RPGs Were Never About Roleplaying
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Role Playing Games, as they are sometimes called, are some of the longest-lived and most popular genres of videogame out there - to the point that they're older than videogames themselves. However, in spite of their consistent presence in our culture, it's increasingly feeling like no-one knows what RPGs are actually about... and it isn't, as one would naturally assume... role playing.
So, the sacred duty to navigate the realm find the eight sacred crystals, determine the fate of reality and slay a few dragons along the way falls once again, to The Architect, who on top of saving the world also needs try and find out where the RPG came from, and where it's going - with the answer coming from a rather... unconventional source.
You Saw:
Microsoft Flight Simulator - 2020
Sid Meirs Civilization 6 - 2016
Final Fantasy 10 - 2001
Legend of Grimrock 2 - 2014
Divinity Original Sin 2 - 2017
Super Mario Bros 3 - 1988
Tetris - 1984
DOOM - 2016
Persona 5 Royal - 2019
Monster Hunter: World - 2018
Fallout New Vegas - 2010
World of Warcraft - 2004
Final Fantasy 6 - 1994
Final Fantasy 15 - 2016
Final Fantasy 16 - 2023
Final Fantasy 7 Remake - 2020
Final Fantasy 7 - 1997
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2 - 2009
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 2017
Assasin's Creed Valhalla - 2020
Disco Elysium - 2019
System Shock Remake - 2013
Wasteland 3 - 2020
Jupiter Hell - 2019
Ctrl Alt Ego - 2022
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - 2018
Undertale - 2015
Stardew Valley - 2016
Caves of Qud - Early Access
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure - 1999
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - 2022
Dave the diver - 2023
F-Zero GX - 2003
XCOM 2 - 2016
Honkai: Star Rail - 2023
Baldur's Gate 1 - 1998
Nier Automata - 2017
Super Mario RPG - 1996
Bioshock - 2007
Doom - 1993
Pokemon Emerald - 2004
Dragon Quest 8 - 2004
Prey - 2017
Battle Chef Brigade - 2017
Vampire Survivors - 2022
Pathfider War of the Righteous - 2021
Dragon Quest 11 - 2017
What Remains of Edith Finch - 2017
Fallout 4 - 2015
The Dungeon - 1975
Moria - 1975
DnD - 1975
Hand of Fate 2 - 2017
Wizardry 2 - 1982
Ultima 1 - 1979
Rogue - 1980
Diablo - 1997
Diablo 2 - 2000
Diablo 3 - 2012
Diablo 4 - 2023
Borderlands 3 - 2019
Hades - 2020
Slay The Spire - 2019
Dead Cells - 2018
Dungeons of Dredmor - 2011
Dark Souls - 2012
Darkest Dungeon - 2016
Elden Ring - 2022
Darkest Dungeon 2 - 2017
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion- 2006
Solasta: Crown of the Magister - 2020
System Shock 2 - 1999
Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - 2011
Ultima Underworld - 1992
Elder Scrolls 1: Arena - 1994
Runescape - 2001
Dishonored - 2012
Hitman 3 - 2021
Deus Ex - 2000
Xenoblade 2 - 2016
Mother 3 - 2006
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 2020
Xenoblade 3 - 2022
Final Fantasy 14 - 2010
The Hex - 2018
Trails of Cold Steel 3 - 2017
Wizardry 3 - 1983
Final Fantasy 1 - 1987
Chrono Trigger - 2015
Octopath Traveller - 2018
Valkyria Chronicles 4 - 2018
Rune Factory 4 - 2012
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - 2004
Super Paper Mario - 2007
Suzerain - 2020
Colossal Cave Adventure - 1976
Mystery House - 1980
Roadwarden - 2022
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines - 2004
Pathologic 2 - 2019
Neverwinter Knights 2 - 2006
Fallout - 1997
Planescape Torment - 1999
Fallout 3 - 2008
Yes, Your Grace - 2020
The Withcer 3 - 2015
Dragon Age: Origins - 2009
Mass Effect - 2007
Sunless Skies - 2019
80 Days - 2014
Overboard! - 2021
Pentament - 2022
Moon: RPG Remix Adventure - 1997
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - 2016
Dicey Dungeons - 2019
Borderlands 2 - 2012
Stranger Things - 2016
Dragon Age: Inquisition - 2014
Mass Effect 2 - 2010
Anthem - 2019
Mass Effect Andromeda - 2017
Pokemon Ultra Moon - 2017
Pokemon Legends: Arceus - 2022
Pokemon Scarlet - 2022
Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos - Not Out Yet
Crusader Kings 3 - 2020
The Sims 4 - 2014
Neverwinter - 2013
Destiny 2 - 2017
Fire Emblem 3 Houses - 2019
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 - 2007
X-COM: UFO Defense - 1994
Indivisible - 2019
Terraria - 2011
Esoteric Ebb - Early Access
Tabletop Simulator - 2015
Chess - 6th Century CE
New Pokemon Snap - 2021
Dark Souls 3 - 2016
Street Fighter 6 - 2023
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
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@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
Hey Adam, you are very knowledgeable about gaming and game design, would you like to debate with me over the definition of an RPG? Over the years I've found a set of criteria for what makes a video game an RPG that seems to hold up under scrutiny.
@ashegrey2321 11 ай бұрын
Hey just so you know theres a dropped paragraph in the captions at 14:35
@personaslates 11 ай бұрын
Can you put the game title in the corner when you show game-play clips please?
@robertchmielecki2580 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 Yup, I disagree with the term "RPG" or "RPG elements" being thrown around mindlessly whenever something has XP progression or a party of characters. If you retro-translate this type of games (turn based tactical combat, XP and stats and to hit probabilities) to the tabletop (from where the RPG genre comes from) you don't get an RPG. You get a skirmish miniatures game like Mordheim or Battletech or a dungeon crawl board game like Descent or Gloomhaven. The aforementioned traits (turns, XPs etc) aren't characteristic of RPG's any more than they are of these genres. On the other hand you can easily play RPGs with no combat, no stats, no dice, no rules at all (I've played a lot of narrative RPGs like that). The sine qua non trait is characterisation - in other games you get a warrior with stats and XP, but only in an RPG can you have this warrior be a wise-cracking optimist or a brooding cynic with a heart of gold, depending on, you guessed it, your roleplay choices. So, in my opinion, using the term RPG for games that a)lack the defining trait of the RPG genre b)only share some secondary traits much better represented by other genres is erroneous and misleading.
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
@@ashegrey2321 Should be fixed!
@TheDeadmanTT 11 ай бұрын
I thought RPGs were about "romancing" that cute elf over there.
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
Never felt dumber in my life, clearly this is the right answer
@Ashamedofmypast 11 ай бұрын
I love those romancing pretty girls/guys/goober games.
@geng6443 11 ай бұрын
@@Ashamedofmypastwho said anything about girls?
@samlewis6487 11 ай бұрын
@geng6443 I know I have no interest in girls. That cute elf guy over there though? 😍
@ppgod6989 11 ай бұрын
Some reccomedations please
@RougeMephilesClone 11 ай бұрын
The problem with the word "roleplaying" is that in a game context, it's picked up several context-sensitive meanings. There's acting out narrative roles, assuming mechanical roles like a wizard or warrior, directing the role of a preset character like in Final Fantasy 4, and the eroded modern term "RPG mechanics" that just signifies numerical progression. From a certain point of view, roleplaying did originally mean playing a role, but now the word has been misused so much that it could mean countless combinations of things. It implies that a player entering a constructed play space has a heightened level of choice, and that's it.
@PhiLudo 11 ай бұрын
you can observe similar things in horror games
@irispounsberry7917 11 ай бұрын
Yeah, there was some conflation between playing a role in combat (as in contributing something specific to make a team overcome obstacles) to playing a fixed role in a story, oftentimes just shorthand for a playing a specific world-saving hero. "Roll"playing vs "Role"playing as the saying goes. It is interesting to me that a lot of games boiled the former down to "choose fixed entities to fill your party" and the latter to having your fixed character with your choice among given dialog options and weapon/skill tree path rather than keeping the free form party of custom characters. For example, see the Gold Box games (Pool of Radiance, etc) , Phantasie series, or the Temple of Elemental Evil (letting you fully customize up to 5-6 player characters) vs Neverwinter Nights or Dragon Age Origins (where you get to customize your starting character and work with whatever the NPCs you pick up happen to specialize in... unless you mod the game).
@Kronos_LordofTitans 11 ай бұрын
Honestly, the more recent AC games have also attempted to take other RPG genre staples like dialogue options and have significantly increased the number of viable approaches to most missions. To give an example of the latter. Both my sister and me played ac Odyssey. I ended up mostly going for a high speed approach of rushing in and beating the shit out of everything. My sister almost always focused on stealth and archery. And the game let both of us get away with those play styles. And with regard to the playing a predetermined character, well the classic jrpgs did that and they are still part of the genre.
