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<blockquote data-quote="Zak S" data-source="post: 7379991" data-attributes="member: 90370"><p>No I was not referring to your vague claim, I was referring to this <em>bold and explicit one</em>:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Z: </p><p>"the main reason" they continue to use it.</p><p></p><p>Tony: </p><p>That'd make sense if people came to games with the idea of finding good-quality mechanics. I rather doubt that's what most gamers are looking for. Instead, I suspect they're looking for an experience, of which the mechanics may or may not be a big part, and the quality of the mechanics may or may not influence, and may not deliver only by the obvious expedient of being 'good.' </p><p></p><p><strong>In the case of D&D or OSR games harkening back to the early days of the hobby, that experience is probably either about re-capturing the feel of gaming in that era (which can be, perhaps unfairly, called 'nostalgia') or about exploring that feel for the first time (and there could be many reasons for wanting such an experience).</strong></p><p></p><p>"</p><p></p><p>That's you:</p><p></p><p>Explicitly claiming that the reasons OSR people give are not true and yours are. Since OSR people are constantly harassed with the false claim of nostalgia and constantly say that's not the point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zak S, post: 7379991, member: 90370"] No I was not referring to your vague claim, I was referring to this [I]bold and explicit one[/I]: Z: "the main reason" they continue to use it. Tony: That'd make sense if people came to games with the idea of finding good-quality mechanics. I rather doubt that's what most gamers are looking for. Instead, I suspect they're looking for an experience, of which the mechanics may or may not be a big part, and the quality of the mechanics may or may not influence, and may not deliver only by the obvious expedient of being 'good.' [B]In the case of D&D or OSR games harkening back to the early days of the hobby, that experience is probably either about re-capturing the feel of gaming in that era (which can be, perhaps unfairly, called 'nostalgia') or about exploring that feel for the first time (and there could be many reasons for wanting such an experience).[/B] " That's you: Explicitly claiming that the reasons OSR people give are not true and yours are. Since OSR people are constantly harassed with the false claim of nostalgia and constantly say that's not the point. [/QUOTE]
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