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twesterm on 03 July 2010
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Khuutra said:
twesterm said:
Khuutra said:

That is not what "standard" means.

And I think of Dungeons and Dragons, like any decent, God-fearing nerd.

Different definitions of the same word. 

When I hear someone say standard, I think of the thing that most people think of.  In the case of RPG's video games, I think Final Fantasy.  When I think role playing games, I think DnD.

By the way, completely random questions-- is there a magic item in 4th that lets you communicate between long distances?  I remember there were rings in 3rd that let you do that but I can't seem to find them in 4th.

Context dictates definitions, and you're using the wrong one. Standard is the qualitative example against which other works are emasured, typically referred to by an artistic authority or a communal consent - and no, popularity is not the same thing as a communal consent of a qualitative standard, especially when the majority do not partake in a dialogue.

I really have no idea. I have yet to play 4e (sadly).


You need to play 4th, it's great.  It really is just a general improvement on everything.  It's pretty cool how they made even 1st level awesome and classes like fighters have more to do than basic attack and flank.

Also, I want to make one of these:

And no, ontopic, let me first start by saying this:

I know Pokemon is an RPG, don't bother "correcting" me on the following.

Looks like I was completely wrong about the Pokemon commercials, but Pokemon isn't really marketed to people as an RPG and most people, even Nintendo fans, don't think of it as an RPG.  They think of it as Pokemon, as in Pokemon is its own entity.

A kid doesn't play Pokemon because of its RPG elements, they play it for its brilliant marketing.  An adult doesn't play Pokemon because it's a deep RPG or rich narative, they play it because, again, brilliant marketing campaign.

To most people Pokemon is just not an RPG.  Aside from people that generally hang out on forums like this, which are the minority, I don't know anything that actually thinks of Pokemon as an RPG.

I really don't know how I forgot about Gotta catch them all. -_-