The Asylum Game: An Open-Ended Adventure

[Lambi]

Then you beat the game and maybe some day in the future play it again if you feel like it, subject Toast. I usually never finish grinding, so I always have a reason to go back to some of my favorite RPGs.
Like my all time favorite game, Final Fantasy IX. Before I bought FF XIII, I had started FF IX for the fourth time. When I finish FF XIII, I have FF IX and a few other games to chose from to continue with.

 

[Baby Eater]

It just feels odd to me subject Lambi when you can literally run out of things to do.

 

[Lambi]

Don't most games do that already, subject Toast?

 

[Baby Eater]

Not really subject Lambi. In most other games you can fuck around and do odd things but on RPGs you mostly just fight.

 

[Lambi]

In shooters, do you do anything else then run and shoot stuff, subject Toast?
In platformers, do you do anything else then jump, double jump, punch stuff and collect stuff?

 

[Baby Eater]

Subject Lambi in shooters I can do donuts in my car squishing anything that gets close.
On platformers. I can find new and odd ways to beat a level.

 

[Lambi]

And in RPGs, you can try and use a different party or find some things you went past in previous playthoughs, subject Toast.

 

[Randoms]

Theres more than 3 genres Subject Lambi/Toast

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

Who be you? Subject Condom?

 

[Lambi]

Subject Random's personality, we were too tired to mention any other genres...

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

There's puzzles, subject Lambi.

 

[Lambi]

As I said, we were tired, subject Rex. I know there are others, like MMOs, horror and sports.

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

I refuse to accept horror as a genre, subject Lambi, at least not on its own. Horror is a sub-genre, not its own.

 

[Lambi]

I accept horror as a genre more then sports or war games, subject Rex.

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

Horror can't be its own game though, it has to be paired up with another genre to work. Sports can be their own game, and that's why I consider them to be a genre, subject Lambi.

 

[Lambi]

I don't accept sports as a genre because if I don't want to play sports in real life, why would I play them in video games?

And as for horror, yeah, I guess you're right. I mean, for example, Silent Hill is Survival Horror.
Or did you mean something else, subject Rex?

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

That's exactly what I meant, subject Lambi. You can have a straight up survival game, although most games get better with the addition of a sub-genre. As for sports, I agree, but whether I like them or not they can stand alone as a game which is why they are a genre.

 

[Lambi]

They still suck, subject Rex.

Sports games, that is. Not horror. I always just say horror because I can't be bothered to name all the genres it's mixed with.

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

True, it does make it easier to say, subject Lambi. The most lasting elements usually define the game.

 

[Ren3004]

Hello, subjects.