Felipe Pepe
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Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games.
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The hardcover Expanded CRPG Book is out!
680 pages covering 350+ RPGs, plus dev quotes, trivia & mod suggestions! Revised, expanded, proofread and with a broader approach, exploring non-English RPGs, RPG Maker & Online RPGs!
And 100% of the author's revenue goes to charity!✨
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Morei 22 anos em São Paulo. Fui assaltado 2x, levaram uns 100 reais no total.
Trabalhei por 10 anos em publicidade. Só de hora extra não-paga em UMA agência perdi mais de 20 mil reais.
Aí vem liberalzinho de merda dizer q tem q matar assaltante e "flexibilizar" pro patrão. VTNC
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I am begging other countries / cultures to make space RPGs, I am tired of "space is the wild west / frontier" :P
Do Afrofuturism, French comics, The New Weird, Dune, Space Wuxia, Soviet sci-fi, Kpop in space, whatever, but no more cowboy hats, banjos & southern accents, please.
Meet Sam Coe, an excellent pilot and even better dad!
Having a strong sense of frontier justice, Sam believes that if helping someone means breaking the rules, so be it.
#Starfield
Voiced by
@EliasToufexis
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Eu moro em Tóquio, em um apartamento de 30m², a 5 min de 3 linhas de metrô e um parque enorme e pago menos q ela (2 mil reais/60 mil ienes).
Detalhe q o salário MÍNIMO aqui é uns 6 mil reais. É criminoso oq tão fazendo com São Paulo, e nojenta essa normalização da imprensa.
Ela mora em apê de 16m² e diz que não precisa de mais
🗣️ "Estou perto de tudo e com a liberdade de ir embora quando eu quiser com três ou quatro malas sem deixar muito para trás", afirma Lara Maia. A jovem paga R$ 2.300 pelo seu pequeno studio
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Wake up, you cannot "vote with your wallet" in a publicly traded company.
Oh, you paid $60 on a game you like to say "I want more of this"? That's cute.
However, BlackRock literally owns $200 billion dollars in Microsoft stocks and they want a bloodbath so stocks go up 5% in Q2
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Hand-drawing dungeon maps may sound terribly dull, but it was a core feature of some of the biggest RPGs of the 80s.
I also wouldn't want to play most modern RPGs having to draw my own map, but there's a good reason why some dungeon-crawlers are still designed around that idea🧵
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Of all the research I did, the history of Chinese RPGs is my favorite. It blew my mind how over 200 PC RPGs were created in the 90s and early 2000s, an output rivalled only by Japan and the US!
And yet, we never talk about these games... So let me give a very brief overview🧵
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I'll start with a disclaimer: I do not speak Chinese.
That said, it's absurd there's no info in English on this, so let me tell you about 橙光/66RPG.
AKA how an RPG Maker forum became the "Roblox of Visual Novels", with 80M active users, 8,000 paid developers and 100,000+ games
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PLEASE, visit
There's literally thousands of new indie RPGs there. And you can easily sort & filter them, as well as tip the devs. It has never been easier to play indie RPGs.
Cool people visit and play cool stuff like this:
@felipepepe
Does the indie rpg culture exist anymore? There were a zillion RPG Maker games in the mid 2000s
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The reaction to Dragon's Dogma 2 made me realize the lesson many took from Souls games wasn't "friction can be fun", it was just "git gud to erase friction".
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Rockstar spent millions to make a realistic Brazil in Max Payne 3, but nothing they did ever came close to the authenticity of the bootleg Iron Maiden t-shirt in Xenus II: White Gold lol
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As someone who absolutely loves Dragon's Dogma 1, DD2 seems like a 10/10 sequel so far.
It's crazy that this gem is being review bombed. I don't like microtransactions, but these are just early boosts of stuff available in-game, like RE VII and DMC 5 had. It's all online drama.
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Real talk: the 2000s saw such a degree of consolidation that people still expect an entire art field to be "consumable".
This is absurd and unhealthy - a brain-rot from when the industry reduced "video games" to a few AAAs a year.
