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On 6 Nov 2000 14:25:20 GMT, knig...@gamespotmail.com (Knight37) wrote:

>Quoting brob...@figment.ist.ucf.edu (Brian Robinson) from Sun, 05 Nov 2000 
>09:56:16 GMT:
>
>>Desslock <dess...@sympatico.ca> blathered:
>>>> I didn't play MDK2, I'll go take a look at it maybe. Is it an RPG? I
>>>> didn't care much for MDK1...
>>
>>> It's not a role-playing game -- pure action, like its predecessor (which
>>>
>>     Wow, this is a first: someone on this newsgroup admitting there
>>are action games that are not also RPGs...
>
><confused look>
>
>Uh... I don't think too many of us believe that all action games are also 
>RPG games. Games like HM:FAKK2, Kiss Psycho Circus, Soldier of Fortune, 
>Voyager: Elite Force, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, etc. are pure action.
>
>Of course, some of us thing games like Thief, Deus Ex, or System Shock 2 
>are RPG's, or at least, RPG/Action hybrids. But those are the exceptions, 
>not the rule.

See, Knight, the thing is that Brian is still in mourning over the fact
that all the blockbuster RPGs for the last two years have been real-time
to some degree or other. BG1, PST, BG2, SS2, Deus Ex, Diablo 2... what's
a poor TB fanatic like him to do? There's only so many times he can
replay the MM games, after all.


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