@Valtharr 11 ай бұрын
"a player entering a constructed playspace where they have some level of choice" describes pretty much every video game ever
@sboinkthelegday3892 11 ай бұрын
Well, when you get your info from total randomers with balls to call themselves "architects". The whole history of PC gaming is built since the 70's on the exact games that coined 'RPG', because you FILL a role in those games. That only SPREAD to "non"-RPG games because YOU gaymermen don't know how language works. You jsut made up that BS about "freedom of choice in the narrative" and ignored that you constantly focus on role-playing, that's what escapism means. Movies are not NON escapist just because you have to resign yourself to the plot and secretly resent the medium for it. Hopeless and delusional escapism is an AFFLICTION that theater groups would normally transition away from with exercise, but now people who ROLE PLAY their action violence fiction, can't seem to possess the self awareness to even to match Robert downey Jr.s character in Tropic Thunder. EVERY game you don't refuse to play, has NOW EVERYTHING to do with the RP, and the Game is fading out like THX sound effects on Oscar worthy films. Not even being considered, just occasionally acknowledged IF it furthers the cinematic purpose of your dinky interactive film played on a game console, AND ONLY IF.
@kuraichyan 11 ай бұрын
It is important to note that the evolution of TTRPGs in Japan is vastly different than it was in the West, and it reflects in the relationship with JRPGs. Advanced D&D wasn't that popular and was hard to play, but people who played them published books called Replays, so a lot of people's exposure and enjoyment of D&D was actually reading transcripted gameplay sessions edited a bit for cohesion. The most popular Replay being Record of Lodoss War. Pretty early on the TTRPG Sword World would come out in Japan as well, and end up being the default idea of role playing game. (You can still see a lot of tropes created there in fantasy anime and games today) So when you consider that most people were reading Replays rather than playing games, playing an RPG where you experience a more or less preset story as an already established character makes sense, or having a story focus first in general. (Today in Japan TTRPGs are referred to as Table Talk rather than Table Top because most people refer to focusing on narrative and character exploration over complex battles.)
@woomod2445 11 ай бұрын
Extremely different also in that the culture of actual play is heavily one shot based. Much more pro-mission/railroading. Often have a lot of customization but focused within fulfilling a class/role/archetype. "wizards can do this, here are 27 options for doing this" (i have seen classes for games that would make a lot of american roleplayers freak.) And their initial introduction reaction to BD&D didn't involve the idea "you can do things not covered by the rules", so their rpgs tend to have rules for things american rpgs would have if they are central to the experience. It's a fascinating divergence given "just the initial set of rules", through two cultures. And people who think the evolution of Japanese console rpgs doesn't mirror their TTRPGs are kind of silly.
@mattwo7 11 ай бұрын
I've heard that at least four isekai LN authors play D&D together. Only one I remember is Mamare Touno of Log Horizon fame. The D&D Homebrew Wiki even has a 5e spell called Anchor Howl which in Log Horizon is a class skill for Guardians that boosts defense and taunts nearby enemies.
@cericat 11 ай бұрын
@@mattwo7 yeah, while it's somewhat true that D&D wasn't super popular in Japan, they actually had more than a few exclusive D&D titles early on. I think the biggest reason it never had the ability to gain dominance in Japan was the same core reason D&D never gained dominance in Germany, TSR sucked at localising so DSA and Shadowrun got to build up a more distinct community in Germany while Wizardry (which is a CRPG FFS) gained far more recognition in Japan than NA despite originating there.
@ShinKyuubi 11 ай бұрын
@@mattwo7 I don't know if he plays with them but the guy behind Overlord plays TTRPGs, and I think the guy behind Goblin Slayer does as well...heck it's got it's own TTRPG spin off book. Considering the rules for how magic works in Goblin Slayer he's got to be at least very familiar with the concepts given that spell casters can only use so many spells a day and need to rest before they can use more and the fact that the Gods of the world decide things with dice rolls and stuff...like legit in the Light Novel there are entire interludes between chapters sometimes talking about the Gods and how they set up the adventures and roll the dice for what's going on..and how Goblin Slayer will sometimes throw a wrench in said game just by being there. The back of the novels have the tag line "He does not let anyone roll the dice" just above the summery of the volume on the back. As for the differences in Japan and abroad when it comes to TTRPGs there's also the fact that thanks to how early DnD was translated for them Kobolds in Japan are more often than not canine beastmen rather than the lizard like monsters we see in the West...and Orcs are still often depicted as pig like or straight up pig men, oinking and snorting in media showing them.
@dpolanski4143 11 ай бұрын
This reminded me, reading through dragonlance books, it often feels like a dnd session. Characters in the party are often given screen time in turns, like on the same page
@2010AZ 11 ай бұрын
If I had a nickel for every time a video essay about videogames I watched used the galapagos finch as an analogy to explore different genres of games, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
@prfctstrm 11 ай бұрын
What was the other video about?
@2010AZ 11 ай бұрын
@@prfctstrm SovietWomble's DayZ video essay
@JaredYates1 11 ай бұрын
Nice Phineas and Ferb Reference!
@edacnaggud5148 11 ай бұрын
@@2010AZ Oh that's right! I was wondering If I had already seen this video already with how familiar the start was lol.
@prfctstrm 11 ай бұрын
@@2010AZ Thanks
@zutaca2825 11 ай бұрын
It’s worth noting that D&D is not the only tabletop RPG out there, there are lots of other games and lineages of games out there that do things in different ways but don’t have the name recognition or marketing budget of Wizards of the Coast on their side, and having a more specific vision than D&D’s attempt to do everything at once (or more accurately, their marketing that they do everything at once) can really help the things they do focus on work well
@thebohemian814 11 ай бұрын
D&D doesnt do every at once though, mostly cause mesuring social assets in the game is...Tricky Hence why I like Changeling the Lost
@zutaca2825 11 ай бұрын
@@thebohemian814 That’s true, it’s more accurate to say that it markets itself as being the game to do everything in
@yuvalgabay1023 11 ай бұрын
@@zutaca2825which is a straight upl lie .social encounters only gave 2 pages in the dmg. The exploration mechanics are pretty much non existent because class abilities
@3nertia 11 ай бұрын
@@yuvalgabay1023 Technically incorrect. 5e, at least, just leaves that up to the DM heh. It's only that flexible if the DM is that flexible ...
@yuvalgabay1023 11 ай бұрын
@@3nertia ya but a game thats says its has 3 pillars and give 0 support to 2 of theme is a game thats lie
@nachoolo 11 ай бұрын
A small correction. Computer rpgs are called as such as a way to differentiate them from Tabletop rpgs. Not console rpgs. As the first crpgs were attemps at translating tabletop rpgs into video games.
@LiraeNoir 11 ай бұрын
Absolutely correct. I didn't take Adam phrasing as saying it was otherwise, just as an explanation that those games came to computers first because they hardware and low level software foundations were more flexible than early consoles. But maybe I misunderstood him.
@PainterVierax 11 ай бұрын
@@LiraeNoir which isn't true as most consoles were using the same 80's processors as personal computers and were perfectly capable of making such games. The fact most console manufacturers and game editors were japanese coming from arcade was probably the reason why almost all RPG titles on consoles were JRPGs or tactical.
@acetylen42 11 ай бұрын
@@PainterVierax First cRPGs were created on mainframes and played using dumb terminals on the campuses of the 1970s US. Little of them survived as they were mostly student projects, sometimes kept in secret from the staff, but e.g. pedit5 is still playable today on PLATO emulators. Cartridge-based consoles were a few years away, let alone console RPGs.
@nobalkain624 11 ай бұрын
@PainterVierax While it is true a Consul did have the a lot of the same power inside, the issue was outside. Due to a lack of Keyboard and Mouse it was nearly impossible to put they type of Freedom of Control that was needed. A Controller that had limited Button and Directional Pad was pretty much impossible to replicate on a Consul what a Mouse and Keyboard could easily do. It took forever before they could find a way to make this work, and still you have limitations to this day on how well it can be done.
@PainterVierax 11 ай бұрын
@@nobalkain624 Most PCs during the 80's had no mouse at all. And gamepads have limited buttons but UI adjustments like virtual keyboards were quickly a thing. Though, this is not the main point that avoided freedom of actions, programming limitations on 8 and 16 bit CPUs with very limited RAM is the real blocking factor to include a large number of variables.
@graefx 11 ай бұрын
I remember when I was a kid someone told me that CRPG stood for "cyrillic RPG" because some isometric point and click rpg had development history from eastern europe and I just accepted it as fact. And later on getting introduced to the concept of Eurogames just further reinforced that misunderstanding lol. To this day I have no idea what prompted it.
@LimeyLassen 11 ай бұрын
That's some next level trolling 😂
@LiraeNoir 11 ай бұрын
That was a good troll! Premium grade, bred under top quality bridges! 😂
@Lilith_Harbinger 11 ай бұрын
I was sure that CRPG stands for Chinese RPG, as opposed to JRPGs being from Japan. It made total sense to me because most games i saw tagged with CRPG were in fact from China (Troubleshooter Abandoned Children and a few more i forgot).
@tylerhilpisch7850 11 ай бұрын
@@Lilith_Harbinger I was told that CRPG mean Computer Roleplaying Game, like traditional isometric games like Fallout 1&2 and Wasteland
@leithaziz2716 11 ай бұрын
From Pat and Woolie (from SBFP), I also thought CRPG stood for Computer RPGs.
