Quote Originally Posted by Spuuky View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
How can you say you prefer playing a game to playing other games when the other games aren't even out yet?

I like Western RPG's okay, but I prefer games where you are more involved directly and can built a personality for your character in some way or another. Mass Effect is probably the best one I've personally played as it manages to do this on some level. But games like Diablo and the Elder Scrolls allow for far too little emotional attachment for me to get really into them. They also tend to be much more hack-and-slash than Eastern RPGs, with less thought involved. However, having said that, Eastern RPGs often don't require that much thought these days, either...
Wait... what? In eastern RPGs, you don't get to build ANY personality for your character, most of the time, because it's already there. This is in sharp contrast to western RPGs, in which you DO build a personality for your character. Also, they are more complicated than eastern RPGs. Please do not count Diablo and the army of Diablo clones in this discussion, because they are really their own class of game. Think about things like Fallout.
Maybe we've just played different WRPGs.

Fair enough you're right in that the character is rarely built but in most cases a set personality. However, a set personality to me is better than no personality at all, which is the most common personality I've found my characters to have. "Good" and "Evil" don't count much for a complete personality, just an alignment.

Otherwise, though, WRPGs have very little personality at all, if any. Elder Scrolls I find to be the worst for it of the games I've played. Haven't played Fallout, mind you.