If this were Pokemon, the first thing I would do would be to find a firearm.
I'd then get to the top of whichever criminal group is most prominent in the region by simply shooting anyone who dares to challenge me before they could even throw a pokeball. No battling, just some bullets to the chest. I'd also capture as many pokemon with status inducing moves as humanly possible and distribute them to the other members of the evil group, with the orders to use those moves on the humans they meet. Oh, and I'd give them all firearms too. I'd make sure that all of them were trained in the use of guns, with an emphasis on shooting the human instead of the pokemon.
All ten year olds that arrive in my secret lair are to immobilized by sleep or paralysis immediately, and then thrown into some cell or another. No exceptions.
edited 1st Jan '11 9:41:41 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Considering that everyone and their mother have death monsters that can and will kill you if you harm their master, your plan might not go over so well.
Your goon shoots the human, his gardevoir telekinetically rips your goon's head off.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
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Banding together isn't a good idea in any setting. Conservation of Ninjutsu might actually apply to Dangerously Genre-Savvy turning people into Wrong Genre Savvy at inopportune moments, and suddenly, Anyone Can Die. Rule of Three might be a good fallback to avoid that.
That said, in an RPG, when you find an NPC that has oodles of useless junk in their house that the protagonist will HAVE to search for in their quest for the Holy Toothpick of Justice? That's gonna be me. I'm wired that way, sorry.
edited 1st Jan '11 10:07:43 PM by Noelemahc
Videogames do not make you a worse person... Than you already are.<Get's out pen and paper, puts on Brainy Specs>
Well, if there's too many of us then the experience gain will be too low for each monster killed. But if there's too few we might get picked off by a boss or something. Five-Man Band would be nice, but it still seems a bit thin. Most big monsters are meant to be challenged by 4-6 players so it would make sense to have more than that.
We'd have to split up into groups of tenish then sweep each region clear of all experience fodder systematically. Given respawn times and the need for sleep, food and human contact we'd need a base camp too, hopefully one that's able to be relocated. Given variables related to difficulty in subdueing hostiles and respawn times we could have a Badass Army of god-slaying BFS wielding meme-spouting Genre Savvy tropers in as little as a few months. Casualties could be minimized by making sure each individual has unique hairstyles and custom-tailored outfits.
This is all assuming we don't just end up in The Sims, which is where i'd most likely lapse into severe depression over being this freaking close to getting sucked into a place as badass as Super Robot Wars or, failing that, an H-game.
edited 1st Jan '11 10:38:33 PM by ShirowShirow
You are not alone.
We must all have different weapons as well. Even if one of us decides to use dildos as a weapon, you can bet that one of the bonus dungeons will contain Ultima Dildo in a chest.
Okay, in that case i'm calling the halberd right now. That's the coolest melee weapon ever.
You are not alone.Fine. I'll take glaives, then.
Class: Magic Knight.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
Noodle Implements FTW!
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I admire how your personal rating puts SRW first and H-games second and, I assume, everything else even lower. Me, I'd be wary of H-games, too many weird ones out there. Don't want to end up in something tentacle and/or guro-related.
edited 1st Jan '11 10:53:10 PM by Noelemahc
Videogames do not make you a worse person... Than you already are.Myself, the first thing I'd do is look out for any kids who have a unique sprite or model and seem nice, and befriend them. They're likely either the Kid Hero or on the hero's side, and in either case I'd be putting myself on the winning side. But I'll also have to avoid becoming a mentor to the kid.
edited 1st Jan '11 11:11:24 PM by Poochy.EXE
Extra 1: Poochy Ain't StupidThe reason that my plan will work is this: Everyone will have their pokemon in their pokeballs.
Except in Amity Park and Johto, I guess. And I should probably beware of that spikey haired cape dude who vaporizes mooks with his Dragonite.
edited 1st Jan '11 10:57:59 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Eh. Not really.
Tons of people walk around with their Pokemon out. You can bet that if you try to shoot a person, someone will unleash their monsters on your pansy ass.
