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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gregweller" data-source="post: 253686" data-attributes="member: 879"><p>I think that if you approach this game with the attitude that 'of course, no CRPG can ever approach PnP games' then it will never work for you.  There will always be people that will say that computers or software won't develop sentient behavior even after it does (read Ray Kurtzwiel' s 'Age of Spiritual Machines). I think that what the real issue here is emergent behavior. This game has only been out for a couple of weeks, and besides modules coming out by the score, people are already hacking the engine to add functionality that was never originally intended (implementation of arrays in the scripting language, for one thing, 'pack-animals' for another). When you put something with this much potential into the hands of (already) a million plus people,  just wait and see what kinds of things people will create using the software. I think that a lot of people have turned PnP gaming into this nostalgic fetish-object. I have a sign over my desk at work that says 'Nostalgia is the irrational desire for limitations'. I think that says it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>