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That’s fiction, because no one in their right mind would ever allow something like that to exist in the real world.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What makes a real RPG?

Not trying to be hostile, but a friend of mine and I were having this discussion a couple weeks ago. I said Fallout 3 and Deus Ex (1) were RPGs. He said he didn't think of them that way, he thought of them as shooters first. We had different opinions about the labels, but we mostly agree on what we like to play.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

I guess you could argue Deus Ex 1 and and System Shock 2 are FPS-RPG hybrids but Fallout 3 is objectively an RPG by most metrics. Maybe he only considers isometric games where you click on skeletons RPGs