The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXII
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Chukchi Husky
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Mainly being able to make choices and decisions based on how you want to play your character.
Ajidica
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Having recently played Divinity Original Sin 2, Witcher 3, and Dragon Age Inquisition, I can safely confirm in all of those games I was able to make any number of decisions based on how I wanted to play my character.
Chukchi Husky
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What they're saying is that this isn't found in traditional RPGs.
Traitorfish
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What RPGs do they have in mind? The earliest Western RPGs are pretty much direct adaptations of tabletop games, which have always emphasised player-driven story and gameplay. To the extent this is absent in older games, it's due to the limitations of the era.
Chukchi Husky
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Japanese RPGs.
Traitorfish
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What about older Western RPGs? If they act like Western RPGs begin with Morrowind, then naturally that's going to seem like the novelty, but it's not a realistic comparison.
Chukchi Husky
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I'm not sure. I think Morrowind is the earliest Western RPG that they've played, although they find Oblivion a lot better, but they also say that XCOM: Enemy Unknown is an RPG.
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Well, they aren't very smart then.
Bethesda had been doing their own thing with Arena and Daggerfall, and Morrowind continued that. Open world RPGs -heck, open world games in general- weren't very common when Morrowind came out and it was regarded as a substantial break from contemporary RPGs.
With regards to XCOM, although it has some RPG elements (and frankly, which game doesn't these days) it is emphatically not an RPG. If they think XCOM is an RPG, then Battlefield 1 and Far Cry are RPGs because they feature classes and skill trees.
Chukchi Husky
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I think they call XCOM an RPG based on how it compares to Fire Emblem, that XCOM is essentially a western sci-fi Fire Emblem.
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mmhh... but you could make quite some decisions in Morrowind...?
Fallout 1/2 and Plansecape Torment are from before that time, and were full of such decisions.
(cannot comment on earlier times)
Chukchi Husky
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I think I have mentioned to them more than once that I completed the first Fallout game almost as a pacifist by trying to talk through every situation I could, including the final boss.
I forgot to mention that they think that the decision making found in modern RPGs comes from the current Telltale adventure games like The Walking Dead.
I forgot to mention that they think that the decision making found in modern RPGs comes from the current Telltale adventure games like The Walking Dead.
I'd actually already seen that, but I can't find any *definition* of it.
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