There's no RPGs in our RPGs

[Quillon]

This issue would be the last on my list as RPG issues go but Mass Effect 1 has Pinnacle Station DLC which is basically a game/simulation...so real it looks like the actual world! or ME1 game :D

 

[Wunderbar]

Anachronox is chok full of minigames, some of which are in-universe video games.
You can even find/buy new cartridges for your console.

 

[AArmanFV]

You can find computer with Wasteland 2 running in Wasteland 1 IIRC. That's a mind blow!

That reminds me that in Wasteland 2 you can find the Atari ET games buried in the desert.

 

[Kitchen Utensil]

Audio logs in Doom 3 reference PnP RPG games.

Doom 3 also has Super Turbo Turkey Puncher:

 

[Eirinjas]

If there was an RPG in my RPG that didn't contain an RPG, that'd be kind of disappointing.

Shenmue had an arcade you could enter and play SEGA arcade classics ( Space Harrier, Excitebike Hang On), as well as other shit (like darts). There was also a way to attain Sega Saturn CDs of those games in stores and play those games on Ryu's Sega Saturn at home. Shenmue II had street pachinko gambling and what all else I can't remember.

 

[Alphons]

that Donkey Kong clone in Fallout 4

Grognak is way better.

 

[Black]

because it's in my library

How did that happen?

 

[Wunderbar]

that Donkey Kong clone in Fallout 4

Grognak is way better.

more effort was put into this minigame 99% players have skipped, than into base game's quests.

 

[PekkaK]

If the scope doesn't get too huge, I'll add pen and paper RPG to our prison RPG. It won't be anything complex, but it has some in-game benefits for the player character.

Garland has told some great stories about how they played during his stay. Here's also a good article on how pen and paper is played inside:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...top-rpgs-in-prisons-where-dice-are-contraband

 

[Grauken]

Seems like a weird thing to want.

I think what he's getting at, it's like how in some games there are a conspicuous lack of toilets. Things like that can be jarring. Game devs will pour all kinds of work into world building, and forget the simple fact that people play. There being no reference to people playing games within games is a jarring omission.

Only a subset of players really care, most of us just want to have fun and don't think about imersun and toilets in games

 

[Eirinjas]

most of us just want to have fun and don't think about imersun and toilets in games

The toilets in Duke Nukem 3D sure did make me wonder about the personal hygiene habits of the UAC Marines on Mars.

 

[orcinator]

Video games should let you escape from a world where people talk about video games.

 

[LilWololoMane]

Video games should let you escape from a world where people talk about video games.

What? You mean you don't want people yelling at you about what an "authoritative experience" is in your video games? Pleb.

 

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[Abelian]

Simon the Sorcerer 1 also had a similar scene to the Apartments & Accountants gag from Simon the Sorcerer 2: some wizards who bought Mahjong, but didn't know the rules so they were trying to play it as a pen and paper RPG.

 

[JarlFrank]

In Prey some crew members play some kind of P&P RPG akin to D&D. You can find the character sheet, their audio log of the game, etc.

Ah, that reminds me that you can find a bunch of dead guys in a house in ELEX and they have pen and paper character sheets on their table.

Seems like a weird thing to want.

I think what he's getting at, it's like how in some games there are a conspicuous lack of toilets. Things like that can be jarring. Game devs will pour all kinds of work into world building, and forget the simple fact that people play. There being no reference to people playing games within games is a jarring omission. Bioware is really, really good at this kind of stuff. Like in Inquisition, there's a whole quest relating to a romance novel. Because of course there are romance novels. Why wouldn't there be.

Yep.

 

[Grauken]

Filthy simulationist

 

[DraQ]

If a shit RPG has a good RPG in it, is it still shit?

...Aaanyway:

• System Shock 2 - Overworld Zero
• Skyrim - there is a CYOA book in it, Inigo mod also adds its own CYOA book.

 

[FranticDistortion]

Yakuza has tons of Sega's classic games and with Y7 becoming Turn-Based it counts as jrpg.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

There is a video game inside Space chapter of Live a Live.

 

[Falksi]

I played the Witcher 3 for around 150 hours, and couldn't find an RPG in that anywhere.

 

[Fowyr]

Budokan (that old fighting game from 80s) had Arkanoid inside.
Arx Fatalis had roulette-like table.

 

[AArmanFV]

I don't know if this count

 

[Abelian]

I was playing GTA 3 a few days ago ago noticed that GTA 1 and GTA 2 show up on some of the computer screens in the internet cafe on Staunton Island:

Also, I couldn't be bothered to play Simon the Sorcerer 3D, but I did watch a let's play a few years ago and remembered the Apartments and Accountants players showed up again:

 

[Technomancer]

But we don't hear anything about computer games - let alone RPGs! - in sci-fi games like Mass Effect.

Mass Effect comes to mind. There's a game shop on the citadel.

"I wish they still made roleplaying games like they used to. These days it's all 'big choices' and 'visceral combat.' I miss those old games where you had to remember to drink water, and it took you five hours real time to fly somewhere!" - Bioware throwing shade.