I seriously can’t tell if that’s cosplay or video game screenshot
Cosplay, from a North American RPG that’s a classic.
It’scosplay from dragon age origin
What game is it supposed to be?
It’s Morrigan from Dragon Age.
no idea I don’t play RPGs
Well, the Diablo series was quite good
WoW was pretty good, too. Maybe too good. It had my hyper focus for like 4 years. I wish I could get a tenth as into games now as I was into WoW about 20 years ago.
was
I blissfully remember getting my hands on the Hellfire expansion for the first one; I didn’t even know it existed until my uncle gave it to me.
wasn’t blizzard north canadian, though?
I thought Canada’s pride and glory was Eidos Montreal and now you’re telling me Blizzard North was here too? Oh goodie!
California IIRC.
I know blizzard (main) was in anaheim. just south (and sprawling with, but in orange county so nobody sane would ever go there) of los angeles. might be what you’re thinking of? but also you could be right, and it was in, like, glendale or some shit.
?? DIsneyland is in Anaheim. Not sure why you imply it’s an armpit.
its in orange county.
Yes, Anaheim is in Orange County, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Orange County certainly has some nasty sprawl, but it also has some nice beaches.
the problem with OC is not geography.
Blizzard North (formerly known as Condor) was an American video game development studio based in San Mateo, California. The studio was the Bay Area division of Blizzard Entertainment, known for its Diablo series. The company was originally based in Redwood City, California, before moving a short distance away to San Mateo, with Blizzard proper being based in Irvine, southern California.
shit. okay, close on half.
When Canada makes good shit we just claim it as American. People rarely call us on it.
oh. okay then, yeah, diablo, fav game as a young kid, local california studio, whoo!
Wit da SKALD reference
Grand theft auto.
and GTA is RPG since when?
But Rockstar are British. I know it is set in America, but Grand Theft Auto is by a British company.
Hey maybe they’re just trying to prove anons point more lmao
Der, I’m dumb. Whoops.
Pathfinder - Asia
Uhh, no? Paizo is an American company. Based in Redmond, Washington, according to Wikipedia.
I think they meant Owlcat Games, creators of Pahtfinder Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous video games. They are based in Cyprus but their developers are all over the place from what I know (so it’s more Europe-Asia kind of thing but I may be wrong)
Honestly, everyone’s developers are all over the place. Almost every studio hires contractors from wherever to do things as basic as spell checking to pathfinding to artwork. Hell, sometimes they outsource story writing too.
For RPGs they almost always outsource the writing. Crafting a good story is not really a skill that a lot of the major developers have a lot of call for (normally they just have you shoot the bad guys because) so they don’t have people on staff for it. In RPGs stories are a lot more important though, so they actually have to put some effort in.
Aren’t most RPG video games developed by companies that primarily do RPG video games? Like, Warhorse was founded specifically to make KCD. Fallout Shelter is the only non-RPG Bethesda has developed since 2008. And The Witcher Adventure Game and the Gwent games are the only non-RPGs CD Projekt Red have ever done.
pathfinding
Pathfinders, you could say
The post is clearly talking about video games. It is reasonable to conclude they are talking about the Pathfinder video games, which were not made by Paizo, but by Owlcat Games. Whether or not Cyprus is part of Asia is kind of debatable, but they are certainly not American.
Wasn’t Gary Gygax American?
Yeah, Americans created the RPG genre…
Dungeons and Dragons
The OG RPG.
Exactly. All RPGs can trace their lineage back to Gygax.
there are some pretty cool people with some pretty terrible ancestors. I don’t think you want to apply this logic; it gets real gross real quick.
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yes but they said good.
Bethesda alone.
Wizardry, Ultima… Rogue?
The entire genre of RPGs exists because of geek-ass weirdos on American mainframes in the late 1970s. I got nerd-sniped wondering what could’ve come out on Channel F, and every trope was established and waiting before literally the first proper games console.
there’s lots of other good ones under this thread but I’ll add mass effect, specifically mass effect 2.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Mass Effect yet. Or Dragon Age, even with a picture of a cosplay of Morrigan in the OP.
