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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2008, 09:55:51 PM »
That is better than the game.

Edit - Because the game has its gameplay and other plot elements as well.
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #26 on: July 07, 2008, 09:57:10 PM »
To be fair, several of the descriptions that aren't designed to make the games look like crap are also far better than the game!
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #27 on: July 07, 2008, 09:58:18 PM »
Exactly. >_> Anyhow:

A MMORPG goes wild and characters from it decide to beat the hell out of the geek who programmed it. (SO3)
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #28 on: July 07, 2008, 09:59:53 PM »
If you didn't know better, you'd think Barney made an Strategy RPG, with combat revolving around dealing with an invincible dictator who treats his rules like soccer violations. FFTA

Doomsday Weapons, Ancient Races, an evil empire, talking otters and an entire country being attacked by said empier...all somehow coexist on ONE FREAKING BOAT. ToL
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #29 on: July 07, 2008, 10:48:00 PM »
Doesn't the topic say that the game is supposed to be about games that are BETTER than they sound in the description? I demand Meep redo his post.

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #30 on: July 07, 2008, 11:46:07 PM »
Everything you see is a computer simulation made by some crazy billionaire with way too much time on his hands. (SO2)

A whiny, self-centered, unlikeable jock with daddy issues travels to the future to help some girl kill herself -- but that's okay, because he's not real anyway. (FFX)

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #31 on: July 08, 2008, 12:10:19 AM »
Two friends, one from an alternate dimension, roaming the world for a cure! Ripping monster's hearts out of their still-bleeding bodies and forcibly inserting them into your allies to create shambling monstrosities...? Dudes, all you need to do is kill the tranny.

(Secret: The tranny is actually a girl. No, it seriously doesn't look like this at first.)

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #32 on: July 08, 2008, 08:38:43 AM »
Continuing with games so bad even my mocking them cannot be worse than they really are.

Dickgirls run around forming a giant party of dickgirls who have their dickgirl boyfriend killed.  Enter the Divine Dickgirl who gets absorbed by the party.  The final boss is killed by Divine Dickgirl Cannon.  There is also special spectrum spanning Divine Dickgirl armour. ~ Legend of Dragoon.
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #33 on: July 08, 2008, 09:42:07 AM »
Four people with no personality at all travel the world in order to pick up shattered bits of crystal, learn new jobs, and kill a tree.  Zany hijinks ensue.  FF5

A minor aristocrat and his allies harness the power of math and become accountants in order to save their country from Jesus.  FFT

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #34 on: July 08, 2008, 09:49:00 AM »
The world ends with you (and some other people). In commemoration of this event, you eat a bug. Thus ends the plot until the end of the game where you may or may not be social enough to remake the world.


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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #35 on: July 08, 2008, 11:25:59 AM »
In a zany East meets West world, two old fashioned men searching for meaning experiment with women, machines, animals and women who are also animals before finally realizing their true soulmates are each other.  BoF4

An ugly mad scientist and company fly around in wacky machines, attempting to stop a hedgehog from interfering with their manifest destiny of converting the planet into a fully robotic dome.  Chrono Trigger


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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #36 on: July 08, 2008, 05:00:30 PM »
A group of furries save the world from a giant bug and a little girl. They do this by morphing into an even bigger furry. (BoF1)

A polite old man tries to summon God, and you have to stop him because God is actually a freakish bug creature that wants to kill everyone. (SH1)

The main character makes you feel inadequate for 40 straight hours. (SH2)
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #37 on: July 08, 2008, 06:15:27 PM »
The world's dumbest Guy Fawlkes cosplayer attempts to free the world from a media-controlled, oppressive class based society, over and over and over again. WA5

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #38 on: July 08, 2008, 10:05:40 PM »
Hey, minor variation: I decided to pick two main characters from two different, popular games and see how many descriptions I could write that included BOTH of them.  Given the audience around here, I think one will be decidedly easier to catch than the other, but hey.  See how long it takes you to get both!

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1)  This character begins the game on his first mission with a new organization; a girl he knows from before is on his team as part of the mission, as well.  Although he acts like a toughened pro, he lacks real experience because he's really only imagined fighting any battles up to this point.  The entire game, he will act as a stand-in for an older, more experienced character (who is presumed dead), even assuming the other guy's title for a time.  After much confusion, he will overcome personal drama to defeat the final boss in a pure duel, sword vs. sword.

[It was my assumption that people could get it after this clue alone, but it was pointed out that a lot of this is pretty generic, so I added more details, continually surprised at how many I could name without invalidating either one.]

