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Remaking The World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the phenomenal-cosmic-powers dept.

Via GameSetWatch, an Edge Online article about rebooting the .hack series of RPGs. From the article: "Most RPGs work like this: a princess is kidnapped, or in danger. A brave young man comes to the rescue and fights off some great evil. We wanted something different. We wanted a duality between the user and character, between real and virtual worlds. With that, you can play between both those worlds, both realities. You enjoy the virtual world for its environment and story, but then you have the real world interacting with and affecting the virtual world."

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  1. FreeBSD by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Funny
    I must be losing it. I saw the title "Remaking the world", and all I could think was:


    # cd /usr/src
    # make buildworld
    # make buildkernel
    # make installkernel
    # reboot


    Of course, that's the "new and improved" method of doing it. IIRC, we used to type "make world" to just build everything.

    (In case you too want to "Remake your world", the instructions can be found on this page.)
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  2. Want something different? by lpangelrob · · Score: 3, Funny
    Most RPGs work like this: a princess is kidnapped, or in danger. A brave young man comes to the rescue and fights off some great evil. We wanted something different.

    Well, all right then. What about, after fighting off the great evil, telling the player, "Sorry, #PLAYERNAME, but our princess is in another castle!"?

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    -Rob

    Biblical fiscal responsibility

  3. Re:Video game rules by smbarbour · · Score: 3, Funny

    Namco...

    I just had this sudden image in my head of a Pac-Man MMORPG.

    (And now you just did too!)

  4. Layers of meaning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    So, in the game you are role-playing a character who is role-playing in an MMORPG.
    There are layers of meaning there I couldn't begin to interpret.
  5. Re:Changing the storyline by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually the standard RPG plotline is "random guy finds magic girls and go out to save the world. Turns out the girl is the key to saving the world and the guy had some sort of important past/heritage which [roll d6: 1-2: Makes him a former bad guy, 2-5: Makes him a legendary warrior, 6: Makes him the brother of the girl, roll twice if so desired]".

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  6. Mizuguchi? by tepples · · Score: 3, Funny

    As a general rule of thumb, whenever you see the bandai brand on a videogame, just walk away.

    Does this include Lumines and Meteos?