@TheRandomAustralian 11 ай бұрын
23:24 I remember that fight, I thought to myself "what would really mess up a group of elite Oil Elementals? I know, fire!" Which is how I then had to deal with a group of elite Fire Elementals.
@futuza 11 ай бұрын
Should have used soap.
@malemailmanman 10 ай бұрын
Not only was my party cooked, my GPU was too!
@yaqubebased1961 5 ай бұрын
@@futuza just soap would be ineffective. There needs to be something polar as well to make the soap actually work
@germen2631 11 ай бұрын
The theory of Gary Gygax creating a perfect game in 6 days and then rested to recover spell-slots is obviously false, as I have yet to see someone not asking for a rest after the first encounter every day
@midnightgreen8319 11 ай бұрын
If they shoot off all their spells in one encounter it's their fault, not Gary's.
@hah-vj7hc 5 ай бұрын
I don't ask, I click
@keungwan5901 5 ай бұрын
Nah, I tend to play mages, and I try to stretch things out to an adventuring day. Use potions and scrolls to buffer emergency use. Besides, it's not usually me who calls for a rest, it's the fighter who got clobbered, or the cleric who ran out of healing
@corwyncorey3703 5 ай бұрын
It is one way 5e is better than previous versions. The combo of "short rest" and "Cantrips never running out" made resting more critical and more skippable. Anyone who blows their best moves on a trash fight and simply assumes they can rest in that dangerous place as time moves on deserves a TPK. Options are (as always) superior than a lack of them.
@sarahfay5280 11 ай бұрын
You shouting out Moony when I've spent my evenings over the course of the past two weeks binging literally all of the Moon Channel videos. They're literally *all* good.
@cheddarcheezit2647 11 ай бұрын
Same! Especially the one about trans representation in Japanese/community-focused cultures in general's video games
@sarahfay5280 11 ай бұрын
@@cheddarcheezit2647 Trans representation in games is so important to me, but personally, the one about always killing G-d in video games aligned even more with my life goals.
@quincykunz3481 11 ай бұрын
I think three forces present in the dnd "genome" pull "RPG" games in different directions and it's using different ratios of these that causes the genre splits: Character progression (and by extension customization), character-defining story decisions (aka roleplaying,) and open-ended problem solving. Diablo and MMOs have a huge emphasis on progression. Failbetter games are typically progression/roleplaying hybrids, telltale games (from what I've heard) tend to be mostly about roleplaying. The witcher and divinity original sin games are roleplaying/problem solving hybrids. Tears of the kingdom is primarily creative problem solving. Fromsoft games lean towards progression/problem solving hybrids. Tons of games bolt on progression systems, dialogue trees, or physics interactions and we call all of those "rpg mechanics," but I think in reality they are feeding three separate hungers. Does anyone else agree/disagree here?
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
I think this is a very good way of thinking about it, during the drafting process I split things down more or less these lines but decided to go with the unofficial subgenre delineation instead, but you're basically spot on imo!
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
Character defining decisions or even problem solving have nothing to do with RPGs, all the original RPGs don't meet this criteria whatsoever. The criteria I've found that holds up is: -strategic turn-based combat based on statistics and rolls -character progression -an individual or party focus Most people simply refer to non-RPGs, like Action-RPGs, as RPGs, when, for that example, it's an action game by every definition with *some* added RPG elements, which may or may not have a narrative storytelling focus.
@quincykunz3481 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 respectfully, the original rpg was dnd, and one of the strengths of dnd allows you to solve problems with creative thinking and stuff that isn't explicitly taken into account by your character's stat-sheet. Role Playing, by definition, involves inhabiting a character in a story and considering what decisions they would make. The idea of stratagy being a part of the mix is interesting though. Dnd was certainly born out of strategic wargaming. Whether it is considered an integral ingredient will likely vary from person to person like all of these. I'm not so much trying to define "this is what a true RPG is" and more "This is what all sorts of people consider RPG related in some way."
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@quincykunz3481 That's all fine and well. I am, however, only talking about RPGs as a genre of video games, which were conceived when video games were not centered around story or characterization. My only concern is having a concise definition that holds up under scrutiny, meaning that all RPGs meet that criteria, and games that are not RPGs do not. Other genres like fighting, first person shooter, platformer, puzzle, etc. do not vary person to person very much over what one should expect the core gameplay to be in one of those games -- it's not abstract.
@user__214 11 ай бұрын
It doesn't feel like a complete taxonomy to me, but I agree that those are salient features of the design space! The issue with "character" progression though is... why should it only apply to characters? If I play a side-scrolling shooter game in which I can upgrade my ship after each level using points that I earned, why is that not an RPG? My ship isn't a "character" because it's not even sentient, but it's still a thing that I can build up mechanically as I play the game. Why shouldn't that count? Is this shooter actually an RPG Shooter?
@7DragonEyes7 11 ай бұрын
What define an RPG is any game where you get an item and you keep it for later in case you need it and you see the credit rolling still having the item in your inventory.
@ErisStrange 11 ай бұрын
My brain just kept screaming Oregon Trail (during the cRPG and narrative rpg sections)!!! Because that's the name that my parents always mentioned about really old games and it's kind of become a bit of a cultural phenomenon.
@1Kapuchu100 11 ай бұрын
I'm so happy you mentioned Failbetter games! I'm currently playing Fallen London while watching this :D Super text heavy, but some of the most interesting lore and setting I've ever come across.
@catStone92 11 ай бұрын
I mean, there's a different possible (and more literal) interpretation of role playing term, which is that you're playing the role of a given character in a story. Now that kinda boils the genre down to nothing as every game with a main character is an RPG by that standard. And how RPG is usually applied is it's just some degree of character costumization. I will say, most games that call themselves RPGs don't really give you that feel of roleplaying a character, but a lot of them do.
@Assassin5671000 11 ай бұрын
So Call of Duty was an rpg all along
@PlatinumAltaria 11 ай бұрын
The only reason they're called "role-playing games" was to distinguish D&D from the war-games it descended from in which the player controls an army; in D&D you control a single character. But of course a lot of video games work that way, so it's no longer a helpful name. Sadly we can't change it.
@EstebanBrenesV 11 ай бұрын
@@PlatinumAltaria There is a little more to it and it can be changed not easily but it can, is a little bit of a big subject just for a comment but there are a few points to how and why that could change
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
The thing is, video game genres are supposed to inform the player of what kind of gameplay they can expect from the game, and however you qualify that, it has to be able to stand up to scrutiny for what other games are and aren't that genre. Saying a game is about 'playing a role' doesn't inform people of literally anything, and all manner of games would meet that criteria, so it's simply not useful from a categorical standpoint.
@catStone92 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 but no interpretation of RPG will ever inform the player of the type of gameplay a game has, as this video demonstrates. There are too many different types of RPG. And guess what, there are RPGs that are shooters. Just look at mass effect. So how do you draw the line? Or are you just saying that RPG as a term itself is completely useless?
@sophiemclachlan1903 11 ай бұрын
"Sableye identified RPG" absolutely killed me 😂
@sub7se7en 11 ай бұрын
RPG means rocket propelled grenade. Discussion over.
@VDAband 11 ай бұрын
I understand completely. I've lost track of the number of times I got lost in astarions eyes. Makes playing the game pretty difficult at time.
@DarthBiomech 11 ай бұрын
RPGs always have been simulators of a cleptomaniac murderhobos, no?
@armelior4610 11 ай бұрын
The point is in RPG you CAN be that or, say, a paladin. In most action games you can ONLY be a murderhobo - emphasis on murder in general :D
@LilacMonarch 11 ай бұрын
@@armelior4610 there's always plenty of murdering, the only question is what moral reason or lack thereof is the purpose of the murdering, and who/what you're murdering
@dmdjt 11 ай бұрын
Dwarf fortress' adventure mode captures the analog role playing feeling the best in my mind. It's a world created in parts by the player and the player can jump in to this world to experience playing a role in it. What is it like, to be a character in this world? It's an experience, that turns into a story instead of a story, that is experienced.
@AlbinoAxolotl1993 5 ай бұрын
Kruggsmash does the LPs of DF justice.
@brentchance1589 11 ай бұрын
I had identified years ago that RPG (Role-Playing Game) is a misnomer. But I couldn't quite dial in on what they ought to be called. I think Adam has done a great job of identifying the core of these games: Character Progression. So if we wanted a more accurate name, CPG (Character Progression Game) would be much more fitting.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
The core elements of an RPG are: -strategic turn-based combat based on statistics and rolls -character progression -an individual or party focus I didn't watch the whole video, but the reason they're called RPGs is because they use a combat system reminiscent of pen & paper roleplaying games.
@paulodelima5705 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536It does not need to be based on rolls or the presence of a combat system for a table top RPG.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@paulodelima5705 That's true. It's really D&D, specifically, that inspired the genre.
@brentchance1589 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 The problem is RPG is used so broadly, only character progression is consistent across all usage of the term. That is the point this video came to and I agree with it. There are various games that labeled as RPGs that don't have turn-based combat. And individual or party focus applies to everything not considered a strategy/puzzle game.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@brentchance1589 That is true, and it creates the issue that people inexplicably think that mass effect and pokemon red are the same genre, while mass effect and call of duty are different genres (even though pretty much all shooters have some form of progression now -- guess they've all changed genres and are now RPGs?). Of course, other games where you also progress, like dating sims, don't get called RPGs, because most people can't meaningfully define RPG due to it's constant misuse. It's irksome how it, alone, has become such a vague and abstract genre where everyone gives a different definition of what it means.
