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Sakurazuka posted:They're all just copying Battle Royale yeah. fantasy novels comment on high school a lot because taking something that feels life or death as an adolescent and making it literal is a really good way to reach an audience. the teenagers in particular, but like, everyone was a teenager at some point. harry potter is really just magic UK secondary education.
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Bicyclops posted:Wakka, wearing goggles and wearing a shirt that says "I love Machina!": Happy Halloween, everyone!! Lol Don't forget the weird swirly-eye contacts for full al-bed blackface Dewgy posted:quoting without context PS4 version never crashed on me once  I'm only like halfway through but seems fine to me
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Bicyclops posted:yeah. fantasy novels comment on high school a lot because taking something that feels life or death as an adolescent and making it literal is a really good way to reach an audience. the teenagers in particular, but like, everyone was a teenager at some point. harry potter is really just magic UK secondary education. Yeah and Japanese high schools are pretty horrible for the amount of pressure they put on students, which feeds into the manifold problems with Japan's office culture, etc. So a situation where you are asked to murder your fellow students to graduate or die is not too big of a leap from how it feels.
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Sakurazuka posted:They're all just copying Battle Royale Battle Royale is the only book of such length that I finished in a single sitting, and its a crime so many kids are so into Hunger Games but haven't read it. So good.
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Red Bones posted:Tbh the more interesting and worrying recurring theme in Japanese media is "a group of people enter, without their consent, into a system/location/game/etc where the only way to survive or escape is by killing each other". i wish i could be in an anime death game
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Buca di Bepis posted:Nosh..nosh...nosh-talgia. Nosh. Talgia. OK, Ax 
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Oct 28, 2016 22:48
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Battle Royale ripoffs would be more interesting if the characters were adults instead of teenagers, because then they'd feel like actual people with something to lose instead of broad stereotypes who haven't even figured out who they are yet. Battle Royale had a very specific thematic reason for the characters being so young, but few of its imitators do.
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Oct 28, 2016 22:49
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Help Im Alive posted:i wish i could be in an anime death game Let me give you my address
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Lurdiak posted:Battle Royale ripoffs would be more interesting if the characters were adults instead of teenagers, because then they'd feel like actual people with something to lose instead of broad stereotypes who haven't even figured out who they are yet. are you saying dangan ronpa was poorly written
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Oct 28, 2016 22:52
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Oct 28, 2016 22:54
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i like the battle royal manga, where there's a six page scene of two of the characters discussing how blatantly unfair it is that one of the guys has an ak-47 and they have a baseball bat and a nail gun
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Oct 28, 2016 22:53
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What I want to know about FF stories is why they take fifty ducking hours to unravel
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Oct 28, 2016 22:57
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Hello it's my duty to mention that my favorite FF is XIII whenever this conversation happens every two weeks
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Oct 28, 2016 23:01
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Somewhere along the way someone decided that RPG's have to be 40 hours long and that's how it is. It's no surprise that official best RPG ever Chrono Trigger clocks in at slightly less than 20 hours.
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Oct 28, 2016 23:01
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In Training posted:Hello it's my duty to mention that my favorite FF is XIII whenever this conversation happens every two weeks More like every 2 days
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Oct 28, 2016 23:02
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Jay Rust posted:What I want to know about FF stories is why they take fifty ducking hours to unravel the plot abandons you for huge chunks of ff7, barely progressing at all, but there's always tons of rando. information on the lifestream and mako and shinra and wutai and w/e, and there's a big cool moment every 4-5 hours.
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Undertale beats that by being a cool crisp thirty minute game
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In Training posted:Hello it's my duty to mention that my favorite FF is XIII whenever this conversation happens every two weeks I did not get a PS3 or 4, but once I upgrade my computer, I look forward to playing this entry in the series. please elaborate on its good qualities, because i have not been posting in a very long time until like last week, and will have missed your reasons.
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Oct 28, 2016 23:05
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Jay Rust posted:What I want to know about FF stories is why they take fifty ducking hours to unravel Some people get really weird with video game length I think I remember someone in the 3DS thread a long time ago complaining that Fire Emblem Awakening was only 30 hours
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Oct 28, 2016 23:19
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Bicyclops posted:the whole Laguna is Squall's Dad thing feels like... okay? i guess? Am I supposed to feel something about this or...? IMO this is some good character development poo poo they really could have built up but completely whiffed it. Turns out their relationship wasn't at all important except as a vessel for Ellone to bring their causes together. I think. I dunno if I even got that part right.
