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From Art To Player Agency, Do JRPGs Do It Better Than WRPGs?

Although both are categorized as role-playing video games, do JRPGs manage to get the job done better than their Western counterparts?

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Hidden Pass - Dev diary. November 2023. - Steam News

This November was all about the development of our Global Map.

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Disco Elysium Review: We Are Our Choices

Disco Elysium is unpredictable

Disco Elysium takes chances.

Disco Elysium makes you want to keep playing it.

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I Butchered an Entire Village in AC: Odyssey to See What Happens

When it comes to open world games, I’m sure we all wonder what would happen if we tried massacring every NPC. Most of us probably played GTA at some point, saved the game, and unleashed chaos with a bazooka on our shoulder in a city. Admit it, you did it too. Be proud.

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Jimboms1702d ago

I like that this actually led to some concrete findings

VenomUK1702d ago

Pretty interesting is that an NPC reacts to being threatened with a weapon. It's a good piece, I had a look at the website and there are at least a couple of articles that explore aspects around game design. I'd like to see more of from here.

TheScotsman1702d ago

Should we be impressed by the finding or worried for the person carrying out the acts? Either way there's some councilling needed somewhere lmao

MoonConquistador1702d ago

I think he knows that already.

His comment was made tongue in cheek, hence the lmao he finished with

CoNn3rB1702d ago (Edited 1702d ago )

@MoonConquistador Personally lmao and lol just seem so passive-aggressive these days that it's hard to tell if someone is trying to be funny or an asshole.

CorndogBurglar1702d ago

Yeah, it is just a game.

But I also remember reading an article about this guy that played Skyrim and he went around serial killing as many female NPC's as he could without getting caught. Not only that, but he then spent the time to bring their dead bodies to his home and set them up in chairs and all kinds of weird crap like that.

I know it's just a game, but you can't tell me that someone like that doesn't have some kind of screw loose in his head lol.

eddvdm1701d ago

Are you interested on being a game "journalist"? I heard Kotaku is in need, they would love that headline.

Tross1701d ago

Sometimes even us non-psychopaths like to have fun at the expense of NPCs in a virtual world. So long as no one goes out and does this stuff IRL it’s all cool.

BlackDoomAx1701d ago

I don't know how to reply to other comments but the one with the skyrim player is creepy af.

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Lighter91702d ago

I call BS on using the bow. I can be hiding in the grass and shoot a grain silo, and my wanted level always goes up, even though no one saw me.

Darrien10121702d ago

Idk it's probably because you were in a city? I'm guessing murder is never okay there. Outside, in a tiny village like this, guards barely care.

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CDbiggen1701d ago

That shit belongs in the PS2 era when in GTA 3 you'd kill someone in the middle of nowhere and get one star.

masterfox1702d ago

I mean those villagers are Zombies after all, you need to at least shoot two or three arrows to their heads for they able to die. :D

traumadisaster1702d ago

Never thought of this, but I do like to screw with game AI and try to break it, so I may need to open that side of my brain up a bit to experiment.

baabuska1702d ago

I'm still trying to figure out a way to to buy/tame/sell all the horses in RDR2, until there are none left. Not even sure if that's possible. There's way too many horses.

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