You NEVER played all good games, you NEVER will
Nobody has the time to play all these excellent video games
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If you just watched the Fallout TV show and want to try the first two games:
- Fallout 1 has the Et Tu mod, with fixes & QoL improvements from the sequel:
- Fallout 2 has the RPU mod, with many fixes & translation to 10 languages!
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Since it's game award & "what's an indie" season, here's 15 "actually-indie" RPGs from 2023 that are worthy of your attention:
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Dark Messiah truly is unrivaled in its 1st-person melee combat.
Look at the details - the orc gets disarmed and runs to get his sword, the dodges, stuns & parries, how physics & environment play a vital role, the AI healing me... I hope Avowed can measure to this 18-year-old RPG
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People liked the thread on Chinese/Taiwanese RPGs, so let me tell you about another overlooked region: South Korea!
Yes, Korea is a gaming powerhouse, the land of MMOs, e-sports and mobile. But during the 90s they also had a huge PC RPG scene! Let's talk about those! 🧵
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Every time I see Grandia art I just pause for like 5 min to admire them... there's lots of cute designs out there, but the sense of energy, happiness and friendship in these is on a whole other level.
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Puta papo de arrombado q essa imprensa imunda propaga todo ano. Enquanto isso, aqui no Japão empresas testam semanas de 4 dias e o governo cria novos feriados (criou dois recentemente) pq isso movimenta a economia e aumenta produtividade.
Comércio e indústria estimam prejuízo bilionário com 11 feriados em 2020
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I retweeted this as soon as I saw it because I like PMG's work, but watching now I think they got it wrong.
There's a story here about IP theft, and another about egos & workspace toxicity. To mix these two is to make a statement: "it might not be bad to steal from an asshole".
We've spent the last three months investigating what's really been happening behind-the-scenes with Disco Elysium.
We've been to Estonia, interviewed both sides of the dispute and discovered so much more nuance than you'll have heard up until now.
Link below!
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Today I want to tell a fun video game history fact:
The story of Tibia, a 26 year-old German MMO that became a sort of "RPG Maker-like" tool for thousands of fan-made/pirate MMOs.
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Wake me up when someone asks BioWare and Bethesda what went wrong the last 10+ years and then paints it as the crisis of North American RPGs.
Final Fantasy Creator Explains What He Thinks Went Wrong With Japanese Games In The 2000s
#Repost
#HironobuSakaguchi
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WARNING: Turns out this free game comes with a blockchain app called Locus Game Chain, that runs in the background "for multiplayer".💀
Valve explicitly banned blockchain apps from Steam, please help me report this by clicking on the flag on the game's page.
This is unusual:
Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes is a fun Korean RPG/RTS hybrid from 2001. It's now on Steam as FREE "Early Access" game because they are planning to remaster it o.o
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To play the money game is to play the billionaire's game. We have absolutely no chance of winning.
That's why we have to play a different game and organize ourselves. Strong unions can achieve much more than strong sales.
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There's a lot of outrage about how Dragon's Dogma 2 struggles to run at 4k 60fps Ultra on cutting edge hardware, but it runs nicely at 30fps 1080p on my ancient GTX 1060 6GB (+i5 8400 16GB RAM).
I think that matters to way more people.
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Reading some takes on the recent "JRPG" discourse, I wanted to talk a bit about about "Western RPG x Japanese RPG" history.
Mainly about how they evolved, each going thought many crises, "influence gaps" and learning from the other. It will be long, and take a while...🧵
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I hate so much how like 95% of all articles, videos, books and academic research in English are exclusively about Western MMOs and actively erase Asian MMOs...
And it's not by ignorance! Richard Bartle's latest books have 1,250 pages on MMO history - and only this on MapleStory:
Been watching some dude play old korean mmo games on yt for background noise and ngl im kind of fuckin with what these games were putting down back then
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It's crazy how many of the best and most interesting games in the past few years were done by just 1-2 people... there's retro stuff, yeah, but also things like immersive sims, 3D collectathons and open-world RPGs. This would blow people's mind in the 2000s.
