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    Games with powerful stories?

    in General Discussion

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    Nier has a relatively unique and powerful story, though much of its depth doesn't become clear until the second playthrough (everything takes a different light from the second playthrough onwards).

    I'm also going to put in a vote towards pretty much every Tales game ever (with special emphasis on Abyss, Vesperia and Graces) - I'd say they have to be among the best JRPGs I've ever played in terms of storyline.

    The Star Ocean series (excluding 4) are also pretty good from a storyline standpoint (though a lot of people complain about certain twists in TTEoT)

    All the Assassin's Creed games are amazing in terms of storyline (except Revelations, Revelations is pretty unnecessary and relatively dull when compared to the others).

    The Xenosaga triology also has a powerful storyline and would probably be worth checking out.

    I'm sure there's more but I can't really think of anything else at the minute.

    I'll finish by plugging Final Fantasy Type-0, which has a really deep and depressing storyline, though given that it's currently only in Japanese with no announced localisation and the levels of hate in the ocr thread, I don't think it'll be taken seriously as a recommendation just yet...

    Distant Worlds London

    in General Discussion

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    So... Distant Worlds in London this weekend!

    Anyone else going? There's a largeish group of us from various communities planning on hanging out before and during the concert (mostly from the Kingdom Hearts Ultimania website).

    Should be a lot of fun :3

    The Game Boy 25th Anniversary Remix Album

    in Recruit & Collaborate!

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    Yeah sorry, been busy with some other stuff. Worst case, if I don't get back to you, WillRock is the co-director and can make decisions if needed.

    No worries! Being busy is something I can certainly understand.

    I did give it your links a listening to, and I have to wonder where you keep that orchestra when you're not using it.

    lol :P

    If you want FF Legends, I got no problem with that. Have at it, and I hope that level of production is as good as that link.

    Great! I'll get cracking and hopefully have a nice WIP sometime fairly soon :)

    Final Fantasy Type-0

    in General Discussion

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    He appears in his younger form for the DLC too.

    The point is, the younger version worked fine for appealing to RPG fans in Japan, while the character aimed at western market does not appear to have helped it in terms of popularity over here.

    Final Fantasy Type-0

    in General Discussion

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    Japan, it is okay to make games that have heroes that are over the age of 25 *25 being rare in itself for most of their games and shows*

    It's worth noting that a large portion of Japanese games do include one or two older characters - look at the Tales series for example, or most of the mainstream Final Fantasy games.

    Regardless, the fact of the matter is that these games are aimed at people whom this sort of thing appeals to, which as it happens is a good portion of RPG gamers in Japan. The formula works for them, why change it? Nier decided to try and appeal to western gamers by having an older lead in the western release, but despite the fact it was an awesome game, that doesn't seem to have given it any major advantage over other JRPGs, in fact I never really hear anyone talking about Nier :(

    On an unrelated note, we finally have some hints at a localisation from Steve Blum's twitter here.

    A Song of Ice and Fire

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    I was the same way after the second book but then the TV series started and I wanted to feel superior to all the TV show fans so I made sure to catch up with everything really fast.

    Yes, there's something very entertaining about saying "You'll see" with a smug face as others speculate about what will happen next. All the more entertaining since so many people entered the TV series innocent without the knowledge of GRRMs general brutality with his characters.

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