Which rpg is the most outlandish about what they say young people can do.

[darkchrono]

We all know rpg's are notorious for having extremely young characters do kind of outlandish things (acting in ways or doing things that nobody of their age would be even remotely capable of acting or doing in the real world).

Well which character or game do you think would be the most outlandish or unrealistic when it comes to this particular subject.

In my opinion as far as a total cast of characters in a game I would have to go with the first Grandia game. Every single main character for the most part in that game is about 14-15 and yet they are able to explore across the world and go places that nobody has been able to go before and even join the military (which by the way pretty much all the military leaders within that military are only about 18 years old).

But that probably would not be the single most unrealistic instance though in the rpg world in regards to the youth of the characters and what they have them do. Grandia was a very light hearted game that was not meant to be taken seriously and was put together more for the fun aspects rather than the storyline.

But the single most unrealistic character in an rpg I would say would probably have to be Maria from Xenogears. She is only six years old and yet she claims to be an expert on running Gears that not many grown-ups can do. And she is put in kind of a position to where she is the one who kind of shows people around in the place that she is from.

Although Maria does not have much to do with the overall path of the story in xenogears. Xenogears is a storyline that is supposed to be taken much more seriously than a storyline like Grandia is supposed to.

So because of the seriousness that xenogears is supposed to be taken I would have to go with Maria as being the most unrealistic character in an rpg in regards to how young she is and what they have her do.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Check your resources. Maria is thirteen.

Porom and Palom are both only five yet are capable of carrying on a semi-intelligent conversation.

[black orb]

>>> I think EarthBound has the youngest characters... never played the game but they looked like a bunch of brats..

[Zeromus_X]

Brats with Psychic powers to obliterate evil alien robots (And Jeff has his machines...)

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I don't think there's any official word on how old Ness is, but his repertoire consists of fighting with a baseball bat and traveling from city to city by methods such as bicycle and bus, which is all rather conservative. The most outlandish abilities at his disposal are his psychic powers, which are actually more realistic than the magic spells kids use in other RPGs.

[Dreddz]

I think Justin is pretty young in Grandia....

[KentaRawr!]

In alot of RPG's, it appears as though 13-14 year olds found the fountain of youth.

But the most outlandish thing has to be Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. Infants could jump on turtles to kill them, for god sakes!

[darkchrono]

Hmm, I swear I thought that I read Maria was only six somewhere. Maybe I was getting the memory of her age mixed up with the age of some other character from some other game.

[Zeromus_X]

Oh yeah! Souffle from SO3. (Peppita.) She's pretty young. Well actually she's like older for her race...or something... Well I liked beating the crap out of enemies with her giant teddy bear attack...

[Larahl]

Hmm, I guess I'll take Kingdom Hearts for that thing.
Though the gmae's storyline is a bit childish, still, where could some kids like Sora and Riku could fight like that?

Aren't they living in a peacful island? who taught them to fight and jump and do things like they did?
So I guess Kingdom Hearts has outlandish kids.

[darkchrono]

Yeah the three main characters in kingdom hearts are 14,14, and 15 respectively. So they are pretty darn young to do what they did in the game. But then again Kingdom Hearts like Grandia is not really meant to be a serious story (just a game designed to be fun with a storyline just to piece all the fun gameplay together).

[Markus. D]

it is in the fantasy genre....

it seems to all make sense when you see an elder doing the matrix.

[Shaun]

I reckon Justin from Grandia was about fifteen. But that girl who helped him was like...six or something. So yeah, you do get some severely young (and therefore incapable) characters in a few RPGs. Speaking of which, you've reminded me to play Grandia again. What a fantastic game it was, but I got about an hour into disc two if I can remember.

[Zeromus_X]

Logan's Run Rule
RPG characters are young. Very young. The average age seems to be 15, unless the character is a decorated and battle-hardened soldier, in which case he might even be as old as 18. Such teenagers often have skills with multiple weapons and magic, years of experience, and never ever worry about their parents telling them to come home from adventuring before bedtime. By contrast, characters more than twenty-two years old will cheerfully refer to themselves as washed-up old fogies and be eager to make room for the younger generation.

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I think the main characters from Skies of Arcadia are outlandish, such as Vyse, Aika, Fina, and Enrique, all of them are either teenagers or very young adults, yet they (SPOILER) sail around the world, go to a moon, kill a crapload of monsters that possess odd abilities, and kill giant machines capable of destroying the world (The Gigas).