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Why are blobbers called blobbers?

deama

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Why are they called blobbers? Historical significance or just a name that everyone got used to using?
 

Nifft Batuff

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Blobber is a subgenre of first person dungeon crawlers. Or is first person dungeon crawler a subgenre of blobbers?
... mooom!
 

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Arryosha

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Ultima underworld is a non-blobber first person dungeon crawler. But you could have a non-blobber, party-based first person dungeon crawler. Just imagine Rainbow Six as a dungeon crawler. Or NWN in first person. You use a hotkey to switch between characters. Not saying it would be good.
 

Polanski

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Blobber is a subgenre of first person dungeon crawlers. Or is first person dungeon crawler a subgenre of blobbers?
... mooom!
I thought first person dungeon crawlers == blobber.
You need a party and tiles and them moving as a blob for it to be a blobber. Gothic is not a blobber for example.
But gothic isn't first person and doesn't really involve many dungeons.
Bad example. Just take another first person arpg dungeon crawler that is not a blobber then. That one is certainly not a blobber. (neither is Gothic btw)
 

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Dungeon Lord

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I remember I was only playing FPS games. And somebody told me about Might & Magic 6.
And I could not understand and imagine how to play a party that way.
 

Belboz

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They're called blobbers because most of the time you have to face... blobs. :P Ahem.

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Blobber used to be the de facto term to refer to this type of games, but ever since the worldwide success of its most famous franchise : Final Fantasy, we call them JRPG now.
 

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