I thought that was the joke.
BioWare is Canadian
If Elden Ring is Canadian, and Witcher is European, then we can just call Bioware games North American
Of course, it makes perfect sense to describe Canadian products as North American, but OP asks about “American” RPGs. It would be strange to call Canadian Bacon “American food”.
Idk, Canadian Bacon is pretty essential for Hawaiian pizza, and last I checked, that’s absolutely an American thing.
Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Canada
Dang. Well, at least it has an American state in the name. :)
Nope, still Canada, made by a Greek though.
America invented the entire RPG genre - thank you Steve and Dave (d&d). Anon isn’t just wrong; he’s a complete idiot.
It gets even worse when you know Europe and Asia are the same continent.
Errh, sort of.
It really depends on your definition of Continent. Most people would argue that Asia is a different continent.
I feel like most people actually don’t care that much about Continental Boundries to give an Argument either way.
Geologists, scornfully staring at you.
Our accepted definition of what a continent is sucks. Why is Europe considered a continent but India is not? Every argument for Europe being a separate continent applies even better to India.
Europe just wanted to be special and controlled science at the time, change my mind.
india has HALF the landmass…seriously…thats not a continent
If we’re going based on landmass, shouldn’t Russia be its own continent? Russia is almost twice as big as Europe, and it’s culturally unique compared to its neighbors.
well it spans two continents…and also it is russia, so.
Yup, but which two depends on how you define “continent.” It either spans Europe and Asia if you go by common definitions of continents, or it spans Eurasia and North America if you look at tectonic continental plates.
I propose we reclassify india as a dwarf continent
the pluto of continents
It has to do with geology. Europe basically swallowed up and mixed in with another continent a long time ago after Pangea broke up
In contrast, the present eastern boundary of Europe partially adheres to the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, which is somewhat arbitrary and inconsistent compared to any clear-cut definition of the term “continent”.
The current division of Eurasia into two continents now reflects East-West cultural, linguistic and ethnic differences which vary on a spectrum rather than with a sharp dividing line.
There’s really no physical reasoning for it. You can read on in that article for the historical basis if you want (basically, Homer and other Greeks coined it, and it just kind of stuck), but it’s really quite arbitrary where scientists actually draw the line.
My bad, should clarify I was referring to this specifically:
In geology, a continent is defined as “one of Earth’s major landmasses, including both dry land and continental shelves”. The geological continents correspond to seven large areas of continental crust that are found on the tectonic plates, but exclude small continental fragments such as Madagascar that are generally referred to as microcontinents. Continental crust is only known to exist on Earth.
If we’re talking about tectonic plates, then:
- Europe is part of Eurasia
- Arabian peninsula, India, and far east Russia aren’t part of it, but we’d probably include them as subcontintents
We’d end up with the following continents:
- N. America (technically includes far east Russia) w/ Caribbean subcontinent
- S. America
- Eurasia w/ Indian and Arabian subcontintents
- Africa w/ Somali subcontinent
- Australia
- Antarctica
Honestly, that would be a much more satisfactory definition than the current one, which seems to be “large landmass bigger than Greenland with logical separations when they’re too big.” What I really don’t understand is when people say Europe and Asia are separate, but N. America and S. America are combined, that’s logically inconsistent.
India is part of the Indian subcontinent which is part of the Eurasian continent. This is the official goelogical definition. Don’t listen to uneducated children on the internet.
Not sort of. Most people are idiots. There are seven geological continents and here’s a list of them:
Africa Antarctica Australia Eurasia North America South America Zealandia
These contain various subcontinents.
What’s even weirder is when someone claims Europe is a separate continent from Asia, yet N. America and S. America are the same continent.
Wants good RPGs
lists Solasta, one of the mid-dest games I’ve have the neutrality of playing
Aren’t Bethesda games the most bought RPGs overall???
Ameritards can’t even handle being a country, let alone creating decent content.
The job market is such that we’re too busy fighting over scrap metal and food like it’s the aftermath of an apocalypse. We don’t time for fucking game development
Yeah game devs get paid so little here, they’re the ones fighting the hardest over the scrap metal and food
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