Thats true, AD&D and D&D are the only TRUE RPGs, but games such as Dragon Warriors, or Final Fantasys and other games of the like, have been dubbed RPGs too. I realize that Play Station 2 cant just make RPGs, but you have to admit, almost every great selling game is an "RPG". With a few exceptions like; Golden Eye, or Grand Turismo. How many RPGs do they have for PS2 though? I'd say about 2 or 3, but they already have 2 Madden games, not to mention other football games plus 2 or 3 basket ball games. In my opinion, they need to make more RPGs. I mean, football games are almost always gonna be the same, unless it's like Blitz or something, same with basketball games. I dont know of any RPG style games that are even close to being the same, besides sequels to that particular game. So until PS2 focuses more on RPG style games, NES will be number 1.
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Nes will always be the best system in the entire world no matter what any one says only becuase of the great rpg's and one exception to a football game tecom super bowl i think is the best foot ball game ever
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They changed the format of memory cards, to make money from them again(Go figure...). You need PS1 memory cards to save PS1 games, likewise with PS2 I don't know all the details of the change, but one of the most obvious changes is the size. If I remember right, the PSX card had 128K while the PS2 card has 8 MB. Most PS2 games will use up more than 128K for saving, even games that don't really need to save much data beyond what level you reached; I suspect it's because the PS2 lets each game save an animated 3D icon to the card. | |
The Wizard of How wrote:
Thats true, AD&D and D&D are the only TRUE RPGs, but games such as Dragon Warriors, or Final Fantasys and other games of the like, have been dubbed RPGs too. What about the myriad GURPS games, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Gamma World, Star Frontiers, Traveller, Twilight 2000, Top Secret, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: the Apocolypse, Changeling: the Dreaming, Mage: the Ascension, Wraith: the... um... Dark and Depressing, Earth Dawn and the hundreds of other pen and paper RPGs I've never even heard of? D&D started it, but it is far from the only pen and paper RPG available. I think the whole argument about "true roleplayers" is silly. If your roleplaying depends on a particular platform, be it console or dice bag, then you're not a roleplayer at all. A true roleplayer can turn almost any game into a role playing experience. (Games of skill tend to be an exception. About the extent of roleplaying I've seen in chess is when my opponant adopted a bad Russian accent.) You can't judge an RPG because it has "stats". ALL computer games have stats, numbers that are crunched behind the scenes to make things happen. How many pixels does pac-man move per step? That's as much a stat as "dexterity" in D&D. My personal opinion is that a good roleplaying game conceals the numbers from the players. Roleplaying isn't about the numbers, it's about breathing life into a character. I've seen people turn the greatest online "RPGs" into a mindnumbing chore where they perform the same lifeless sequence over and over to max out a number! I've been with others who can turn a simple walk down the street to the corner market into a fantastic quest that you'll remember and cherish always. Who is the roleplayer? I've said it before, and I stand by it: Roleplaying is a style of playing games, not a type of game. | |
I think the game is more about making it easier to roleplay, not whether you roleplay or not. It's easier to roleplay in a text mud than it is to roleplay in Tanks...
And, I still like knowing how much health my character has. | |
Spuzzum wrote:
If you haven't played Red Faction yet, I can't see how you could formulate such an opinion without enough data. If you have played Red Faction, I can't see how you could formulate such an opinion with such data. You said the same thing twice... a word comes to mind: redundancy. Good day. | |
Lord of Water wrote:
Spuzzum wrote: Or maybe it's... epistrophe! epistrophe [Late Latin, from Greek epistrophe ‘a turning toward’, ‘return’, from epistrephein ‘to turn toward’, from epi ‘upon’, ‘to’ and strephein ‘to turn’.] 1. Rhetoric Termination of successive clauses or sentences with the same expression ("Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I." Second Corinthians 11: 22). | |
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