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Try to come out with as many game cliches as you can. Quality over quanitity.

Helpful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ockham%27s_razor

http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html
(don't copy this!)

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1. Venomous creatures are immune to poisons.

2. Poison is green.

3. Acid is green.

4. Due to shortage of colors, games hardly ever have both poison and acid.


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DGM
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I think the apollo list just about covers it, at least as far as CRPGs go.

Although I'll point out that the "Yuna Rule" (number 11) could also be called "Mega Man Rule," "Samus Aran Rule," "Link Rule," etc.

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Actually, with a few exceptions, it's never the same Link. Samus usually manages to lose her abilities, giving her a slightly better excuse. I'm not really versed in this particular series, but I think that many Megaman games do have different robots... although the Battle Network series for sure is a prime example of this rule.

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The sequence where you lose all your stuff and are put in a trash compactor or similar thing to escape, and/or saved by a convenient explosion or crashing vehicle. At least Samus has the grace to have it happen right at the beginning (of her visit to EVERY bloomin' planet ever...)

Also, crates.

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The fact that money or random valuable items are always hidden in jars, vases, or other random containers (or indeed anything that isn't a container, such as a couch or a table or a tree).

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KOTOR rule:
5.) At some point in the game you will be instructed/trained at some secret academy, which will tragically be destroyed later in the game.

-Insane

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Insane wrote:
KOTOR rule:
5.) At some point in the game you will be instructed/trained at some secret academy, which will tragically be destroyed later in the game.

Neverwinter Nights' addendum to rule 5:

5a) The point will be the very beginning, which will immediately be raided (but not neccessarily destroyed) upon completion of your training.

np: Richie Hawtin - Seiltänzer (DE9 - Transitions)

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There's another list here:
http://serpent231.tripod.com/cliche.shtml

This one fills in a few gaps in the apollo list.

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DGM
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Also, this site has an entire section on video games:
http://tvtropes.org/

Including a subsection on the gamers themselves:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideogameCulture

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ITT we learn it's been done already to hilarious effect.

DGM
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Briareos wrote:

Insane wrote:
KOTOR rule:
5.) At some point in the game you will be instructed/trained at some secret academy, which will tragically be destroyed later in the game.

Neverwinter Nights' addendum to rule 5:

5a) The point will be the very beginning, which will immediately be raided (but not neccessarily destroyed) upon completion of your training.

np: Richie Hawtin - Seiltänzer (DE9 - Transitions)

DROD has done this one better. "Smitemastery 101" has Beethro's training facility raided before the training is even finished.

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You always end up saving the world in some way, shape or form, or your trying to escape from somewhere. Usually both.

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I seem to recall something about amnesia ...

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Dragon Quest VIII:

When you go into her house, a character will assume you a burglar, and then retract her statement in the same breath.

Then you go ahead and steal her stuff anyway.

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Not exactly what you asked for, ut it still fits.
The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord

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DGM wrote:

Briareos wrote:

Insane wrote:
KOTOR rule:
5.) At some point in the game you will be instructed/trained at some secret academy, which will tragically be destroyed later in the game.

Neverwinter Nights' addendum to rule 5:

5a) The point will be the very beginning, which will immediately be raided (but not neccessarily destroyed) upon completion of your training.

np: Richie Hawtin - Seiltänzer (DE9 - Transitions)

DROD has done this one better. "Smitemastery 101" has Beethro's training facility raided before the training is even finished.

Heh. I gather "Elder Scrolls-Battlespire" went even further: the training facility's already been taken over when you arrive.

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coppro wrote:
Actually, with a few exceptions, it's never the same Link. Samus usually manages to lose her abilities, giving her a slightly better excuse. I'm not really versed in this particular series, but I think that many Megaman games do have different robots... although the Battle Network series for sure is a prime example of this rule.

There's around six or seven different Megaman series, each with its own batch of robots. In all of them, the Megaman character loses most of his powerups between games.

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BenStandeven wrote:
Heh. I gather "Elder Scrolls-Battlespire" went even further: the training facility's already been taken over when you arrive.

Yep, that's the case.

There's an interesting twist on this in "Batman Begins." Upon reaching the last test, you decide to flunk out and destroy the training facility yourself!

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