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RPG Story Telling vs Game Play

Hope — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:41:44 +0000

As someone who loves RPGs (the Final Fantasy series in particular, but it is also hard to go past Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask) and someone who has recently gotten into making indie RPGs (more on that later), I wonder about people’s preferred balance between story telling and game play.

The most recent installment in the Final Fantasy series, FFXIII, or Final Fantasy 13, is getting a lot of hate from critics for its linear style of game play that essentially takes the player through a story.

Choose Your Digital Destiny | Morrowind Game of the Year Edition

Hope — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:41:32 +0000

Imagine an RPG in which the whole world lies at your feet. Imagine an RPG in which the quest structure is not ‘kill X number of Y’. Imagine an RPG in which your character’s attributes are infinitely customizable. Imagine an RPG that manages to actually surprise you with strange twists and turns. Imagine an RPG in which NPC’s are just as vulnerable as you are, making your choices a matter of morality. You’re now close to imagining what Morrowind is like.

Torchlight RPG Review

Hope — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:23:48 +0000

Torchlight is an RPG setting the world of RPG’s alight with its ‘I played it all night long and lost my job the next day’ game play and exceptional customer service. Unlike larger companies which seem to delight in confounding their customer base, Torchlight makers Runic Games won hearts by demonstrating just how dedicated they were to their customer base. When a player had a bugged save, a developer asked him to send him the save file and actually debugged it for him. Try getting that kind of service from any of the major game companies and see how far you get. This is the sort of thing that makes gamers go nuts for a company, as evidenced by this thread on reddit.