ALEXNOAH'S PROFILE

author=visitorsfromdreams
Nier... kinda... its complicated. I dont want to say anything... play through it twice. ;)

author=StormCrow
@AlexNoah: play more Blood Omen. At the end you get to destroy the whole world if you feel like it--which is more or less every archetypical villain's end goal isn't it?--AND THAT IS THE CANONICAL ENDING. The ending where you aren't a giant douche and sacrifice yourself to save the world is explicitly non-canonical. (More or less the exact opposite of how every other game series with multiple endings decides which is canonical: in this case, they went for the one that DOES destroy the world.)

I mean, Blood Omen might not be your cuppa and that's fine but you can't stop playing it because "Kain's not enough of a villain" give the dude a chance. You can play him as...I'm pretty sure it's possible to play him as one of the worst people in videogame history. You can nom every helpless woman or sleeping or captured man, woman, or child you encounter--in fact you're strongly encouraged to as it fills your blood meter--or if your blood meter is full, you can cast like the first spell you learn which rips all of the skin off of someone on those innocent men, women, and I do think children, too. The spell, called Flay, was clearly designed by House Bolton. And then you get to make decisions where if you want to, you can be even more awful.

To be clear, if you don't want to play Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, that's fine, but having played it...Kain is a villain and a half if you play the game that way. He makes your average GTA protagonist look socially well adjusted...as well he should, since he's a fucking VAMPIRE.

(The fictional world of Nosgoth was a HUGE influence on my early creativity.)

author=Marrend

author=StormCrow
I checked out ActRazer based on your elevator pitch but got anti-climbing paint. : (

Crap. I was probably typing to fast, or didn't notice the extra "ActRazer" in the URL-tag. This should lead to the correct page.

cool, thanks, that makes a lot more sense than you linking to a game that got "painted".

author=StormCrow
It's amazing that over a decade--what, are we getting close to like 15 years--that The Way is still being used as a benchmark of a good or great RPG Maker game.

What's even crazier is that every recommendation made here that I was going to make (ABL, TTHW) and most of the games that I wasn't going to recommend that other people did are also well over a decade old.

It's weird, man. Like, alternate universe weird. LISA happened. To The Moon happened. Both made like a shitton of money on Steam, I'm sure. But we always come back to the same few old, old, old games. And why are people not recommending any of the (multiple) badass complete games that unity has made in the last ~3-5 years? The dev unity, not the engine. I mean, it's not like these oldies are without merit. To be clear, TTHW is probably my favorite JRPG I have ever played, beating out FFVII by a smidge.

Objectively* speaking, Sunset Over Imdahl is the best RM game that has been mentioned in this thread (though not my favorite, that would be ABL). Imdahl is nowhere near as epic as The Way, but it's absolutely gorgeous, competently written, and while the story it tells is smaller and more self-contained and includes an intersection of story and mechanic that is to me completely unique in all of gaming, it's also better told. I am one of the people who felt that Wilfred The Hero was a step back for that dev relative to Imdahl. Full Disclosure: I never beat The Way, but I played a lot of it.

* I am not the lord and master of objective truth: when I use wording like this it's because I'm putting empirical assessment ahead of personal opinion which is the opposite of what people normally do. My "objective" is still subjective, but it's "in my opinion this is empirically true" as opposed to "this is just my opinion but".

author=Aegix_Drakan

author=AlexNoah
i always found that Tactics Advance was more "childish" but never mind...

Oh, i didnt noticed it was a expansion of some sort for the FF CC on the WII... I will check it asap.

FFTA is definitely more childish. Everything I pointed out is subtext and analysis. The game presents forcing your friends to go home as a good thing.

And My Life As Darklord is a standalone type game I think. It's absolutely NOT an expansion to Crystal Bearers.

author=Illy
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is not about being a villain.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles My Life as a Dark Lord however, is.

author=AubreyTheBard
There's Antagonist, although that's about being an actor playing a villain and then finding out you actually are part of an evil organization. And aside from some amusement at all the parody references, I didn't find it to be a great game. But hey, it's super-cheap.

author=Illy