2)  He battles an enemy in A HELICOPTER at one point.  He's also assisted by a female ninja.  And his final battle is against someone who was genetically modified from birth to be a supersoldier.

EDIT: Actually, the fight I was thinking of was a jet, not a helicopter, so scratch the helicopter bit.  Female ninja and genetically modified villain still stand, though.

3)  He is also assisted by an older black man whose exterior hides a dark past, including another man who's not quite finished with him yet.  This black man is deeply invested in the fight for personal reasons.  Incidentally, the black man handles the explosives.

4)  At one point, he dresses up as an enemy soldier for the sake of infiltration.  (Yeah that doesn't help too much.  But his disguise DOES include a rifle.)

5)  He is charged with protecting a young brunette with a unique ability to save the world in crisis, but, tragically, he is not up to the task.  The young brunette, incidentally, is surrounded by water when her killer catches up with her.

6)  He sees the President's dead body only moments after he has been murdered.

I am still surprised by how many details line up here.  If you know the two characters and their respective games that I'm talking about, feel free to demonstrate it by suggesting more (you could also shout out the answers, but that's no fun).
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #39 on: July 09, 2008, 05:02:47 AM »
That's....  pretty neat, actually.  One is obvious, of course, but it took a bit of thinking to figure out the other.

7. Both get to see a disturbing blood splattered floor littered with the bodies of people killed by a super soldier.

...that's about all I have that doesn't give the game away right out.

Anyway, my addition to the main topic...

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #40 on: July 09, 2008, 06:37:42 AM »
I have the stupidly obvious one, and am pretty shocked there is another character who has that many details in common. Can't think of one, though, for all that it's possible I just haven't played his game I guess? (Have some suspicions along these lines, even.)

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #41 on: July 09, 2008, 06:52:50 AM »
8. He and his main enemy were both engineered into super-soldiers by the same organization, although unlike the villain he wasn't created wholesale, but modified after becoming a soldier. While his enemy is in open rebellion against said organization, our hero refuses to consciously ally with it except at the rare moments when the other option is even worse.
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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #42 on: July 09, 2008, 07:06:07 AM »
How many black guys are in Japanese RPGs, anyway? They feel inadequate enough about their dongs when white guys are in the room.

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #43 on: July 09, 2008, 10:59:12 PM »
Yeah, I'm failing to get the non-obvious one here. Pretty sure it's some game I haven't played (just trying to think of other games with a duel as the final battle cuts out most of what I know). Someone feel free to PM me if the answer isn't gonna be posted here anytime soon.

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #44 on: July 09, 2008, 11:36:43 PM »
Haaaa, I just got it.  That's clever.

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #45 on: July 09, 2008, 11:47:30 PM »
I give up, someone please tell me what is the less obvious one.

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #46 on: July 10, 2008, 02:58:32 AM »
A suicidal man commits atrocities to try to prod his brother into killing him. Xenosaga II

A young man takes up his father's dream to fell a giant tree. Final Fantasy V (Yes, been done before.  I like mine better.)

To save the ensorcelled maiden, a young adventurer must face his dark side. Zelda II  (Okay, not really "better than it sounds," more like "movie tagline" here.)

The ultimate unstoppable fighting soldiers capable of felling a stellar empire are defeated by eight random people with a fancy sword. Star Ocean 2

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #47 on: July 10, 2008, 04:07:46 AM »
Everyone is someone else. Xenogears
(yeah, brought that one up in chat but fits too well!)

One kid with an alien attached to his arm battles off hordes of Radio Waves taking Physical form in the shape of various furries by riding a mechanical bull, shooting lasers are music notes, and having to answer trivia questions of EVIL! MMSF

Battle a bunch of evil hackers, on your quest to destroy THE INTERNET!  Mega Man Battle Network 3

When an evil dark lord tries to threaten the world, only an Monkey with a violin can actually stop him! Treasure Hunter G

You could be on a dangerous amount of crack, and you STILL wouldn't be able to understand this conflict of Nature vs. Science. Chrono Cross

You carry a nonexistent weapon, you can't kill fish, and your father is a god damned furry. SuikoTactics

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #48 on: July 14, 2008, 01:43:05 AM »
I only know the obvious one. I can think of a few things that kind of fit a few of the clues, but then they dont fit the rest.

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Re: Better Than It Sounds- The Topic!
« Reply #49 on: July 14, 2008, 04:49:24 AM »
HOLY SHIT 3D?! Super Paper Mario

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