Holy shit. Mr. Fargo is inclining the shit out of this. It's either going to be the best CRPG or the biggest disappointment of the past 10 years.
Although some quick Googling makes it seem as though Brian Fargo is the only one that has stayed in the video game industry (since post-Wasteland times even) and the other guys have been pulled out of retirement. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe they're untainted by modern video games and will design it with 1980's design philosophies in mind.
The camera doesn't, of course. Turn-based does though.
Civilization
What does that have to do with anything?
No one said that all turn-based games are RPGs.
No one said that it's part of the definition.
Not really. The definition leads to it.
There are no "proper RPGs" because it's not black and white. There's a whole scale of "RPGness". But to put it simply, if you took a classic turn-based RPG and changed it so that the turns are timed (5 seconds each, for example), would the game be just as much an RPG as it was previously? If you believe it would be then fair play to you. Your definition is different to mine. If you believe it wouldn't be then that's a pretty significant sign.
Correct. We argue again and again where to draw the line on this scale, hence debates about Mass Effect and family. If everything was merely black and white then we wouldn't have any such debates.
The people who said that the Earth was flat were indeed dumb, or perhaps lived their entire lives in narrow valleys or dense forest where you can never see the horizon. There are simple observations that can easily show you that the Earth is not flat, and they have been made time and time again throughout history by smart people.
