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#1 Jul 29, 2014 11:19 PM

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What causes the obsession with this game?

So I was watching Stormy and Paranoia play this game and there was something bothering me the entire time. How are there people who have become so obsessed with this game? I'm not using obsessed as an over exaggeration here, as in people who love the game and want a new one to come out. I disagree with these people too, but that's a topic for another time. Who I'm talking about are the people who's lives are changed by it, cannot think about anything else, find Spyro and Cynder's story to be the greatest love story ever told, wish they lived in the world of the game rather than the real world, I could go on. I'm not trying to say anything about the quality of the game here, rather the fact that its story was not anything that hasn't been done before, and the similar stories did not have the obsessive, cult-like following this game does/did. It honestly just felt like a generic video game with a generic story to me. Is there something I'm missing about it?


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#2 Jul 29, 2014 11:33 PM

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#3 Jul 29, 2014 11:35 PM

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#4 Jul 30, 2014 7:21 AM

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Re: What causes the obsession with this game?

Don't you guys live together? Can't you talk in real life?

Jokes aside, I never really understood why people liked the gameplay, along with the, you know, intense obsession over the characters and such. It's mediocre at best, I found myself just mashing buttons to win, and running around extremely linear levels, each level separated by the voice acting you get when you hire expensive actors without paying them enough.

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#5 Jul 31, 2014 5:02 AM

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Re: What causes the obsession with this game?

The ending scene caused a bunch of shippers.

Despite our many attempts, the ship will not sink.

And it became popular as a result.

In all seriousness the envionments are pretty and you dont get many games where you fly around as a dragon. Had a few bright moments and ideas but was lost to the cliche tolkin *bleep* that everyone goes nuts about these days. (SEriously, I do not get the appeal ofLotR/Hobbit. At all. I know they basically made fantasy but it's come tot he point where it's cliche itself.)

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#7 Jul 31, 2014 5:16 AM

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#8 Jul 31, 2014 5:54 AM

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Re: What causes the obsession with this game?

Going strictly by the movies on this one. lol. I tried the books but I just couldn't get into it.

But wasn't Frodo a chosen one in the movies to throw the ring into the fire? And there was something I think about hte Ranger King with a prophacy. But dont quote me on those. And wouldn't Sauron count as the big bad and Smaug for Hobbit?

If I'm wrong I'm wrong but either way I will amend my statement:

This game has the same, generic fantasy tropes everyone goes nuts about that appears in 95% of every fantasy storyline. There is no variation. The only reasonably cool thing was when Malefor sprouted off about purple dragons being the end of the world but that was just a throwaway line

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Re: What causes the obsession with this game?

The whole point of Frodo's character was that there was nothing special about him at all. He wasn't chosen - he just volunteered to take the thing. Not sure about the prophecy thing; it's been a while since I've read the books, but there wasn't one that I can remember, at least. And I'm not sure if I would count Big Bad as a fantasy cliche, but that could be just me.

I'd actually never thought of the word "Tolkenian" being incorrect to describe modern fantasy cliches before reading KingLambda's post, so this is new to me, too, lol.

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