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30871
« on: September 18, 2015, 01:01:40 PM »
30872
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:59:54 PM »
That's because it's the trend to self-insert. Final Fantasy, Drakengard, Bravely Default, Deus Ex, The Witcher, and Chrono Trigger are all RPGs that have protagonists that have a pre-defined personality to varying degrees.
It isn't essential to an RPG, but variability and a set goal in the story are the only absolute essential parts. It's an adaptation of pen and paper games, and that's the only consistent part. There's a reason why there are so many subgenres, and it's because RPG is a very broad term.
True. I've never played any of those games you listed, so it makes sense that I wouldn't have thought of them. With the exception of Final Fantasy X, which I completely forgot about. He still has a detailed backstory, though.
not in the games he doesn't
I guess.
30873
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:54:21 PM »
Bungie purposefully made the Chief a blank slate with the personality of a brick for self insertion purposes though
He still has a detailed backstory, though. And most of his personality comes out when he's interacting with Cortana, I noticed. To me, he came off like a brazen, conscientious, no-bullshit kind of guy, but he still has moments of sarcasm (again, mostly around Cortana, because banter). He's not the most colorful person, sure, but that was only half my point anyway.
30874
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:47:10 PM »
Actually Cowpie tried to do something like this in plug .dj to me once and I just left.
way to go lol
30875
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:43:26 PM »
2bh I'm getting sick of this identity politics fiasco.
If you're for equality then you're for equality. Whatever bullshit label you identify as is irrelevant, but I think most people are getting pretty tired of the authoritarian narrative third wave feminism is constantly shoving down our throats, hence the result of the poll.
I actually agree. But I'm smart enough, most of the time, to look past the stigmas that labels tend to have. Even with conservatives/republicans. And I think most people are, too. They just either refuse, or... don't entertain the possibility.
30876
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:39:06 PM »
-Experience Points
-Level Progressions
-Quest-based story
-Characterization
-Degrees of customization
-Going though subplots to eventually conclude a central story
-Controlling one or more characters with different attributes with different combat effectivenesses
-Usually involves a strong story
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. I think that's probably the core defining feature of the modern RPG. It's not just role-playing—it's the emphasis on role-playing. I think everything else is just stuff we've merely associated with the genre, but aren't necessarily key.
30877
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:27:51 PM »
Whether you consider yourself a feminist is irrelevant. If you're a feminist, you're a feminist.
There are lots of people who don't believe in god, but don't identify as atheists.
But they're still atheists.
30878
« on: September 18, 2015, 10:29:50 AM »
If you're for women's rights, you support feminism and are a feminist. Whether you like it or not. End of story.
what if I'm for everyone's rights
then you're still a feminist, because feminism falls under that blanket it's not the end of the world if you wanna call yourself an egalitarian instead, go ahead i just find the fact that women are still being oppressed all over the world a little bit more prudent of an issue than whatever men's rights issues you might be able to scrounge up
30879
« on: September 18, 2015, 10:25:47 AM »
"Oe".
30880
« on: September 18, 2015, 10:19:49 AM »
what constitutes a "role-playing game" to you
hint:
it's not just a game where you take someone's role, because that's literally every game ever
is it the fantasy setting?
is it the turn-based combat?
is it the leveling up of stats?
fact is, not all RPGs have these qualities—so is it possible to even define in brevity?
some games are described as having "RPG elements", while not necessarily being an RPG
so what does it take for a game to be a "true" RPG?
30881
« on: September 18, 2015, 09:56:25 AM »
If you're for women's rights, you support feminism and are a feminist. Whether you like it or not. End of story.
le hivemind mentality meme
More like knowing the definition of a simple fucking word.
30882
« on: September 18, 2015, 09:19:49 AM »
no
like, there's no way you can make that not awkward
30883
« on: September 18, 2015, 08:56:56 AM »
Begrudgingly added a mod review section.
30884
« on: September 18, 2015, 08:28:11 AM »
already at 177 for me
30885
« on: September 18, 2015, 07:54:37 AM »
If you're for women's rights, you support feminism and are a feminist. Whether you like it or not. End of story.
30886
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:57:34 AM »
but yeah, if someone dislikes you as a person simply because they have a different opinion or belief than you, they're definitely not your friend—part of the whole friendship thing is, you know, tolerance and kindness and all that bullshit
anyway this is getting a little bit too real for the MGSV thread, i think
30887
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:55:16 AM »
But even IRL, I have people I've known since forever and I don't like them. well, of course, it's not the ONLY thing that makes a friendship--i'm just saying, like, a lot can happen in five years—and it can either be a net positive or a net negative, but if it's positive, i think it's safe to say that you're friends with them the reason i value it so much is because... i, being me, don't really get to have that many friends on the internet. so, the ones that i do have, or the ones that i've chosen, i tend to hold them quite dear, and the notion of not having any at all just kind of... makes me sad, i guess it makes me sad to hear when people say shit like, "i don't really believe in internet friends" or whatever because you're kinda missing out, i think—they can honestly be just as valuable as real life friends, if you ask me you just have to be patient and open
30888
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:29:24 AM »
was all it took
i'm so mad
30889
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:28:20 AM »
I also wouldn't be able to really determine whether someone was my friend or not.
