Still Life

Depends on the game.

Not "RPGs":

• Diablo
• Final Fantasy
• Dungeon Siege

RPGs:

• Planescape: Torment
• Baldur's Gate
• Fallout

RPGs are games where the way one interacts with characters alters the way the game progresses. You can develop for your character a personality that has a meaningful effect on interactions with other characters and how the story advances.

 

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Heh, I spent more on hardware for that game than any game ever... A swank 3x NEC cdrom (nothing faster at the time) and a roland wavetable midi card. Loved it. Still listen to the soundtrack on occasion. Talk about games that pushed hardware...

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As for this game this thread is about... still haven't tried the demo. Will have to check it out this weekend.

 

The industry lumps anything where you have a character that has stats and skills as an RPG. :? Rather saddening -- especially when you see something like WarCraft III described as a "strategy-RPG" mix.

Morrowind is almost a real RPG. The problem is that while character interactions are meaningful in the game, conversations are rather lacking in substance beyond plot and background information.

 

Pretty hard to play a role when you can't choose what to do, and what to say, real RPGs (ie pen&paper) are all about acting and talking like your character, something you can't do in most so called computer RPG games...

It looks like RPG applied to computer/electronic games means to have a main character and stats.
With such a loose definition, many games can be of the genre.

 

I downloaded the demo but havent' gotten around to it.
Looking back at microids earlier stuf, I'll probably love and finish it two days after it's shipped.
I must admit Post Mortem had some pretty hard puzzles though..