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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1892420" data-attributes="member: 158">I think JoeGKushner and Remathilis have some interesting points when put together. If someone who came to videogames first tries out an RPG and never gets to try it beyond that style of play, they might get bored quickly with it - after all, it's a heck of a lot more work to accomplish the same thing. HOWEVER, when they start playing, that's what they know, and it's what they are comfortable with. Therefore, they will likely change their style as time goes on.So many of us forget that most of us STARTED with this self-same video-game style - we played to get the +1 sword, and the next character level, because we were young. Same deal now - 99% speaking, those who start young, will play young. As they mature, they inject other elements in their play. This is to say nothing of how the play style comes back around full circle every now and again - witness threads from those players who have gathered with some of their friends to "kick it old-school" every now and again.For certain, different generations of players will bring their own styles to the games, but we all seem to go through the same cycles. No one out there who has played D&D can tell me they've NEVER in their lives played at least one straight "dungeon crawl" session for fun - and if they did tell me that, I'd suspect them of not telling me the truth. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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