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Re: what is the deepest or most complicated rpg?!

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From: n... Ken Rice
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:36
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In article <bbe87731.02081...@posting.google.com>, 
frees...@yahoo.com says...

>hi all.

>what is the deepest, rpg?
>---  or even the most complicated or involved?!

> Anthony E. Strozyk , in his remenising about old rpgs, wrote about
>"the good old days".   the old rpgs when "games were Games", a few
>days ago.!

>not clickfests.
>not linar paths.
>not dumbed down everythings....

>but what ARE they?   what games were like this, or
>maybe...[hope...hope...]
>or maybe, what games are like this today?

>I am beginning ARCANUM.  tis it looks like a near-relative, of these
>old games, maybe close.

>so people....what rpgs are the deepest, most complicated?
>perhaps..."WERE" would be a better adjective!!

Of the ones I've played, I have to nominate Wizardry 7, Crusaders of the Dark 
Savant. It had depth, and complexitity due to the player being able to choose 
which side, if any, to support.

On the other, I have not yet played most of the other recent games mentioned in 
this thread.

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