• 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    I looked up CRPG because to me it mean “computer role playing game” but apparently now it refers to top-down point-and-click games under the heading “classic role playing game”, like that’s any more descriptive or clearly defined. Because this disjointed, confused genre needed more vaguery in the names of its subgenres.

    Anyway most of these examples look like Diablo 2 so I’m going to assume that’s the type of game you mean - and I think it’s the same crap from a different camera angle. I don’t think I could say it’s “completely different gameplay” to something like Skyrim without feeling like a liar because the loop is bang on the same.

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      6 months ago

      This stuff is pretty much the opposite of Diablo or Skyrim. Honestly insulting that you assume that I don’t know that, yet recommend it to someone who complains about RPG grind. I’m starting to think that your issue with games is more of a problem with you than the games, you seem very quick to judge a topic you apparently know nothing about.

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        6 months ago

        I’m sorry the terminology is so vague and inconsistent, and I’m so disengaged from “gaming” culture and behind on genre labels that I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about. Do you mean the genre formerly known as “point-and-click adventures”, like Disco Elysium?

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      The top-down isometric RPG experience is what it always meant, because it’s a computer replication of the original tabletop RPG experience. TTRPGs were just called RPGs, and adapting them to game format added the c, therefore becoming cRPGs.