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It's kind of like, what games don't I like is maybe a shorter list than what kind do I like? And in any given genre, there will be loads of exceptions for me - like, I mostly don't like Eurogames, except the dozens and dozens I do like (which don't even seem to follow a pattern that I can...

Yes. BTTF2 is why we still talk about BTTF. If there was only the first movie, it would be like a minor '80s classic that a few people remember but was really Boomer/Greatest Generation nostalgia bollocks ("we invented the world"-type rubbish) even at the time. But BTTF2 was something much...

I feel like this is a distinction without a real difference when you're including Indiana Jones and The Dead, Mad Max and so on, all of which were essentially made as stand-alones with no specific intentions of further sequels or even exploring that subject further, and which all work as...

Yeah, it used to be a pretty common opinion, not one I personally held, but I think for a long time there was a pretty clear distinction between Western RPGs, which could be, as you correctly identify, boiled down to: WRPGs typically let you create at least one character (even if they had some...

He's an actor I've really turned around on. My initial reaction was "Ugh I hate this guy", because he played a series of intensely annoying twats and made sure to make them REALLY annoying and frustrating. But it was as an intensely annoying twat role he turned me around, which was The...

Same. A lot of actors I like involved, and er... Jared Leto, who is a giant red flag in human form. But the whole thing looks bland and sauceless as as hell, and the heavy use of cheap CGI is definitely part of that - it's both a difference in look and a difference in mindset. Even if you...

The medium might technically not, but movies don't "require" sound or colour - or a story, actually (Koyaanisqatsi etc.). The reality though is that virtually every game, even ones which wouldn't have 40 years ago (UGH TIME PAIN WHY MUST IT BE 40 NOT 20), does have a story of some kind, even if...

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 almost any measurement (even visual design!) than, for example, Fallout 4. The same is true of most or all true Rogue-likes. They all have implied settings...

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 game less abstract than Tetris. The reason people are confused is because of your second statement here - RPGs are no more their story than most games are...

Groan, thanks dad!

Yeah but that's what both MOO3 and Stellaris started with and after testing and after launch respectively both abandoned. Also Sword of Stars was cool but pretty much the opposite of accessible - not that you said it was, just pointing that out.

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 issue is the opposite of assuming that. It's that we're assuming you mean the conventional literal meaning, in which case what you're saying doesn't prima facie...

I think outright orthogonal to the medium might be slightly too extreme a position for my taste in 2025 AD, because some subgenres of games absolutely rely on a strong story as part of their package of what makes them work, but certainly there always have been and still are games and even RPGs...

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 non-star lane designs - is that once you have a large map, if you have no predictable paths at all, ships just able to go from anywhere to anywhere (maybe within a...

This begs the question of what you mean by "story". The conventional understanding is a tale with a beginning, middle and end. With videogames we might add that it needs not be linear and might have choices leading to different variants of the story (which may be of varying quality). But there...

Wow I just got hit by a flashback like I fought in Vietnam. I know exactly why MOO3 used star lanes, because MOO3 did this bizarre thing where they basically blogged the WHOLE of the development of the game, with both the lead designer and art director blogging genuinely regularly and in detail...

I mean, I guess that's true isn't it? I feel like the odds of getting a good story in a novel are higher, but the complicating factor is that most RPGs are essentially story + game kind of superglued together, and thus you can end up with quite disparate levels of quality, so you're more likely...

But yes really it did. DA2 is fascinating because it's a good example of how constraints can make for both a stronger product and piece of art, and how they can also do the opposite! Like, DA2's story is stronger because they had to cut out some decisions and possibilities, almost all of which...

This only makes your position drastically worse, because it means you must necessarily aware of how you're not being accurate at all re: datacenter energy usage. I don't see how you think this helps your position.