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General News - Why are RPGs so hard to classify?

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Feb 9, 2016.

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    [​IMG]Another entry in Felipe Pepe's excellent blog at Gamasutra:

    Why RPGs are so hard to classify and evolve?
    Computer RPGs are weird.

    Even thought I play & love them since childhood, even though I'm editing a book on CRPGs, even though I've been posting on the RPG Codex for NINE YEARS (Oh god, send help), I can't easily answer one of the hardest questions ever - be it for devs, critics or fans: "define RPG".

    So I've decided to sit down and rant a bit on why it's so hard to define this genre, and also why it's a genre that sometimes end restricting its games. Some of it will be obvious, but I hope to offer some decent insights. I even recruited Batman for this.

    Buckle up, this will be LOOOOOOONG.​
     
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