Reasons Your Role-Playing Game Is Disappointing

dimeford | September 07, 2008 | News | Misc

An editorial examining the problems that seem to plague most role-playing games in some form or another. Crappy inventory systems, we're looking at you!

Oh, and another thing about beginnings: don't fill the first zone of a game with characters who answer questions that the main character would clearly know the answers to already. Way too many RPG's allow the player to walk around asking the main character's friends and family, "Who are you? Where am I?"

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tallteen86 | September 07, 2008

Ummmm, mostly mentioning the cliches everyone knows, at least so far as the beginning goes, and the battle types....

But yeah, good points to be sure.

I hope Fallout 3 follows Oblivion's example, since Fallout 3 is supposed to be a good sized world (not sure how big)....
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Shadow_Knight | September 08, 2008

I agree with the part that was not in the source.

DO NOT DO THAT. If I ever have to play a game like that, I might as well get rid of it.
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GTA_Fanatic | September 08, 2008

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No, I don't want to deliver your *bleep*ing letter to Lady Rottencrotch. If you want to give some fresh bread to Griswold the burly innkeeper, go do it yourself or find a courier who isn't wearing platemail and carrying a flaming sword.
LOL.
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  tallteen86 | September 08, 2008
  
  Yeah, I LOLed at that a bit too. Yeah, I've occasionally wondered 'Does my character LOOK like an errand boy? I've got a friggen badass weapon, awesome armor, and am really high leveled....WTF?