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Or you could look at actually original stuff like And accept that to make some awesome stuff you'll have to make a ton of crap as well.

Because we only have Halo and Master Chief here. What's with all the japanophiles around these parts?

I believe Yahtzee used the term "androgynous teenage girl" when referring to the generic JRPG protagonist.

Well, Planescape Torment, Max Payne, Mask of the Betrayer. I'm sure there's a couple more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Jawsome!

No, you see he is an artist. There's a subtle difference.

It's a movie about CG humans fighting giant CG blue cat people with some human/cat person love story tacked on. Basically someone gave Cameron $500 mil to reenact his furry fanfic. I don't really see the appeal.

A BOMB!? The budget was like 500 million.

We also have infinite planes, green-lipped guerrilla journalists, balls of goo, non-lame vampires, cyberpunk, sarcastic, yet lovable heroines and best of all the awesomest JRPG parody ever. B-Ballnacht, never forget.

More like a creepy stalker. Also, didn't you get the memo people? Avatar is supposed to bomb and force Cameron back to making good films. You're not helping!

Come on, we have got dialog wheels, third person cover-based combat, a trilogy where each game affects the next one and games where you don't save the world. Beat that, JRPGs!

You couldn't think of a more "evil" example? I am disappoint. Needs more mutilation. See Martyrs for inspiration.

The space smurfs thank you for your generous contribution. I'd go see Moon, but I don't think I have the time.

Seriously, you are starting to be even more annoying with your JRPG hate, than i am with my EA hate... A challenger appears!? Seriously, FF XIII looks about as generic as the other 412562 JRPGs. I'll stop calling them bad when they make a good one. I loved Tales of Phantasia, Lufia II and a whole bunch of them on SNES, but I don't think there's another genre as stagnant as the JRPG.

Don't worry nobody around here is, not even Volo.

Yay, War Machine!

Your genre classification is even weirder than most people's around here and that's saying something As for whether it's fun or sucky, I guess it depends on what you're expecting out of it. It most certainly has lots of boobs, blood, boobs shooting evil demon babies at you that you proceed to kill with your giant scythe and various monsters/landscape modeled after genitalia. They should just have hired H.R. Giger and done it right... EDIT: It also has a baby-killing achievement so that you can show off your sweet skills to your friends and family.

Oh, I missed that part of her post. See the official thread for the extent of hilarity and sadness that is Dante's Inferno.

What? *after a long google search* Apparently so. Awesome, it looks like a pretty sweet game. Will keep an eye on that.

@Syraxis: I'm pretty sure the double negative thing doesn't apply to video games. A bad port of a bad game doesn't make it good. If you really want to play it get a next-gen console.

You're welcome.

More like every JRPG protagonist ever

The F-d up dude is right behind the wannabe hero and douchebag with a heart of gold on the list of videogame character archetypes. Think Max Payne, Mafia, Torment, even MGS by the end.

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