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Post by Ex on Apr 30, 2019 12:45:26 GMT -5
[quote timestamp="1556415177"If I put down an RPG for more than a week or two chances are good I'll never finish it. Is that because you lose momentum, or because you'll likely have found something else to play in the interim?
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Post by Sarge on Apr 30, 2019 13:16:02 GMT -5
In my case (obviously can't speak for @gunstargreen ), it can be either one or both simultaneously. Sometimes I'll be enjoying a game well enough, hit a slow spot, and it will happen to coincide with me getting new games, some of which may hook me more.
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Post by toei on Apr 30, 2019 13:27:28 GMT -5
For me it's just that I get into a certain mindstate when I'm playing a game, and if I stop for too long I just get out of it and I typically lose all desire to continue. I've done it for games where I knew I was almost finished, and it was always weird - the final boss might be fun to fight, but the story had lost all meaning because everything building up to that moment was kind of far away.
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Post by Ex on Apr 30, 2019 13:33:17 GMT -5
hit a slow spot, and it will happen to coincide with me getting new games Ha, yeah that's a deadly combo alright. the final boss might be fun to fight, but the story had lost all meaning because everything building up to that moment was kind of far away This does happen for me with JRPGs fairly often. Towards the end I'll be like; "What was the reason I was doing all this for again?" And end up reading a plot synopsis to refresh my memory. Although that has happened to me with a handful of WRPGs as well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2019 15:24:38 GMT -5
In my case (obviously can't speak for @gunstargreen ), it can be either one or both simultaneously. Sometimes I'll be enjoying a game well enough, hit a slow spot, and it will happen to coincide with me getting new games, some of which may hook me more. Bingo. This mostly applies to JRPGs for me as well to be clear. WRPGs are easier for me to pick up and put down, mostly because you're usually creating your own adventure and not watching an entire season of bad anime plot.
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Post by Sarge on Apr 30, 2019 15:46:04 GMT -5
In my case (obviously can't speak for @gunstargreen ), it can be either one or both simultaneously. Sometimes I'll be enjoying a game well enough, hit a slow spot, and it will happen to coincide with me getting new games, some of which may hook me more. Bingo. This mostly applies to JRPGs for me as well to be clear. WRPGs are easier for me to pick up and put down, mostly because you're usually creating your own adventure and not watching an entire season of bad anime plot. Dang. You know, I think this might be my problem with most modern JRPGs. Not that a lot of older JRPGs aren't also bad anime, but they at least were from a better era of anime.
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Post by Ex on Apr 30, 2019 16:08:31 GMT -5
WRPGs are easier for me to pick up and put down, mostly because you're usually creating your own adventure and not watching an entire season of bad anime plot. It stings because it's true!
I tend to love JRPGs for a list of reasons, but their amateur hour plots are hardly ever on the list. I can think of very few JRPGs which I thought had legitimately good storytelling.
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Post by dunpeal2064 on May 2, 2019 4:38:58 GMT -5
I have a pretty hard time getting through long RPGs now. In fact, I can't remember the last long RPG that I actually finished, probably Lost Odyssey? I put long-RPG amount of hours into games (Nier:Automata isn't that long, but I played it that long), but its not often that I actually stick it through with a long RPG.
If I do decide to jump into one, I have to binge it. The amount of time it takes me to feel lost or disinterested in a game after not playing it is pretty low, like less than a week. When I played through Earthbound, it was the only game I played from start to finish. I've tried to play more JRPGs than I can count in the last few years, but I'll end up in the mood for more arcade-y stuff, and then come back to it having no idea what I was doing.
I think I tend to view it as I do Shonen anime. Yeah, I'm sure that 300+ episode show is good, but I could watch like 20 single-season shows in that amount of time, and it can't be that good! I'm sure this 100+ hour JRPG is fun, no doubt, but I could play another 20 PC-98 games in that amount of time, I could beat all the classic Castlevanias I haven't finished yet, etc.
This is something I want to remedy though, as I do miss JRPGs. Might be a problem of having access to so much, whereas when I would play RPGs a lot, they tended to be the only game I owned. Back then getting 100+ hours out of a game was wonderful! Maybe just a perspective shift that needs to happen on my part. I should try to find some less-than-20-hour JRPGs on 16-bit consoles to get back into the genre with, since I think its really only the length that is a problem.
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Post by Ex on May 2, 2019 10:50:01 GMT -5
I should try to find some less-than-20-hour JRPGs on 16-bit consoles to get back into the genre with, since I think its really only the length that is a problem. This gives me an idea for a new thread.
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Post by Ziggy on May 2, 2019 18:27:43 GMT -5
If I put it down I'll never pick it back up. That's why I have to binge play long RPGs or not play them at all... Which is why I have so many in my collection that are unplayed.
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