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To those replying "but it fits the setting" - no, it fits a very US-based take on the setting: "Manifest destiny IN SPACE!"
Others see space differently: the land of the gods, higher planes of existence, freedom for their people, exodus, co-existance with others, the unknown,etc
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Lunacid is fantastic, but for weirdos like me it might not even be
@Stylish_Kira
's best game of 2023... they also put out Basilisk 2000 and it's fascinating:
You use an editor to explore a cancelled RPG, "found footage" style. And the rabid hole goes DEEP
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IT IS DONE! After four years of work, the CRPG Book Project is finally finished! A 100% free ebook with 528 pages, reviewing more than 400 RPGs from 1975 to 2015, plus dev interviews, mod tips and much more! Download it now:
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- CDProjekt puts giant Cyberpunk 2077 art mural in São Paulo
- São Paulo's official twitter account tweets promoting the mural
- Journos point out that it's illegal to do this kind of art in São Paulo
- São Paulo goes "oh yeah, lol" and fines the mural for 75k USD
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Artes de Cyberpunk 2077 e Free Fire em SP são multadas em mais de R$ 1 mi
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Read the article, I fully agree. Chinese Paladin / Sword & Fairy is a landmark - you haven't played the most influential games ever if you never played it, it belongs in every hall of fame.
It was never officially released in English, but there's an English fan-patch available.
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São Paulo has a "clean city" law where it's forbidden to put ads in outdoors and buildings...
Cyberpunk not only got a giant mural, the official twitter account of the city is advertising it.
This loophole of presenting paid ads as art is more cyberpunk than the actual game :P
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I wonder if some of Baldur's Gate 3's success will "trickle down" to RPGs like Pathfinder, PoE & Solasta...
I have friends who like BG3 and would love crazy stuff like "play a halfling knight that rides a velociraptor", but the more old-school presentation really bothers them :/
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If you're hungry for a great single-player immersive sim from Arkane, I'd like to remind you all that Arx Fatalis is one of the best RPGs of the 2000s - a wild mix of Ultima Underworld and Deus Ex.
Just grab the Arx Libertatis open-source engine port and go crazy with this gem.
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Sadly, this is the standard for video games. It can be SO MUCH better
IMHO, 2001's Wizards & Warriors is the gold standard. Dungeons are actual places, with inhabitants & complex goals - find a way to kill an immortal demon, infiltrate a cult, escape a prison run by a witch, etc
When I think of bad dungeon design I think of something like this
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Just played the Divine Frequency demo... I'm mind-blown, didn't expect a GZDoom game to be so scary and atmospheric... it's like Silent Hill + Dark Souls.
Do give the demo a try, it's a really strong first impression:
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IT IS DONE! The Expanded Edition of The CRPG Book is here, with 680 pages & over 400 RPGs! :D
This is a FREE ebook created by 145 volunteers over the last 8 years, expanded with new sections on MUDs, MMORPGs, Korean, Chinese and French RPGs! Grab it here:
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Islands of the Caliph was released today, it's an old-school grid-based RPG that feels like Might & Magic, but with only one character. Has a Middle-Eastern setting, it's always fun to see stuff besides European fantasy.
There's also demo you can try out:
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Interesting news: there's a fan-made Icewind Dale II: Enhanced Edition out now!
The source code was lost and Beamdog can't do an official EE, so fans did one. Improvements include widescreen support, revised difficulty, quickslots, faster loadings, new spells & recruitable NPCs.
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I also missed this, but Magna Carta: Phantom of Avalanche got a full English translation!
Released in 2001, this was "Korea's answer to Final Fantasy X" - an epic RPG by Softmax with art by Hyung-tae Kim. Unfortunately, it's a buggy and messy game... but still interesting to try
Wait, Magna Carta: Phantom of Avalanche got a complete English translation?
Nice knowing you.
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I think anyone interested in video games as an art field, a shared culture — a medium — MUST read "The Video Game Industry Does Not Exist" & "Real Games".