@PyrenZero 11 ай бұрын
"The main appeal is character - making you care about these little guys on your screen" said to a backdrop of a scene from Xenoblade 3 that literally gave me chills seeing on my screen again - point illustrated perfectly.
@mathewhosier9739 11 ай бұрын
Nah, for me the main appeal as RPGs as a whole was always progression, things like leveling, equipment/loot and skill and ability attainment typically through skill trees, the appeal of RPGs has always been about building either a character or a party of characters either through a class system or a customizable classless system by picking attributes, equipment/loot, and skills/abilities, story is great but what makes an RPG a RPG is progression
@keungwan5901 5 ай бұрын
I went for the story and the world.
@mikek6298 11 ай бұрын
Adam discovers the sandbox v railroad and rules heavy vs rules light discussions of TTRPGs
@human-animalchimeraprohibi2143 16 күн бұрын
Don't forget the narrative rpg vs combat rpg discussions in those spaces as well.
@SpecShadow 11 ай бұрын
And not forgetting Ultima Underworld - which inspired Carmack to create his own engine(s) and FROM Soft to create King's Field and much later - Souls saga. Ultima itself was legendary RPG saga that sadly become forgotten. At least Sven from Larian is taking some inspiration from Ultima 7 Black Gate....
@keungwan5901 5 ай бұрын
I remember Ultima Underworld, and it was in the clips at 11:37 It was made by Looking Glass Tech, genius programmers way ahead of their time. It had objects with real physics, you could throw bottles in an arc.
@VPaukr 11 ай бұрын
This is one of the best videos what i have ever seen on the platform. This research, this constructive info about the games. Brings tears to my eye…
@ismetcancelik5052 11 ай бұрын
before watching, yeah i was suprised when i first learned what rpg stands for. All that time i had played games, i did not think what i was doing was roleplaying.
@ryugaminesatomi9683 11 ай бұрын
It depends on the players. Most people play it like a videogame but others decide to play as a character and they try to make decisions based on the personality of the character. For example is not the same to play as a selfish rogue that distrusts people than as a monk that treats everyone with compassion and his objective is to make a better world. But let's be honest most people just play the game and do not roleplay or just roleplay as themselves in the fantasy world and take the decisions they would take if they were there.
@rompevuevitos222 11 ай бұрын
Thing is, most RPGs are not built for that, not even the most popular TTRPG is. There's a point where you're better off just making up a story and writing it down. Even Rimworld is better at the RP aspect than most RPGs out there. Hell, i've seen better and more consistent RP in SS13/14 than in any other RPG
@Shad0wNova 11 ай бұрын
True, also, love the TWEWY pfp.
@Coffeepanda294 11 ай бұрын
I'm not even sure if it's true most people don't roleplay. At least I don't imagine they do, I haven't seen statistics on that.
@kallmannkallmann 11 ай бұрын
@@rompevuevitos222 aint rimworld an RPG tho? no idea what SS stands for if it aint some Hitler thing lol
@JohnDBlue 11 ай бұрын
I recently started playing Elex which is weird in that it's difficult to actually properly roleplay even though the game seemingly encourages that, because of it's pretty strict systems. As an example it is sorely lacking in basic NPC chat interactions helping with directions both literally and narratively, when it's obvious how much sense they would make. It's a bit sad, really - I can still enjoy the game for what it is but I can't help but think how even small improvements could have elevated it greatly
@futuza 11 ай бұрын
To me it's about being able to affect the story of a game with your choices and play out different roles or play styles. The key thing being giving players agency over character choices. Things like Dragon Age, or Mass Effect, or Fallout New Vegas do this really well. The other aspects of a game like character classes, levels, tactical strategy, combat, stat progression, unlocking abilities, etc. can help support this idea of giving the player choices and play styles, but are completely separate concepts. These are different from giving the player the ability to make choices and have it effect the outcomes. Regardless, the "RPG" label at this point has become a meaningless buzzword so we need new terminology to differentiate what we're talking about when we describe a game. Perhaps a better term to describe what I'm talking about is "choose your own adventure" or "branching story choice game". I usually like a mix of multiple genres though, so it makes the matter all the more confusing, because I really like skill based combat systems. Also giving a variety of tactical choices and skill trees to provide replayablitity with different combat styles is nice. But I wouldn't say those extra things make them an RPG, those are different game genre, that help improve what I think of as a "choose your adventure RPG".
@Neoyoshi-FFXIV 11 ай бұрын
The bird facts in this video are high level, i'm a fan already.
@Cman04092 11 ай бұрын
Yo! Good work on shouting out the trails series by Nihon Falcom! It isnt just my favorite JRPG, or even RPG in general, but my favorite game series in general. It's a very under appreciated series, so i love seeing it get some love!
@shytendeakatamanoir9740 11 ай бұрын
It's a big investment, but it can be very rewarding (and frustrating at times. Cf the Curse). Very few games have made things like walking around and talking to NPCs so rewarding, however (Sky 1 is mostly that, and it absolutely hooked me).
@Doppelgamer211 11 ай бұрын
You'd think after 10 games, I'd get sick of them. But no, I'm playing Reverie and still having a blast!
@Nachy 11 ай бұрын
I really want to get into the series but it really does look daunting, considering they're long games with more than a handful of entries. At a glance the whole long term worldbuilding, reoccurring characters and each game being connected to each other really appeals to me. What would you or any other fans would say are the other main appeals of the series?
@Doppelgamer211 11 ай бұрын
@Nachy This is just my opinion, but the orbment system, especially in the crossbell games, is just a better implementation of FF7's Materia system in terms of building out your characters.
@shytendeakatamanoir9740 11 ай бұрын
@@Nachy Outside of the obvious appeal (the gale really rewards looking around everywhere and backtracking), it also has a really solid battle system that for lots of cool strategies. They are enormous time sinks, especially if you want to get as much as possible in a single playthrough. I find talking with the NPCs extremely rewarding since they're mostly all named individuals with their own (basic) personalities, but it easily doubles the playtime.
@Silent002 11 ай бұрын
+1 on the shoutout to Moon Channel, they have some great videos that really tie in with this one.
@theprofessionalfence-sitter 11 ай бұрын
Honestly, I think we should just use a different term for those stat-grinding games. They feel different enough from the more character customisation/choice focussed games to warrant being considered a different genre.
@leadpaintchips9461 11 ай бұрын
Honestly the whole point of Role Playing Games were to allow the player to play a role, and back when we were starting to explore this whole game concept in the 80's, we (as in game developers for both tabletop and computer games) just didn't have the experience or the hardware to do much with it. Numbers stood in for relative levels of attributes, dice rolls or random number generators stood in for the inherent chaos of reality, and there was a _lot_ of filling in the blanks that we were doing with our imaginations. We have enough computing power in our consoles or PCs to not just assign an agility to a player, we can actually give a player a boost to their inputs to adjust the difference between the player and the character. We can better hide the randomness behind movement and our AI instead of having a number meet a threshold to hit or miss. We don't _need_ to do all the number crunching or turn based abstractions to represent these things. That's not to say that these number crunching games can't be Role Playing Games, that we do/don't need intensely deep choice in play paths, we don't need extensive character customization that may or may not have bearing on the rest of the game, or that they _have_ to have these things to be RPGs. I'll stand by my belief that the best modern role playing game that I've played is Doom 2016, because it allowed the player to perfectly Play the Role of Doomguy. No branching paths, no deep character customizations, but a finely crafted game that allowed me to Play a Role better then the Divinity games, the Pathfinder games, or any of the other RPGs out there. That being said, I love my turn based games (I'm sad that the franchises that are known for them are going to action). I love my number crunching stats flowing into various actions and abilities that have an effect on the universe in the game. I love my meaningful choices that have consequences throughout my playtime. I love spending nearly an hour building a character in character creation. But we don't _need_ these things to play a role in a Role Playing Game.
@thiagocgarcia12 11 ай бұрын
@@leadpaintchips9461 im really interested in what you said. I also love doom 2016 and rpgs in general but never really thought about the genre like that. But if rpgs were born by uniting rolepaying whith strategic combat etc shouldnt the best rpg be judged by how it units these elements? What you think? And also im curious about your work and whats your favorite "not modern" rpg.
@SimuLord 11 ай бұрын
I think Zero Punctuation calling them "ghost train rides" fits as well as any, because you're not so much playing a role in the classic sense as being shunted along an on-rails story where you're moving the protagonist along less as a character and more as a passive participant.
@PainterVierax 11 ай бұрын
@@diydylana3151 not true. Sure TTRPGs mainly came from mechanics-driven wargames but on the other hand live-action RPGs came from century-old murder parties and historical reconstitution performances which emphase on acting and narration.
