Batman is the perfect RPG

[Tycn]

http://web.me.com/guesty81/Gameztraffic/Articles/Entries/2009/9/13_Stat_Bonus.html

This is one of those amazing writers with an uncanny talent for making you want to gouge out your eyes with any readily available instrument.

Bethesda has become the crown jewel for RPGs, crafting a constant action first-person view with all the complexities of a JRPG.

Mass Effect found a way to perfect dialogue

These games have taken the ephemeral aspects of what RPG fans crave

Undiluted bullshit?

you do get to play Batman as you see fit... That is, in essence, the perfect example of an RPG.

What they all have in common is the new RPG idea of CHOICE

we can choose blow for blow HOW he fights, we pick each action and every step in a way that can’t be done with the traditional styles

Punch? Counter? Batarang? Pewpew, choice!

We are now seeing the perfection of interactive gaming

 

[MrBumble]

Lolz

Noobs just wet themselves over Batman...


And Bioshock is teh bestest fps ever !!

 

[Lexx]

Doom is a RPG too because you can choose what enemy you want to shot first. Didn't you know it?

 

[Madbringer]

Doom is a RPG too because you can choose what enemy you want to shot first. Didn't you know it?

Ahaha. You even have level warp codes, so you can go with pistol+fist only straight to the last level of each episode. Choice and consequence at it's best.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I know that part of freedom of speech is having to accept that every moron can put his opinion on the internet, but do there have to be so many of them with moronic ideas of what an RPG is?

 

[iridium_ionizer]

Yeah, holding up Batman: Arkham Asylum as an RPG, is ridiculous. Non-linear, yes. RPG, no.

On a tangent, I've played several Fallout 1/2 games by role-playing as similar to Batman as possible. Boosting Unarmed and Throwing skills early in the game. Of course the unarmed and throwing animations don't really demonstrate the spirit of Batman. Still a Batman game in an Fallout-based total conversion would be awesome. Besides the more fight animations and new character sprites, there would need to be more emphasis on subduing (and disarming) rather than killing opponents, interrogating hoods and finding evidence, and reworking the stealth system (so as to reward surprise criticals). I'm not sure how all the vertical buildings and rooftops would fit into a 2.5D game.

It would be totally workable, but if someone really did work on it as a non-commercial total conversion (or FIFE game), I'm sure DC would send them a cease-and-desist note just as they are about to release the Alpha. Probably better just to make a "Masked Avenger" generic game (and later convert it to Batman). I doubt DC would ever decide to make a deep Batman RPG.

 

[generalissimofurioso]

My face was completely stoic until I got to the comments section.

Whoever wrote that stole my bit, but I can't be mad at 'em.

 

[x'il]

I know that part of freedom of speech is having to accept that every moron can put his opinion on the internet, but do there have to be so many of them with moronic ideas of what an RPG is?

Yeah... unfortunately the term "RPG" is too 'in vogue"** right now, everything's an "RPG", cause it's awezumm to say the word "RPG" and, you know, "RPG"-ing and stuff...

**(sadly not RPG's (true ones) themselves though).

 

[Ausdoerrt]

Yup, good laugh.

Which only proves my belief that anyone who thinks FF7 is the best RPG in the world is a moron. Nuff said. (the author called it a turn-based rpg )

 

[generalissimofurioso]

Todd Howard loves Batman too

It would explain a few things though.

Like why he lives in a cave with underage boys eating rats.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I’d go with Wing Commander. I think the world needs a cinematic space shooter reboot. Maybe I can swing the Battlestar Galactica license and sneak it in that way

Urgh, having put his 'creative stamp' on Fallout he now wants to fuck up another classic favorite of mine.

The people at the Wing Commander Center will most likely think he has the same vision as Chris Roberts if he should get his hands on it, seeing as every game magazine and site describes him as a genius.

 

[Sorrow]

I think that Wing Commander would be a much more fitting franchise for Todd Howard than Fallout.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I think that Wing Commander would be a much more fitting franchise for Todd Howard than Fallout.

Rather not, some people do like that series enough that they don't want Bethesda to get its hands on it.

I think Todd Howard should have been a developer of applications or something else where he can cause no harm.

 

[Sorrow]

Well, at least it would satisfy his cinematic gameplay fetish .

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

Well, at least it would satisfy his cinematic gameplay fetish .

He would fuck it up, seeing the quality of cinematics in Oblivion and Fallout 3, he would fuck it up.

 

[Danilh]

quoting myself from the comments;

Apparently, Tetris is the perfect example of RPG, because you can choose where the pieces go

 

[SharkClub]

Loving all the hate comments this guy's getting.
What a load of shit.

 

[fedaykin]

I believe here we have a case of someone whose primary knowledge of games starts from somewhere around 2004. The guy really doesn't know better than to think Batman is an RPG. He has no idea about what RPG was in the past, because he hasn't bothered to educate himself.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

I believe here we have a case of someone whose primary knowledge of games starts from somewhere around 2004. The guy really doesn't know better than to think Batman is an RPG. He has no idea about what RPG was in the past, because he hasn't bothered to educate himself.

His biography says he has been a gamer for about two decades. However, it also indicates that he is primarily a console gamer, which would explain his ignorance of PC RPGs (i.e. the only RPGs that are actually relevant).

 

[PlanHex]

This has to be a troll to get some traffic.
Just look at the blog's name.