They both manage to be extremely accessible and to make 95% of writing on games look silly in retrospect. おすすめです。
It’s already been a year since my book The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist came out! It’s been a wild 12 months for game development that have made the title maybe slightly more literal than I intended. The book is still free to read open access!
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A reminder that our world is huge, billons of people out there have hobbies, concepts and ideas you never heard about.
You didn't hear about Jubensha because Western companies don't know how to monetize it yet. Don't let corporate profit be the filter for how you see the world.
We've released a new video on People Make Games, and there's not a shadow of a doubt in my mind that it's the biggest story in game design that no-one's talking about.
Jubensha is a brand-new kind of game coming out of China. We wanna tell you about it.
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A lot of people asked me for tips on how to play older non-English games, so here's four amazing resources (besides DOSBox & emulators):
1 - MORT:
An OCR tool to automatically translate on-screen text, IMO it's easier to use than Ztranslate. A must-have!
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Daggerfall Unity it's now finished! It's the definitive way of playing this classic. You get A TON of bug fixes, optional quality of life (like skipping the intro dungeon) and a ton of mods!
DREAM is the big visual mod. It's modular, so you can tune how old-school you want to be
#DaggerfallUnity
1.0.0 Release is now available! After several years in development, and the efforts of many people, Daggerfall Unity is finally considered complete. The project will now move into post-release community support and maintenance.
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Dude, don't do this.
By this definition most 80s and 90s Western RPGs aren't "real" RPGs either. There's no catch-all definition for a genre as rich as this one, these sorts of debates are old, done to death and pointless.
a game like final fantasy 6 isn't an rpg. even though it has multiple endings you aren't really making choices that shape how characters feel about you in any meaningful way.
it is one of the best games of all time, but not an rpg.
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In a year with so many great RPGs, Moonring immediately jumped into my best of the year list.
It is an old-school RPG, paying homage to Ultima IV, but it elegantly streamlines all the UI & control without losing depth. Also it's made by one of Fable's devs. And it's free! WTF!!
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People talk a lot about Akira Toriyama & Yoshitaka Amano's artworks defining how Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy look like....
...IMO, Rieko Kodama's work on Phantasy Star defined how JRPGs as a whole looked like (at least until FF7).
It's kinda sad that Rieko Kodama was not more highly celebrated in the gaming community. She was involved in the development of Phantasy Star, Altered Beast, Alex Kidd in Miracle World and a little game called Sonic the Hedgehog. All the games she was involved in were big reasons
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The older I get, the more I love RPG Maker.
Not only it empowers ppl to do all sorts of games - Corpse Party, Yume Nikki, OFF, Ao Oni, To The Moon, LISA, Hylics, Pokémon Uranium, Fear & Hunger...
...it also enabled pioneer indie scenes everywhere, especially in the global south
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"RPG Maker left a mark in China" might have been an understatement... Rainblood came from a community called 66RPG, by 2013 it hosted more than 1,500 RPG Maker games!
Seriously, we know nothing - absolutely nothing - about video game history beyond AAA games and US-based indies.
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It's sad how a historical series like King's Quest can celebrate its 40th anniversary with absolutely nothing from Activision/Microsoft to honor it... not even a quick Steam sale
Like Ultima, it's one of those legends that only the creators and a few old fans still care about :/
This video is long - 35 minutes! But, King's Quest fans will be very happy. Roberta wanted to do something special for King's Quest's 40th anniversary. You'll see that half way through the video Roberta thought she was done when I blindsided her with some fun questions. She
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Critico q matam bandido pobre enquanto bandido rico ganha benefícios, vem os imbecis dizer q to defendendo bandido.
O mau caráter fica óbvio quando ainda vão encher o saco da minha família. COVARDES, torturam o ladrão de chocolate e atacam famílias mas lambem as botas dos ricos.