@PainterVierax 11 ай бұрын
@@diydylana3151 they were not all based on D&D, but on different early TTRPGs, sometimes influenced by the same roots as live-action and not always as mechanics-driven. Adam himself said in the video that the first D&D edition was a mix of both world. In practice though, most GMs reward roleplay, not grinding/optimization and TT roleplayers generally don't appreciate hack n' slash scenarios after the few discovery sessions. The nature of programming and the computing limitations didn't allow the depth of improvisation provided by TTRPGs, that's the practical reason CRPGs started with combat-oriented scenarios like dungeon crawlers. When PCs became quite powerful and storage became quite large, some perpetuated that lineage were others took the opportunity to include the missing roleplay part.
@rhael42 11 ай бұрын
Oh hell yeah, nice to see Moony getting a shoutout. Seriously, the "why we kill gods in jrpgs" is a masterpiece.
@KodakYarr 11 ай бұрын
To me "RPG game" always meant "character building adventure game".
@ButWhyMe... 11 ай бұрын
That's probably the most accurate definition of rpg games I have ever heard!
@Jonassvensson-uv9zd 11 ай бұрын
So the R in RPG has nothing to do with it?
@GG-bw5qd 11 ай бұрын
@@Jonassvensson-uv9zd Well if you want to get really pedantic about it, you are playing a role in literally every game. Even genres like RTS have you playing the role of a commander. Of course that's not what anyone means when they say RPG.
@Jonassvensson-uv9zd 11 ай бұрын
@@GG-bw5qd Exactly, so what does the R really mean? Some time ago I played paper RPGs which was less rules driven than D&D. I actually think D&D is a bad example in the video because how combat and rules focused it is. The point was having the freedom of building a character with a background and personality of your choice, and then acting with it.
@futuza 11 ай бұрын
To me it's about being able to affect the story of a game with your choices and play out different roles or play styles. The key thing being giving players agency over character choices. Things like Dragon Age, or Mass Effect, or Fallout New Vegas do this really well. The other aspects of a game like character classes, levels, tactical strategy, combat, stat progression, unlocking abilities, etc. can help support this idea of giving the player choices and play styles, but are completely separate concepts. These are different from giving the player the ability to make choices and have it effect the outcomes. Regardless, the "RPG" label at this point has become a meaningless buzzword so we need new terminology to differentiate what we're talking about when we describe a game. Perhaps a better term to describe what I'm talking about is "choose your own adventure" or "branching story choice game".
@doopness785 11 ай бұрын
As a kid an RPG is any game with you get experience points. As an adult I think I was pretty close.
@clown_in_a_suit3533 11 ай бұрын
Tha fact that you list every single game shown in your video, is why you are one of my favourite channels
@KageRyuu6 11 ай бұрын
Role Playing vs Roleplaying, ie Specialization vs Acting, or Mechanics vs Story.
@kid14346 11 ай бұрын
I feel it is important to point out that D&D wasn't just Chainmail. They just used chainmail to resolve combat. They also we stealing ideas from other sources to resolve the different pillars of gameplay. This proves that the tradition of just taking stuff from other sources has been with the hobby since the beginning and DMs/GMs should never feel bad for going, "Wow I like this and want to put it in my game!"
@JoeMomma-zv4jv 11 ай бұрын
Early on halflings were called hobbits too, until the Tolkein estate found out and made them change the name.
@Lightning_Lance 11 ай бұрын
Holy moly dude. You put so much effort into the background entertainment of the video, it's kind of incredible.
@DrevanTheHuman 11 ай бұрын
Every time I saw footage from Xenoblade 3 in the background, especially when "CHARACTER" was shown in bold text, I smiled a little bit.
@kearseymorton2078 11 ай бұрын
"Role Playing Game" made total sense when it was pen and paper, on the tabletop, with friends and a GM. You were actively role playing then, you had no choice. But with the transition to videogames RPG, a lot of the role playing stuff was lost (except when early MMORPGs forced you to group to achieve anything). Now the role playing piece is making a huge comeback with games like Baldur's Gate 3, because of the advances in technology and the amazing expertise of some teams of developers.
@alyasVictorio 9 ай бұрын
Yeah! Baldur's Gate 3 dethroned all so-called RPG in the peak of RPG mountain, leaving them in iceberg
@sanjaychhetri5399 9 ай бұрын
@@alyasVictorio Can you please tell me how did Baldur gate 3 dethrone all those so-called RPGs ?
@alyasVictorio 9 ай бұрын
@@sanjaychhetri5399 Most role-playing games (rpg) didn't properly apply the actual term of "role-playing" because it's too linear no matter how different your choice is (I mean these choices are suppose to took to different scenarios/routes like both Mass Effect and Baldur's Gate 3 had)
@keungwan5901 5 ай бұрын
Even in TTRPGs, I wonder if you are playing a Role, when you are just playing yourself, with your own intelligence, morals and probably goals
@alchemical29 11 ай бұрын
I think you hit the nail on the head as to why I love RPGs so much, and I never even realized it until now. I've played all kinds, from Disco Elysium to Fallout 76, and I love them all because of the ability to create a fully customized character that interacts with the world in a unique way. Also, as an avid D&D player, its cool to see that every RPG game on the market can trace their roots back to it in some form or another. Excellent video.
@colinmunro3158 11 ай бұрын
Moon Channel is the first channel you've plugged in your after the video segment that I was already aware of. In fact I've been subscribed to Moon Channel for a few months now, and I agree that his video on why one so often slays god in jRPGs is a must watch.
@lazj9948 11 ай бұрын
Damn, the twist about the finches at the end caught me off guard hahaha amazing video!
@christopherdyson1158 11 ай бұрын
Havent watched yet, just putting my own attempt to define it before watching. There was an extra credits video I liked a long time ago that described JRPGs and WRPGs which is where I get most/all of my definition from. RPGs are games that focus on telling a story and/or exploring a setting, and has this as a core aspect of the game. In this, WRPGs focus on self expression. By allowing the player choices to express the character as they like. Which often results in more focus on the setting than story to allow room for the main character to fulfill whatever role the player chooses without impacting the story. While JRPGs often have fixed characters, which allows for a deeper focus on the story. Where the player is observing a story rather than creating one. In JRPGs you are the character In WRPGs the character is you
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
All the games that were called RPGs when the genre came into existence had no more focus on storytelling than any other game of the time. I can't believe this concept is still circulating just due to the name.
@bikzimusmaximus5250 11 ай бұрын
I think after 23 years or so of playing Tabletop RPGs, the closest you can get to that experience is Immersive sims and so they should be the genre we actually call roleplaying games. But uh... I love all the RPG genres so I don't really mind.
@LiraeNoir 11 ай бұрын
Interesting take. I would strongly disagree personally, immersive sim are extremely focused and limited. In Dishonored you can't just stop a current mission to have a beer at a pub, talk to people, maybe listen to some rumors. You're very much on rails. Now, those are rugby shaped rails where you can take a lot of small detours that join back at the same point. But it's very focused, very linear. Personally (also after decades of tabletop rpg) I would say I get more of a rpg vibe and experience from Crusader Kings 3 for a example without a rpg label, with the characters feeding off gameplay ruleset and the gameplay feeding back off character in a virtuous loop, openness, deep player agency, and world reactivity.
@bikzimusmaximus5250 11 ай бұрын
@@LiraeNoir In my experience, if you're in a mission in a tabletop RPG, you are generally going to get weird looks if you decide to stop the mission and go have a beer at a pub. Like to a point where someone might say something. I would agree with you on the crusader kings, but I think it's more like a tabletop roleplaying game than many other games for the same reasons that immersive sims are.
@Duiker36 11 ай бұрын
Text MUDs are also a good place, since the text interface removes a lot of the built-in assumptions that graphics necessarily create and returns you to a state similar to how a tabletop player narrates description and action. Indeed, one of the ways I've actually played tabletop RPGs with friends across the world is by logging into a personal MUD server and just emoting actions together there. Whisper OOC stuff and say dialogue out loud.
@Arakus99 11 ай бұрын
@@LiraeNoir Out of curiosity, have you played (or heard of) Shadows of Doubt? It's an open world imsim that seems to be much more freeform than traditional imsims are. (I also think Streets of Rouge 2 (not to be confused with Streets of Rage) might be of interest)
@nifftbatuff676 11 ай бұрын
Completely agree.
@wchorski 10 ай бұрын
thank you for crediting the music tracks in the video
@Ryxbar 11 ай бұрын
I fully support longer video essays from you, my dude, this was great.
@Coffeepanda294 11 ай бұрын
I felt so much joy when I discovered Life is Strange (and later Night in the Woods, Edith Finch, Embracelet, Norco, and Disco Elysium) --RPGs that were actually about story and roleplaying, not combat and grinding XP. Don't get me wrong, the former can be fun and there are great RPGs with great stories out there (cough, FFVII, cough), but it's ironic how we've come to associate RPGs with combat, while many of the games actually built around story and role-playing, like Life is Strange... don't even get called RPGs.
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
Yeah it's a real shame that a certain subsection of what the RPG represents has kind of pushed out other, equally good, games. That's a large part of what inspired me to make this video!
@PlatinumAltaria 11 ай бұрын
I would say Life is Strange and Night in the Woods are adventure games, which is a different but equally ancient genre.
@DaxterL 11 ай бұрын
@@ArchitectofGames doesn't help that the abbreviation RPG doesn't say that much. A role to play can be in combat or in a story or both.
