Which kind of fag are you ?

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I'm glad to see the correct answer got the plurality, although the lack of clear majority explains a lot.

CRPGs are about combat. Sure, there are other weird niche games where the "combat" is like.. cooking a good meal or some nonsense, but it's all about fighting the game's challenges with your characters(s) whose abilities you somehow guided.

You can experience the story and lore and all that other nonsense on youtube. The actual game is in the combat, which, in any good rpg, is influenced strongly by the choices you make in how to build your character(s). Now, in an RPG with good combat AND a good story, sure, I'll get hooked on the setting and look for the lore and explore and all that good shit. But none of it matters without the actual layer of game.

This is why Arcanum is a shit cRPG. The combat is garbage so none of that other shit matters.

 

[V_K]

If you're a storybro you already like lore, atmosphere and such.

The opposite is not true though. I like my RPGs having rich lore and backstory, but the less actual in-game story, the better.

 

[Zenithsan]

Combat and exploration, with a non-intrusive narrative.

 

[Pink Eye]

Don't see a waifufag option. Game needs to have good waifu bait, or the option for me to create my own waifu.

 

[S.torch]

The opposite is not true though.

Yes, it is. Since backstory and lore are part of the general story. In the same way that colour and design are part of visuals.
If someones only likes to be in a game without the story ever showing up at all and that's why he says he likes backstory (since he can have only the minimum interaction possible with it), is similar to saying that he enjoys cheese bread without the cheese.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

The opposite is not true though.

Yes, it is. Since backstory and lore are part of the general story. In the same way that colour and design are part of visuals.
If someones only likes to be in a game without the story ever showing up at all and that's why he says he likes backstory (since he can have only the minimum interaction possible with it), is similar to saying that he enjoys cheese bread without the cheese.

I like there to be a layer of lore and story that are part of the game world, but I don't want to watch a cutscene or listen to characters exposit about it. Maybe not hidden all the way away in item descriptions ala dark souls, but yes, one can like a game to have an interesting story while not wanting the game to spend time telling the story.

Because lots of exposition gets in the way of the game. Whereas, if the game is interesting enough to make me curious about its lore and backstory, I can seek those things out myself. Ironically, if the game spends its first 4 hours delivering cutscenes of exposition I'm probably never going to get interested enough in the game to care about any of that shit.

 

[Viata]

I'm a gameplayfag. If I'm watching or reading more than playing the game, I drop it.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

I'm a gameplayfag. If I'm watching or reading more than playing the game, I drop it.

Yeah honestly I checked combatfag but really gameplayfag is more accurate. It doesn't necessarily have to be about fighting. It could be dancing, making pizzas, stealing shit, or whatever. Just... something where I as a 'player' have 'agency' over the outcome. If I play shitty, I die, or get bood off stage, or... make bad pizza, or die again, but this time because I got busted stealing shit.

But then, when I play games, I am playing to win. Not to... have an experience. That, hopefully, happens along the way, but the draw is to come in and beat the developers challenge.

 

[Darkozric]

I'm a gameplayfag

There is romancefag but not puzzlefag.. Sacrilege.

 

[V_K]

The opposite is not true though.

Yes, it is. Since backstory and lore are part of the general story. In the same way that colour and design are part of visuals.
If someones only likes to be in a game without the story ever showing up at all and that's why he says he likes backstory (since he can have only the minimum interaction possible with it), is similar to saying that he enjoys cheese bread without the cheese.

It's not about necessarily having a minimal interaction with it - it's about having a choice of which parts of it to interact with, when and to what extend.
Lore enhances the sense of exploration as it fleshes out the gameworld, but doesn't dictate your progression through it. Story, on the other hand, is largely antithetical to exploration: the more story there is, the less freedom you get.
Legend of Grimrock 2, for example, has a reasonable amount of lore giving some depth to the enemies and structures you encounter. But it's actual plot doesn't go much further than "get the fuck off this island". And it's a better game for it.

 

[S.torch]

it's about having a choice

A choice to not engage with the story, just like I said. If the want for the constant possibility to avoid it's so bad, is because there's not a real liking for it. In the best case, there's just a preference for a superficial climate that never gets in the way of the dopamine rush.

 

[FriendlyMerchant]

There is no such thing as a combatfag. There are combatCHADs though.

 

[None]

Fuck, I'm the only one who voted "simulationfaggot"

I'm a simulationfaggot in all genres except for RPGs, unless you count immersive sims. There's too much other shit you've got to get right in an RPG before you focus on simulation.

 

[just]

despite making up only 24% of the population, storyfags makes you believe it's the single most important thing in rpgs

 

[ERYFKRAD]

despite making up only 24% of the population, storyfags makes you believe it's the single most important thing in rpgs

Really gets the INT rolling

 

[Sunsetspawn]

But normally I just like a full package...

So you're a fagfag

 

[Cryomancer]

Where is "magefag" option????

 

[Van-d-all]

story/combat but if one is good enough I don't mind not having the other - liked Disco without combat, and D:OS1 with it's shit story.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Where is "magefag" option????

Committed suicide after being bullied by combatfags.

 

[Daedalos]

unsuprisingly, most codexers are combatfags, that doesnt care about the feel of the game, or the story being told.

JUST WANNEL CLICK BUTTANS PEW PEW PEW, and autistic stats and builds.

Make me care about the game and the story first, then try to introduce fun combat, but without autistic balance

 

[Funposter]

Unironic hiking simulator fan

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Make me care

Lmao

 

[Darkozric]

Why are you disgusted rusty_shackleford? Before this whole romance degeneracy, oldfag inclined RPGs were crammed with puzzles. This is pure
OP should dump romancefag into the garbage bin and replace it with puzzlefag. Fuck romances.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Why are you disgusted rusty_shackleford? Before this whole romance degeneracy, oldfag inclined RPGs were crammed with puzzles. This is pure
OP should dump romancefag into the garbage bin and replace it with puzzlefag. Fuck romances.

Puzzles are stupid. They almost never have anything to do with the game itself and purposely restrict the ways it can be solved to artificial solutions unrelated to your character. Every puzzle is artificial.
RPGs should have problems, not puzzles.
The Gordian knot was a puzzle. Alexander turned it into a problem, and showed why problems are superior when he cut it.

And if you disagree you are required to solve a sokoban before replying.

 

[Red7]

not only are they artificial, they are more often than not are utterly retarded and force player to imagine what kind of retarded, nonsensical, time wasting solution the retard that designed puzzle came up with rather than seeking for rational one.

cause rational way is the fucking shortest way and those retards make sure the way they allow is anything but the shortest one. those 40 hours must come form somewhere.