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RPG Heroes Are Jerks

Posted by samzenpus on from the leave-no-box-unopened dept.

I have to give him credit for smashing the vases to get the medicine, and finding the legendary wedding dress among the rags. However, he forgot to kill the peasants for xp and you should always check the fireplace for any remaining food.

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  1. No article... by haderytn · · Score: 5, Funny

    FINALLY

  2. Golden Axe my ass. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think RPG heroes are bad, well let me tell you something: it's been engrained in society since I was only 1-foot tall. Every time I run through a forest, someone decides to encamp right in the middle of the path between tree lines. This is so stupid! It's practically the same as sleeping on railroad tracks, or on a heavily-used road for that matter! And when I try to sneak through, the fuckers awaken and kick me so hard my meats and stuff fall out of my bag! Knockers like me need respect when we travel on our own roads!

  3. LOL by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yup. I've often wondered why the very people you're typically trying to save (in most stories) don't "offer" you stuff...instead, you gotta go through their home like a crack-head looking for the motherlode.

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    1. Re:LOL by Rich0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Better still is the hero that has some kind of official backing from a kingdom, or government, or whatever who starts out with a knife and a T-shirt, and has to start out exterminating rats or whatever.

      Then he has to steal or earn money doing menial tasks to buy equipment.

      If this guy is the hope of the world or whatever, you'd think that the king who sent him out could at least equip him as well as the castle guards...

  4. Re:Karma by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It all started with Ultima IV, where the goal of the game wasn't to kill the big baddie, but to ascribe to a series of morals.

    Richard Garriot realized precisely this problem, the "protagonist" in most RPGs was causing as much harm as they were supposedly doing good.

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  5. Re:this is terrible by osu-neko · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you don't like idle, why are you even reading this article? Seriously, it takes a special kind of stupid to be here commenting on an article then. It's like going out of your way at a buffet to grab a heaping load of beans, and then complaining about how much you hate beans and how idiotic it was for them to put the beans up on the buffet.

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