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2 or 3 Questions for the RPG fans out there

DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
edited October 2011 in Social Entropy++
Hello SE++!
Just a few questions for you guys today...

What is a feature or thing you want in an RPG that you've never seen in one?
OR
If there is a feature or thing you want in an RPG, but its not done right, how can it be fixed?
AND
What features do you like about certain RPGs?

I for one sometimes wonder why they never offer bulk discounts for potions I buy
at mom and pop item stores.

I look forward to your responses, if any.

DTtheLEGEND on
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  • B_RB_R Registered User regular
    Hentai to all of the 3 questions.

  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    I love evolving weapons. I want there to be no upper limit on how much I can improve a weapon's power, if I'm willing to spend money/time on it

  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    Hookers, blow, and killing shop owners and taking their items to help save the entire fucking world instead of farming wolves and shit for gold. Stop trying to turn a profit on my destiny of stopping the evil wizard from spirit raping the universe.

  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    yeah, what hunter said

    if I can't kill someone and take all their shit, there better be a really good reason for it (a la Gun Runners in New Vegas)

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    I want rpgs to not pussy out and make it so that if you make choices they stick and there's stuff you genuinely cant get to or see. Too many say they're going to do that and have a way for you to switch alignments or reverse your earlier choices right before a critical scene so that what you did before doesn't matter. I know developers don't want to keep people away from parts of their game in case they only play it once but I wouldn't mind playing a game two or three times to see truly divergent paths.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    a really decent indepth crafting system

  • BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    I want a totally customizable party

    I want to choose their class, their skills, their appearance

    mostly I want to choose their personalities and have dialogue change based on it

    I want scenes to be totally different depending on if my warrior is,say, gruff, as opposed to if I chose chivalrous

    that's what I want

  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    I want a team of friendly bugs who I train and befriend

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I want an RPG that incorporates an intricate but sensible system for giving Hunter wedgies.

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  • BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    I'd play that

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    I want an RPG that has an awareness of you going into other people's homes or through their belongings and taking items. Both in the narrative and in the gameplay itself.

  • DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
    Of all the sweeps for information I've done with these questions, Id say this batch is the best.
    Keep em coming.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I would like an RPG where Keith and I could go out to lunch and then enjoy a movie together. No homo.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    I would like an RPG where Keith and I could go out to lunch and then enjoy a movie together. No homo.

    Make it one of those Japanese dating hentai games, but with the opposite goal.

  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    I want to be able to tell someone to essentially fuck themselves, no matter the situation, even if it'd be really bad for me to do so

    also, if I'm destined to "lose" a fight as part of the narrative, let me actually fight the fight and lose it, even if you have to overwhelm me

    don't just have me "surrender," or at least don't make that mandatory

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I want an rpg where gingers are feared and shunned like in real life.

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Henroid wrote:
    I would like an RPG where Keith and I could go out to lunch and then enjoy a movie together. No homo.

    Make it one of those Japanese dating hentai games, but with the opposite goal.

    What is the opposite of sex? Sitting alone watching My Girl and eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's?

  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    I would like an RPG where Keith and I could go out to lunch and then enjoy a movie together. No homo.

    I want this but without the last part

  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Henroid wrote:
    I would like an RPG where Keith and I could go out to lunch and then enjoy a movie together. No homo.

    Make it one of those Japanese dating hentai games, but with the opposite goal.

    What is the opposite of sex? Sitting alone watching My Girl and eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePAlYC5xPMI

  • DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
    Skull Man wrote:
    if I'm destined to "lose" a fight as part of the narrative, let me actually fight the fight and lose it, even if you have to overwhelm me

    don't just have me "surrender," or at least don't make that mandatory


    How do you suppose that should happen? Just throw wave after wave of enemies at you or make the enemy get stronger as time passes?

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fucking bees.

