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Article #697650Re: Torment: Tides of Numenera
From: Mike S.
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:29
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:29
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:05:31 +0000, JAB <nowa...@feckoff.com> wrote: >Too many RPG's fail on both accounts, for my taste, and don't get me >started on 'action' RPG's. For me the driver for playing these type of >games is to take part in a story and there's not that many around that >do that. The great advantage of the RPG is that you can like one kind of RPG and dislike another. I think the RPG genre succeeds more for this reason then any other. Fallout is an RPG. Planescape Torment is an RPG. Diablo is an RPG. Wizardry is an RPG. You can like one or more of those types and dismiss the others entirely.. and still be a fan of RPGs. I personally do not look for great storylines in video games. Movies, television and books do that better. They will always do that better. I do read several novels a year so maybe I am getting my storyline fix there. I do not want to read a video game. I want to play the damn thing. I don't think I would like Planescape Torment. But even with a novel's worth of text, I did like Ultima 7. A lot. So even if the walls of text in Planescape don't turn me off, I think the strangeness of that world would in the end.
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