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Essas comparações falsas com o Japão só servem pra mentirem pra vc q "não é tão ruim quanto lá"
É só ver o tanto de gente aqui comentando "ai, mas no Japão se trabalha muito", como se Brasil fosse um paraíso pro trabalhador... eu fazia 10-12hs PJ sem hora extra em SP, não Tóquio
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People should know about this: Brazil sent a plane weeks ago to bring back Brazilians who are in Gaza, but Israel refuses to let them leave.
Israel is basically keeping foreigners as hostages to use as leverage, so more countries won't do like Colombia and cut diplomatic ties.
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@DanielaLima_
: Se algo ocorrer aos brasileiros que estão em Gaza, relação com Israel pode ficar insustentável
#g1
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Excellent list of some of the coolest games out there for those not afraid of weird graphics & a crazy amount of freedom
Today I finally played Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum and loved it, would also VERY STRONGLY recommend:
- Betrayal at Club Low
- Brigand: Oaxaca
- Crtl. Alt. Ego
Immersive Sims @ Steam Winter Sale List:
Immersive Sim Discovery Queue (Updated):
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For the first time ever Steam is having a cute "Made in Brazil", just in time to celebrate Carnaval.
There's hundreds of games on sale, I'll highlight a few bellow:
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom costs $80 USD in Brazil - more than 30% of the monthly minimum wage. But Nintendo won't even bother to add Portuguese subtitles. So modders are using the leaked roms to add translations, doing in one week what Nintendon't (lol). All power to them 🫡
No Brasil, a versão digital de Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom custa R$ 357, e a física tem preço de R$ 399. Mesmo sendo tão caro, o jogo não terá português do Brasil como opção de idioma.
Mais uma vez, a comunidade preenche esse vácuo ao, da sua maneira, traduzir o game.
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Crazy that Dark Messiah is 18 years old. The PS3/Xbox 360 really was the last big generational leap.
Also, it's still a fun Arkane game. You can see how they would re-visit much of this in Dishonored.
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PRO TIP: The most important info in any survey is "who's paying for it".
This one is done by Griffin Gaming Partners, a venture fund for "gaming-related Web3 companies".
No shit their live service definition is any "regular update cadence", these are fake stats for shareholders
Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game
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OK, GOTY list time & I'll list some other highlights too :D
-Baldur's Gate III
Simply one of the best RPGs ever
-Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion
Suikoden meets Fallout, 10/10
-Caves of Lore
Deliciously nostalgic without being derivative
-Basilisk 2000
Truly unique and wild ride
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People often ask where I find obscure non-English games. The important thing is to understand that the "English internet" is just one of many.
Things you can't find on Google, Youtube & Wikipedia might be huge on Bilibili, Naver, Weibo, Aparat, VK, Kakao, Namu, LINE, Baidu, etc
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We talk a lot about the gorgeous pixel art in Japanese computers like the PC98 & FM Towns, but we should also mention how French devs were absolutely killing it with the Amiga & Atari ST in the late 80s, making gorgeous comic book-inspired games:
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It is quite scary how the US dominance over the discourse is rewriting our shared history into "everyone was a suburban kid with a Nintendo".
Not just computers like the Spectrum ZX, Mac, Amstrad, C64, Amiga, etc... but also emulators, cracks & bootlegs are all washed away. :/
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People are asking how to play non-English games that never got translated. Luckily, more and more options have been appearing!
I used my phone's translation camera a lot, but there's OCR tools like Universal Game Translator and RetroArch that translate the screen with a hotkey!
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A reminder that Ultima Underworld, Wizardry VII, Baldur's Gate, Might & Magic VIII and Deus Ex are all PlayStation® games lol
It's a bit sad that Ultima Underworld received an graphically improved version for the Playstation 1 that for some reason was only released in Japan, and to this day it doesn't have any kind of translation.
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@Fataldarkprince
You're using real-world logic, that's not how these companies operate.
You can generate "long term value" with several bloodbaths followed by "re-investments" & buying new studios. As long as line goes up.
Remember, some of the biggest companies in the world never made a profit
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You know what's funny?
Free Fire reached 150 million DAILY players in 2021.
