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From: kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
Subject: Re: Baldur's Gate 3
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:22:29 -0000 (UTC)
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Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:34:03 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>><chuckle> You remind me of a gamer we once had in our tabletop RPG
>>games, who similarly didn't like all the 'talking and play-acting' the
>>rest of us indulged in. They wanted us to focus more on the fighting,
>>the loot, and the leveling up. 
> 
> I'm not  sure how I would react to tabletop gaming, I never did it.
> 
> As for modern games, I think some of these developers would rather be
> making movies then games. <shrug> 

The issue is of course that a lot of modern games (even non-rpg ones) 
are very much inspired by those very story-driven and otherwise mechanical
eastern style crpgs (think Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior) that 
became popular in the 90s. It's a different approach to roleplaying
games, although the DNA still is in there. Somewhere.