  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    basically

    don't take things out of my hands to move the plot in the direction you want if making decisions is an important aspect of your game

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    would an example of this be
    paul and jc getting overwhelmed in new york

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    If I'm supposed to lose a fight please let me know so I don't waste all of my healing items desperately trying to win.

  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    Skull Man wrote: »
    I love evolving weapons. I want there to be no upper limit on how much I can improve a weapon's power, if I'm willing to spend money/time on it

    I love evolving weapons, too, but I enjoy having an upper limit on it.

    I also like when stuff actually changes in appearance (weapons, costumes, etc)

  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    NEW

    GAME

    PLUS

  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    Just give me a PSOne era FF game and I'll be happy.

  • DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
    Keith wrote:
    Skull Man wrote: »
    I love evolving weapons. I want there to be no upper limit on how much I can improve a weapon's power, if I'm willing to spend money/time on it

    I love evolving weapons, too, but I enjoy having an upper limit on it.

    I also like when stuff actually changes in appearance (weapons, costumes, etc)

    Question for both of you.

    Say you upgrade your parties weapons to the almost maximum and
    You need only ONE more material to make it the max.
    But there is only ONE material of that thing in the game.
    You can preview the stats of the weapon before you craft it
    so you know whos getting the best deal, but you can only
    craft ONE maximum weapon of that type.
    Does this frustrate you or make you feel like your choices have weight?

    What if there were many materials in the game to make your weapons
    the highest it could go, but only one material each so everyone has to get a different
    maximum weapon. good or bad?

  • AsharaxxAsharaxx Registered User regular
    Well, what if there is an upper limit, but it is astronomic, like in the Disgaea games

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    there will always be a minmaxing pointdexter who researches the optimum way to make that work

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    Asharaxx wrote:
    Well, what if there is an upper limit, but it is astronomic, like in the Disgaea games

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g0cEj8jEBA

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    that game probably feeds autism like nothing else on earth

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I just want old school turn based gameplay out of my RPG's. Lost Odyssey is the best JRPG of this generation by a mile because it feels so deliciously old school.


    I also want the following in every game

    1. A set number of crystals that control the elements that are usually stolen by the bad guy
    2. Magical Twins
    3. Reluctant hero usually a kid or some other nobody at the beginning of the story
    4. Banishment from my home town for unleashing monsters through a seemingly innocuous act
    5. Some sort of ridiculous prophecy involving dragons
    6. recurring boss that is nothing but comic relief
    7. Engineer named Cid

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    i want etrian odyssey to be released in fucking europe

  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    when I was a kid I played Thousand Arms

    which was part RPG part dating sim

    and you could use the girls that like you the most to forge your weapons stronger

    weird game

    disappointing ending too

    crafting is always really fun in games for me, though, which is part of why Skyrim excites me

  • DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
    I also want the following in every game

    1. A set number of crystals that control the elements that are usually stolen by the bad guy
    2. Magical Twins
    3. Reluctant hero usually a kid or some other nobody at the beginning of the story
    4. Banishment from my home town for unleashing monsters through a seemingly innocuous act
    5. Some sort of ridiculous prophecy involving dragons
    6. recurring boss that is nothing but comic relief
    7. Engineer named Cid

    Not sure if serious....

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I forgot one important thing. Songs with kickass whistling in them.

  • DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
    I forgot one important thing. Songs with kickass whistling in them.

    This is not the first time that this has been mentioned.
    Interestingly enough, Alot of people consider the music of an RPG to be almost secondary to story.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I also want the following in every game

    1. A set number of crystals that control the elements that are usually stolen by the bad guy
    2. Magical Twins
    3. Reluctant hero usually a kid or some other nobody at the beginning of the story
    4. Banishment from my home town for unleashing monsters through a seemingly innocuous act
    5. Some sort of ridiculous prophecy involving dragons
    6. recurring boss that is nothing but comic relief
    7. Engineer named Cid

    Not sure if serious....

    I am both serious and not serious.

  • DTtheLEGENDDTtheLEGEND Registered User regular
    I am both serious and not serious.

    Noted

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