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Post by kevblah on May 3, 2006 10:08:37 GMT -7
Have you played an RPG-like game recently? Or do you think sometimes about a game that you want to play that is/is like an RPG? Post here about what the game was like.
I recently played Elder Scrolls: Oblivion a little bit and it was fun. It is a single player game with scripted text of course but you get to pick from a list of what you can say. The world was more changable but it also did things on its own and affected you, with special graphics for the sky effects or for moving objects like leaves, also with objects you can pick up. The physics seemed to be pretty realistic and so was the combat also. I think this shows that more RPG games are also action games now and also there are alot of multiplayer RPGs now too, which you know if you have been to the computer game store or asked some people what they play on the computer or even heard it on the news. These games are less like watching a movie or reading a book than watching a movie, then talking about that movie, then making a movie based on that movie while working with other people who saw the movie, then watching THAT movie, etc. It is really involved, just like real life, not like a movie that can't change, which is what RPG games used to be like in a way.
But that means that people have to be good at making games now too, or they won't get what the game maker was looking for out of the RPG. So also something is lost and something is gained in how you play the games. We lost having exactly what the game maker wanted but you still have some games that are like that, its just if it was made for multiplayer or open-ended play then it is more about what you put into the game then what it gives you. Both kinds of RPGs are out there, but you have to choose which you want to play.
I recently played Elder Scrolls: Oblivion a little bit and it was fun. It is a single player game with scripted text of course but you get to pick from a list of what you can say. The world was more changable but it also did things on its own and affected you, with special graphics for the sky effects or for moving objects like leaves, also with objects you can pick up. The physics seemed to be pretty realistic and so was the combat also. I think this shows that more RPG games are also action games now and also there are alot of multiplayer RPGs now too, which you know if you have been to the computer game store or asked some people what they play on the computer or even heard it on the news. These games are less like watching a movie or reading a book than watching a movie, then talking about that movie, then making a movie based on that movie while working with other people who saw the movie, then watching THAT movie, etc. It is really involved, just like real life, not like a movie that can't change, which is what RPG games used to be like in a way.
But that means that people have to be good at making games now too, or they won't get what the game maker was looking for out of the RPG. So also something is lost and something is gained in how you play the games. We lost having exactly what the game maker wanted but you still have some games that are like that, its just if it was made for multiplayer or open-ended play then it is more about what you put into the game then what it gives you. Both kinds of RPGs are out there, but you have to choose which you want to play.
