Riddick re-chronicled @ CVG

Vikingod · Oct 1, 2007, 03:45 PM

Source: CVG
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Taking the term literally, there are very few legitimate 'roleplaying' games - certainly fewer than exist within the RPG genre. How many times, for example, do you remember actually feeling at one with the character you controlled?

How many times did you share not just their experiences and actions, but their mind and body as well? Rather than give you ownership of a character's stats and inventory, how many games give you the sense that your character in part has possession over you?

Not many, though The Chronicles of Riddick is one. Awkwardly described as a first-person stealth-action-adventure game, it sentences you to 24 hours in Butcher Bay, the most disgusting prison in the galaxy. This is a place where people aren't sent to die, but rather to wish they were dead.

BlueMak · Oct 1, 2007, 03:53 PM

I haven't played the game, but I have heard only good things about it. Wish I had it.

The movies are great.

pigdog · Oct 3, 2007, 03:07 AM

Awsome game. Tragically, I traded it in; been regretting it ever since.

Might be time to visit Ebay methinks.

Oct 1, 2007, 03:45 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Riddick re-chronicled @ CVG Source: CVG ___________ Taking the term literally, there are very few legitimate 'roleplaying' games - certainly fewer than exist within the RPG genre. How many times, for example, do you remember actually feeling at one with the character you controlled? How many times did you share not just their experiences and actions, but their mind and body as well? Rather than give you ownership of a character's stats and inventory, how many games give you the sense that your character in part has possession over you? Not many, though The Chronicles of Riddick is one. Awkwardly described as a first-person stealth-action-adventure game, it sentences you to 24 hours in Butcher Bay, the most disgusting prison in the galaxy. This is a place where people aren't sent to die, but rather to wish they were dead.

Oct 1, 2007, 03:53 PM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,465 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I haven't played the game, but I have heard only good things about it. Wish I had it. The movies are great. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Oct 3, 2007, 03:07 AM	#3
pigdog HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 471 Rep Power: 57 System Specs	Awsome game. Tragically, I traded it in; been regretting it ever since. Might be time to visit Ebay methinks. __________________