Nah, looks real.  I like it.

he totes wasn't ready for this pic

How is it any different than you having 5000~ posts on multiple forums?

IT WAS ME, SNAKE!

He still has a detailed backstory, though.

not in the games he doesn't

What a lot of people have been bringing up is the self-insertion aspect. Though it could be argued (tenuously) that Halo is an "RPG" because you take the role of Master Chief, the Master Chief is a pre-established character with all his own backstory and personality traits ready-made.

Whereas with modern true RPGs, there's a heavy emphasis on putting you, the player, into the story. Rarely in a true RPG is the main character anything but a completely blank slate for the player to impose his or her own identity upon, for the sake of immersion, and, well, role-playing.

Bungie purposefully made the Chief a blank slate with the personality of a brick for self insertion purposes though

I like my money

You mean your Dad's money?

I don't understand the two options in the poll. They don't even sound like you're saying "vowels".

Same. Only because I'm scared I'll waste them.

yes

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I also hate how Ocelot is only so in name. Only one revolver twirl the entire game.

I hate how thin his facial hair is too, you can barely see it a lot of the time.

is he your sugar daddy?

artform of torture!

Spoiler

It's only the purest form of expression.

*slaps*

Quote from: Citrus Snake on September 18, 2015, 11:02:48 AM

Why are people listing character creation? That's actually a fairly newer thing in RPGs.

And I'm 12 years old you fucking moron

Why are people listing it?
Its still a thing but its new

are you going to do te Yee ol' back in my day crap, Lemon? you old fuck

wait how old do you even think i am?

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Next idea for an MGS game: in game assets are all Yoji Shinkawa art, in the vein of Okami. Would probably work best in 2.5D stealth platforming to help skimp on costs.

or a fixed camera angle like the days of old

Wouldn't 2.5D be considered a fixed camera?

omg stop

Next idea for an MGS game: in game assets are all Yoji Shinkawa art, in the vein of Okami. Would probably work best in 2.5D stealth platforming to help skimp on costs.

or a fixed camera angle like the days of old

And MGS3 was open-world in the same vein that dungeon games are open world. You can move freely between rooms in the game, but you are restricted in ways to go between rooms. If A connects to B, and B connects to C, (all in a line), then you have to go through B to get to C. In MGSV, your only buffer is the distance between your chosen insertion point and the mission area.

mgs3 isn't a packed world either

the difference between 3 and 5 is that mgs3 has a controlled narrative pace because it's really all you can do. mgsv is fundamentally different in its design. its narrative pace is up to the player, because there's many other things you can do besides advance the story.

it's the same with every open world game, regardless of how much content the world has. take the witcher 3 for example-the world has lots of content to divulge in between the main plot, and as a result, the main plot suffers from pacing issues.

the only way to remedy the issue of pacing is to inhibit freedom and limit players to a more controlled environment.

Plus there's so many types of RPGs.

There's classic D&D-style RPGs.
There's Action RPGs.
There's Action Adventure RPGs.
There's JRPGs.
There's Dungeon Crawler RPGs.
There's Western-inspired JRPGs.
There's RPGs that take elements from all the above.

RPG is just a blanket term because there's so many sub-genres.