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glossolalia
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:38 pm |
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hey, good to see you're still writing, i kind of lost track of your blog for a while.
did you play contact for ds? it has (an arguably more hamfisted and superficial version of) this same dilemma: the professor you contact from another world with your amazing futuristic "DS" is using you to manipulate what would normally be considered the player character, terry, into finding the things they need to get home. this isn't so bad at first, since terry and the professor seem to have complimentary goals, but your task becomes morally ambiguous as terry's travels get increasingly perilous and the professor, while not exactly evil, shows less-than-honorable intentions and only the most superficial concern for terry's well-being. i couldn't finish it, but i've been told that at the end terry discovers what you've done and literally breaks the fourth wall in an attempt to get back at you.
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glossolalia
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 8:05 pm |
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| well, i think a game deserves the benefit of the doubt/best possible reading, but yeah, as i said in practice it's a bit hamfisted about it. |
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:25 pm |
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| dessgeega wrote: |
| contact does some interesting things, but they feel like last minute grafts intended to elevate a hollow and generic portable rpg to something that could be marketed as A Clever and Self-Aware Game, Perfect for People who Talk About Games on the Internet. i would appreciate the clever bits more if the game itself wasn't such a vapid waste of time. |
i totally agree, and that's why i couldn't finish it. for a game whose promotional material disparaged jrpg tropes so proudly, the game has an obscene amount of grinding and maze-wandering.
| OGC wrote: |
| Is it time to mention this yet? |
i'll never understand how this became such a big deal or even why people thought it was interesting or affecting or whatever, it seemed like a silly piss-take. i mean, the tuneless mid-90s alt-rock midis and the secret hell world w/ mario and mega man and all.
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:50 pm |
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 7:13 pm |
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lol japan |
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:08 pm |
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| jesus has that guy ever had any human contact outside of 4chan? |
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glossolalia
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| Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:12 pm |
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| i'd pay for a game that looked like that |
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