#this is how people play rpgs

[dekarios]

when i was younger like. early to mid twenties. i used to get so mad at all the 'its a dating sim' jokes towards rpgs with romance in it. and now i'm just like.. i ain't got the time nor the energy to be upset that some people play these games exclusively for romance. there's nothing wrong with that. many people read romance novels exclusively and are only there for the romance portions, in games we have a billion visual novels where no one cares about the story and just wanna romance pretty people, blah blah romance as a genre exists for a reason and rpgs with romance options are the best option still for 'make your own character to romance the character of choice' whereas everything else gives you a premade, even in visual novels you have a premade character even if you can name them and maybe change a few things, its all very basic... i have nothing against people who use rpgs to get that same feeling but having more control over how they get it

anyway

[grayve-mistake]

this is just kind of a big tangent but like I fucking hate when nerd ass losers see a game with even vague similarities to another game and go "ERMMM. HOW ORIGINALL (SARCASTIC). THIS IS JUST ANOTHER GAME IN THE STUPID TREND OF-" and then they list every genre/label under the sun to try and discredit the game as unoriginal by comparing it to other games. 90% of the time they haven't even played the game they're complaining about. they just see pixel art and get angry ig.

like look at this image. look at this and tell me it's not just alphabet soup. what do half of these words even mean. congrats on discovering what a genre is I guess?????????? good for you?????? do you want a fuckin award or something???? a little handclap??? shall I pour you a little glass of wine for being oh so smart and sophisticated for figuring out that Things Can Have Little Similarities Sometimes?????? just say that 7 years later you're still bitter that undertale got popular and leave oh my god "quirky dialogue" oh I'm sorry did you want your dialogue boring and soulless yeah let me just remove the personality from the game. here's your Nothing Burger I hope you're happy. "pixel art" oh so i guess like almost every game that came out in the 80s and 90s is actually just part of a so-called "2010s-2020s trend". These people genuinely think earthbound and celeste are "Basically The Same". it's not even an rpg. You had to throw in platformers in your disgusting word smoothie because otherwise you couldn't even find any real similarities besides "has a story and contains pixels". they think the psychological horror game Omori is just Undertale 2. yeah sorry guys Super Fuckin Mario Brothers is part of the quirky rpg metroidvania fjhksdgjhlkfgsdhkfgh-like diarrhea trend. cant play it now or you're cringe and bad. do you people ever get TIIIRRREEDDDDD. DO YOU EVER ENJOY THINGS. ON THEIR OWN MERIT. DO YOU EVEN GIVE THINGS A CHANCE. YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL FOR NOT LIKING THINGS YOU'RE BORING AND ANNOYING AS FUCK. I'm so fucking done

[enchantrum]

Larian really suck as a game company it drives me wild that people were giving them props for dumb shit like no microtransactions when 99% of single player RPGs don't have those anyway?

I genuinely feel like there was manufactured media hype because it's utterly bizarre that on release the praise wasn't anything to do with the game, but just this false narrative that Larian are doing something revolutionary when they really aren't

and if you actually look at BG3 as a GAME and not an interactive movie or dating simulator, it kind of sucks? as an example of the genre it's just kind of mid. it COULD be amazing, and I think it's potential is why people act like it's already amazing, but the devs are visibly struggling just to get the ending scenes lined up coherently, or making sure the game actually remembers your choices. this is basic level, day one RPG necessities and they struggle just for that?

"BG3 is a masterpiece!" bro no lie but you are just horny

[kelocitta]

Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly. But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed

[queenerdloser]

reading baldur's gate fic is so funny to me sometimes because almost every single tav i've read is like. a nerd. awkward. stuck in a library/commune/forest and doesn't know How To Do People. combat unready. a wee paper slip of a person. self-doubting and uncertain.

whereas i am out here with my bard who dumped all her stats in charisma and perception and therefore is no longer able to fail a persuasion check. and my personal backstory for her is that she's an insanely well known frontman for a rock band in baldur's gate so literally everyone they meet knows who she is. nonstop flirt. clocks manipulation left and right because seeing through performances is like half of her skillset. oh yeah. and she can fucking oneshot you by being mean in your direction.

[rocketbirdie]

i would love to enjoy everything that stardew valley has to offer but unfortunately i approach this game the same way i approach real life: avoid all social interaction and tend to my garden in belligerent silence

[carlyraejepsans]

with toriel and asgore it's like. they're both flawed and their flaws parallel one another, but they're not EQUALLY flawed... like..... come on......

[otaku-tyriq]

Born of Bread - Journey to the West Reference

[ttomeposting]

hey remember the situation with kirb and zetto in the webseries? just asking. for no reason in particular. : ]

[transmairon]

I'm deep in a New Vegas re-play and I'm just constantly reminded about how good that game's dialogue and factions system is and how no other RPG since has really topped it for me. It's probably the gold standard in how your stats, your perks and reputation should impact your gameplay, especially in dialogue.

There's so many quests and interactions where the outcome depends entirely on how you built your character, or your reputation with the world around you. Not to mention how impactful it all feels to how you want to view your character.

I mean just look at the options my 'Low Intelligence Gay Clown Courier' has with this man. There's been plenty of RPGs with "choice and consequences" and I have played most of them, but no one has managed to top New Vegas for me despite a decade and a half passing.

One option because I choose the "gay" perk that unlock unique dialogue with some men. Another option based on my high speech stats, and another because I have a good reputation with the NCR. And on top of it all, since my Courier has the intelligence of a toddler, it effects what he overall sounds like. No one was doing it like New Vegas. I really wished more RPG developers would try to implement this level of choice, it's so fun and I miss it so much.

[antiqua-lugar]

the thing is season 2 of OFMD is coming out and I deep down am still in deep disbelief that Stede and Ed are two canonically queer men in love on the show. Black Pete/Lucius and Olu/Jim/Archie are fine, they are side characters. But everytime I remember they are canonically in love the "oh my god this is happening" hits me all over again

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Hello Super Mario RPG Fans:

How are y’all feeling?

[ilovettrpgs]

What's ttrpgs?

I just stared at my screen like this

[ervona]

ok letting Isobel die is "evil" because she's been through so much and is a canon gay npc and is protecting so many people etc but like. she's so easy to accidentally get taken away (she dies in the final battle if that happens) are you going to even entertain playing your game like you failed to... protect her it's worth considering if you fail

[by-your-leave]

Despite only having one snow map Genealogy of the Holy War is actually a winter game

[vaguely-concerned]

trying to look for a ttrpg group in spaces where I can't just go 'listen I want to play this shit in the tumblr fandom kind of model (gay subtext extremely welcome bordering on essential, mutual unhinged character psychoanalysis, we could create a novel of a backstory together to make this sadder, let's all play with our OC dolls together and also sometimes dice are rolled I guess)' and be readily understood and/or not be immediately side-eyed or denigrated for my inherent unavoidable tumblerinaness feels like such an annoying debuff to deal with on the quest. like I know my people exist out there but how do I express myself in the right way and wade through all the copious not-it (not for me) dynamics to find them!!!