Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 9783826" data-attributes="member: 7027139">I do disagree heavily with "aren't really games but activities" idea, and especially with the tone it's often presented. It is, frankly, puzzling to me. Of course they are games! And all games are activities!What's funnier is that even that sort of inflated sense of uniqueness isn't unique to RPGs. I engage in a lot of different circles. Every single one of them thinks they are a unique island unfairly judged by standard of other games.Fighting game players will talk your ears off about how the Real Game isn't at the arcade cabinet, isn't even in the minds of the opponents, no, the Real Game is the one you are playing against yourself and your own ego; RTS players will not shut up about the wonderful flow state where you become one with your troops and clash in a battle of wits and mental endurance with another brilliant mind; Team Fortress 2 players would draw you up the wall talking about friendships forged on 2Fort matches and how they went to a wedding of a guy they met on a dodgeball server (other TF2 players will tell the exact same f###ing stories, but with casual 2Fort being swapped for the bloodbath of competitive 6v6)Every single one of those bastards will tell you that their favorite game isn't just a silly game, it's something more. Often with a very smug expression, implying or even directly stating that those, those other people -- they are just unsophisticated plebs (oh hey I used to do that, apologize to anyone I talked to like that), that just don't get it.</blockquote>

Verification