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Codex's Heretic
"Worldview to be challenged"? C'mon, did you really read any topic here? We could never even agree to what RPG stands for, you're not chalenging teh Glorious Codexian Hivemind with your enlighted views, you just entered a RPG forum and start shouting that your view about the whole genre is "teh TRUE!". You are the religious fanatic / spoiled kid here.Alex_Steel said:[You may call it fishing but I call it an argument, each has his own view of this thread. Should I be surprised very little arguments are presented in this thread? I'm not.
Most of the answers in this thread are as if they are coming from typical extremely religious people or kids. They don't like their worldview to be challenged but guess what. The Vatican didn't like it neither my little cousin.
In the end, the earth is not the center of the universe and Santa doesn't bring presents.:
You want a "real argument"? The genre was never as limited as you claim to begin with. Even in the glorious old days of PnP-only, there where A LOT of people playing D&D, GURPS or whatever totally focused on combat. No story, C&C and hardly any dialog at all. Or some "Detective-RPG" with no combat at all. And there were many custom-made rulesets at the time.
If you go for the root, ROLE PLAYING GAMES stand for games where you play an determined character, years before computer games had any story. To play a role before RPG arrived was either to act or it was kids running with plastic gun pretending to be John Wayne. The whole "RPG needs C&C, levels, battle, etc" was created way later, by people desperate to categorize thing, like yourself. In the original sense, even Call of Duty is an RPG.