The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés!

[Link Antilles]

I found this quite amusing ... some of this is very console specific, but much of it applies to any RPG...

Check it out here: Clicky



All of them are so true...

Everybody who is a (game|dungeon) master in some RPG, should print these RPG rules, have them by their side everywhere they go, always, and use at least 10 of them in every single campaign they play

[panegryst]

YES! I love this! I read it before but lost the link! thank you!!

[Lobo]

lol that applies to almost all rpgs except for earthbound

[Yojimbo]

LOL Sooooo....true.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

rofl i read every single one of em

[cbwing0]

So true...

[Mr. SmartyPants]

OMG wheever i ran into a good one (which was like 1 every 3 of them) i would copy paste them to my friend over aim and say the following: OMG SO TRUE or ROFL or LOL or HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA or SO TRUE or OMG SO TRUE and stuff, it was hilarious

[Bobtheduck]

1. I can think of 2 games this happend... Mario RPG (only he was woken by toad instead of his mother) and Chrono Trigger. Am I missing something? I think in "Breath of Fire" he is asleep when the town burns down...

2. This does NOT happen in Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6 (well, I guess everything... Um... Nevermind), This happened in Breath of Fire, and in a few others.

3. Heheheh...

4. Once again, this is a Chrono Trigger thing... A few others as well. It's true. This is a common, but not universal, theme in Japanese RPGs.

5. The only character in FF7 who was under 20 (on the team, I mean) was Yuffie. Aeris is 22, I think Tifa is 20, and Cloud is 21... Barret's even older than them, I'm guessing... THen there's vincent... This one in particular annoys me because this is what Adam Sessler whined about in reference to Japanese RPGs (besides the fact he doesn't have enough patience to play through them) It's just not as common as he thinks, and as other seem to...

6. This stereotype is rather accurate, but not just about Japanese RPGs, but about a lot of american movies and stories (and brittish and Canadian too) The single parent thing is just done all the time...

7. Hmm... I can't argue with that... I mean, there is Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart, but they're not brought up much in the game (the names I mean.)

8. One big exception to this: Final Fantasy Tactics... Everyone is given names... There is a big random name generator that gives every little peon a name. I'm sure there are more... Final Fantasy 5, I believe, gave a name to Butz's mom.

9. Not always every item, but there is almost always at least a few of those items in every game. That, in itself, doesn't mean much.

10. This one is crap. It's just not true... I mean, Tidus lived in a big technological d... Er, City... Squall and Rinoa lived in a garden (which is very technological.) Let's not even get into Cloud and his crew.

11. This could also be called the "Samus Aran" rule or the "Solid Snake" rule. Or the "every video game sequal that has power building and carries on from a previous game, with the exception of .hack" rule.

12. ? I can't think of anything to counter that one right off hand, because I can't think of what games I've played where the character used to be rich. I mean, there's the 4 knights from Chrono Cross... And they all stay rich. Also, that bratty little girl stays bratty... I hated her... Anyhow

13. Nah, it's just Cloud, Chrono, and that one guy (you know, from Seiken Densetsu 2 who you have to name yourself) It's not a universal thing... Laguna and Squall, for instance, didn't have high hair, neither did Tidus. Celes may have had bangs, and Locke... He had normal hair. So this isn't really a rule. It's just that spiky tall hair is common in anime and games because the "hair chunks" are an easy way to draw hair. It's impossible to draw strands and animate them.

14. Hahahahaha! Only one game I can think of where that's not true... Zelda... You'll get in trouble stealing from someone in Zelda.

15. a. Hmm... That's in 2 games I can think of, but not all
b. the FIRST HALF applies to Yuna...
c. Lulu doesn't have any deformities!! Um Sorry
d. Is auron "gothy"? Or "achingly beautiful" for that matter?
e. Kimahri
f. Hmm... I can't think of where this would have come from...
g.

Oh forget it... This list is unfair, but also untrue in the way it combines things. Unfair because it has too many things on the list... I mean you have to do something to move the characters along...

16. I wouldnt' call... That guy from FFX a pretty boy...

Hmm... I'll go through the rest of these later, but #41... Geez... What a cheap shot. I should expect that from a fan work like this, though. Much better than finding something like that on Apple's website...

[AngelSakura]

That one about no one caring when a heavily armed gang busts into their house during dinner, roots aroung in their stuff, and demands to know if they've seen in a man in a black cape was HILARIOUS. I was reading it to Tidus20 and had to keep stopping because it was so funny. ^^

[Fsiphskilm]

Save the W

[Nate]

I only briefly skimmed through the list but most of them are pretty accurate. However they forgot a couple of things.
As far as characters, you can't forget the character (ususally a main character) who inexplicably lost their memory and were found by the town elder/washed up on the beach of some remote town. And remember, if they have amnesia, you can be certain that they are the key to saving the world.
Also, any rare or unique items that aren't key to your quest but are ultra-powerful are only worth 1 measly gil/GP/gold/goz/whatever to a shopkeeper. If he were to be selling it, however, it would be worth hundreds of thousands to millions more.

[MasterDias]

Heh.
I've known about that site for a while.