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Hong Ooi <hong...@maths.anu.edu.au> blathered:
> 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...
>
	Other than Torment, which of those games involve any role
playing?  I just got Diablo II over the weekend and while its a great game
there's no role playing and the story is a lot worse than most games I've
seen so that's not saving it either.  
	Its not the real time nature of the games that makes them not be
RPGs.  Torment has the same terrible real time engine as BG but it has
true role playing in it.  I think the game is mediocre overall because I
didn't like the combat, but I don't think its not an RPG due to that fact.

> what's
> a poor TB fanatic like him to do? There's only so many times he can
> replay the MM games, after all.
>
	The only MM game I've played is 4 and that one only for a couple
of hours.  They're not RPGs either, from what I can tell.

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Brian Robinson
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Institute for Simulation and Training