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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9317843" data-attributes="member: 5142">That was my goal with my post. I wanted to list some common features that often get some games labeled, whether correctly or not, as &quot;narrative games.&quot;Yeah, I also share the opinion that &quot;Narrativism&quot; as per GNS =! &quot;Narrative Game&quot; as per above.And you will be accused here of being a pretentious elitist for inventing a new term. And you will likewise be accused here of being a pretentious elitist for re-purposing a pre-existing word or term. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />If you pick a term like, for example, &quot;Drama&quot; to describe these games, people here will be offended by what they will perceive as a slight that their games are not as &quot;Drama&quot; focused as so-called &quot;drama games.&quot; You can't win here. The problem is not the name. The arguments about the name are just a smokescreen. The real problem for some people is that these &quot;non-traditional&quot; games exist at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 9317843, member: 5142"] That was my goal with my post. I wanted to list some common features that often get some games labeled, whether correctly or not, as "narrative games." Yeah, I also share the opinion that "Narrativism" as per GNS =! "Narrative Game" as per above. And you will be accused here of being a pretentious elitist for inventing a new term. And you will likewise be accused here of being a pretentious elitist for re-purposing a pre-existing word or term. 🤷‍♂️ If you pick a term like, for example, "Drama" to describe these games, people here will be offended by what they will perceive as a slight that their games are not as "Drama" focused as so-called "drama games." You can't win here. The problem is not the name. The arguments about the name are just a smokescreen. The real problem for some people is that these "non-traditional" games exist at all. [/QUOTE]

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