@schwarzertee7586 11 ай бұрын
not really. RPG's are still about role playing. What the "general public" thinks does not concern me, as most idiots are part of that group. Any CRPG (classical role playing game) is about playing a role. Be it pillars of eternity, divinity, baldurs gate... Then there are JRPGs (Japan RPG) which are a problem in my eyes but as long as weebs like em... well what are you going to do than grinding xp to just progress? Boring genre to me, but to each their own. Then there are ARPGs (Action RPG) they are Diablo and it's many clones and Path of Exile. They typically focus less on role playing and more on character building and item grinding. But they stem from what used to emulate DnD, a typical dungeon crawler RPG. Then there are RPGs like Skyrim, Witcher etc... in which again, you are playing a role. And is there fighting? Yes there is. But thats not a bad thing. Every story has coinflict and violence is a great way to portrait conflict and stakes in a story. Also it is fun, engaging and great to look at. What you are talking about are more like interactive movies. The story is (more or less) set in stone and you just tagg along from cutscene to cutscene solving meaningless riddles and puzzles to get to the enxt story bead. Which is fine, some are really great. But they are not any more role playing games than any other role playing genre.
@ureyesrbleeding1 11 ай бұрын
Life is strange 🤮 night in the woods 🤮
@hmm2206 11 ай бұрын
Not that your other videos are bad. On the contrary, they're all great. But I think this is your best video so far. Really nice study of the origins of RPG's, in a really interesting presentation. Congrats
@SigfriedTrent 10 ай бұрын
I've pondered this question myself many times. I think you have hit upon the heart of it nicely, better than I've managed. Well done!
@Goldy01 11 ай бұрын
I love the funny little notes you have for some of the text on screen like "Octopath Traveler - winner of the world's most boring logo award" hahahah :D great stuff!
@Doshirrosden 11 ай бұрын
I’ve been developing a similar thesis for a few years now but I was always worried I might be barking up the wrong tree or that people might think I was crazy, so it’s always nice to see someone else having similar thoughts about these things.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
What criteria have you come up for a game to constitute an RPG? :)
@r3v3rbs0ul 11 ай бұрын
Even if you barked up the wrong tree, you'd be learning something and creating something. There is value in that. Don't let yourself make up excuses for why you shouldn't do something you're interested and passionate about.
@Doshirrosden 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 Honestly, that’s still a hard question to answer. I think it has less to do with the mechanics or overall design philosophy and more to do with the core experience a developer is trying to instill in the player, and that’s going to differ from person to person. At the end of the day, what I consider an RPG is mostly going to come down to which games give me similar feelings to other games I’ve played that were designated RPGs. Genre classifications are most useful as marketing terms anyway. A developer isn’t usually thinking “if I want to make an RPG, it has to have these elements.” They usually have a particular story they want to tell or experience they want to create, and they use the mechanics that best embody that experience. It’s the community that usually decides what terminology to use to refer to a game after it’s released.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@Doshirrosden I have to respectfully disagree, I think people make it more abstract and interpretational than it is. Everyone understands which elements make a fighting game, or a shooter, or a platformer, or a racing game, or a puzzle game, and I don't think RPGs are any exception. The criteria that I've found fits real RPGs the best are: -strategic turn-based combat based on statistics and rolls rather than twitch skills -ongoing character progression -an individual or party focus That's the thing though, fighting in a fighting game, shooting in a shooting game, racing in a racing game, running and jumping in a platformer really is the experience you're going to have in those games. Any game that has a narrative focus over and above that is simply using the medium of that genre of game to also tell a story. Something that only tells a story, namely a visual novel, really doesn't qualify as a game at all, if it has no gaming element over and above choose your own adventure style decision making. RPGs may have a story as well, and it's a great medium to tell stories, but really you're going to spend most of your time engaged in RPG combat, leveling up and getting new equipment, in between story segments.
@Doshirrosden 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 I don’t disagree with your definition, but I think it applies to a specific kind of RPG. Those other genres have subgenres because a Doom fan isn’t necessarily going to be a Call of Duty fan, and a Mario Kart fan isn’t necessarily going to be a Forza fan. In the same way that different D&D groups have different house rules or creative priorities, different designers have tried to make games that capture what appealed to them about RPGs while putting their own spin on things.
@_JPkun 11 ай бұрын
The final twist with the birds at the ending was genius! Great video.
@nicksamek12 11 ай бұрын
One of your best videos, and I've been a long time fan. Thank you for making it.
@snowfloofcathug 11 ай бұрын
“It’s a game where you roleplay” ahh yes, The Sims, the best RPG If only it were so simple. Love how you picked it apart! As someone else pointed out about disparate and distinct systems it’s such a diverse umbrella term between progression (levelling up), influence on story (being given choices), *lack of influence on a story* (embodying a role given to you), specific type of combat. And things can be disqualified as an RPG for reasons beyond that such as its setting. It’s a mess
@egoalter1276 7 ай бұрын
Sims is indeed an RPG. So is project Zomboid, or maybe even minecraft. And yes, final fantasy is indeed not an rpg.
@lobsterboy2020 11 ай бұрын
You've taken on a pretty complicated topic here and I'm not sure you've ABSOLUTELY nailed it here. But bloody hell, you've done a better job than I could ever manage
@bm1747 2 ай бұрын
Darwin didn't do the research on the Galapagos Finches, that guy just named his book after Darwin. Darwin barely mentions them in his own book, but he focuses more on turtles, armadillos, and other birds.
@eonwe5885 5 ай бұрын
This was very good with considerable philosophical sophistication, I particularly enjoyed the reflection on names at the end: I hadn't previously known that they weren't finches!
@SidheKnight 11 ай бұрын
Seeing Suzerain being acknowledged in this video made my day :)
@aturchomicz821 11 ай бұрын
Victoria 3 but more sad: The Game
@moon-channel 11 ай бұрын
Hi Adam! I've loved your channel for years now, and am humbled by your kind words. By some incredible coincidence, I have a video releasing this weekend on the topic of MMORPGs that also features a "weird little model." The video's going through final pass editing, but I might have to go back now and add a paragraph about the evolution of Galapagos finches if for no other reason than to add a nickel to @2010AZ's hypothetical collection. I have a lot of respect and admiration for your work, and I adore the video. Thank you again, for the shout-out!
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
The pleasure is all mine, you do great work - and good luck with the vid!
@RosszCsillag 11 ай бұрын
Oh man that finch analogy at the beginning is so spot on
@jingthethief 4 ай бұрын
thank you for the list of games in the description. extremely cool of you. im gonna add them to my library.
@kid14346 11 ай бұрын
The end about how the name Finch wasn't actually accurate reminds me of how Crabs are often not event related to True Crabs... they are typically things like Lobsters, Shrimp, or other crustaceans who evolved a similar shape to crabs.
@fastfiddler1625 11 ай бұрын
I asked my parents to explain to me what roleplaying means, and I wish I could unhear the answer.
@cdteddey 11 ай бұрын
Very well done! Good job. Thanks for your hard work!
@dh8203 11 ай бұрын
Time to go back to D&D 2nd Edition! The last time a D&D release wasn't pretty broadly hated because most people couldn't pass the math test required to get started, and the people who could loved it.
@MemphiStig 11 ай бұрын
One of my fave jrpg's is Tales of Symphonia, and one of the reasons has to be how it handles characters and their development. It's got a great overall story, and it weaves in all the stories of the individual characters beautifully. Not to mention it's got a lot of really solid mechanics, and a ton of mini-games and optional content. And the soundtrack is incredible. But none of that would work without the characters. That's an rpg to me.
@keungwan5901 5 ай бұрын
A bit too old for my current taste. I like blasting things with Shion's Full Beam shot in Tales of Arise
@bytezero3818 11 ай бұрын
Of course RPGs arent about Roleplaying. It's in the name. They are Rocket Propelled Grenades, i don't think we have to argue about that definition.
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
Of course! How could I have been so blind!?
@StuffandThings_ 11 ай бұрын
@@ArchitectofGames That would probably be due to the flashbang...
@kanalkucker14 11 ай бұрын
@@StuffandThings_😂😂
@kearseymorton2078 11 ай бұрын
I always feel a bit smarter after watching your videos, thank you so much, that is not a usual feeling after watching most youtube content
@Flamewolf14 10 ай бұрын
Great video the galopigoes fish parts worked really well to form a narrative through line and a non game example of the argument you made about rpgs very well done
@ex0stasis72 11 ай бұрын
15:46 What I love about Baldur's Gate 3 is that it seems to be a "narrative RPG" WITH full voice acting AND combat. They didn't skimp on anything!
@Nuka13 11 ай бұрын
Pillars of eternity and Divinity have real similar mechanics but diffent vibes if you're looking for more in that area of rpg.
@1InVader1 11 ай бұрын
@@Nuka13 Forget PIllars, try Pathfinder Kingmaker instead, much better.
@alsaiduq4363 11 ай бұрын
Full voice acting* The MC is a silent protagonist or rather voiceless.
@alsaiduq4363 11 ай бұрын
@@1InVader1wrath of the rigtheous too
@Kokorocodon 11 ай бұрын
Its a deliberate choice. Some gamers dont enjoy their own character having a voice since it's not their own.
