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[ansemaru]

Huh, I just noticed this...

Out of my top five RPGs, four of them are in nonstandard modern/cyberpunk/sci-fi settings. The fifth is Final Fantasy IX.

A) Can you guess what the other four are? (Hint: one of the other four is also a Final Fantasy)

B) This says things about what I like out of RPGs in terms of setting and tropes. I think.

In other news: I

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[ansemaru]

I KNOW, IT IS FUCKED UP AND YET I CAN'T STOP WATCHING- I think it helps to know that it was the starting place for a shitton of those tropes. At the time, it was super-subversive and out of fucking nowhere, so remembering that makes it that much more impressive. EVERYTHING IS HORRIBLE AND AMAZING.

Which characters do you like?

oh my I haven't watched EoE yet but I have it on DVD somewhere 'cause a friend decided to "lend" it to me without any intention of taking it back...

this is going to be an adventure

[ansemaru]

HAHAHA, I AM THE SAME AS YOU- massive, massive sympathy for Shinji (it was uncanny as to how much of his thought processes in episode 26 sounded like mine on any given day), and I am quite fond of Asuka. I think she reminds me of people I know... And otherwise, I love Misato. And Kensuke. (I-I can't really explain why, I just do...)

Rei scares the bejeezus out of me, though.

[gheofabulousduk]

A) FFVII! Persona 4! ...Kingdom Hearts? Is Tales of Vesperia the one "standard" fantasy one?

Goddamn I love Evangelion. After you finish the series (including End of Eva, obvs), be sure to watch the recent Rebuild movies. They are super fascinating, and also gorgeous.

~Duk

[ansemaru]

A) You got P4 and FFVII right, but Kingdom Hearts isn't in the top 5, nor is Vesperia. It's still one of my favorite standard fantasies!

:D It's nice to see that some of my flist knows Eva! I'm almost at the end of the series, and I'll be done with that+EoE by the end of the week. :3 Rebuild looks like it'll be fun to watch, especially when I get to spot the differences between it and the original.

[technophile]

Does Earthbound count? Chrono Trigger fits, too. Mass Effects?

/random guesses

[ansemaru]

You got it! Earthbound and Mass Effect/ME2 were the other ones! Not Chrono Trigger, though, I have yet to really get into it.

[darkspellmaster]

Not quiet sure of the other RPGs, I don't know enough to really hazard a full on guess.

As for Eva....>< I have...issues with that series as a whole. It's a lot of very weird psychology things. There's a great review on it from a girl named JO, who really went into what put it together and what's so amazingly horrible about it.

If by chance you like that one, might I recomend Raxaphone, just as strange, but there's a least more of a semblence to a plot. Characters are a bit more developed over a period of time and, the pilot while he may whine it's not about the fighting he has to do it's about the fact that he doesn't understand what's happening to him. Animation is really good, the score is good, and there are moments that hit at some very interesting concepts. Well at least they were to me.

[ansemaru]

The majority of the psychology made enough sense to me to be watchable. /shrug.

I, uh... I know that series gets recommended to Eva fans, but it's really not the same thing. I don't want to go into too much detail, but a big reason for me sticking with this show through all 26 episodes was the fact that I could directly empathize with Shinji, and the fact that the show was generally a terrifying clusterfuck.

[darkspellmaster]

Can I asked how you empathized with Shinji?

Have you by chance watched Gilgamesh? Blew my mind.