The Ludicrously Hard RPG Test:

Heh. So do I. I’m just not GAP.

77%. RPG Hardcore.

66%. Patchy guesswork on about half the questions.

RPG Regular
You scored 36% RPG knowledge!

RPGs are probably your prefered game of choice. You may not be a total fanboy or fangirl yet, but you’re probably working on it if you aren’t already. You’ve got a lot of knowledge under your belt, although not enough to really try to stump most people, unless your knowledge is specialized to a few select games. Very nice job, and thanks for taking the test!

I’m kind of proud I didn’t score more than 66%.

One question bothered me. The one about FFX’s final boss. It could’ve been either Yu Yevon or Braska’s Final Aeon depending on whether or not you’re talking about the last boss you can actually lose to. I’m pretty sure I aced the FF questions and did pretty well on most of the others. I think a lot of people here just had luckier guesses than me, because I honestly feel like 66% of the questions were ones I knew for sure.

Also, why was KH on the test? I thought it was supposed to be about RPGs.

KH is an action RPG, like your mom.

I don’t know why I said “your mom.” It doesn’t even make sense in this instance.

59%. Either I guessed well, or just playing Square games can carry you a long way.

The one FF question that got me scratching my head was how many PCs are there in FF IV since it depends on whether you count Rydia’s child form as a seperate character or not.

But otherwise WAY too many KH questions.

That worried me too, but then I counted the maximum 12 with Rydia as just one.

Must of gotten that one wrong then (Why do I keep forgetting about Rosa!?).

79%. I’m not sure if i would call this ludicrously hard, though. I probably would have gotten like a 95% if I had cared to play the Xenosaga series or Kingdom Hearts series, but fuck that. I could also say the same about Suikoden, but I’m not avoiding playing those games by choice :confused:

I hear the Suikodens after II are a huge let down. I haven’t played them yet and don’t know if I want to. XS sounds TERRIBLE.

Suikoden 3, I thought,m was a pretty good title. But 4, I can;t even stand to play. Just… How can I follow a captain with a name like Snowe Vingerhut?!

Oh, and I got 77% too. Seems to be the mode around here.

Suikoden 3 had you going in and out of everything just to get somewhere (plus it’s HQ was in a really shitty location), and 5 would’ve been better had it not been for the load times. Otherwise only the 4 and the Tactics games were subpar.

Plus aside from the occasional MMO and question all of the games were to be found on either the SuperNES, the PSX, or the PS2. There needed to be some handheld RPG questions like something for Sword of Hope, or the SaGa games, or one of the Dept. Heaven games, or maybe an SRW game, or even something from Luminous Arc, or ect…

Point is aside for some of those one off questions it was pretty much FF, KH, and XS with some Suikoden on the side.

I guessed 11 (incorrectly for FFIV) I forgot to count DK Cecil.

overall result

Your result for The Ludicrously Hard RPG Knowledge Test …
RPG Fan

You scored 59% RPG knowledge!
Okay, you’re definitely an RPG fan. You know what you’re talking about, and you’ve played your share of games. You probably know your share of RPG secrets, as well. You can definitely hold your own in a conversation talking about the aspects of various RPGs. Keep on playing, and thanks for taking the test!

Tis a shame that there were no questions about Langrisser/Warsong :frowning:

Okay, for the record, people, alternate forms don;t count. There’s Cecil, Rosa, Rydia, Kain, Edge, Palom, Porom, Edward, Cid, Yang, Tellah, and the one I’m sure everyone forgets, FuSoYa. twelve different characters.

THAT’S who I forgot! Edge! How could I forget Edge?

I feel even stupider because I did forget Cid:bowser:. HOW THE FUCK??? Too much drinking, I reckon. But, I remembered FuSoYa.

I guessed on all of the Grandia questions(wrongly, but I have never played Grandia) and most of the Suikoden ones. And the legend of Dragoon one(hadn’t played that one in many years). Other than the characters in FFIV, I was pretty spot on on the FF series questions(though the debate still rages on as to who is actually FFX’s final boss). And the Shadow Hearts ones.

53%.

Xenosaga episode 1 is the only one I played, and it was soooooo boring. I never finished it.

Suikoden 3 seemed pretty good - I got about ten hours into it. The writing was good, and the gimmick of switching between main characters was cool. What ultimately made me stop playing it was that combat was too hands-off for me, and it felt frustrating as a result.

You had six party members, but instead of controlling all six, you would group two together and they would pool their abilities and spells and stuff. This alone isn’t so bad - after all, I’m enjoying The Last Remnant, which I just realized is strikingly similar. The difference, though, is that in Suikoden 3, this causes problems that get you killed. For example, one of your pairs casts an AoE spell (many of which target indiscriminately), your other character will attack. So, this means that at least ONE of your characters is going to walk in and get hit by the AoE spell, and probably die. Now, imagine if you casted a spell with your other two groups - two more people would be hit by it. NOW, imagine if your other two groups both did melee attacks…you get the idea. I don’t like being punished for something like that.

It sucked, cos I was really interested in the story, but GOD that was such a frustrating mechanic to have to work around, that I eventually gave it away to 984, who accidentally jacked his copy up.