Author: Rob Knop (---.home.com)
Date: 12-18-2001 19:34
* People to get over the fact that CRPGs are not RPGs.
It's an established fact, they are related and the gap is ever decreasing. Get over it.
What's to get over here? I'm sure that almost everybody would agree that (1) CRPGs are different from traditional RPGs, (2) they are most definitely related, and (3) the gap is decreasing.
However, (3) is sort of like saying that the gap between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies is decreasing. It is, at what might be called a high rate of speed. But at the moment, it does not appear that the rate of the decrease of the gap is going to be relevant in our lifetime.
CRPGs -- at least if you're talking the single-player versions-- are getting more interesting, are having more of a "roleplaying" element, and are involving more character development and interactivity. But the gap between them and RPGs, however much it decreases, is going to remain a fundamental, uncrossable final gap until we've got true Artificial Intelligence, or something so close to it that most people could be excused for mistaking it for true AI.
Not that there's anything wrong with CRPGs being a different thing!
-Rob
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