@pmnt_ 11 ай бұрын
You somehow convinced me that modern Final Fantasy games didn't break a tradition, but envolved naturally to what they are now.
@shytendeakatamanoir9740 11 ай бұрын
I've seen an interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi a while ago (though I can't find it again, so take this with a grain of salt) where he said that Final Fantasy is the blue (dialogue) boxes. Granted, I haven't seen a lot of blue in a while, but that may still stands
@pmnt_ 11 ай бұрын
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 thats... a very interesting way to say "story-driven". even if it turned out to be an urban legend, i want it to be true.
@vilarzky.m.6907 11 ай бұрын
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740Isn't it just joke
@Avendesora 11 ай бұрын
@@vilarzky.m.6907Not really. It's saying the story makes it final fantasy, not the mechanics.
@freelancerthe2561 11 ай бұрын
@@Avendesora JRPG check list - Destined Protagonist - Antagonistic embodiment of individualism - A kingdom representing unchecked industrialization - Some ancient power, usually an allegory for nature - A young woman with a link to that power - At some point the heroes need to kill God
@arislanbekkosnazarov9644 11 ай бұрын
RPG is just friends we made along the way, like for real
@lu6754 11 ай бұрын
This was a really great one!!
@Tohlemiach 11 ай бұрын
Super interesting deep dive. I've recently been defining RPGs as games that have numerical representations of most of their internal systems since it seems like people tend to call something with numbers on screen "RPGish" nowadays. My theory is that, because DnD was an attempt to gameify complex and lifelike interactions, it needed to be able to represent lots of real life things with tangible tools that could easily affect each other, and the perfect way to do that is by representing things with numbers. It made it a perfect fit for computers because all the computer would be doing is the busywork of calculating everything (ignoring the problem of a computer lacking the creative writing ability of a human DM). I think people became attached to the significance of the numbers, however, so computerized iterations of the RPG continue to represent background processes with numerical values even though that was no longer needed. A computer can represent background numerical calculations as pixels happening on screen, so what is the point of putting up a number next to your axe slicing through a goblin's neck? Isn't it clear what's happening? Yes, and it doesn't matter because that's not the point. I think it's something of a simulacrum effect. People got attached to interacting with and thinking about the numbers because you needed the numbers in order to tangibly interact with an abstract system, but now in an era where the numbers are no longer needed because the computer is the one handling the busywork, people still want the numbers because of the unique feeling it gives us to see a direct numerical representation of our actions. Consider these two different examples: 1) You take several turns in Octopath Traveler 2 to buff up your spellcaster so that on his turn he can triple cast a hyper-powered spell that deals 99,999 damage three times in a row and one shots a boss who then disappears in a puff of smoke. 2) You execute an enemy in God of War and Kratos rips them in half and tosses the pieces of their corpse on the ground. The exact same thing is happening in both cases, which is that you are *demolishing* an enemy in a videogame, and both are viscerally satisfying, but for *completely* different reasons. God of War is satisfying because you are visually seeing a representation of extreme gore and violence that, if our world morally permitted the venting of ones' frustrations in such a way, would be VERY cathartic to perform. Octopath Traveler is satisfying because you made a complex web of compounding decisions that resulted in you being able to wield exponentially more power than the game seemed prepared for at the time. I genuinely believe that if God of War showed damage numbers, health numbers, healing numbers, critical hit numbers, enhanced damage numbers, colored elemental damage numbers, etc, it would be considered an RPG. It already has stats and numbers on its gear, but because in the midst of combat all those systems are *merely* visually represented with particle effects and not number pop ups, people don't consider it an RPG. Yet FFXVI is considered an RPG even though it's far more similar to God of War than it is to Octopath Traveler 2. I still think your definition is a good one, but I think there's something to mine as well. I think I'm more trying to identify *why* the profuse presence of on-screen numbers seems to produce such a specific effect in people and why people seems so eager to categorize games that do that into the "RPG" category, even though as you said, that word has a much more complex meaning.
@M4Dbrat 11 ай бұрын
There's plenty of people all over the Internet who, in fact, do not agree that FF16 is an RPG because it lacks party composition, status effects etc. It's reasonable to say that FF16 is being called an RPG because Final Fantasy is established as an RPG franchise and only a minority of people cares about arguing over stuff like this
@Tohlemiach 11 ай бұрын
@@M4Dbrat do you count yourself among them? The minority of people that care, that is?
@M4Dbrat 11 ай бұрын
@@Tohlemiach Well, I am in this comment section, so yeah, to a degree
@neglectfulsausage7689 11 ай бұрын
representing things with numbers is just taking real world interactions and putting them into a language format that is easily understood by children. Numbers are shorthand logical arguments. Math is logic. Math is argument. Math is comparison. Math is the study of change. Numbers arent gamifying. Thats like saying putting distances in the real world into numerical systems called meters is gamifying.
@Tohlemiach 11 ай бұрын
@@neglectfulsausage7689 Maybe you misread my post, because you're making the same exact point. To quote myself: "DnD was an attempt to gameify complex and lifelike interactions, it needed to be able to represent lots of real life things with tangible tools that could easily affect each other, and the perfect way to do that is by representing things with numbers." I never draw a direct parallel between numbers and gameifying. The thing that is doing the gameifying, grammatically speaking, is DnD. It is an attempt to turn a fantasy adventure into a playable experience, thus a "game." Games are defined by iterative interactions with a set of rules, and numbers are very tangible, as you pointed out, so numbers are great way to represent real things, and in order to play a game you need real things that you can put in relation to each other in order to create rules to play the game by, thus numbers were a good tool to achieve this. So no, it's not "like saying" that at all. Your example is completely wrong. Also, numbers aren't just for children. I have no clue why you made that comparison. They make things easier for *anyone* to grasp, not just children. It's why governments are always talking about GDP. Way easier to point to a bigger number than talk about the infinitely more nuanced question of "how is our nation doing?"
@op4000exe 11 ай бұрын
Most roleplaying games are in my honest opinion, better defined as Character Progression Games. Most MMORPG's fall into this category.
@ArchitectofGames 11 ай бұрын
Yep, that's basically it!
@op4000exe 11 ай бұрын
@@ArchitectofGames Yeah I've been arguing for that for years :p Glad to see I'm not the only one tired of the idea that wow is an "RPG" xD It is for a subset of players, but for the vast majority it's not.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
That's the thing, RPG is not the definition of the genre, it's just the name of it.
@op4000exe 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 It is, but if a name is not descriptive of what it is, then that name loses meaning. I don't think keeping to just accepting "RPG's" for what they currently are is a good idea, because some of those games truly are role-playing games. It'd be better to have names for the different subsets that actually reflect what they are.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@op4000exe Not true, it only loses meaning if people don't understand the genre it represents. Just look at the awkward mess of 'metroidvania', it doesn't matter that it's not called 'exploration platformers' as they should be; it only matters that people understand what gameplay elements the term represents. What an RPG represents from a gameplay perspective is this: -strategic combat based on statistics and roles rather than twitch skills -character progression -an individual or small party focus (not an army) The issue is many games that are not that are called RPGs because people don't know what the genre entails, mostly because games from other genres, like action-rpgs(action games by every definition with some added rpg elements, which everyone understands to mean statistics and progression, not having a narrative focus) get called RPGs, when they aren't. Furthermore, RPG is already an expansive genre with multiple subgenres (jrpg, wrpg, crpg, srpg, mmorpg, traditional roguelike), all of which don't belong to any other genre *except* RPG.
@RockingRavine 11 ай бұрын
The punchline about flinches was top notch, good one.
@WhooptyDoo 11 ай бұрын
20:55 I swear I literally heard in my head that metal clanging sound of the soldier walking on UFO floor
@jujuplayboy 11 ай бұрын
I have issues playing RPGs, I just stop playing those games before the end in 90% of cases (more than any other game genre). Yet, most of my favorite games are RPGs or have heavy RPG elements. So thank you for this video, I always knew something was off with the RPG label and now I understand what.
@rumpelstilzch3n 11 ай бұрын
"RPGS aren't actually about roleplaying!" ok. go on. "RPGS are actually about emphasis on character!" uh. you ok bro? "roleplaying" and "emphasis on character" are literally synonymous terms 😆 consider the points made about Destiny at 20:30 what is being described there is, in fact, completely in line with the term "roleplaying". you can call it "emphasis on character" if you want to sound pretentious, but why? egads...
@GordonGordon 11 ай бұрын
I laughed out loud about the cool youth pastor thing. 🤣 That being said, i think this is one of your stronger videos. Thanks for posting it, it was enlightening and a pleasure to watch.
