Yeah, it's hard to say ME or ME2 isn't an RPG. Yes, it's a shooter, but it's also an RPG. You make a lot of decisions and choices during the story, there's a fair bit of character customization, you can play it a number of different ways, and while the story is fairly straightforward, you still have a lot of push to nudge it one way or another.
Mass Effect isn't an RPG?!
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Somehow I seem to be the only one with the problem of having over 100 small arms skill and still having bullets in every corner of the screen at close range with a pistol.Shydun Afaya said:
Starcraft is fun. I'd like to point out; however that RTS =/= RPG.
Someone else is sharing my point of view, it seems. I'm sure theres more of us out there, but theres too many people who freak out when games don't fit into a genre. It's like...wait, it's missing some RPG staples...is it ok for me to still like this??gigastrike said:
Choice defines a RPG for me. Choice that affects both storyline and gameplay.
RPGs in video games arose from Table Top RPGs - some even used an altered format of D&D's mechanics! The key and clear selling point of any Table Top RPG is Agency - the ability to control your character fully and therefore control your roll in the story. Consequently, any real video game RPG should try it's damndest to replicate that agency.
The statistics and systems that go along wih TTRPGs are only there because you need rules for that sense of agency to be fun. So it's more than playing pretend. A game itself provides those rules by virtue of mechanics - so it doesn't matter whether it plays out in rounds or in real time, whether your pistol needs a pistol skill or not.
All that matters is choice.
RPGs in video games arose from Table Top RPGs - some even used an altered format of D&D's mechanics! The key and clear selling point of any Table Top RPG is Agency - the ability to control your character fully and therefore control your roll in the story. Consequently, any real video game RPG should try it's damndest to replicate that agency.
The statistics and systems that go along wih TTRPGs are only there because you need rules for that sense of agency to be fun. So it's more than playing pretend. A game itself provides those rules by virtue of mechanics - so it doesn't matter whether it plays out in rounds or in real time, whether your pistol needs a pistol skill or not.
All that matters is choice.
Role playing isn't about choices.
Choices lets you make a personal twist on the role, but a static Linear JRPG still lets you play a role.
You just don't have much input.
Like a actor in a play. You're not allowed to change the script drasticly. But an actor is still Roleplaying.
Choices lets you make a personal twist on the role, but a static Linear JRPG still lets you play a role.
You just don't have much input.
Like a actor in a play. You're not allowed to change the script drasticly. But an actor is still Roleplaying.
Uh, what do these count as? FPRPGs?
System Shock 1 & 2
Deus Ex 1 & 2
Arx Fatalis
Morrowind, Oblivion
STALKER 1, -1 & 2
Does a D&D-esque setting allow for more probability of being counted as an RPG?
Does a classification acronym have to be applied to every game?
Just asking, is all.
System Shock 1 & 2
Deus Ex 1 & 2
Arx Fatalis
Morrowind, Oblivion
STALKER 1, -1 & 2
Does a D&D-esque setting allow for more probability of being counted as an RPG?
Does a classification acronym have to be applied to every game?
Just asking, is all.