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On the shelf in my office.

The medium might technically not, but movies don't "require" sound or colour - or a story, actually (Koyaanisqatsi etc.). The reality...

You are 100% effectively no-true Scotsmaning, whether you mean to or not. Caves of Qud, say, is not only an RPG, it's a better RPG by...

This applies to literally any game which has any kind of story - and by "story" you mean "implied setting" even, so that's basically any...

Again, I'm not sure that it's necessary to qualify this specifically for RPGs. I think this is pretty solidly true of games writ large...

Having recently gone back to it the gameplay doesn't hold up that great, but it's definitely holistically the best in that sense.

Fair enough, but the story is always what discourages me from playing through Fallout 4 again. Then again, the gameplay prevented me...

my favourite games are Dynasty Warriors, Prince of Persia and Street Fighter and I'd love to see a mash-up of those styles. Assassins...

Groan, thanks dad!

Are you suggesting we should dispatch with them?

Yeah but that's what both MOO3 and Stellaris started with and after testing and after launch respectively both abandoned. Also Sword of...

Sorry but this is so vague as to be without meaning and doesn't address games which don't really have "a narrative" yet are RPGs. The...

I think outright orthogonal to the medium might be slightly too extreme a position for my taste in 2025 AD, because some subgenres of...

You can have an amazing game with basically no story or even a bad story, but you cannot have a novel without a story. Certainly...

The theory - and this isn't my theory, note, but one a lot of different designers have come to, all of them starting off wanting...