RYAREISENDER'S PROFILE

I like combat-focused games, but I also love exploration a lot. Battles are long complex dungeons, that's nice. Then I don't need story.

But what I think is even more clever is if the game actually has a story but it's told in only a few lines of text. A good story doesn't require a lot of text. Some are even pretty brilliant and a complete mindfuck without much text.

Also a big fan of dungeon crawlers like Shining in the Darkness, Legend of Grimrock, Wizardry and Elminage.

What I don't like so much are games that are only battle after battle with no story and exploration around. Except in the form of an arcade game maybe, where it's only about how many battles you can win and get a score based on it and always start from scratch each attempt.

Agarest 1 is horrible, but it's still the best Idea Factory game imo. I imagine it might actually be real fun with an unlimited gold cheat.

Yeah, if you are female, arranged marriage kinda sucks because you can almost freely pick a partner anyway, but if you are male (and not in the top 100 most beautiful men), finding a partner can be really tedious and nerve-wracking with lots of women just playing with your feelings just because they can, up to the point where you think you are worthless and just wanna die. So in that case arranged marriage isn't all so bad.

Oh yeah, I'm not sure if I believe in god or not, but I'm pretty sure that if there are tons of different religions and most religions are like "If you don't believe in THIS religion, you go to hell and suffer eternally." then it's pretty much a gamble who goes to hell and who doesn't anyway. Might as well think up myself what a god would want me to do and then just do what I consider being the right thing to do and hope I don't get to hell because I ate pork.

I've been confronted with religion mostly by my father who is christian (my mother is atheist) and my parents kinda decided they will send me to church and teach me all the christian stuff and then I should decide myself.

The biggest encounter I had with religion however was my best friend. She was from algeria and had a very strict muslim family. And eventually she started trying to convert me to muslim too. She starting saying "I'm so worried about you, I don't want you to go to hell and suffer eternally!" and similar things all the time and told me all the scary stories about hell and what I should be doing and what I shouldn't be doing. That kinda awakened the rebel in me and I tried to convince her that believing in god is what only stupid people do. Neither of us really succeeded in convincing the other. I learned a lot about that religion in the process, though. We managed to met in private secretly once and I kinda cuddled with her. Later she said she did regrets she didn't do "more". She always told me she likes clowns so at her birthday I sent her a clown doll, but she got angry because it's dangerous when her parents see it (apparently puppets not allowed). After that she starting to change further and became really... devoted? It was weird, she starting doing things for her religion she previously said she doesn't care about (like covering her hair). She also really loved music, but threw her MP3 player away claiming that devices created by humans are forbidden. Eventually she said farewell to all her friends because of course the internet/phone is also human-created and consequently evil. She said we'll never see her again and that stayed true. Nobody ever saw her again. I met some previous friends of her years later and learned that she was actually in love with me but never said anything because it was pointless because I wasn't muslim.

Ever since then I kinda hate religion.
Can't say I have any regrets, though. I tried my best to get her away from religion.

I really like how Star Ocean 2 has solved that. After beating the game, you can leave the final dungeon again, do the bonus dungeon, gain tons of levels and strong equips. But then (with some actions you need to do) you can return to the final boss and now he's much harder and still a challenge. And as a reward you even get a slightly different ending.

author=CashmereCat
Yeah, if we allow OHRPG games, where do we stop? Wolf RPG games? RPGs made with Unity? Game Maker? Custom engines? All games made ever?

I'll update this list after work. Yes, you can make incomplete lists, but I lightly encourage people to include the full list of 10, anyway. There's been some pretty interesting and fun picks so far.

I'd say only allow engines that were specifically made for developing RPGs and no other genres.