[HN Gopher] Before Genshin Impact: A Brief History of Chinese RPGs
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       Before Genshin Impact: A Brief History of Chinese RPGs
        
       Author : danbolt
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2023-02-27 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | hnthrowaway0315 wrote:
       | Pal95 and Swd3 expansion are the two games I have played for
       | multiple times and still love.
        
         | dumb1224 wrote:
         | Yes they are legendary games loved by most chinese players. In
         | fact a wave of youtubers are targetting people our age to
         | create videos to re-visit these games and all the spin-offs.
        
       | t-3 wrote:
       | Why is this Chinese propaganda on the HN front page? /s
       | 
       | I've been very impressed with a lot of the contemporary Chinese
       | games and media that I've encountered - I don't play multiplayer
       | games though, which seems to be their mainstream. There seems to
       | be a lot less overt sexualization and more emphasis on aesthetic
       | and storytelling in the RPG scene. Honestly, I wish I could get
       | anything from Japan or the US where female characters wear
       | clothes.
        
         | Legogris wrote:
         | I don't game much these days but was totally captivated by
         | Eastward (single-player, Steam/Switch), IIRC it was only during
         | the credits I realized it was made by a Chinese team. Eastward
         | and Tunic are my two gems from 2022.
        
       | VyseofArcadia wrote:
       | > For comparison, remember that western RPGs by this time barely
       | had any story. Apart from games like Betrayal at Krondor and the
       | Ultima series, it was still mostly "create a group of heroes,
       | enter dungeon & kill evil wizard".
       | 
       | I feel like this couldn't have been true by 1995.
        
         | bsder wrote:
         | The Narrative RPG was pretty thin on the ground in the Western
         | RPG category until the late 1990s.
        
         | tsgagnon wrote:
         | _I feel like this couldn 't have been true by 1995._
         | 
         | The market of RPGs specifically made in the west by 1995 is
         | relatively limited. So, you cross out the biggest entries in
         | that space and you will run out of options pretty quickly.
         | 
         | But the argument falls a little too close to "If you exclude
         | the western RPGs titles with a plot, there aren't many western
         | RPGs with a plot".
        
         | mywittyname wrote:
         | I mean, Fallout and Planescape Torment.
        
           | CodesInChaos wrote:
           | Fallout was published in Oct '97 and Planescape in Dec '99.
        
       | devindotcom wrote:
       | Wow, I learned a lot. I'd be curious to try out the Chinese
       | equivalent of Final Fantasy VI - when storytelling, gameplay, and
       | art achieved a sort of local triple maximum. No doubt opinions
       | are divided but I wonder if there are a handful of candidates
       | that an interested but ignorant gamer like myself might look at.
        
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