Joseph Bulock

If the game is too easy, I get bored and any game I get bored at is not a CRPG to me. As a parallel to this definition, any time I eat something, but do not enjoy it as much as I expected, it is no longer defined as food.

RPG's should have a compelling story that allows a player to have a meaningful relationship with their surroundings. The action of an RPG should have what ever action the developer can do best and make the most enjoyable for the gamer.

The server will feature Battlefield 2 vanilla maps this week, and a few of us are working for a few of the unlocks, so we should be on everyone once in a while...

They had to rip the controller out of my hands at E3. I'll have to go grab that.

I'll second the votes for Final Fantasy Tactics and Ogre Battle, and add Silent Bomber and Bushido Blade to the list. Also, Brave Fencer Musashi was a pretty good time.

First off all; being payed to play games (even if it is 2000x the same level/part) is probably a damn nice job (except with bad games) Hell, we need to do it ourselves with the modern RPG's (KOTOR2, Vampire, Dungeon Siege2 come to mind) and for that testing we pay $50,- If you work they might actually listen to your comments on ingame-bugs too And on the 3 notes above: 1. So? 2. Watches Kotor2 box, or recalls his DS2 Beta Version Copy. Can't really imagine that... 3. If a game is good, 20x the same area still doesn't bore (trust me, I know...) On point one, while I am always looking for bugs and breaking things and all that, I do get to play for fun occasionally, reporting how things could be more fun, or which areas are so good that they bring me to tears. RPG's are pretty fun to QA, just because they have so much content that it's harder to get tired of them. On point two, yes will be playing a game with drastically less bugs. Anyone who thinks a release version or even a beta version of a game could compare to a pre-alpha title or even an alpha title has obviously never touched a real alpha version of a game. On point three, on a good game, you eventually can go back and enjoy a game that you have QA'd. However, no matter how great the game is, a QA tester will be sick of it. It

Is Warriors a worth buying title? I've been interested in that one for a long time.

What he said.

No.

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I think it should also be clarified what definition of RPG is being used. To me, an RPG is any game that lets you change the game world and interact with the inhabitants in a meaningful way. By that definition, there are plenty of RPG's being made, both in the Western World as well as in Japan and Korea.

Actually, that would be Sharingan.

I am only a lowly QA Tester, Josh and Constant are much more developerish.

Howdy.

My toes were, in fact, freezing.