14th April 2005, 10:55 PM
Yes, I've heard about that plenty of times... major character gets killed (kinda?). That was one character in a game, and it made a big impact... now, the badguys of course always get killed, and RPGs almost always have some random towns getting wiped out or blown up, but story-important characters dying? Rarer. And when it happens it's probably more likely that it'd be a single event (like FFVII), as opposed to the 'lets kill off a bunch of them!' that you find in FFIV or FFA...