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[rusty_shackleford]

games where you can split the party like in baldur's gate are now called splitters btw
splittergroupers also works

 

[Butter]

This thread is severely autistic. We already had the term RPG game. Why do you need anything more specific than that?

 

[Dexter]

Reminder that if you really want to piss the Autists off, you can visit the Steam Store page of your favorite Wizardry/Grimoire/Legend of Grimrock/Operencia or whatever game and tag it as "Blobber". If a few dozen people do it (the amount of people that voted on that Poll would probably suffice), it will become an official Steam tag and genre descriptor on the biggest PC Gaming Store front similar to "Walking Simulator" or "Dungeon Crawler": https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Dungeon Crawler/

 

[JarlFrank]

we need to make a differentiation between games that are always soloers like UU and soloers that become groupers like fallout new vegas
sologrouper perhaps

You don't directly control your party members in New Vegas.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Dungeon Crawler/

the irony in having to link to this will be lost on most people here

 

[KateMicucci]

games where you can split the party like in baldur's gate are now called splitters btw
splittergroupers also works

Games with romances are now called humpers

If they are party based like BG3 they're humperlumpers

 

[rusty_shackleford]

we need to make a differentiation between games that are always soloers like UU and soloers that become groupers like fallout new vegas
sologrouper perhaps

You don't directly control your party members in New Vegas.

good point, we need another name for games that don't allow direct control

indirectsologrouper

 

[JarlFrank]

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Dungeon Crawler/

the irony in having to link to this will be lost on most people here

Notice how this genre tag contains games that aren't blobbers.

I wonder how we can differentiate between the different types of dungeon crawlers, hmmmmm

Oh I got it, we use terms like blobber for more fine-grained definitions!

 

[Grauken]

Blobber friends no more

We were comrades-in-blobbery and then you walked out on me without a word. Never a word of explanation. Are all you blobberers like that?

It sits on my HD unfinished, looking at me accusingly. Like all the other games I never finished

 

[octavius]

We need to group people games into 57 genders categories.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Dungeon Crawler/

the irony in having to link to this will be lost on most people here

Notice how this genre tag contains games that aren't blobbers.

I wonder how we can differentiate between the different types of dungeon crawlers, hmmmmm

Oh I got it, we use terms like blobber for more fine-grained definitions!

here you go
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=1720,3839,10695

 

[Grauken]

We need to group people games into 57 genders categories.

I don't think 57 will be enough

 

[Sigourn]

here you go
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=1720,3839,10695

First-person party-based dungeon crawler? You mean blobber?

 

[Atlantico]

System Shock 2 has stronger RPG elements than Bioshock, and if you could have multiple characters in that game... then yes, it would be a blobber.

Fair enough.

If the blobber stops behaving like a blobber (Gold Box games letting you move your party members individually) then it's no blobber.

So if the blobber isn't a blobber, then it isn't a blobber. Clearer definition I've never read.

This thread is severely autistic. We already had the term RPG game. Why do you need anything more specific than that?

RPG game says it all.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

here you go
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=1720,3839,10695

First-person party-based dungeon crawler? You mean blobber?

Truck with four-wheel drive? You mean a rooty tooty scooter?

 

[Sigourn]

So if the blobber isn't a blobber, then it isn't a blobber. Clearer definition I've never read.

JarlFrank already listed what makes a blobber a blobber. You are asking about games that do not fit the definition and then wonder why the definition is so vague. Incredible.

 

[JarlFrank]

here you go
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=1720,3839,10695

First-person party-based dungeon crawler? You mean blobber?

Truck with four-wheel drive? You mean a rooty tooty scooter?

In German we call vehicles with 4-wheel-drives "Allrad", which means "all-wheel", which is short for "vehicle with an engine that drives all four wheels instead of just the back two".

Short and efficient term that everyone understands.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

here you go
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=1720,3839,10695

First-person party-based dungeon crawler? You mean blobber?

Truck with four-wheel drive? You mean a rooty tooty scooter?

In German we call vehicles with 4-wheel-drives "Allrad", which means "all-wheel", which is short for "vehicle with an engine that drives all four wheels instead of just the back two".

Short and efficient term that everyone understands.

notice we aren't having this conversation in your autistic language

 

[Sigourn]

Man, these fucking English people naming road's division into multiple paths "a fork" LMAO

So if it stopped having multiple parks then it is no longer "a fork"? What a weird and contrived definition. A road division that splits into multiple paths is descriptive enough, it doesn't need a meme term to substitute it.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Man, these fucking English people naming road's division into multiple paths "a fork" LMAO

So if it stopped having multiple parks then it is no longer "a fork"? What a weird and contrived definition. A road division that splits into multiple paths is descriptive enough, it doesn't need a meme term to substitute it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-way_junction

 

[Atlantico]

In German we call vehicles with 4-wheel-drives "Allrad", which means "all-wheel", which is short for "vehicle with an engine that drives all four wheels instead of just the back two".

In German you call cell-phones "das Handy", which somehow manages to say absolutely nothing unless you already know what it is.

Like the "blobber" of cell-phones.

 

[wishbonetail]

OK the what sets Skyrim apart from blobbers, other than there is just one character being controlled in Skyrim?

This is like asking what sets men apart from women, other than having different chromosomes...

Try controlling two characters at once and as a single entity in Skyrim, and you will see how suddenly the entire fucking game has to be redesigned to account for this.

I guess, to turn Skyrim into a blobber you need several sets of hp/stamina bars, cooldown on attacks and body parts targeting from enemies, like head is char one, left hand is char two etc.

 

[Grauken]

In German we call vehicles with 4-wheel-drives "Allrad", which means "all-wheel", which is short for "vehicle with an engine that drives all four wheels instead of just the back two".

In German you call cell-phones "das Handy", which somehow manages to say absolutely nothing unless you already know what it is.

Like the "blobber" of cell-phones.

Like, how do words work? A guy who has never seen a car suddenly knows what it is upon hearing car? Weird

 

[Kruyurk]

Blobbing is such a key element of fantasy anyway, tracing back to Blobo the Blobber and his all-dwarven blob. His nephew Flobo had a much more balanced one.

 

[Berengar]