It's an RPG if it plays sufficiently like a D&D session.
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What classifies a game as a rpg vs as a game with rpg elements?
It's an RPG if it plays sufficiently like a D&D session.
Luckmann
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Great, that clears that up.
This is the sad truth of the matter.
I understand why the developers and publishers do it, whatwith the categorizations and the algorithms, CRPGs being far more popular than Adventure Games, and customers being ignorant and gullible. But it's still scummy and disingeneous, and it still annoys the hell out of me, and it probably always will.
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RPG games hav dices
Am I the only one who thinks that romances in RPGs are retarded?
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Come join one of my games. After I'm done kicking in your teeth for talking shit on the internet, maybe you can join the game and see that I'm right. You bottom-feeding dumbfuck.
Luckmann
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Why'd I give a shit about some run-of-the-mill clueless retard playing 'internet tough guy', and how would his shitty games factor into it?
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I give a shit about some run-of-the-mill clueless retard playing 'internet tough guy', and how would his shitty games factor into it?
Plane tickets, bitch.
Luckmann
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I give a shit about some run-of-the-mill clueless retard playing 'internet tough guy', and how would his shitty games factor into it?
Plane tickets, bitch.
Lichtbringer
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Correct. Games labeled as "RPG" sell better than those labeled as "Muh Adventure" these days. It is all about marketing.
Bruma Hobo
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I haven't played DE, but...
You read that question the game's asking? The "what kind of character do you want to play"? That's the first question role-playing games should ask to the player. Any game that focuses on repeatedly asking it (through stats, dialogue options, karma meters, and so on) is a role-playing game. If it doesn't, then that's probably a squad based tactics game with stats, an adventure game with stats, or a FPS with stats.
You read that question the game's asking? The "what kind of character do you want to play"? That's the first question role-playing games should ask to the player. Any game that focuses on repeatedly asking it (through stats, dialogue options, karma meters, and so on) is a role-playing game. If it doesn't, then that's probably a squad based tactics game with stats, an adventure game with stats, or a FPS with stats.
laclongquan
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Reference: Planescape Torment, see Deionarra, Annah, and Fall-From-Grace. And while it's a bit icky, see part regarding Ravel, Mebbeth, Ei Vene, Marta.
Reinhardt
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It says Disco Elysium is a rogue(lite, i guess).I haven't played DE, but...
You read that question the game's asking? The "what kind of character do you want to play"? That's the first question role-playing games should ask to the player. Any game that focuses on repeatedly asking it (through stats, dialogue options, karma meters, and so on) is a role-playing game. If it doesn't, then that's probably a squad based tactics game with stats, an adventure game with stats, or a FPS with stats.
Oh come on
DE has skill checks, branching dialogues, literal dices, level ups, what the fuck else do you need?
Personally, I enjoy some actual gameplay, but to each his own.
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Congratz, you made your "what defines an RPG" post and passed your right of passage.
laclongquan
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What?
Leaving aside the obvious three...
Ravel romance is a bit icky like reading about grandmother love life...
But it's romance nonetheless.
If you dont feel the Ravel piece is romantic... you obviously dont have taste for romance in general, not just PST in particular.
It is fine, in a way, because that's just the way you are.
But dont pretend to be judgmental about romance, because you dont have anything to based your judgement on.
No, you right, I mean that it doesn't feel right to cite PS:T as an argument. Just because this game is art and Dragon Age or BG or PoE are not, and their romances are ridiculous. Also we need Harry/Kim romance in DE.
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