You would think ppl would at least be curious about how a Vietnamese game became one of the biggest titles in the world... but no. If you only read mainstream sites you won't even know Free Fire exists.
This week Fortnite fans broke ANOTHER record…
100 MILLION PLAYERS IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER!
Thank you all so much ❤️ honestly, we’re so stoked for tomorrow and everything that follows
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BTW, the game in this image is Wizardry: The Five Ordeals, which is great if you are already familiar with classic Wizardry, but not a good starting point.
So I'll make here a quick thread recommendations for classic dungeon-crawlers⬇️
Hand-drawing dungeon maps may sound terribly dull, but it was a core feature of some of the biggest RPGs of the 80s.
I also wouldn't want to play most modern RPGs having to draw my own map, but there's a good reason why some dungeon-crawlers are still designed around that idea🧵
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IMHO, any canon at this scale is just useless.
Even when breaking by genre, what does 2004's Fable even mean to someone in 2024 if they don't understand the shift of western RPGs from PC to consoles with the Xbox?
Design doesn't exist in a void, it depends on context & purpose.
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To celebrate the release of the expanded CRPG Book, let's do something fun: name me your favorite RPGs and I'll recommend you a hidden gem!
True hidden gems! Not cult classics like Arx Fatalis and Arcanum, the really niche stuff ;)
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The final block shows that Chris got very frustrated with Robert, and the end result feels like he just couldn't get over that feeling.
This is why PR & corporate-speak exists: so that shady millionaires can dodge every question and somehow look like the more reasonable side.
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I love this game's UI, you take one look at it and you immediately know it's made by Germans, Russians and/or Ukrainians obsessed about Fallout 1 & 2.
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This.
Imagine saying that people listen to Beatles, read Lord of the Rings or watch The Shining because of nostalgia.
Funny how an industry so desperate for validation also works tirelessly to convince people that video games have expiration dates and are disposable...
To frame this as a nostalgia exercise is to do the work of companies that have so far largely succeeded in ensuring that video games as an art form never develop a genuine archival tradition or sense of history
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FUN FACT: Rogue is from 1980, but the term "roguelike" was coined only in 1993.
It started as a discussion at Usenet, from a user proposing to group together talk on games like Rogue, Moria, Angband & Nethack.
This caused a lot of drama, and some arguments are rather familiar:
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I'm fascinated by Anito: Defend a Land Enraged, a 2003 Adventure/RPG hybrid from the Philippines!
You play as a son/daughter of the tribe's leader, and must search for your missing father while dealing with Spanish colonizers, Chinese traders & local rebels. The art is so cool!
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Just watched Besouro, a 2009 Brazilian film. It's not a great movie overall, but it's notable for hiring Huan-Chiu Ku, a famous choreographer.
The results is a capoeira master blessed by orixás revolting against a plantation owner - but with fights like in martial arts movies!
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I wish more people tried Moonring. As the developer says, it's a love-letter to a style of RPG that has largely fallen out of fashion, emulating classic Ultima.
It expertly plays with the genre - from modernizing keyword dialog to being an RPG with no levels & XP. And it's FREE!
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If you enjoy more exploration-focused RPGs - stuff like King's Field, Lunacid, Grimrock, Arx Fatalis, Deus Ex, etc... then do try Lands of Lore 2.
It gets a bad rep because its FMV & "multimedia" art aged poorly, but this is Westwood Studios at their peak, pushing RPGs forward!
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This is unusual:
Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes is a fun Korean RPG/RTS hybrid from 2001. It's now on Steam as FREE "Early Access" game because they are planning to remaster it o.o
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Great news, a lost gem of the 2000s was fixed by fans!
Prelude to Darkness is a very ambitious RPG from 2002 that tries to push Fallout's reactivity even further. It was buggy & semi-impossible to play, but now runs flawlessly! It's freeware, get it here:
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When we talk about games being a cultural field far bigger than its industry side, a perfect modern example are Bitsy games.
They combine simple gameplay with 8-bit visuals, so anyone can make a game in hours. And people do - there's over 7,800 of these on itch,io - most free!
