Crispy™ Controversial opinions about RPGs that you know deep down are true.

RPGs r power fantasies. a virtualized psychopathological phenomena (power fantasies rnt healthy, but a hypercompensation for a social deficite, that auto-reproduces via power fantasy, a full circle of Dantean hell) like digital SM, ERP, its Cyber-Bondage, the up-to-date version of self-castration. cuz its all in ur screen. and it better stays there, as RL C&C tends to strike lethally...

eons ago, there was that MMO meme: get a life! now its git gud!!!111!1! u c?

 

Fans are the worst.

 

Funny thing about reading this topic is that by comparing it with tabletop rpg, tabletop rpg brings together a whole bunch of different types of games. There are tactical combat games, investigative games, narrative games, horror games.... Within a game itself (e. g. D&D), depending on the DM and the players, it can be played in a completely different way. In a simulationist way or in a narrative way. You can spend 4 hours in a dungeon or 4 hours talking to people in city. And yet, many codex RPG posters still want only one type of cRPG. With a preponderance for type of game that we no longer like too much in the tabletop: simulation tactical combat games.

Question I have is why the world of the cRPG is still 15 years behind the t-RPG ?

 

He said that people that value story as much, or even more, than gameplay are faggots with little understanding of good game design. And that for better of everyone that appreciates good games, these faggy decline enablers should stop playing videogames.

None of these statements are false or incorrect.

So what FeelTheRads said can hardly be considered drivel.

 

YES!

 

Eventually holodecks might come and RPGs might be like tabletop. Optionally, you could larp it with Virtual Reality goggles online. As is, I don't give a fuck how people spend their gaming time. Maybe they love minesweeper and want a minesweeper CRPG or a tetris puzzle CRPG. There certainly are people who love the anime virtual novel CRPGs (where 95% is reading a virtual novel). Not my cup o tea. Its funny about this topic as on the D&D site I'm on they are having an argument on the TRUE VERSION OF D&D (be it sandbox, not, and edition and supplemetns). Lordy, I really don't give fuck what others do at their table.

 

Rpg writers should focus on great characters/interesting encounters more than telling the most epic story imaginable. Also stop writing 50 fucking paragraphs per npc, especially when it's coming from a character where that wouldn't make any sense(i.e illiterate farmers).

Also tell more personal stories than end-of-the-world bullshit. Smaller scale can work really effectively from both a gameplay and story perspective.

There also needs to be more unique settings for computer rpgs. Going back and forth between post apoc and traditional fantasy can get really fucking boring. Look towards some of the pnp games being published for your setting.

My favorite rpgs all have unique settings to a degree, or something that stands out about them. Also I want more historical rpgs, give me something set in the Byzantine empire you fucks!

 

The thread where people cite really common opinions as controversial so they can get ratings from other people that agree with them.

 

do you look for threads to just state the obvious, chon?

 

Sid Meier's Pirates! is more RPG than Martian Dreams, Sword of the Samurai is more RPG than Lands of Lore, Expeditions: Conquistador is more RPG than Pillars of Eternity, Darklands is more RPG than Pool of Radiance, Morrowind is more RPG than Baldur's Gate.

 

I'm not sure, they take a lot of time to beat. So, maybe they are waste of time. Maybe not.

 

Most of the so called dialogue in RPGs is pointless NPC monologue where the player's agency is limited to choosing what the NPC is about to rant next. If there's no actual interaction besides asking "wHAt CaN yOU teLl Me aBoUT tHIS pLacE¿" it is not actual dialogue and usually serves no purpose.

 

Oblivion is one of the most impactful CRPGs ever released and brought more people to RPGs than any of the classics.

 

After to try Oblivion, I didn't play video games for 4-5 years.

Impactful indeed.

 

Falllout 1 had shit combat and terrible UI

 

RPGs are my life but I am bit tired at this point.

 

Jagged Alliance 2 is no rpg.

 

Two World 1 is a decent game.

Is not a masterpiece, but any game without BS mechanics like cooldowns and char DNA 100% determined by his boots, nor who forces you to play as a androgynous teenager with a oversized sword is at least decent IMO. This doesn't means that the game is perfect. Some spongee enemies and the 3 spell card limit is awful.

 

Hmm, here's one, I guess.

RPGs with shit UI, QOL, or Mechanics aren't great, or enjoyable, and may often be a mark of a lazy or try hard developer than anything deeper.

However I can admit that 1) old games don't necessary always suffer from this - some people are just gfx whores and whine too much; and that 2) too much ''good'' UI/QOL/Mechanics turns the game into a handheld tour; and there should be as many options as possible to turn shit off - such as maps, guides, pointers, autoaim, w/e.

 

I think it's a decent game, but more because of hilarious voice acting and how easy it is to break the game by stealing.

 

Real-time with pause is a compromise between tabletop rules and the new-fangled wonders of CRPGs, and not the most engaging combat system for an RPG.

 

Everyone actually uses the quest compass in secret.

 

• RPGs at their very core are about evaluating when to say "No"; they enforce rules (limitations and order) upon the "Let's Pretend" adventure.
• RPG players are not their characters. The characters are not avatars of the player; they are their own individual identities, with their own training, ethics, and life experience.
  The player's task is to roleplay THEM, not merely to wear their class & stats like a costume.
• The character's actions should not be simply the player's own; IE. roleplaying Indiana Jones, the player should not ignore Jones' phobia of snakes for not having it themselves.
• Character Class represents not just the skills, but the mindset of the PC; it is their ambition & aspiration. It is what they trained in for years —before the game even started.

 

Compasses/guidelines/markers are alright if they make sense; e.g the character knows where to go. Some games like Underrail go farrr too much in the other direction (my damn char can't draw a damn map?) but others like NV go far too much in the other. In some other genres like Dead Space they literally give you a line if needed, while I think in BOTW your notIphone uses GPS to tell you.

 

You can't really play games which use a quest compass without said compass, because usually the NPCs in those games don't give you directions or locations to commence your search.