Which does matter a lot for immersion, at least to me It's hard to keep on teleporting to "battle space" and not totally break the mimesis and feel like you're watching a movie and then playing an unrelated board game in between scenes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
Interestingly and ironically the more integrated combat is with the rest of the game the less it feels like an RPG - unfortunately, the whole "RPG" concept is bound to ideas like "XP/HP/MP", "combat rounds", etc in our heads - and the more it feels like an "action" game
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
The Elder Scrolls games try to be as integrated as possible and therefore in a lot of people's eyes start to leave the RPG world behind
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
Before his downfall Chris Avellone gave an interview I thought was interesting where he said despite being known as the wall-of-text dialogue-tree guy and despite building his career comeback on nostalgia for the good old days of the Infinity Engine he was kind of sick of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
Which may explain why Torment: Tides of Numenera wasn't all that good Saying that the classic RPG separation between "This is the role playing part, this is the game part" was annoying and jarring, and wanting to look at AAA FPSes as where storytelling was really innovating
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
Honestly I'd also just blame the fact that - ok subjective experience obviously, but - the CRPG "this is the game part" has always kind of sucked, chained as it was to assumed mundanity and D&Dism assumptions in its quest to prove how Grounded and Gritty it was.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @segfaultvicta and
Meh JRPGs/console RPGs may have a version of combat designed to make more sense in a video game but it's not that fundamentally different
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
Strong disagree, yo. JRPG combat is a lot more willing to embrace absurdities, baseline superpowers, standard status effects...
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Replying to @loudpenitent @segfaultvicta and
Those things aren't good though
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I remember being pressured by a friend into actually watching the Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV movie with them and I was like "Oh my God it's actually a world built on the literal idea that everything is completely normal except people have superpowers when they fight"
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