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That quote is honestly very lame. He sounds like a US TV producer ordering his team to replace all the onigiri in an anime with hotdogs.
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Went for the low hanging fruit, sorry
I actually love all of these, but the confusion is real lol
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I think it's proper to share some love for Fallout Tactics.
Yes, it's barely an RPG. But it's a fun tactical game that ads new factions & enemies, drivable vehicles, many recruitable races and some memorable levels
AND it was used to create The Sum, one of the coolest mods ever
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To hell with Metacritic and review scores, here's 22 of my favorite games from the past few years that didn't even get a score. Some sold millions but got ZERO "critic reviews".
Not to mention fantastic stuff like Basilisk 2000 that's not even listed on Metacritic.
Let it burn.
Give me your best video games under 75 metacritic you will protect with your life. The gems of the gems.
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Alpha Protocol is a rare sight - Obsidian playing around with narrative choices on a spy RPG with a nearly-AAA budget.
It's messy, but it's also unlike anything out there and it's really worth a play. I'm glad it's available again.
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No mesmo final de semana a PM encontrou:
- Empresário em Alphaville agredindo a família e humilhando policiais
- KKK tupiniquim marchando por Brasília
- Fascista na Paulista ameaçando pessoas com arma branca
- Antifascistas defendendo a democracia
Eles só atacaram o último grupo.
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It's weird how Fallout 1 was supposed to be a GURPS game, Steve Jackson pulled out and we simply never had a GURPS CRPG... ever!
I really miss a sort of "universal" CRPG, where you can have all sorts of characters & settings - maybe combined with a time-travel plot, just for fun
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Old thread, but here's a Japanese perspective on why kobolds are often portrayed in Japan with a dog head.
Turns out it's all because of Wizardry - specifically Jun Suemi's re-design (the Western DOS version was more frog-like).
Crazy how one game can shape culture this much!
コボルドが日本で犬なっていたった系統は、今は結構解明されていて…
まず1977年の「D&Dモンスターマニュアル」のコボルド(説明には鱗、尖った耳、大きな鼻、等)があり、このイラストを参考にのウィザードリィの末弥純やゲームアーツのWiZマニュアルのコボルドが描かれ、これが犬として広まった…☺️
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Descobri hj q a galera do Irã tem um site e canal do Telegram com todos os jogos já lançados em Persa, organizado com capinha, manual, guia pra crack, etc. Eles explicam q a indústria nacional entrou em colapso e isso é como eles tentam preservar o legado deles.
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It's shocking to me how often American critics simply ignore any context on foreign art.
Machado de Assis is THE most famous writer in Brazil's history, this book is mandatory reading in high school and university entrance exams... but the dude calls it "long forgotten by most".
Not all novels should be, or could be, as playful as this one, Dave Eggers writes, "but it wouldn’t hurt to have a few more that allow humans—characters, readers, authors even—to laugh."
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Wow, the CRPG Addict just landed a breakthrough in video game history:
We always heard that the first CRPG was "m199h", a lost game created between 1974/1975. Evidence came out that this is untrue: the first was The Dungeon (aka "pedit5"), created in 1975
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Since a few new people began following me recently, I want to share again the CRPG Book drive, that has over 20,000 .PNG screenshots of over 750 RPGs:
Was all taken by me and a few contributors, including the CRPG Addict, and you can use them anywhere :)
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A Japanese TV ad for the Famicom port/remake of Ultima III, released in 1989.
I love this kind of stuff, it goes against so many misinformed takes people have today about RPG history and the supposed differences between PC & Console RPGs.
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Fazem 2 anos que trabalho aqui em Tóquio com vistos para o Japão. Infelizmente não tenho como dar bolsa, mas posso dar informação.
Vou fazer um fio, se tiver dúvidas sobre como vir para trabalhar ou estudar SEM SER DESCENDENTE, manda aí por tweet ou DM. 👍
Vamos lá ⬇️
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@konjak
How is that a Western? That's like saying that the Spanish conquest of Latin America is a Western.
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