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palitococo on 22 December 2009

White Knight Chronicles and monster hunter 3 are just "other rpgs", wow im very other inclined then.



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Infinity on 22 December 2009
jarrod said:
Infinity said:
nightsurge said:
Infinity said:

None of those are RPGs except Arc Rise Fantasia and possibly Drakensang and some of the "Other RPGs". Adventure games, sure. RPGs, no. Let me know if Last Rebellion or Persona 5 actually come out in 2010 before even mentioning year of the RPG.

Huh?

R-P-G: Role Playing Game.... you take the role of characters and progress through a story leveling up, etc. etc. How are they not RPGs?

So any game where your characters increase in ability is an RPG? Wrong. Is Metroid an RPG? Castlevania? Zelda? No more than any of those. The first RPG was Dungeons and Dragons. Video Game RPGs all derived from those gameplay mechanics. Anything else is an adventure game, NOT an RPG.

Zelda II's an RPG. By strict genre definitions, so are CV2 and the Metroidvanias.

I think Pac-man and Tetris should be considered RPGs too then.

Update: Last Rebellion is coming out in Feb! Maybe this IS the year of the RPG. (please be a good game, please be a good game)



jarrod on 22 December 2009
Infinity said:
jarrod said:
Infinity said:
nightsurge said:
Infinity said:

None of those are RPGs except Arc Rise Fantasia and possibly Drakensang and some of the "Other RPGs". Adventure games, sure. RPGs, no. Let me know if Last Rebellion or Persona 5 actually come out in 2010 before even mentioning year of the RPG.

Huh?

R-P-G: Role Playing Game.... you take the role of characters and progress through a story leveling up, etc. etc. How are they not RPGs?

So any game where your characters increase in ability is an RPG? Wrong. Is Metroid an RPG? Castlevania? Zelda? No more than any of those. The first RPG was Dungeons and Dragons. Video Game RPGs all derived from those gameplay mechanics. Anything else is an adventure game, NOT an RPG.

Zelda II's an RPG. By strict genre definitions, so are CV2 and the Metroidvanias.

I think Pac-man and Tetris should be considered RPGs too then.

Update: Last Rebellion is coming out in Feb! Maybe this IS the year of the RPG. (please be a good game, please be a good game)

Pac-man and Tetris don't have large explorable worlds, complex narratives or dynamic stat character grinding.  Why isn't Zelda II or SotN an RPG exactly?



Infinity on 22 December 2009

They are twitch based games where you directly control the character. To me that makes them Action-Adventure games, not traditional turn based RPGs.



jarrod on 22 December 2009
Infinity said:
They are twitch based games where you directly control the character. To me that makes them Action-Adventure games, not traditional turn based RPGs.

So "turn based" is a requirement?  Then the Tales series aren't RPGs?  Actually, FFXIII isn't an RPG either?  Neither is Mass Effect, Fallout, Fable or Oblivion?



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MANUELF on 22 December 2009
jarrod said:

DS is already LOADED for 2010...

-Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (Nintendo)
-Glory of Heracles (Nintendo)
-Golden Sun III (Nintendo)
-Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Square Enix)
-Dragon Quest VI: The Realms of Reverie (Square Enix)
-Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light (Square Enix)
-SaGa 2: Goddess of Destiny (Square Enix)
-Lufia: Lands Cursed by the Gods (Square Enix)
-Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Joruney (Atlus)
-Etrian Odyssey III (Atlus)
-Yggdra Unison (Atlus)
-MegaMan Battle Newtork: Operation StarForce (Capcom)
-Okamiden (Capcom)
-Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow (D3 Publisher)
-Seventh Dragon (tba)
-Infinite Space (SEGA)
-Sands of Destruction (SEGA)
-Luminous Arc 3 (tba)
-Sakura Note (tba)
-Ragnorak DS (XSEED Games)
-Foto Showdown (Konami)
-Spectral Force Genesis (Ignition Entertainment)
-Monster Rancher DS (Tecmo)
-Digimon World Dusk (Bandai Namco Games)
-Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Exceed (tba)
-Shiren the Wanderer 4 (tba)

 

 

Dont dare remind me of the awesome wallet eater monster that is the DS



Infinity on 23 December 2009
jarrod said:
Infinity said:
They are twitch based games where you directly control the character. To me that makes them Action-Adventure games, not traditional turn based RPGs.

So "turn based" is a requirement? Then the Tales series aren't RPGs? Actually, FFXIII isn't an RPG either? Neither is Mass Effect, Fallout, Fable or Oblivion?

 

I think you got it, now.



jarrod on 23 December 2009
Infinity said:
jarrod said:
Infinity said:
They are twitch based games where you directly control the character. To me that makes them Action-Adventure games, not traditional turn based RPGs.

So "turn based" is a requirement? Then the Tales series aren't RPGs? Actually, FFXIII isn't an RPG either? Neither is Mass Effect, Fallout, Fable or Oblivion?

 

I think you got it, now.

So only FFI-III are RPGs, the rest of the series isn't?  WOW isn't an RPG?



Infinity on 24 December 2009

Yes!



richardhutnik on 24 December 2009
yo_john117 said:

Isn't Diablo 3 a RPG of sorts?

But yeah I agree 2010 looks ridiculous for RPGs

No Diablo 3 for 2010.  Blizzard is likely doing a Starcraft push next year.