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True CRPGs on the horizon
2016-06-02 23:41:10 Post No. 339763198
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True CRPGs on the horizon
Anonymous
2016-06-02 23:41:10
Post No. 339763198
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>It is not optimism that leads me to be certain that true CRPGs are just beyond the horizon; it is my sense of realism and my belief in the inevitability of progress. At the moment, things look hopeless. Westerners are stuck on their numbers fetishism; the Japanese on their anime wankfests; and the MMO crowd on their pointless, absurd powerlevelling and hoarding of useless trinkets. Gamers know nothing and game journalists even less, while developers are either old dudes who have simply succumbed to market realities, or young ones who grew up on dungeon crawlers and know no better. Who will educate all these people? Who will remind them of how all this shebang got started in the first place and where it is supposed to be heading? It would be easy to be a pessimisist under these circumstances, and yet I am certain that the games people like me are dreaming of are on their way. The coming CRPG will be born somewhere at the conflux of adventure game and interactive movie, operating on a rigorous yet invisible framework of rules and guiderails. What themes would lend themselves better to open-ended, non-linear plots filled with tension, dramatic moments and meaningful decisions? What advanced scripting techniques will be invented to facilitate that level of interactivity? How could a limited multiplayer component be carefully set up to spontaneously deliver many of those moments? Now these are the interesting questions.
So /v/, when do you think these true CRPGs will finally emerge? With VR? What are you hoping for?
