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[Lurker47]

Multiple solutions of combat/stealth/speech should be in all RPGs. Can anyone think of a fourth?

Try LISA.

What did he mean by this?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/335670/LISA/

Yes, I know but that post doesn't make much sense to me. Unless it was just some kind of joke and I'm being retarded.

LISA has a particularly nasty way of approaching 'situations.' Not sure it's worth spelling out since coming across it in-game is part of the fun.

I've beaten the game and I interpreted the implication correctly- though it's still incredibly silly. What you're referring to isn't a general way to resolve situations- in fact, it's pretty explicitly just a speech option (to dispute this would just be pedantic.)

Not sure what exactly you're trying to get at here but it's probably just grasping at straws.

 

[Lurker47]

I've beaten the game and I interpreted the implication correctly- though it's still incredibly silly. What you're referring to isn't a general way to resolve situations- in fact, it's pretty explicitly just a speech option (to dispute this would just be pedantic.)

Not sure what exactly you're trying to get at here but it's probably just grasping at straws.

Hate to doublepost but I just remembered the gambling mechanic (which is in a complete vacuum and doesn't have much in terms of genuine C&C). That, again, is also not a general way to approach situations. Sorry for being a negative nancy.

 

[sser]

Play dumb for a few posts just to be pedantic.

 

[Lurker47]

Play dumb for a few posts just to be pedantic.

I'm not sure what you mean here.

 

[sser]

I wouldn't consider LISA a simple "speech" option. There's no other game that does what it does, not to my knowledge anyway. Just my opinion, though. Being dumb is just posting a couple of time as if you're lost on the matter and then going "Oh yeah that gameplay feature" as if I could have been talking about anything else.

 

[Lurker47]

I wouldn't consider LISA a simple "speech" option. There's no other game that does what it does, not to my knowledge anyway. Just my opinion, though. Being dumb is just posting a couple of time as if you're lost on the matter and then going "Oh yeah that gameplay feature" as if I could have been talking about anything else.

Alright, that's understandable. I don't like to assume things even if I think I know what I'm talking about. Sorry for pestering you about it though.

 

[Vibalist]

Multiple solutions of combat/stealth/speech should be in all RPGs. Can anyone think of a fourth?

Gambling.

 

[undecaf]

Multiple solutions of combat/stealth/speech should be in all RPGs. Can anyone think of a fourth?

There's all forms of possible environmental interactivities, happenstance possibilities or specifically designed for context, for various skills that need not fit in any of those three. Science, for example, offer a lot of potential.