Posted February 12, 2010
deejrandom: heh I don't agree wabout Mass Effect, I think it is an RPG. BUT I know that is something that will be flung about on the internets for years :)
Games like Arcanum, though, are rare regardless. It is worth the money spent on it and has always been one of my favorite RPGs...well always as in "Since it came out and I bought it."
Games like Arcanum, though, are rare regardless. It is worth the money spent on it and has always been one of my favorite RPGs...well always as in "Since it came out and I bought it."
Yep. Don't get me wrong though, I really enjoyed both ME1 & 2, but I think if you were going to include RPG in their somewhere it would as in ARPG (action RPG).
There are lots of things a game needs to have to be considered an RPG, such as C&C (choice and consequence - which in most Bioware games is just smoke and mirrors). However, the single feature that truely differentiates an RPG from an ARPG (or any other genre for that matter), is all outcomes, be it combat or otherwise, are descided based on your character's skill not the player's skill. On this point, the ME's fail so therefore must be considered (at best) ARPG's.
Post edited February 12, 2010 by AlaCarcuss