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Grand Adventuring Wizbits RPG: The Untold Story of the Expositing

For Playstation. This was notable for being the first RPG with no combat at all. The player merely wandered around talking to NPCs (such as the Grand Magistrate or Mooty the Ottoman in his first appearance) and occasionally "leveled up", putting character points in various skills that would never, ever come up in the game. It was touted as containing 500 hours of gameplay, but at least 400 of that was spent either reading dialogue balloons or choosing yet another exciting-sounding attack ability, with most of the rest of the time spent in loading screens. There is still a community of devotees who are convinced that if they keep playing it, they'll eventually find an Easter Egg in which they'll get to actually play a game of some sort.