The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés

[doobiwan]

ROFL!

http://www.project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html

"No! My beloved peasant village!"
The hero's home town, city, slum, or planet will usually be annihilated in a spectacular fashion before the end of the game, and often before the end of the opening scene.

 

[Elfreako]

Wow so many of these are actually quite true lol

 

[doobiwan]

Pretty Line Syndrome (or, Crash Bandicoot: The RPG)
Seen in most modern RPGs. The key to completing your quest is to walk forward in a straight line for fifty hours, stopping along the way to look at, kill, and/or have meaningful conversations with various pretty things.

Some of these are gems , so true!