Besides, they certainly would start walking around with their Pokemon out after hearing about your escapades.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -LandstanderI don't think they're smart enough to do that.
Consider this: How many trainers do you see in the games with their pokemon out all the time, even after various evil teams start attacking people directly with their pokemon? Very few, typically in major cities.
Which means I'll need to relocate our business to the various routes, possibly collecting tax revenue through the guard stations. The police are nearly non-existent, the night watchmen are easily approachable at daytime, and the main threats we have to worry about are the Champions (Unavoidable, sadly), Looker (Guns help there), and ten year olds.
edited 1st Jan '11 11:09:55 PM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.Noelemahc's got me thinking. Super Robot Wars as well as Endless Frontier are by far the top of the list of "Games i'd like to live in" because they combine equal parts idealism and sheer badassery. So you'd probably never die while still getting to run across a wall dodging gatling guns fired from the back of a dragon being ridden by a demonic robot from outer space who is also on fire.
Nintendo's game's would probably come second. All of them. There's literally no world they've made that's not exciting or safe. Ish.
Next are high-concept sci-fi worlds. Some you definatly want to avoid (Halo exterminates 99% of the human race by the end of it.) but others would be simply awesome. Technology could even be high enough to make people effectively immortal. That's always a plus.
Then there's worlds like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger and War Craft. Fantasy worlds with serious variety behind them. Even a world like the Elder Scrolls would get dreary after awhile. You need AWESOME fantasy. Having basic plumbing is a prerequisite.
Magic Realism isn't too high up on the list. Metal Gear Solid has psychic shamans carry aircraft machine guns and Humongous Mecha but these kind of series tend to either be very lethal or very hard to break into the Masquerade.
Most everything else would be lame. A sim game or a realistic FPS is basically just like our world only where either a specific thing is Serious Business or it's just overall crappier.
And as an addendum to the Eroge comment, the sexier a series is the better. Because why the hell not?
edited 1st Jan '11 11:18:48 PM by ShirowShirow
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However, all of the previous evil organizations have been following league rules. Once you start breaking them, your opponents have reason to start breaking them as well.
I remember some random guy getting paralyzed in Ruby/Sapphire by a Magma/Aqua grunt, so they weren't exactly playing by league rules.
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.@Noelemahc: Either that, or a Dating Sim or Visual Novel.
Anyways, if we were in a Co-Op game similar to Sven Co-Op or Obsidian Conflict, we'd have to be able to work together, obviously.
edited 1st Jan '11 11:52:45 PM by RocketDude
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Can't say "no" to Dating Sim, alright. True Love was wonderfully coherent AND has magic (and an angel) in it despite the otherwise mundane modern-day setting.
And while we're on the subject of picking weapons, I'd go with a woodcutter's axe. Not very combat-comfy, but there's safety in being Boring, but Practical. Firearms aside, this is one of the few things larger than a ballpoint pen that I'd be comfortable with in a fight.
Videogames do not make you a worse person... Than you already are.This here would be exactly the problem:
[[Quoteblock]]See, I'd try to BECOME the Big Bad.
But not obviously. Instead of being some mustache twirler who pesters the heroes at every turn, I'd just place deadly traps in drawers in random houses which would kill them when they tried to loot the place. [[/quoteblock]]
All tropers are so genre savvy that we would wreck the place bring on the industrial revolution, and bring that world of magic to it's realistic knees.
DoodlesI think I'd probably go for some kind of stave. Once I've built up my mad skills enough I can probably substitute any similarly shaped object (lampost, baguette) and improvise. I'd have reach, or could be defensive, or could play as some kind of mage and shoot fireballs out of it. Even in a platformer I could use it to bridge gaps.
Plus, I could do mad Darth Maul moves.
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I would be the lovely Lady Miijhal's loyal assistant who would exist for the sole purpose of annoying the ever living hell out of the player because I just refuse to die. Until I finally do and then...I die. The end.
edited 1st Jan '11 9:38:36 PM by Aondeug
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