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Felipe Pepe

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Felipe Pepe

@felipepepe

Brazilian living in Tokyo. Editor of the CRPG Book, a free book on the history of Computer Role-Playing Games.

crpgbook.wordpress.com

Joined April 2009

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Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Sep 3, 2024
FYI, I'm joining my people and moving to bluer skies - same username as here. Yes, I'm changing one tech bro social media for another, but damn if a timeline free of blue checkmarks & Musk fanboys isn't amazing. さらばだ！
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Aug 29, 2024
People are whining that this isn't game news... Dude, thousands of Brazilian game devs, artists, journos and critics are about to be blocked out of a major global platform. All because a spoiled billionaire bought it to promote the far right and thinks he's above the law.
PC Gamer
@pcgamer
Aug 29, 2024
The judge Elon Musk bizarrely called 'Brazil's Darth Vader' gives Twitter 24 hours to comply with court order or get shut down by the full power of his legal battle station. trib.al/8WPeua6
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Sep 4, 2019
Morei 22 anos em São Paulo. Fui assaltado 2x, levaram uns 100 reais no total. Trabalhei por 10 anos em publicidade. Só de hora extra não-paga em UMA agência perdi mais de 20 mil reais. Aí vem liberalzinho de merda dizer q tem q matar assaltante e "flexibilizar" pro patrão. VTNC
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Aug 28, 2023
I am begging other countries / cultures to make space RPGs, I am tired of "space is the wild west / frontier" :P Do Afrofuturism, French comics, The New Weird, Dune, Space Wuxia, Soviet sci-fi, Kpop in space, whatever, but no more cowboy hats, banjos & southern accents, please.
Starfield
@StarfieldGame
Aug 27, 2023
Meet Sam Coe, an excellent pilot and even better dad! Having a strong sense of frontier justice, Sam believes that if helping someone means breaking the rules, so be it. #Starfield Voiced by @EliasToufexis
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Jul 19, 2023
Eu moro em Tóquio, em um apartamento de 30m², a 5 min de 3 linhas de metrô e um parque enorme e pago menos q ela (2 mil reais/60 mil ienes). Detalhe q o salário MÍNIMO aqui é uns 6 mil reais. É criminoso oq tão fazendo com São Paulo, e nojenta essa normalização da imprensa.
UOL
@UOL
Jul 19, 2023
Ela mora em apê de 16m² e diz que não precisa de mais 🗣️ "Estou perto de tudo e com a liberdade de ir embora quando eu quiser com três ou quatro malas sem deixar muito para trás", afirma Lara Maia. A jovem paga R$ 2.300 pelo seu pequeno studio
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
May 8, 2024
Wake up, you cannot "vote with your wallet" in a publicly traded company. Oh, you paid $60 on a game you like to say "I want more of this"? That's cute. However, BlackRock literally owns $200 billion dollars in Microsoft stocks and they want a bloodbath so stocks go up 5% in Q2
Curator
@curatorgamingx
May 7, 2024
If you care so much about Xbox studios… BUY HELLBLADE 2 (Ninja Theory) BUY AVOWED (Obsidian) BUY INDIANA JONES (Machine Games) Don’t complain about being shutdown when you aren’t buying the games. Starfield was bought. Hi-Fi Rush wasnt. #Xbox #Bethesda
Readers added context
This post only references to active players on steam. Hi-Fi Rush is also on other platforms such as the Microsoft store, Epic games store, PlayStation store and Xbox Game Pass. These platforms dont all share sales reports. help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/580…
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Jun 9, 2024
Baldur's Gate 1 in Korea didn't follow the usual "big box" packaging, they made it like a little laptop that opens and teaches you all the keys & UI. So cute!
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Jun 17, 2023
Hand-drawing dungeon maps may sound terribly dull, but it was a core feature of some of the biggest RPGs of the 80s. I also wouldn't want to play most modern RPGs having to draw my own map, but there's a good reason why some dungeon-crawlers are still designed around that idea🧵
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Aug 14, 2024
People ask me for CRPG recommendations, but it's hard to suggest something without knowing what the person played and how they feel about jank, friction, difficulty, poor translations, etc... So I made this RPG Iceberg with 100 CRPGs! Is not exhaustive, but hopefully it helps :)
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Apr 1, 2023
Of all the research I did, the history of Chinese RPGs is my favorite. It blew my mind how over 200 PC RPGs were created in the 90s and early 2000s, an output rivalled only by Japan and the US! And yet, we never talk about these games... So let me give a very brief overview🧵
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Apr 3, 2024
I'll start with a disclaimer: I do not speak Chinese. That said, it's absurd there's no info in English on this, so let me tell you about 橙光/66RPG. AKA how an RPG Maker forum became the "Roblox of Visual Novels", with 80M active users, 8,000 paid developers and 100,000+ games
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Aug 30, 2024
"In today's industry, turn-based combat is mostly reserved for pixel games" Did they unfreeze a game journo from 2008 to write this?
Eurogamer
@eurogamer
Aug 28, 2024
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's fresh take on RPG traditions could revitalise the genre eurogamer.net/clair-obscur-e…
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Apr 17, 2021
Check this insane attack animation from 俠客英雄傳3, from 1997:
GIF
Felipe Pepe
@felipepepe
Oct 11, 2023
PLEASE, visit itch.io There's literally thousands of new indie RPGs there. And you can easily sort & filter them, as well as tip the devs. It has never been easier to play indie RPGs. Cool people visit itch.io and play cool stuff like this:
Billy Easley II
@billyez2
Oct 10, 2023
Replying to @felipepepe
Does the indie rpg culture exist anymore? There were a zillion RPG Maker games in the mid 2000s