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Message: <blockquote data-quote="1Mac" data-source="post: 5105164" data-attributes="member: 48998">I was going to offer my own definition, but after reading this thread I see no point. This thread offers excellent evidence in favor of the argument that "videogamey" is simply an undefined pejorative against a game someone doesn't like.Two bits of evidence stick out:-There are many, many definitions being offered here, some of them mutually contradictory.-Many people who are defining the term imply in their examples that "videogamey"=bad. Someone upthread used the term "the worst offender" to describe such an example, for instance. If "videogamey" just meant "like a video game" by whatever metric, there wouldn't be any value judgment attached to it without a lot of assumed baggage.This last point need elaboration. ttRPGs and video games share a lot of DNA and so will have many elements in common. To say something in an RPG is like something in a video game is perhaps interesting, but by itself there isn't a lot of heat behind the statement. To say an RPG is "videogamey" and mean it as a criticism, the element in common has to be something that the person making the statement does not like to find in an RPG. But if the heart of your reason is that the common element is "like a video game," then it is likely a meaningless criticism, because there are other video-game-like elements in most RPGs that aren't being singled out.It's like saying you don't like turkey because it's poultry, when you like chicken just find.</blockquote>

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