fred stolen: the grand list of console RPG clichés

[self biased]

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Zelda's Axiom:
Whenever somebody tells you about "the five ancient talismans" or "the nine legendary crystals" or whatever, you can be quite confident that Saving the World will require you to go out and find every last one of them.

George W. Bush Geography Simplification Initiative
Every country in the world will have exactly one town in it, except for the country you start out in, which will have three.

[Harovan]

Oh noes! Tehy analyzed NWN2!

[Proteus_MST]

Garrett's Principle
Let's not mince words: you're a thief. You can walk into just about anybody's house like the door wasn't even locked. You just barge right in and start looking for stuff. Anything you can find that's not nailed down is yours to keep. You will often walk into perfect strangers' houses, lift their precious artifacts, and then chat with them like you were old neighbors as you head back out with their family heirlooms under your arm. Unfortunately, this never works in stores.

This is sooo true

[Traianvs]

Too many to read them all, but anyways I feel lucky not playing console RPGs

[Imran Siddiqui]

Nostradamus Rule
All legends are 100% accurate. All rumors are entirely factual. All prophecies will come true, and not just someday but almost immediately.

Maginot Line Rule
It is easy to tell which city/nation is the next conquest of the Evil Empire: its streets are filled with citizens who brag that the Empire would never dare attack them, and would be easily defeated if it tried. (This smug nationalism always fails to take into account the Empire's new superweapon.)

[DrSpike]

Very good.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: fred stolen: the grand list of console RPG clichés

Originally posted by self biased
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Zelda's Axiom:
Whenever somebody tells you about "the five ancient talismans" or "the nine legendary crystals" or whatever, you can be quite confident that Saving the World will require you to go out and find every last one of them.

George W. Bush Geography Simplification Initiative
Every country in the world will have exactly one town in it, except for the country you start out in, which will have three.

ZELDA IS NOT AN RPG

[Kuciwalker]

I'm not sure which were influenced more by Crono Trigger, this list or cRPG's themselves.

[Bkeela]

Re: fred stolen: the grand list of console RPG clichés

Originally posted by self biased
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Zelda's Axiom:
Whenever somebody tells you about "the five ancient talismans" or "the nine legendary crystals" or whatever, you can be quite confident that Saving the World will require you to go out and find every last one of them.

Mmmm, the thought of that makes me so excited to play the new Zelda game. Not.

[Underseer]

Heh. A depressing number of those things are applicable to PC RPGs as well.

[Underseer]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST


This is sooo true

Sadly, it's true of PC RPGs as well.

Heck, even if your character is a goody two shoes Jedi knight, you still wander around stealing everything that isn't nailed down.

[Dis]

I think in the apartments in KOTOR they say something about you taking there stuff. But they won't do anything about it.

[DrSpike]

Well no one wants a lightsabre in the face.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Underseer
Heh. A depressing number of those things are applicable to PC RPGs as well.

Duh?

[Bkeela]

KOTOR made item management a nightmare. I remember vast lists of similar looking junk in various subsections. One time I needed an item I had picked up, but I couldn't find it in my inventory!

Then again, I have an obsession to collect every piece of garbage I find. I blame the early point and click games, which would often punish you severely for not having a crucial item.