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Is this a question about the games or the books? In the books inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus are the worst enemy you can have. Exterminatus ftw! OK, tzeentch champions are pretty evil too. In the games i liked Eldar most. I'm totally addicted to ranged combat.

I know! We can say that with very simple words! Yes, mechanics make the RPG! There is no RPG without any. It's a matter of: What kind of mechanics does a player like? RPGs with no mechanic would be called 'movie' and i really prefer books. Too simple, right?

I really want to see a different ending on FFX. My entire post was about the mechanisms of taking influence on the story, which you can't accomplish in FFX. This whole thing is a hidden mechanism in my opinion, because of the various possibilities you can express that to the player. If you say...

I really start to hate the "Mechanics doesn't make the RPG, it's all about the story and blah...." statement. The story telling is a mechanic itself in computer RPGs. For the most players a good story is very important in RPG, but it is still a mechanic. That mechanic limits the possibilities a...

I remember the theory crafting of some older MMO's and D&D. Yeah, that makes some sense. Tons of calculation (I usually didn't understand) for one purpose. Compare the characters. In Singleplayers maybe that's in use for some In-crowd I never was part of. But as you said "The computer RPG genre...

Now i really don't understand you. First is that rifles, gun and even grenades in our modern world do have specific information in numbers. Like caliber, outgoing bullet speed, amount of explosives in weight and more. The 3-5 spot of blood thing is a little too far off the imaginable. DpS...

To dethrone WoW is impossible. Main Problem in my opinion is the community itself. MMO are all pretty much the same. Leveling, grinding and raiding. If you want to have fun with that, you're in need of other players. So you have two options. First: You play with some friends. Second: You play...

You think not far enough. Instead of numbers you still can use other terms. In a Fantasy RPG for example you could have some sort of sword. This Sword was made of Steel, has a weight of 5 kilo (sorry european here) and was sharpened with a hardened grinding wheel. In order to find out, if it is...

True. My point was that almost every game can be a RPG, if you go for that classic definition of RPG. For example a Yugi-Ho card game can be defined as RPG as soon as it tells a story. (Please never let that happen)

Definition of RPG: A role-playing game (RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character...

Which console allways depends on the question: What you want? Do you want a console, that works as multiplayer console as good as a single console? Then choose 360. Do you want something for having some fun in the evening after working and not bother about anything? Cleary PS3...

The major problem here why not even be able to have a usefull discussion about it that, is that more than 75% of the people doesn't even know what a RPG is. All the time i see Fable, Diablo, Dungeon Siege, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Witcher, etc. THEY ARE NOT RPG! They classified as Action-RPG. To...

Sorry for the quote, but your post made me think. What were the last 3 Western RPG games i was playing, which were 100% RPG and not some crossover game. I got really disappointed, because it was Drakensang (some german game, i'm not even sure if there is an english version), Neverwinter Nights 2...

True, but even having more than hundred good players doesn't make the team a champion, when the trainer sucks. Exchange trainer for idea and you see the bigger picture. If there would be only one single JRPG on this planet, it would be completly different to everything else and some amazing...

Hmmm, where do i vote for "both types suck"? Also i'm missing the ultimate RPG-fanboy choise: "both rocks!" Earlier i used to play a lot RPGs. Can't remember how many times i finished to play Fallout 2, but since RPGs have become some wierd type of crossover games, they simply suck. Fallout 3...