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Originally Posted by thoreau
A RPG is any game where you take on the role of a significant character and move through the game to achieve some specific end.
It doesn't need skill points, or armor upgrades, or anything like that. You simply play a main character who tries to help the story come to an end.
A CRPG (Co-operative role-playing game) is an online RPG where you work with small groups to achieve some goal. Guild Wars in the best example of this type of game.
A MMORPG is an online RPG where large amounts of people meet to further the story. |
by your definition almost any game would be a RPG. super mario bros., duke nukem3d, .. so i disagree.
opposed to 'free roleplaying' and 'spontanous acting', role-playing- games originate from the pen'n'paper RPGs, which usually were based on numerical systems to calculate the outcome of any action (skills / gear / randomness (dice))
CRPG soesn't have to be played online. there are plenty of CRPG-games where all characters were on played a single console / comp. |
I guess you could split Vehicle-Simulations into several different subgroups if you want too... such as "driving simulator", "flight simulator", "combat flight simulator", "space flight simulator", etc