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There was a time when advertising hour length was enough of a selling point for games that virtually all of them were padding it. I still know people who say the Portal games are bad because of their brevity. e: Mak0rz posted:IMO this is some good character development poo poo they really could have built up but completely whiffed it. Turns out their relationship wasn't at all important except as a vessel for Ellone to bring their causes together. I think. I dunno if I even got that part right. Yup. Could have been the thing that tied everything together, but instead they decided to just heavily imply it, as if saying it outright and dealing with it openly would have ruined things.
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Zaphod42 posted:Battle Royale is the only book of such length that I finished in a single sitting, and its a crime so many kids are so into Hunger Games but haven't read it. At the same time, Hunger Games is fundamentally about something different than Battle Royale. They use similar allegorical devices, but they aren't allegories for the same things. Although in some ways I suppose that makes Hunger Games a decent American counterpart, since American highschool is nothing like Japanese highschool.
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Hunger Games is more about the Reality Show/social media 15 minutes of fame phenomenon than it is about the American school system IMO. I don't think it is very good, because both the world-building and the sentence-per-sentence writing lack sophistication, but i think the series is a very different animal from Battle Royale.
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Help Im Alive posted:Some people get really weird with video game length and then when they said tales of berseria was aiming for 40-50 hours with sidequests, some people complained that was too short
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Oct 28, 2016 23:42
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corn in the bible posted:are you saying dangan ronpa was poorly written As tempting as it is to say yes, I haven't actually played it. Bicyclops posted:There was a time when advertising hour length was enough of a selling point for games that virtually all of them were padding it. I still know people who say the Portal games are bad because of their brevity. It sucks because some of my favorite games can be easily beaten in like, 5 hours or even 90 minutes, and they could never be made today because of that.
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In Training posted:Hello it's my duty to mention that my favorite FF is XIII whenever this conversation happens every two weeks Agh, cuts me like a knife Snak posted:At the same time, Hunger Games is fundamentally about something different than Battle Royale. They use similar allegorical devices, but they aren't allegories for the same things. Yeah they are definitely very different in focus and theme.
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Lurdiak posted:It sucks because some of my favorite games can be easily beaten in like, 5 hours or even 90 minutes, and they could never be made today because of that.
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Oct 28, 2016 23:53
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Lurdiak posted:As tempting as it is to say yes, I haven't actually played it. I would argue those types of games are more viable nowadays then they ever have been.
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FanaticalMilk posted:I would argue those types of games are more viable nowadays then they ever have been. Yeah as I get older and have less time and energy I'm much more a fan of short, very polished games or ones where you can hop right into gameplay like Dynasty Warriors. I like jrpgs, but the time commitment both total and per session is prohibitive. I wonder how long companies can keep their apparent desire for players to play only one game going, though.
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:https://twitter.com/hellogames/status/792024895525949440 http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/10/28/that-mysterious-deleted-no-mans-sky-tweet-wasnt-a-hack/#383bc55335ef This is a pretty good read. It's a weird loving story all around, especially since now that they have it sorted out (I guess) they clammed right back up.
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ISIS coordinated a terrorist attack through custom planet and animal names so Hello Games is under a federal gag order until the investigation concludes.
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Lurdiak posted:
It probably could get made, it would just get some very bad reviews from a very select group of people. Gone Home was way, way shorter and it was a viable enough game, in terms of sales and most reviews.
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Oct 29, 2016 00:59
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The real American Battle Royale counterpart is Series 7: the contenders
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Got the Skyrim Remaster. Can't wait to get off work and spend all night trying to make a character that isn't ugly 
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I obviously should've qualified, short games like that would never get made by a AAA studio. 
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precision posted:Got the Skyrim Remaster. Can't wait to get off work and spend all night trying to make a character that isn't ugly why did you get the skyrim remaster
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i'd probably buy the skyrim remaster if i didn't already have skyrim and if my computer even had a prayer of running it
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Battlefield and CoD are short AAA games.
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corn in the bible posted:why did you get the skyrim remaster My mother in law ordered two copies by mistake
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