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<blockquote data-quote="univoxs" data-source="post: 8160541" data-attributes="member: 6668320">For some reason I feel differently about what I like out of a video game than TTRPG and board games. I get board of single player games real quick but I get just about as board playing co-op games. When I play video games I want to engage competitively with others.I have noticed more of a trend in RPG design towards more abstractions for simplification, and systems that take away narrative control from the GM. The market is wider than ever so I am sure simulation games are still being designed somewhere but they aren't the popular ones from what I can tell. I don't have a problem with this shift. People should be able to play whatever they like and there are plenty of older games that I never played that fit in more with what I like. VTT's are the future, undoubtedly, but they aren't quite &quot;there&quot; yet in my opinion. The 3d ones coming out look cool (TaleSpire) but some require too much work (Table Top Simulator). They need to become more user friendly. The time I spend prepping for digital play is always more than in person, but that is because the opportunity exists to have great looking maps and tokens with proper line of sight and lighting. I was never bothered by simple lines on the mat but simple lines on a digital grid bores me to tears. I could spend little to know prep time if I wanted to, but because the tools are there to make things look good I feel compelled to use them. Whatever happened to books designed for PDF use only? new World of Darkness had a couple adventures like that years ago and they were the most usable RPG PDFs ever. Someone needs to get back on that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="univoxs, post: 8160541, member: 6668320"] For some reason I feel differently about what I like out of a video game than TTRPG and board games. I get board of single player games real quick but I get just about as board playing co-op games. When I play video games I want to engage competitively with others. I have noticed more of a trend in RPG design towards more abstractions for simplification, and systems that take away narrative control from the GM. The market is wider than ever so I am sure simulation games are still being designed somewhere but they aren't the popular ones from what I can tell. I don't have a problem with this shift. People should be able to play whatever they like and there are plenty of older games that I never played that fit in more with what I like. VTT's are the future, undoubtedly, but they aren't quite "there" yet in my opinion. The 3d ones coming out look cool (TaleSpire) but some require too much work (Table Top Simulator). They need to become more user friendly. The time I spend prepping for digital play is always more than in person, but that is because the opportunity exists to have great looking maps and tokens with proper line of sight and lighting. I was never bothered by simple lines on the mat but simple lines on a digital grid bores me to tears. I could spend little to know prep time if I wanted to, but because the tools are there to make things look good I feel compelled to use them. Whatever happened to books designed for PDF use only? new World of Darkness had a couple adventures like that years ago and they were the most usable RPG PDFs ever. Someone needs to get back on that. [/QUOTE]

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