Things That Happen In All Role Playing Games.

have you ever noticed in every rpg they have a scene in which your charcater and his party come across 'thugs' hassling someone.

You Couldn't Get To Sleep Either, Huh?": where the main character ends up staring at the moon and reminicisng about home with a princess

1. Theres always a (mostly female) childhood friend, whom you know for a long time, and often enough theres kind of a clumsy love story between the main char and this friend.

2. No RPG without Pirates or a ghosthip / ship level / bandits.

3. Theres always a "big brother" or best friend, who always was better in everything, and the main char looks up to him.

4. Theres always a char under age 15.

5. Theres always a big, strongand kindhearted char in the party.

6. Final boss fightsalways have several stages, where the boss grows more powerful.

7. Status abnormalities wont work against much foes, but your party is always affected.

8. There's always a secret dungeon that beholds the most powerful monsters and treasure.

9. It does'nt matter how advanced the world is, even in a world with spaceships there's never any sign of infrastructure like streets and the sorrounding fields are always full of monsters.

10. You always have to fight a specific monsters a thousand times to receive a rare drop from it.

There are much more things, but that should be enough.

You never get someone wanting a toilet break whilst wondering in game for hours. When you go back to certain towns new upgrades or items are availiable which wasn't there already. Theres always an annoying character you dislike at some point in your party or have an elongated cut scene you cannot skip with them doing something totally not relevant to the story line. when you upgrade your armour it usually looks the same as you clothing.Dion2k7

Yeah, weapons always look different, but especially in JRPG's the cloth you wear never changes.

There are always rats to be killed and barrells with random equipment in them.

If there's a pebble on the road in front of you, you can't step over it, jump over it, anything. Same with any other object that in real life would be easily stepped over.

"I'm a super charged, super levelled spiky haired superhero who's super generic with all the personality of a dead cat! I can destroy you in one hit with my super duper power sword! Oh no, it's a feather, I can't step over that, I'M DOOMED!"

R/T

I like RPG's that have a roulette mini-game. Especially the ones with a savepoint nearby. No more money worries in these games due to the good old betting trick :D

Most of these really only fit the JRPG market.mattykovax

Here is long list of Cliches.

one thing that gets on my nerves every now and then (mostly from its frequency) is the "young arrogant naive protagonist that matures over the span of the game". yes, character development is important in a story, but that arc has been done too many times. any interesting character thrusted into an unfamiliar situation would have the same chance to develope. it doesnt have to be the same character or the same situation. LoG-Sacrament

[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]one thing that gets on my nerves every now and then (mostly from its frequency) is the "young arrogant naive protagonist that matures over the span of the game". yes, character development is important in a story, but that arc has been done too many times. any interesting character thrusted into an unfamiliar situation would have the same chance to develope. it doesnt have to be the same character or the same situation. muthsera666

Since Final Fantasy VII, every main character in a FF game has an identity crisis towards the end of the game