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  1. Memorable RPG Moments

    Exile 3:after playing the first 2 games underground, going above ground and seeing grass for the first time in the series. Geneforge: making your first creature Geneforge: making your first good creature

  2. How to write a non-linear story...

    For the whole author telling a story vs a more open ended game, it does depend on how restrictive the story is. From what I've seen, I see most platform "RPGs" to be hopelessly linear to the extreme-people leave and join wether you want them to or not, etc. The only thing you really control is...

  3. Thief III has a name...

    >>Very true. I really don't see why a stealth aspect to a game makes it "CRPG". Wait, I can understand their mentality: "Oooh! I play a THEIF! Just like D&D! It MUST be a CRPG!">> That, especially with platform games, really is the defining thing about RPGs to many people. "Its...

  4. Old stuff

    You've really misread what he wrote. He said you get more powerful in RPGs-he didn't mention powerfantasy at all. You are talking about a power fantasy, which are different things. You get more powerful in many games(better cars in racing games for instance, better troops in RTS), so its...

  5. Interview The Fall Q&A at No Mutants Allowed

    >>Oops. I read RPGCodex the last 11 months and I really got the impression that the only people around are CRPG-philosophers.>> I don't post that much here, but that is a troll comment, pure and simple. I know people here can be touchy, but don't provoke them, please. It adds nothing...

  6. Old stuff

    I'll throw in some points here: >>The role-playing experience of a game is there for me, when : 1) it has a well written and interesting story 2) it allows the player to get immersed in a world,where he can live out his power fantasies >> Power fantasies? While that might be...

  7. ph@t loot and epic levels

    In terms of magic items being too common, I know from playing Exile and Avernum, and other games like it, that a steel sword can be as great to see as any treasure. Its all about balance, and what type of world you make. Problem is Forgotten Realms(Misbegotten Realms) dosen't really reflect a...

  8. Future...

    One of the things that aids Diablo 2 is that it is still easily avaliable in the big chain stores in America like Walmart and Target. You can buy it for probably 20 bucks or less, so its easy to get. If you look at the top ten selling games, it often has Diablo 2, one of the Blizzard RTS, and...

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