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AUGH!  Karma has finally hit.

 

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My outlook on life - we’re all on the Hindenburg anyway…no point fighting over the window seat.

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Daaaaaaaa! I am so used to seeing those damn words when I am on the otherside of the world. Wonder if these can be found somewhere on scifi.com?

 

Okay, since I cannot watch the videos due to my being in the states, I read the descriptions for each video, and was kind of struck at the description of 2008's video containing the words, "The role playing video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed". Is the Force Unleashed actually suppose to be an RPG? Sorriest excuse for an RPG I have ever seen.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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a dumb hack and slash game an rpg hardly.  Well if you follow the definition of what we believe a rpg to be based on our experience with J-rpg's starting with the first final fantasy on the nes or famicom to those in japan.

Unless in the strictest sense you do role play it puts you in the role of controlling starkiller, but that would make God of War an rpg too and nobody calls that an rpg.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Well, by literal standards, nearly every video game would be a role playing game.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but what we call RPGs really inherited the title from old table top games like D&D.  Therefore, what we refer to as RPGs are in a similar vein to those.  I haven't played The Force Unleashed.  As far as I've been able to tell, though, it's not an RPG, right?

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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No, having played it through several levels before getting bored of it, I can say with certainty, it is not an RPG. I am just curious if it has actually been labeled as an RPG by LucasArts. Surely the UK doesn't have their own definition of RPG, right? Just strange to see it called that in that video description.

Hmm, how cool would an Oblivion/Fallout 3 style Star Wars RPG be?

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape