ToddMcF2002
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Who doesnt love a good decapitation. Blade of Darkness is still one of my favorite games. It would be lame without the gore!
Who doesnt love a good decapitation. Blade of Darkness is still one of my favorite games. It would be lame without the gore!
Never did finish BoD, that game was damn HARD!
I do! I do!
Life is dark and gritty enough for me as it is.
I thought the dark and grity games were a fine novelty when they first came out en masse. But what do I yewrn to play nowadays when game tend t be dark and gritty by default?
Light, clean, Disney-ish and colorful games. The story/plot may be dark, but I'm glad if visuals are candy.
I'm a sucker for Kingdom Hearts .
I don't like dark! gritty! Mature! at all. Real life is dark and gritty enough, and I have to be mature there all the time. So in my games I want bright! Colorful! Oh, and a helping of Whimsicle! and Cute! too please, with Sprinkles! on top
Try Drakensang, the world is mostly light lots of greens and blues instead of the usual brown and grey.Hmmmm.... haven't posted here in ages...
and actually mainly because of this.
I don't like dark! gritty! Mature! at all. Real life is dark and gritty enough, and I have to be mature there all the time. So in my games I want bright! Colorful! Oh, and a helping of Whimsicle! and Cute! too please, with Sprinkles! on top
I haven't played the Witcher, or Fallout 3, and from what I've read about these games I doubt I ever will. Instead I've moved more and more towards consoles, where Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Harvest Moon seem to cater a lot more to my taste.
I hope Western RPGs will move on soon from this latest fad, and go back to some nice old fashioned High Fantasy, where heroes are noble and bad guys are Ebul, and you get to rescue the puppy and the maiden in the end Until then, it seems that the DS and the Wii (and the PS2) will be taking up my gaming time.
No you're not alone, I'm totally with you there. I prefer my green fields and blue skies in my RPGs.Nice to read I'm not the only one who doesn't like this dark and gritty trend, Jaz!
.... the same day Duke Nukem Forever is released.Some day, somebody is going to think outside the box and make a light, gritty, nearly-mature game....
I like the dark and gritty thing. Like Thoth, Ive plumbed the depths of the internet and seen some truly horrible things that have no doubt changed me. In my opinion, once you see someone die horribly, nothing ever done on any video game can ever truly shock you. But it has given me a shell against the more extremely violent side of things when it comes to games maybe. Not desensitization, more knowing reality from not when you see it, and fantasy just cant carry the emotional impact. But at least they try, maybe one day theyll dig deep (or sink low, lol) enough to truly impact me in some way.
There's something to be said for cartoony and bright, but we have to listen to endless people bellyaching about how anything that isnt dark thematically and stylistically is ripping off the warcraft universe. Just aint worth it.
How about some kind of middle-ground, you know like something akin to reality?
how about a trade-off? A game that starts with the world all nice and green and fluffy, where you start saving your neighbor's cat, and as the game progresses and the evil overlord gains more control (whom you will eventually fight since you're obviously the 'chosen one'), the world turns darker and grittier. I've seen this a lot in console RPGs, I guess it's because they focus so much on story.
I don't like dark! gritty! Mature! at all. Real life is dark and gritty enough, and I have to be mature there all the time. So in my games I want bright! Colorful! Oh, and a helping of Whimsicle! and Cute! too please, with Sprinkles! on top
Who doesnt love a good decapitation.