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View Poll Results: Is Diablo a role-playing game or not? | |||
Yes, it is. | 20 | 55.56% | |
No, it's not. | 16 | 44.44% | |
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29-04-2009, 01:14 AM | #61 | ||
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29-04-2009, 05:21 AM | #62 | ||
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Maybe this debate would not be so pointless if there wasn't such "moronic" arguments like this.
Seriously, you guys really must be getting out of arguments to get something like this out. Who's thinking about a game genre when he's playing a game? And why would he care? How about we get back on the subject at hand with real and intelligent arguments? Quote:
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29-04-2009, 06:35 AM | #63 | ||
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Getting little off-topic here guys. Besides, me and red already showed the hard facts, so stop complaining.
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29-04-2009, 09:59 AM | #64 | ||
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This thread has been off topic ever since Fifth moved it and renamed it to "Is Diablo an RPG or not?"
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29-04-2009, 10:32 AM | #65 | ||
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And we still haven't gotten a response to why Lands of Lore and similar games would not be RPGs according to these "rules".
A genre doesn't have to strictly follow the name of that genre anyway. It's silly to assume Diablo can't be an RPG simply because it doesn't contain any role playing. Besides, "role playing" is a subjective term anyway. Since Diablo 1&2 could both be played online with others, how would you determine the fact that you can't roleplay inside your class? I remember quite a few people that were actually roleplaying online so even in that respect, there's still some roleplaying going on. But anyway, my point was that genre names deceptive. Adventure games are considered games where you solve puzzles, talk to people and follow a story. But anyone who never played adventure games might label Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, etc. as adventure games because of the "adventure". Or how about RTS? Real Time Strategy games? Technically, UFO would become a RTS game as well, since a large part of the game happens in "real time". And what about FPS? I mean, any combat flightsim is a FPS then because it happens in first person in the cockpit and you shoot. Or what about Morrowind - becomes a FPS as well. Anyway, my point is that genres have evolved and don't even make any sense when it comes to their name. A RPG, by most, is simply a game where you gain experience, level up, get to pick up items, use them, sell & buy items. Heck, or even simpler: for some an RPG is simply an adventure game with combat. It's pointless to try and shut out a game from specific genre exactly because the meaning of genres are not laid in stone. Having said that, if you say Diablo is not an RPG, a LOT of other games are not either and then you either admit you're wrong in your definition or you admit those other games aren't RPGs either. You can't have it both. |
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29-04-2009, 12:13 PM | #66 | ||
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that's just ego hunting out there i apologize for the late reply but someone moved my previous post without the 2 connected posts into spam
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29-04-2009, 01:30 PM | #67 | ||
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If we think it's a pointless argument, we have the right to say so.
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29-04-2009, 10:05 PM | #68 | ||
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Someone has to stop your arguing.
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30-04-2009, 10:29 AM | #69 | ||
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"I want to be able to tell some poor girl i am going to feed off of, that she will see me in her dreams as a dinosaur" - DarthHelmet86 "that's what all jrpgs are about 0: intro 1: talk talk cry talk talk graphics talk talk, 2: boring jrpg generic turn based combat 3: walk map 4: goto 1 12390482309 times 5: outro" - _r.u.s.s. |
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30-04-2009, 10:55 PM | #70 | ||
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My point if fully valid and nobody even came close to contest it so far.
I suggest you work on that instead. |
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