Have another one. +3 Planescape: Torment Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne +2 Jagged Alliance 2 Ultima IV Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines +1 Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Darklands Geneforge Valkyrie Profile Wizardry 6 Ignore Nocturne and Valkyrie Profile...

  6. FFT Replay

    Why, because that'd be broken? I assume you're doing 97 Brave to go with all those Blade Grasps? How many of the 'can't die if female' accessory is it easy to get? Recollection hazy, but I think they came from silly hunting of your own monster units, so as many as you like? So maybe set up...

  7. Fallout, Fallout 2 and Arcanum have no gameplay?

    The latter, for the most part. I don't think you'll find it in a dictionary. Of course, any area of discourse develops specialized vocabulary, and banging on at length about video games is no exception, but I don't think the neologisms are helpful when they communicate so little. As you...

  8. New console RPGs?

    Persona is only sort of SMT, but a lot of the same developers work on it, and the US releases of the semi-related spin offs (Persona, Devil Summoner, DDS) have been getting SMT slapped on the packaging presumably in the interests of brand recognition. @Jasede: wasn't it you that likes...

  9. Omega Syndrome is dead

    No longer selling it does seem a bizarre move. Surely he could continue to sell as-is, unless sales are so infinitesimal they wouldn't even cover hosting costs? Needn't jump immediately to drama queen conclusion, though. Perhaps he's just so sick of it he doesn't want even to have to deal with...

  10. Non-linear quest design, and how to do it

    Because ploughing through fog of war uncovering a series of slightly different arrangements of the same eight pictures of a tree and minor kill fodder is usually tedious as fuck even in a straight up war game, where it at least has some tactical justification. When you're controlling an...

  11. Official Final Fantasy thread.

    As noted by JoeDirt, Paine, not that the spelling makes it any less absurd. But surely you're not seriously looking for subtlety from Squeenix? The biggest problem with X-2 is just that a lot of it won't make much sense unless you play X first. I thought X was the best realized take yet on...

  12. How was Geneforge 4?

    I take it there's minimal point in paying attention to Nethergate: Warmed Over if you have the first one? The original wasn't bad, but it was a bit of a let-down how much it managed to take a really novel setting idea and still turn it into something of a formulaic series of dungeon crawls...

  13. Finishing F2 with a pure mêlée+unarmed character

    Unarmed PC isn't a serious restriction - I specialized in it the only time I played. It even gets a mini-quest of sorts, I think (prize fights, or something, which I assume would've been a problem without it). Don't think any followers were similarly restricted, but AI followers are rarely...

  14. Official Final Fantasy thread.

    Nocturne's kinda better, though it doesn't play all that much like most probably expect of 'JRPG', so you might be picking the right one, recommendation-to-random-stranger-wise. X-2 is the only sort of good FF, and fans and non-fans alike loathed it so much the chances of anything good from...

  15. Dear nazi douchebags, (or: no-ban policy has been revoked)

    :roll: . Clean it up yourself if you want it more recognizable/less bordered by pixels I thought were white when I transparented it, but weren't. Roqua's being right again, for all the abrasiveness and customary affected dumbfuckery.

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