Daily Chit-Chat -- Autumn and/or Spring Edition

[Luck]

You're serious? Fallout 3 was one of the most boring games I have ever played. I don't know who thought it'd be a good idea to have a giant wasteland. Ooh, an apocalyptic city, how original.I can't really say anything about New Vegas, but it looks like the same buggy garbage as Fallout 3, just in a desert wasteland. Oooooh, the game is rusty instead of gray.

If you're going to make side quests your main selling point for a game, then you should stop developing games, especially when you forget to add the fun in it.

 

[Jack O'Neill]

As if the generic crap that Square Enix shoves down people's throats on a regular basis is actually better. Just admit that you hate Western developers and nonlinear gameplay already.

 

[Alice]

As if the generic crap that Square Enix shoves down people's throats on a regular basis is actually better. Just admit that you hate Western developers and nonlinear gameplay already.

I like Bethesda a lot, but even I have to admit that Fallout is seriously lacking.

 

[Livewire]

As if the generic crap that Square Enix shoves down people's throats on a regular basis is actually better. Just admit that you hate Western developers and nonlinear gameplay already.

I can always count on you to ruin what was an otherwise nice and civil conversation, Jack.

Opinions, opinions. Not everyone likes what you do, and vice-versa. Go whine about how bad Namco is in T&M.

Golden Sun is still better, though

 

[Nick]

As if the generic crap that Square Enix shoves down people's throats on a regular basis is actually better. Just admit that you hate Western developers and nonlinear gameplay already.

I've found that a majority of members here prefer the far East formes of media and entertainment to Western.

 

[Luck]

As if the generic crap that Square Enix shoves down people's throats on a regular basis is actually better. Just admit that you hate Western developers and nonlinear gameplay already.

Because whenever I say something that doesn't completely agree with you, I must be a xenophobe of everything Western. Wonderful logic there. Maybe you should stop making it seem like Bethesda and Bioware are the speakers of Western developers. Valve, Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, Bungie, and even Irrational Games are all Western studios(as far as I know) and they actually manage to make fun games.

And I don't hate nonlinear games either. I don't hate Bioware despite having lackluster combat. You need to get those demons of stupidity expelled from you immediately.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

The only non-Japanese game I've ever played was frickin' checkers.

 

[loliwin]

Because whenever I say something that doesn't completely agree with you, I must be a xenophobe of everything Western. Wonderful logic there. Maybe you should stop making it seem like Bethesda and Bioware are the speakers of Western developers. Valve, Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, Bungie, and even Irrational Games are all Western studios(as far as I know) and they actually manage to make fun games.

And I don't hate nonlinear games either. I don't hate Bioware despite having lackluster combat. You need to get those demons of stupidity expelled from you immediately.

Dont forget Rockstar, Red Dead Redemption and GTA IV are great games. XD

 

[Headfirst For Halos]

Oh for the love of... why must I always step in this thread during the worst times?

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

The World Ends With You is the best RPG of all time.

ooh, look, you're WRONG Jack'o. SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOU.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

I'm thinking of buying that game, Cabbage.

Will it keep me busy for a while?

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

It's a good game. It kept me busy for a while because I loved it and played it beyond the end (which I've done for, what, two games? it and FFTA2)

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Alright, I'll try to save up and get it, expecting that I can get it at my local Gamestop.

BTW, is Gamecrazy out of business?

 

[Jack O'Neill]

I like Bethesda a lot, but even I have to admit that Fallout is seriously lacking.

Never played the original Fallout games, have you? Then again, they were LONG before your time. There was a compilation rerelease, but good luck trying to find it now.

I can always count on you to ruin what was an otherwise nice and civil conversation, Jack.

Opinions, opinions. Not everyone likes what you do, and vice-versa. Go whine about how bad Namco is in T&M.

Golden Sun is still better, though

And I can always count on you to be oblivious and inattentive. There's no such thing as a nice and civil conversation in this place. Also, you will note that I specifically singled out Square Enix as emblematic of the malaise that has been afflicting the Japanese gaming industry for the past few years.

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Because whenever I say something that doesn't completely agree with you, I must be a xenophobe of everything Western. Wonderful logic there. Maybe you should stop making it seem like Bethesda and Bioware are the speakers of Western developers. Valve, Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, Bungie, and even Irrational Games are all Western studios(as far as I know) and they actually manage to make fun games.

And I don't hate nonlinear games either. I don't hate Bioware despite having lackluster combat. You need to get those demons of stupidity expelled from you immediately.

Oh look, you can post an image macro. How is that relevant to the debate again?

Also, way to move the goalposts. The actual topic was the merits of Japanese "RPGs" and Western RPGs. Instead of actually discussing what you like about Japanese RPGs or further explaining what you didn't like about Fallout 3 (you're yet another person who hasn't played the first two), you namedrop studios that haven't developed or published any RPGs at all. What kind of point are you trying to make? What do the developers of Half-Life, Uncharted, Killzone, Halo, and Bioshock have to do with the developers of Fallout and Final Fantasy?

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

Um, he's trying to say that he just doesn't like Western RPGs, not Western developers as a whole (ie. the namedropping of western stuff)

Just admit that you hate Western developers and nonlinear gameplay already.

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

because, audy, we aren't kids. therefore, we argue and troll more. :)

 

[Spherical Ice]

And Pokémon is an Eastern RPG?

 

[Alice]

Never played the original Fallout games, have you? Then again, they were LONG before your time. There was a compilation rerelease, but good luck trying to find it now.

Actually, I've seen it many times recently.

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

millions of people worldwide can't be wrong, brah. Eastern RPGs sell tens of millions more than western ones. :P

 

[Cherrim]

The only Bethesda game I've played is Oblivion, which I'm playing now. (Well, not this moment but I've been playing it recently.)

I find it a little hard to get into simply because it's so open. @_@ I kind of prefer linear plots and characters because I don't get so damn sidetracked so easily! I told myself, in order to actually beat the game so I can get on to other things in my backlog, I'd only do the main quest threads and ignore everything else. That... has not been happening. :( I accidentally ended up in the DLC and now I've just given up on trying to beat it before the end of the year, lol.

It's definitely a matter of taste. x_X I have no attention span so dropping me in a world and letting me go wherever and do whatever is bad, because essentially nothing gets done, but stuff like FF13 was immensely boring exploration-wise. :( I wonder if there's a series that strikes a good balance? I kind of think the Tales of series it the only one I can think of but even that's pretty typical JRPG fare.