Do not link to any commercial entities, including Kickstarter campaigns, unless they're directly relevant to the material in the associated blog posting. I welcome all comments about the material in this blog, and I generally do not censor them. I've made one contribution to the site, under the "Wild Mass Guessing" category, offering my theory that Mondain from Ultima I is a Sith Lord. There are other examples in Ultima V, Baldur's Gate, and Might & Magic, among others. " Sdrawkcab Name": We've joked about this a lot with Trebor/Robert, Werdna/Andrew, Yendor/Rodney, and so on. I don't have a problem with it, exactly, but somehow spells and technology always seem to me like an uncomfortable fit. Fantasy": This trope deals with the genre-blending that occurs in games like Might & Magic, Tera, and Legacy of the Ancients. Well, apparently, there are about one billion examples of this. Chaos": At the end of Dungeon Master, I questioned whether there was a deliberate connection between it and The Saga of Recluce.
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I did defeat him with a cannon in Ultima III, but his death wasn't permanent. Not even Mondain's skull or the Armageddon spell-which kills everything else in the entire world-kills him.
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" Nigh Invulnerability": Applies to Lord British in the Ultima series. It never occurs to townspeople to walk around their village and bash slimes until they're strong enough to face the pirate who's taken over." " Level Grinding": Love this quote from this one: "Only the hero ever has this advantage. It's also a key element of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Baldur's Gate, and other games. " Karma Meter": It shows up first in Ultima IV, as Hawkwind keeps track of your progress towards various virtues. This was one of the most annoying parts of Ultima II-and also the thieves in Dungeon Master. " Get Back Here Boss": Foes that make you chase them around.
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Or, you could just give me 9,999 hit points, and I'll go take care of Minax right now. I thought one of my commenters had reported encountering a "friendly Werdna" upon achieving the final level of the game, but I can't find that comment. Imagine if CRPGs forced you to treat every such creature as an individual? This trope, by the way, is wonderfully (if unintentionally) subverted in Wizardy, when you randomly encounter "friendly" versions of your foes. " Always Chaotic Evil": Every orc that approaches you in Ultima II, every creature in the dungeon in Dungeon Master, everything that moves in Faery Tale Adventure, wants to kill you, and is thus naturally deserving of death themselves. Nonetheless, these are some of my favorite tropes from the games we've played so far:
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There are far more tropes associated with more recent CRPGS, partly because more people know about them, but mostly because tropes require a certain level of storytelling, and the earliest CRPGs didn't have that. Lately, I've taken to visiting the site after each game to see if any tropes are mentioned. The catalog nonetheless has plenty of examples of clichés, too.ĭespite the name, the wiki includes every form of media you can imagine: TV, movies, comic books, art, theater, music, and, of course, video games. By now, probably everyone is familiar with the glorious thief of time known as, a self-described "catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction." The site cautions that tropes are "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations," but that they are not clichés.