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Euchrid
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« Reply #60 on: December 23, 2009, 06:47:43 AM »
^^Firstly, you don't know what an RPG is! Secondly, some people define "action" RPGs as those which rely on player skill for combat actions (eg. UU, TES, VtMB...), not simply those that are combat focused.
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« Reply #61 on: December 24, 2009, 04:46:25 PM »
I kinda agree that all these classifications are mostly pointless outside video game store. If a game can be easily squeezed into a rigid genre format, that's not a good sign.


And no, Ultima Underworld was not an action RPG. It is one of the classic RPG, old school. The first true 3D RPG.
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« Reply #62 on: December 24, 2009, 05:38:13 PM »
Quote from: Ellorien on December 24, 2009, 04:46:25 PM
I kinda agree that all these classifications are mostly pointless outside video game store. If a game can be easily squeezed into a rigid genre format, that's not a good sign.
The purpose of game classifications isn't to force developers to follow a certain format, but to understand and analyze genres.
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« Reply #63 on: December 24, 2009, 08:42:06 PM »
I think you meat "to understand and analyze games."
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« Reply #64 on: December 24, 2009, 10:05:55 PM »
I meant genres.
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« Reply #65 on: December 25, 2009, 08:26:05 PM »
Are you saying that "story-driven RPG" and "dungeon-crawler RPG" are two different genres?

And what does it mean - analyze genres? What for?
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