Posted by Djinn on
March 30, 2011
The lastest RPG in exciting Revisionist History, Radiant Historia, now has its own endgame Stats comparison topic thanks to our very own Pyro. Check it out here:
Pyro’s Radiant Historia Stat Topic
And right on its heels, CmdrKing announces open nominations for a new Board Tournament of Futurama, featuring Radiant Historia and the fifth generation of Pokemon! Futurama is a tournament where newer, unranked games get their chance to shine against classic favorites from the League. Nominations fill up fast, and there’s only 2 per customer, so show your support for your favorite new RPGs while there’s still time!
The Future of RPGs Tournament
Posted by Grefter on
March 24, 2011
A discussion about a few different ways to think of Artificial Intelligence. All of which doesn’t discuss much of anything, but is a lot of words. Do you want to read someone call Final Fantasy 6 enemies dumb and praise the suicidal Final Fantasy Tactics as far smarter? Well you can do so here.
Disclaimer: Post does not contain your daily quota of vulgar content. You will have to go elsewhere to get your hard swearing today. Read at your own peril.
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Posted by Grefter on
March 12, 2011
Do you like to play a game with a fully fleshed out world? Do you like to read far to many words to say far to little on a topic? Either do I. However here is a rant with far to many words talking about ways that games have been made to have fully fleshed out worlds examined through a focus on how the player experiences the world rather than how they were explicitly designed.
Disclaimer: Post contains words of a vulgar and disgraceful Malefactor who should know better. Read at your own discretion.
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Posted by CmdrKing on
March 12, 2011
*Platform: Nintendo DS
*Publisher: Atlus
*Developer: Atlus
*Release Date: February 2011
While gaming as a medium has a more favorable relationship with sequels than cinema or literature, it’s still all too susceptible to the same pitfalls movies suffer in terms of genre mutation and imitation. That is, all too often developers, eager to cash in on the big new things and generally following the leader, will take elements from bigger, more successful franchises without considering how they function within their work, or even the genre their work is in. Sure, you can still find older style games, but they’re almost like time capsules, thing untouched from an earlier era with no change, making the same mistakes. But once in a great while, you find a game, movie, whatever where the creators truly loved an older era. They seek not merely to replicate the works of times past, but instead to look at them critically, see what made them work, what they loved about them, and assemble them into a better, stronger whole. Radiant Historia is one of those games, and you should be playing it.
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Posted by Djinn on
March 6, 2011
The latest stat topic for the DL is by our resident Dragon Quest 6 fanboy, hinode!
Hinode’s Dragon Quest VI DS Stat Topic
Posted by CmdrKing on
March 5, 2011
Super Robot Wars J
Platform: Gameboy Advance
Publisher: Banpresto
Developer: Banpresto
Release Date: September 2005
Patch: Romhacking Aerie
Patch Release: December 2010
Super Robot Wars (or Super Robot Taisen, whichever floats your boat. We’ll be calling it SRW for the rest of this review) enjoys a comfortable margin of obscurity in the English speaking world. If you spend some time among the sufficiently geeky, or just like giant robots and use Youtube, you’ve probably run across some reference to the series. However, due to the myriad issues of licensing in anime, video games, and massive crossover plots, the series would be too costly a venture to try and bring across the pacific, at least considering the need to build up a sufficiently large fanbase. While Atlus did, quite surprisingly, roll the dice on the first two Original Generation games, as well as its spin-off Endless Frontier, a shoestring budget will just never be enough to publish a traditional game, with all the bells, whistles, and rocket punches of a dozen different series welded into a single narrative. Fortunately, a fanbase as geeky and dedicated as SRW’s has all the ingredients needed to put together a fan translation, and thus we have Super Robot Wars J, the final release from the GBA, to enjoy today.
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Posted by Djinn on
March 5, 2011
The RPGDL is now hosting User-Created Content. Our members have been steadily researching games and writing Guides and Articles for over a decade, and most of these Guides are now collected on our main site. Check ’em out while we get our main tournament page back in order and ready for voting.
Posted by Djinn on
March 1, 2011
A project I threw together while I was procrastinating on my studies. I like Tarot cards, especially hand-drawn ones, and I was wondering what kind of cards would suit the DL. Then, I just started throwing images together in Photoshop, yay.
Major Arcana I: The Magus (AKA: The Magician)
Magus – Janus Zeal (Chrono Trigger)
My intent was to use primarily mains and main bosses, and I guess Magus counts as one of those. Really, there’s no deeper meaning behind Magus being The Magician card apart from the fact that his name is Magus and he is in fact a Magic-user. The card typically depicts a mage with the four items that represents the Minor Arcana’s suits (Sword, Coin, Cup, and Wand), which each represent the four elements. The Magician card represents Intelligence and Seeking Mastery over the World, so it works. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Grefter on
February 25, 2011
Here is a condensed version of my posts regarding Golden Sun: Dark Dawn – a game that everyone should play as a way to know what not to do with RPGs. Note that this takes place over a month or so as play takes place mostly on the bus to and from work or just prior to sleeping. That and I just plain had better things to do, like eat lead paint chips and to defecate on police officers in an attempt to get myself away from this game.
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Posted by Djinn on
February 24, 2011
Welcome to the RPG Duelling League main hub.
The RPGDL is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the inner workings of RPGs and game design by a large community of gaming enthusiasts, mathematicians, writers, artists, and aspiring game designers.
The RPGDL features the largest compilation of comparative character stats for over 100 RPGs, including bosses and temporary characters for most games. Additionally, there is a weekly Duelling Tournament hosted on the site for fun to put these stats into action for people vote on the outcome of such legendary matches like Kefka vs. Sephiroth.
Our writing staff is also hard at work producing a variety of articles:
- Standard gaming FAQs
- Reviews: by RPG fans, for RPG fans
- Translations of obscure Japan-only information on your favorite RPGs
- Game design critiques
- Speculative fiction on the featured RPGs
Above everything, the RPGDL is about community. We love games and RPGs, and we want them to mature as the gaming industry moves forward. The Forums are a place of open, civil discussion that any gaming fan should feel welcome to join.
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