Like the only one I can confidently say is my friend is TBlocks, and that's because I know him IRL.
Like, I argue with Plotmaster a lot. Are we friends?
What about Lemon?
What about you?
I just find that if I designate people as "friends" it limits my ability to discuss topics that I feel differently about, out of fear that they might get pissy and start to dislike me.
...
Now I'm rambling about stuff I haven't even fully processed /:
well it's an awkward subject to be true personally, i'd only consider us acquaintances, because we really haven't known each other for even a year, you know what i mean i base internet friendships in... like, time spent, i guess like, i've known das and aria for about five years, so i'd definitely consider them friends it takes a long time to really get to know someone on the internet and even then, you still might not know them so i understand your trepidation i guess
30890
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:23:01 AM »
Verb change your name back ffs
you don't understand you missed an anarchy, i think, and at the end of it, i made a thread where i challenged everyone to make me laugh and the first person to make me laugh gets to change my username for a month i've done threads like this before, and no one has ever been able to do it, so i was pretty confident but fucking tru ended up posting something that made me chuckle, and i was like FUCK this is the name he chose i can't change it until the 11th of october now
30891
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:20:32 AM »
People will always take you seriously if you're good at making discussion. It's why you're still relevant with your anti-natalist stuff: you argue it well. i had to get to that point, though, you see not saying you're not already at that point, but it would make it a lot easier i'm not saying you have to make friends with everyone on the site or whatever but just i actually don't even know what i'm saying anymore
30892
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:13:56 AM »
sting is a terrible singer tbh fam
30893
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:12:54 AM »
don't see how it should be self-explanatory failure to acknowledge the people you converse with over the internet as people, and not just words on a screen, gives you no real reason to conduct yourself towards them—and depending on how you treat people, this can irrevocably damage your reputation, or people's capacity to take you seriously during discussion that you value so much i hope that made sense—i'm pretty tired right now
30894
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:02:32 AM »
Fuddy-Duddy is verb?
Oh...
I was wondering where he went ._.
i thought you knew 
30895
« on: September 18, 2015, 12:01:58 AM »
I don't see the point in needing to remember people's names anyway.
We're all faceless words on a screen, bouncing ideas around. uhhh yeah... fuck that noise i actually kinda value our capacity to make friendships over the internet--i think we're a lot more than words on a screen, and we shouldn't pretend as though we're just words on a screen very dangerous mentality
30896
« on: September 17, 2015, 11:57:59 PM »
He couldn't pull off your cute personality if he tried. you wanna bet
30897
« on: September 17, 2015, 11:52:29 PM »
but i mean, once you get used to everyone's posting style, it isn't that difficult to guess who's who, tbh
30898
« on: September 17, 2015, 11:50:01 PM »
Also, is Eliab Venom Snake?
I can't keep up with these damn name changes. Every few days I pop back in here, you guys change your names around.
i know, it's bad the easiest way to tell is to click the arrow at the top right corner of each post everyone has their unique ID there--Snake's is Prehistoric if you're on mobile, uh stop being on mobile
30899
« on: September 17, 2015, 11:47:00 PM »
You point them out and dwell on them until nobody feels like discussing them anymore.
No offense. none taken? i realize it's an old subject, but the only reason i'm responding is because he keeps responding
30900
« on: September 17, 2015, 11:41:55 PM »
I would say that you should give a fuck because things tend to be more than just the one thing they appear to be when you first see them. Have you told yourself this? Have you considered that characters you might like and appreciate might actually have something really shitty about them that you probably shouldn't overlook?
Yeah, it's called a flaw. Practically everything has them.
You can find appeal in more than just in her looks, which were indeed meant to appeal to hormonal males, but that in no way restricts you from finding something else appealing. That's not what I'm saying. I just think it's stupid to ignore the negatives. You accuse me of ignoring the positives--I'm accusing you of ignoring the negatives.
I'm not saying ignore the negatives, I'm saying move on from the negatives. Accept them, they aren't going anywhere and getting upset over it isn't going to do anything for you. You dislike them, good, that's perfectly fine. But what isn't is obsessing them. You can dislike part of a thing and still like the whole of that thing.
I really don't care for Quiet's get up, I think it's just idiotic, but I accept the reasoning for it and that it is the way it is. However, this is not a game about dress-up, it's about stealth and combat, and that's something Quiet excels at as a character. She's a soldier, while it would be nice if her default outfit was something not showy but practical, I can move past that glaring flaw to focus on what she does as a soldier and character.
Well, I don't own the game yet, guy. So I really can't comment on anything else but what I can see and hear, can I?
Are we no longer talking about hypothetical perfect character with sexualized get up?
finally, a somewhat reasonable post No, I don't "accept" flaws. That's not who I am. I point them out, and... that's it. I don't have to accept anything.
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