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    Archmage Rises - the play-how-you-want mage simulator - now available on Early Access

    Different genre, different market. Also it's a very narrow perspective because whether people pay for the game is not only a matter of interest, it's more like a [interest] * [personal wealth] = [decision] equasion. Wealthy people will buy games they're even slightly interested in because they...
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    Wake me up when the Incline begins...

    Obviously, some games are good enough to struggle through their flaws while others aren't. Nostalgia factor have an impact on that as well, that's why people who loved certain games in the past are more likely to replay them than fresh genre fans, who loathe the low-res graphics and clunky UI...
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    Archmage Rises - the play-how-you-want mage simulator - now available on Early Access

    This is the game I most look forward to since Underrail and NEO Scavenger, which both I'd observed since early phases of development (Underrail before it had demo and NEO S before it had Steam early access, I actually bought it over a year before that happened), so I'd say I have an eye for...
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    Blank slate or established characters for your RPGs?

    By this logic, dying is just a possible ending as well. In every game you can act against your character's established background, but that doesn't change the background itself. In Doom you can jump into water and swim for hours, but that doesn't make you Michael Phelps wannabe, you are still "a...
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    Blank slate or established characters for your RPGs?

    And they don't. You lose if you do it. After time passes, you can't play further. What else do you expect the game to do to forbid something? They can't format your disk, you know.
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Your standpoint is all too clear. You consider a game an RPG only if it emulates a traditional PnP RPG experience. But while it's true that cRPG genre was inspired by D&D, it never tried to emulate the experience, it was always distinct in that it used similiar mechanics, but created different...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Exactly. Complete lack of regard and basic respect to your debater. And yes, I expected gentelmanly discourse - up to that point. Since you acted hostile, I retaliated. Don't start a debate if you lack ability or will to host it properly. Whatever other points you raised (joke thread, yeah...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Who said it was ideal? Nobody. Still, best means closest to ideal, doesn't it. You said it yourself, it managed to fullfill RPG definition better than others. And yet it failed utterly in making a key RPG element by your book meaningful or worthwhile in any way and actually is heavily inferior...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    You still owe me a proper response unless you just admit being wrong (or dick).
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=9453 Wrong site, idiot. It's been established THE BEST RPG here, many years consecutively actually. Have you even read my definition? http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/what-is-an-rpg-attempt-186-091.104449/page-7#post-4206799 Now tell me...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Combat in PS:T didn't add any depth to a game except emphasizing the fact that you can't die - but it can also be conveyed without it. The game would be as complete and deep as it is even without it. If depth of PS:T as a game laid in its combat, people would actually invest in combat stats and...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    It's too narrow. Blackguards isn't an RPG by it (no living world). Shadowrun Dragonfall can be argued on the same premise to a degree. Betrayal at Krondor isn't an RPG by it (lack of true avatar, roster is changed from chapter to chapter, no character stays in the roster for whole game). Most...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Simulator forums do. Probably comes with complexity of the genre or the emulating nature of it (or both actually). Whether a game is considered a simulation or not is not dependant on if it is simulating anything, but more on if the simulation is deep and precise enough for player to consider...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Elaborate, you presumptous piece of shit. You didn't make a single counterargument and your pity attempts at RPG definition have flaws I pointed out. So tons of meaningless combat is what makes Planescape: Torment an RPG then? If not for it, it would be visual novel and not an RPG? Combat as...
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    Crispy™ What is an RPG Attempt #186,091

    Let me have a shot at it, because I think you guys fell into some critical errors in your attempts to define (c)RPGs. First of all, you seem to mistake what does "role-playing" even mean. It doesn't mean playing a role, as it's commonly understood here. It actually means playing WITH a role...

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