Remaking The World 42
Via GameSetWatch, an Edge Online article about rebooting the .hack series of RPGs. From the article: "Most RPGs work like this: a princess is kidnapped, or in danger. A brave young man comes to the rescue and fights off some great evil. We wanted something different. We wanted a duality between the user and character, between real and virtual worlds. With that, you can play between both those worlds, both realities. You enjoy the virtual world for its environment and story, but then you have the real world interacting with and affecting the virtual world."
Re:A Duality.... Pretentious writing (Score:5, Insightful)
To sum up, both the game and the anime are about a fictional MMORPG called "The World". The anime is mainly about a person who is somehow trapped in the game and can't log out, and the game is about a player who is investigating why some players of the game are rendered comatose while playing. So, in the game you are role-playing a character who is role-playing in an MMORPG. The game itself is sort of a virtual MMO, with all the other "PC's" being computer-controlled.
It's actually a kind of neat concept, and a fun enough game, though the endless repetative dungeon-crawling takes its toll.
Re:A Duality.... Pretentious writing (Score:1, Insightful)
So, kind of like a real MMORPG then?
Layers of meaning (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A Duality.... Pretentious writing (Score:2)
I liked the series and only stopped after I lost the PS2 card that I had my game saved on.
FreeBSD (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, that's the "new and improved" method of doing it. IIRC, we used to type "make world" to just build everything.
(In case you too want to "Remake your world", the instructions can be found on this page [freebsd.org].)
Want something different? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, all right then. What about, after fighting off the great evil, telling the player, "Sorry, #PLAYERNAME, but our princess is in another castle!"?
Video game rules (Score:1)
Although that might have changed now that they've merged with namco
Re:Video game rules (Score:4, Funny)
I just had this sudden image in my head of a Pac-Man MMORPG.
(And now you just did too!)
Re:Video game rules (Score:2)
And can we all just agree to hate the cherry farmers?
Mizuguchi? (Score:3, Funny)
As a general rule of thumb, whenever you see the bandai brand on a videogame, just walk away.
Does this include Lumines and Meteos?
Re:Mizuguchi? (Score:2)
Re:Mizuguchi? (Score:2)
Changing the storyline (Score:2)
Re:Changing the storyline (Score:2, Funny)
That's not true! (Score:1)
Re:Changing the storyline (Score:1)
It's called a "framework." (Score:5, Insightful)
For that matter, Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance does almost the exact same thing. (You play as a kid sucked into a video game.)
And, of course, there was an entire huge four-novel series ("Otherland," written by Tad Williams) with pretty much the exact same plot years ago, even down to the "kids playing an MMO fall into mysterious comas" aspect.
Personally, the framework strikes me as kind of cutesy and ineffective in a video game context, because the writers have to strive to make us care about TWO levels of characters when it's hard enough to make us care about one.
Re:It's called a "framework." (Score:2)
Personally, the framework strikes me as kind of cutesy and ineffective in a video game context, because the writers have to strive to make us care about TWO levels of characters when it's hard enough to make us care about one.
Having seen the anime and p
Re:It's called a "framework." (Score:1)
It still pisses me off when Shakespeare does it too.
Re:It's called a "framework." (Score:2)
Now where have I seen this before? (Score:3, Interesting)
Isn't that just like in Tron? [imdb.com]
Screw Hollywood! (Score:4, Insightful)
Oooh no, this came as a really big surprise. We were actually stunned and asked to double and triple check the figures. I always thought that, in the US, people liked simple stories like in Hollywood movies.
Screw Hollywood, they've been out of touch with what their audiences want for years. Where are my 'bad/lukewarm endings' in movies? Why the hell does the one girl always live when ten other guys die? Why does Hollywood even put guys in action movies if they're all going to simply die before the end?
Same with video games. Why does one hero/heroine always manage to save the world single-handedly? What about the hundreds of other NPCs? Why doesn't anyone (important) DIE and STAY DEAD? Storylines in movies and video games are just plain boring as hell these days. Where are my Alfred Hitchcock style storylines where the hero FAILS to stop the evil plot and merely succeeds in simply killing the villain?
Re:Screw Hollywood! (Score:2)
You mean Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines?
(ducks to avoid flying rotten vegetables)
Femi[Godwin] (Score:1)
Why the hell does the one girl always live when ten other guys die?
So as not to incur a boycott from feminationalsocialist organizations.
Re:Screw Hollywood! (Score:1)
Re:Screw Hollywood! (Score:2)
Seriously, why does everyone think that annoyingly vapid flower girl was the first?
Re:Screw Hollywood! (Score:2)
They tried that in FFVII. It did not exactly go over well with a large segment of fans. Other games where its used are Grandia II, Skyes of Arcadia (not a playable character but I was almost choked up), the Baldur's Gate series, etc etc.
Love .Hack (Score:1)
Where is Pluto's kiss when we need her?
The World (Score:2)
I can't wait for the day when we have full VR interaction....it will make MMORPGs SOOOO much more fun since individual player skills will really stand out instead of having two fight
What about FF? (Score:1)
This is similar to the works of Michael Crichton. An initial antagonist is presented, but the real bad guy is the dinosaurs or the twister.
Anyway, you have to stop thinking Zelda when you think about RPG games!
Re:What about FF? (Score:1)
Re:What about FF? (Score:2)
most rpgs? (Score:2)
Gothic2... free from prison the orc army lingers for an invasion
Ultima 4... become some kind of messiah
Ultima 5... robin hood retold
Ultima 6... false prophet, enough said
Ultima 7... The guardian an uber evil tries to enslave your world
Ultima 8... you are thrown by the guardian onto an enslaved world and by escaping you kill anyone off by freeing their old gods
Ultima 9.... ga