Why Pentiment is an RPG and should be on this forum

[Ereshkigal]

Pentiment is not even a video game. Does it have fail states?

 

[Fedora Master]

P*ntiment shouldn't be on this forum, period
wordfiltered, aggressively moderated, deleted when found

The only one who gets filtered and moderated are the people who disrupt Infinitrons grift

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

It shouldn't be on this board.

 

[Tyranicon]

An rpg doesn't have to have a narrative. Character customization just isn't enough either. Pentiment is simply a casual adventure game.

In current year, it's better if RPGs don't have narrative. There might be a universe where the video game industry is filled with great writers instead of useless, talent-less hacks.

We don't live there.

 

[Rieser]

Not even the devs refer to it as an RPG.

 

[Jvegi]

Is it good?

As a game. I found Yes, Your Grace to be a deceitful waste of time, but I can appreciate good narrative if the gameplay is not fucking with me.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Is it good?

As a game. I found Yes, Your Grace to be a deceitful waste of time, but I can appreciate good narrative if the gameplay is not fucking with me.

Yeah, just finished it. It's pretty great in terms of story, atmosphere and worldbuilding.

 

[SunKing]

Pentiment is for fags

 

[Lord_Potato]

Pentiment is for fags

Thanks for letting us know your pronouns

 

[ChaDargo]

I think maybe someone should move this thread to Adventure Gaming.

 

[Jvegi]

Pentiment is for fags

Win for fags, lose for brave, manly, illiterate virgins then.

 

[Pound Meat]

Madden is an RPG

 

[SunKing]

Madden is an RPG

So is Football Manager

 

[laclongquan]

An rpg doesn't have to have a narrative. Character customization just isn't enough either. Pentiment is simply a casual adventure game.

In current year, it's better if RPGs don't have narrative. There might be a universe where the video game industry is filled with great writers instead of useless, talent-less hacks.

We don't live there.

I dont disagree, mind.

But an official studio will be hardpressed when people ask them why their games dont have narratives. Why not when writers are dime a dozen and nobody read their talentless writings anyway.

The true answer "because our writers suck so we avoid narratives" is NOT a good answer, no matter throwing at outsiders, or admit to inner circle.

This is office politic AND marketing aspect~

 

[luj1]

Pentiment is for fags

Thanks for letting us know your pronouns

You are the fag, you played it, not him.

A normal self-respecting person who grew up on RPGs wouldn't even consider playing such shovelware.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Pentiment is for fags

Thanks for letting us know your pronouns

You are the fag, you played it, not him.

A normal self-respecting person who grew up on RPGs wouldn't even consider playing such shovelware.

Please, show us on a doll where Josh Sawyer touched you.

 

[†††]

Pentiment is for fags

More like Penisment amirite fellas

 

[bionicman]

I agree with Jos- I mean, OP. Pentiment for Codex GOTY 2022!

 

[Reinhardt]

Pentiment is for fags

More like Penisment amirite fellas

nigger, it reads as "penis time"

 

[luj1]

Sawyer claims that Wizardry is not an RPG "anymore". What the hell does "anymore" mean? It sounds very political.

This "definitions change over time" horseshit belongs in poltiics. It belongs to people who debate whether there exists more than two genders or not. Miss me with that shit.

I have played Pillars and followed Sawyer for a long time. He literally lost his compass. Both in a sense of RPG design, and as a person. Dude is a hipster who was driven insane by politics and twitter. He is probably vaxxed too.

EDIT: Why am I not surprised.



What a tool.

 

[JarlFrank]

An RPG must have a narrative.

Wrong.

 

[luj1]

The narrative is self-assembling, idiots. It creates itself, by playing.

 

[Shaki]

Every adventure game and visual novel can now be argued to be an RPG, after you absolute retards not only decided that Disco Elysium is one, but even voted it in as RPG of the year. Face the consequences of the decline you brought here, cucks.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

An RPG must have a narrative

What's Mount and Blade's?

 

[Alex]

Every adventure game and visual novel can now be argued to be an RPG, after you absolute retards not only decided that Disco Elysium is one, but even voted it in as RPG of the year. Face the consequences of the decline you brought here, cucks.

I would say a few of the so called adventure games are more RPGs than stuff that is classically regarded as such. Zork, for instance. Visual novels can't be RPGs since they aren't games, though.

The narrative is self-assembling, idiots. It creates itself, by playing.

Sure, narrative comes from playing. But the point of an RPG is to give you something; mechanics, scenery, dialogue, or whatever else it can, to support that narrative. Make it more a part of the game itself rather than something only in the head of those who are playing.

For instance, if you are playing Magic: The Gathering, you can come up with a narrative in your mind about what is going on as the cards get brought into the game. That fireball card you played was a huge ball of fire, falling from the skies and killing hundreds of soldiers (represented by a 3/3 creature). But any such narrative will be stunted by the game not acknowledging it in the least. A 3/3 creature is not equivalent to a number of people, and a fireball is ultimately exactly the same as any other red damage spell.