What does RPG mean nowadays? Is it just a game that has combat with stats?
What does RPG mean nowadays? Is it just a game that has combat with stats?
William Collins
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Adam Allen
Essentially. It can be tricky to balance what relies on diceroll/stats or the player's skill. Too much of the former and players complain about missing point-blank and too much of the latter and they say it's just doom.
Alexander Young
>tfw zoomer plays Morrowind, picks a mage and then whines that he keeps missing when trying to punch mudcrabs.
Grayson Sanders
do birds have milk?
Andrew Kelly
>having that many laser pistols
for what purpose
Hunter Roberts
hahahhaha wtfffff gulls don't have legs!!!
haha Zig Forums is so random ahahahah never gets old
Lincoln Hall
Adam Morgan
Modern RPG video games have little in common in with traditional RPGs except rule-based combat systems and characters with numerical attributes.
Zachary Ortiz
Because they run on battery power and he can charge them up at a station and then go full rambo without caring about ammo
Noah King
Pigeons do or at least something very close to milk.
Adrian Cox
Basically, yes. Stats, level-based progression, gear, things of that nature. We've bastardized the concept of actual roleplaying.
Robert Cook
Anthony Nelson
at this point it feels like it just means "not an FPS"
Leo Foster
Dafuq am I looking at?
Thomas Baker
mental goy chow for unfortunate children
Daniel Gonzalez
birds arent mammals
Luis Adams
>roleplaying isn't about playing a role, it's about manipulating a bunch of numbers until they're high enough for you to win the game
Eli Taylor
>he's never drank bird's milk
lmao holy fucking shit get your life together m8
Landon Morgan
Sanctuary Black was a shit game. Wandom Racky Humor le flying pancake xD is the gayest shit right up there with uwu posters and 2000-year-old-vampire-loli coomer pedo weebshit.
Easton Reyes
laser pistol does the least damage of any weapon in the game lol
Alexander Flores
Adrian Young
So you need plenty of them. They're still essentially infinite ammo.
Gavin Parker
he’s right, if an action’s results depend on the player’s skill, the game is not an rpg
in an rpg, you just decide what the character does, how well he does it is completely outside your control
Dylan Lewis
I tried energy weapons playthroughs in SS2... There's enough ammo for the far more powerful standard weapons, especially if you use the wrench and get some heavy weapons to use the GL.
It is fun to imagine the Soldier autistically fumbling with 6 laser pistols trying to remember which ones were charged in combat, though. SIX MEN WITH GUNS DRAWN!
Mason Mitchell
don't forget to stock up on emp rifles to kill pesky monkeys!
Jack Evans
Not him. But the idea of videogame RPGs actually being about roleplaying is an idea that was mostly pushed by Bioware in their marketing when they wanted to stand out from other games.
Games like wizardry sure as fuck weren't about roleplaying. They were games whose mechanics were adapted from roleplaying games but that was about it.
It's genuinely annoying how people nowadayswill call every game with choices an RPG even if it has no RPG mechanics at all. The mechanics is what makes a game an RPG in the contexts of videogames. Actual and legitimate roleplaying isn't even possible in a videogame anyway and you have the real life roleplaying games for that.
Adrian Thompson
Why does she have a gaze like her soul was surgically removed?
Oliver Ortiz
I don't even bother with ranged weapons anymore, just using the wrench until I can upgrade to the crystal shard.
Jace Turner
She's describing slavery, and she wants to globalize her fetish.
Henry Moore
what a dumb fucking faggot with his mind in the tabletop era/90s.
An RPG is about player expression. A game and setting where subsystems communicate with each other and allow you to interact with them at your own preference and use this freedom in shaping the playstile of your character or in directing the outcome of storylines. That's the basis for an RPG. Whether or not the actual combat leans more towards skills or stats is secondary.
Games like DOOM aren't RPGs because even though you have some degree of freedom in how to approach things, or in how to customize your character (nuDoom), it fundamentally isn't a character building game and the interactions with the world and gamespace are limited, you just shoot demons.
Luis Stewart
It means a game with anime titties.
Samuel Morris
in marketing, it means nothing other than some sort of progress of character stats in-game.
Socially, it means whatever players say it means.
technically, it means games based off table top RPGs, which focus more on character development and strategy than reaction time or precision. The less reaction and precision needed, the more RPG a game is.
Juan Sullivan
They are games that originate / are inspired by table top games like dnd. This inspiration extends to the mechanics of the games, aesthetic, the elements of the games, etc. The earliest rpgs were trying to bring the experience of playing a TTrpg (table top role playing game) to the video game medium. However this was not completely possible due to technological limitations. So through the implementation of various rpg elements / mechanics, these games tried to emulate certain aspects of rpgs. This could include the stat based combat system, the collaborative story telling aspect, or in general having a more dynamic game that responds to your choices.
Over time various sub genres emerged. Such as ARPGs, JRPGs, etc. All of which were inspired by TTRPGs in the beginning. But over time the definition of rpg has become vague.
Nonetheless rpgs are games that have rpg mechanics / elements, many of which are either directly copied from TTRPGs or are made up to emulate some aspect of them.
Even JRPGs, which are the most basic type of rpg, tend to have atleast 2 - 4 rpg mechanics. However these games are very different in terms of what they are trying to achieve compared to western rpgs, which is why i consider them to be a far removed sub genre. (i believe that they were inspired by video game adaptations of rpgs rather than actual TTRPGs, although i am not completely sure, i could be wrong)