1eyedking What is the core of what makes an RPG?

[smaug]

Asking what makes an RPG is almost a right of passage here on Codex.

Just because many newfags do it doesn't mean it's a good idea

I just want to learn what an RPG is yo

 

[Grauken]

Asking what makes an RPG is almost a right of passage here on Codex.

Just because many newfags do it doesn't mean it's a good idea

I just want to learn what an RPG is yo

Then play them, there's your answer

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Kill shit and level up

 

[smaug]

Kill shit and level up

Fuck it, I’ll take it.

 

[Melcar]

And epic loot.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Makes me ponder; when games don't give you that pleasure in the ol dopamine center, are you essentially done with gaming? I try a lot of games, CRPG and otherwise and it just seems more of the same. I could literally do my taxes and feel the same.

And that really sucks you know. I fucking used to love gaming. I loved mapping by hand, solving puzzles, writing down the stats, monsters, notes. Shit i even enjoyed it if characters permed like ol wizardry. I'd even get small graph paper and copy down the pixels bit by bit esp when there were art and construction sets.

I guess I'm a gaming junkie who's fix ain't working. Too many games? Too much OCD? Like a junkie i still play a few but i just play them over and over like insanity and mostly just online simple ones. Anyone else get broken from CRPGs? Is it spreadsheet city now for the rest of my midlife crisis life?