DarkSign said:
Sarvis, Sarvis.
You are the one that started with the kindergarten antics, by telling me I was automatically wrong.
You are creating a new definition which attempts to shove certain games that are RPGs out of the genre, when the correct definition encompasses all RPGs whether they are linear or not.
How do you know what I like and what I dont? I never said or hinted that I dont like action titles. Fuck im building a game thats heavily FPS so I think that throws that out the window.
You defined action titles as any game with a linear story. I'm guessing here, based solely on the fact that you are a Codexer, that you don't like linear games very much.
Of course, this just demonstrates the weakness in your definition if you do, in fact, dislike linear games but do like FPS games because your definition of an action game does nothing to differentiate between the two.
Thats why you look at the WHOLE test, tardo.
What test? And why do you need to resort to insults? Is your position really so weak?
What part of "based on your characters actions" didnt you get? In Advent rising, I sincerely doubt that there are multiple cutscenes based on your character's choices in the game.
There are not, that has nothing at all to do with anything however. This was not in any way about YOUR definition, it was a comparison showing how you are making the same mistake as the hypothetical definition maker I mentioned above.
If someone had defined RPGs by storyline content, then an FPS like Advent Rising would qualify under that definition. AR is clearly not an RPG by anyone's standards, therefore that definition must have something heavily wrong with it.
If AR is not an RPG now, then why would it be if the only thing you added/changed was multiple cutscenes based on your character's choices? It's gameplay would still be the same.
Read all the elements I listed as a whole. Taken together I think they make a decent test/description of what an RPG is.
Except that you are including things which have nothing to do with what an RPG is, and which can and probably WILL eventually be found across all genres.
You are looking at everything EXCEPT the gameplay for your definition, rather than defining based on gameplay.
The fact that I asked for confirmation or comment ...meaning that I might possibly be wrong doesnt MAKE me wrong as you seem to imply.
No, the fact that you feel the need to make a new definition for something which is already defined makes you wrong.
Tomorrow why don't you tell us the new definition for 'Human'?