@briancordry8165 11 ай бұрын
love your channel. such good videos every time. thank you :)
@linamishima 11 ай бұрын
Adam, whilst I love your conclusion & wrapup, I felt that the research and presentation thereof fell below your normal standard. I appreciate that this was especially hard in this video, as there was a huge amount of ground to cover and the video already hit almost half an hour length, so you do have my sympathies and understanding. Just some of my concerns are (it's late right now and I'm writing on my phone): 1. Whilst you did acknowledge chainmail's influence on D&D, ultimately you glossed over the true living history of the game and surrounding culture. Here on KZfaq, Matthew Coalville has some excellent videos exploring the dungeon crawler roots, and how these still strongly affect the game design to this day (and arguably cause many of the system's issues). 2. Citing diablo as influencing WoW is absolutely true, but completely glosses over the real history of the game design of MMOs, with WoW being very much a dikuMUD derivative. This would have been actually a really fascinating angle to look at, given how the split between dikuMUD and MUSHs ties into the dungeon crawler versus role playing angle that really lies at the heart of the topic you were discussing. For me personally I look to the works of raph koster around this, but many others have also looked at how this transition from MUDs to MMOs happened. And finally, 3. JRPG. I too keep reaching for this term, but honestly ever since Steph Sterling's video on the origin of the term, I try to avoid it and feel it's important to look critically at how we use this expression - especially since it came ultimately from racism. There's absolutely a distinct genre needing a name, but as you even point out, the character-led angle to them was never a 'japanese' thing. As I said, I thought your eventual conclusion was spot on and well summarised, and I absolutely appreciate how researching & writing these is an utter nightmare, so you have my sympathies & understanding :)
@TheTimeGnome 11 ай бұрын
I think what I find is that many games that used to be defined as action adventure games are now being called RPG's. Many old action adventure games used to also have RPG elements. Not sure when the change to them being considered RPG's happened.
@egoalter1276 7 ай бұрын
Am action adventure game is a game with a narrative focus, and an interaction layer that could be considered action. More modern examples would be The Last of Us, Uncharted, or God of War. What separates them from RPGs, is the lack of player choice, either in regards to story, or mechanical interaction. In contrast, three very similar games, that are RPGs would be Mass Effect, where no meaningful choice can be made regarding mechanical interaction, but the story is entirely decided by the player, Pillars of Eternity a game with a set storyline, but an absurdly constumizable breadth of mechanical interaction, and Dark Souls, a game.with a bit of both of the above. What defines an RPG is player control over the narrative and or method of mechanical interaction.
@zacharywong483 11 ай бұрын
Fantastic video, as always! Love your scripts!
@godofsquirrels494 11 ай бұрын
That first part had me worried that this was going to be a clone of womble's video on dayz. Glad it used the same analogy with a different lesson taken from it.
@wandereruk73 11 ай бұрын
Interesting video. Originally D&D wasn't about narrative or even playing a character in the acting out a character sense. Role simply meant fighter, wizard or thief, it was the "role" that was played in the game in the same way a soldier's role might be medic, sniper or grunt. Character, personality and narrative did come along later, but it wasn't the starting point. Its also worth remembering that tabletop RPGs (as opposed to video game RPGs) have evolved over the last fifty years and the variety of TTRPGs is even greater than that of video game RPGs. Modern RPGs don't just trace ancestry back through video games to D&D, they also trace back through newer TTRPGs, and back to D&D through them. To throw even more confusion in the works, TTRPGs have been influenced by, and descend from, video game RPGs for thirty years or more now. The family tree of any RPG, TT or VG, is deeply twisted and incestuous! So what is a roleplaying game? Well better minds than me have shown its impossible to define what a game is, what playing is is as hard to define and roles mean different things so I'm buggered if I know.
@LiraeNoir 11 ай бұрын
That's a common truism, but not exactly true. Because the golden rule of rpg, including D&D, was: once the rulebook moved from seller to GM's hand, it was now the GM's game. There were many, MANY tidbits of personality and narrative even before D&D was developed since Dave Arneson had some around his heavily modded Chainmail games. But, even if you disagree and think those testimonies are revisionist and D&D was solely about tactical roles, remember that a few years after D&D other rpg were published. And those absolutely have those elements, hell in some very early games like the 1978 Runequest, those are central to the game. And Runequest had no role, since it had no classes, no alignment, no levels.
@colbyboucher6391 11 ай бұрын
@@LiraeNoir AFAIK be more accurate to say that Arneson and the rest were _surprised_ to find people playing almost entirely for the sake of narrative and intentionally making "bad" decisions. It's just not how they envisioned the game they made, even if they knew people would play differently when they got their hands on it. So yeah, almost immediately RPGs were as much about improv storytelling as anything else, but it seems like that's primarily because of other people's contributions (RuneQuest being a great example. Not even just an early example, my favorite RPG by a longshot is Mythras.)
@talitanaka 11 ай бұрын
Reframing RPG as a genre to being character driven or character focused is a pretty good reframing, I shall be using that in the future as it is a great way to understand what a game's focus should be. I thought of the Sims immediately when you started mentioning that and I'm glad you did not miss that beat either - it only makes sense! Playing doll is very RPG indeed (and it'll piss of the grognards who deserve it).
@sailorgoon501 4 ай бұрын
I came here to find help categorising my ever growing steam list. I leave even more confused and hopeless than before.
@MetricZero 11 ай бұрын
Thank you for answering the question at the start of the video about what the common ancestor was.
@timhaldane7588 11 ай бұрын
19:56 This is a sadly common misconception. As a DM who has run editions 3.0 - 5th, the longest being 4th, I can assure you that 4E embraces roleplaying every bit as much as its predecessors and successor. The primary differences come down to 1. significantly more standardized and symmetrical class design, 2. explicit, rather than implicit, class and monster roles, 3. significantly more emphasis on tactical movement and positioning in combat, 4. skill challenges, which provided structure and explicit win conditions to high stakes non-combat encounters (instead of the "argue with the DM about how many times you should be able to roll until you win or they tell you that you fail" chaos inadvertently pushed by previous editions). 4th Edition was significantly more tactical in its combat than 3rd, 3.5, or 5th, but this absolutely did NOT come at the expense of narrative freedom. Anyone who says otherwise is speaking from a place of ignorance.
@LimeyLassen 11 ай бұрын
I think it's more like, making the combat explicitly operate like a video game made it difficult for the players to use their abilities in creative ways. In classic D&D a player could just say their intention, like "I'm gonna try to hobble the ogre by cutting its tendons" and the DM may allow it and ask for a skill check. But in 4E you've gotta spec into that ability and it has an effective range, damage score, cooldown, etc. So like, it feels like cheating to try to do it anyway if you didn't buy the skilll.
@Phirestar 11 ай бұрын
My personal interpretation of RPGs has been: “a game in which the focal point of the experience is on the development of the character(s) through the actions and choices of the player”. Put more simply, an RPG is a game where you are who you decide to be. Obviously, some games that have been traditionally viewed as RPGs may not necessarily fall under this classification of the genre. But that’s how I’ve come to view it, at least; that’s the common element that I’ve seen in all the games I’ve played that I considered to be RPGs.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
The originals like Ultima, Wizardry, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest all would not qualify, though, and many many non-RPGs DO meet that criteria -- it doesn't really inform the player what kind of gameplay to expect from such a game, unlike fighting game, first person shooter, platformer, racer, puzzle game, etc.
@Hanoua2 11 ай бұрын
to me an RPG should have a big focus on immersive storytelling and stats progression. if you only have stats progression and loot but no story, your not an RPG
@MMurine 11 ай бұрын
@@shionkreth7536 That's probably because gameplay isn't immanent in the identity of RPGs as a genre. Also, while I can't definitively speak for the others, Final Fantasy easily fits OP's definition.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@MMurine That definition is so loose, though, almost any game could, depending on how you interpret it. Why do you think gameplay isn't relevant to defining the RPG genre, when it's the cornerstone of every other genre? You fight in fighting games, you shoot in shooters, you race in racing games, you solve puzzles in puzzle games, you run and jump in platformers... Seriously, what gameplay to expect from a game is what a video game genres describes.
@shionkreth7536 11 ай бұрын
@@Hanoua2 What would games like Dragon Quest, Wizardry and Pokemon be, though? They don't belong to any other genre but RPG, and actually pioneered the RPG genre before video games had any narrative focus.
@JRTIntervencion 11 ай бұрын
Oh hey, nice to see Moon showcased here! That "Why all JRPG kill God" video was absolutely amazing, can't recommend it enough.
@egoalter1276 7 ай бұрын
What most people dont realize, is that CRPGs are older then the modern conception of TTRPGs. Oubliette came out in 1977. It predates ADND, and any notion of rpg being anything beyond a multiplayer cooperative wargame. And compuiter RPGs up until the latter half of the 90s followed entirely in that mold. Hack, and Moria, and Wizardry and Ultima, all of these focused exclusively on combat. The first time I know of, of someone attempting to tell a story with a role playing game is Starflight, and oddly enough, the Battletech tie-in game, Crescent Hawk's Inception.
@astripedgoon6579 11 ай бұрын
I always interpreted rpg as the role each of your characters play in battle/gameplay. like defender, healer, dps, etc. and for games like bloodborne the way you battle changes greatly on your build.
@ilavain 11 ай бұрын
I love you for being respectful about the history of japanese rpgs and how their identity is just as RPG as anything else.
@vdub6343 11 ай бұрын
Is this something particularly noteworthy? Do people frequently bash jrpgs for not being “real” rpgs or something? I don’t pay attention to most internet discourse.
@leithaziz2716 11 ай бұрын
@@vdub6343 Japanese devs consider calling a japanese RPG a "JRPG" a slang. Yoshi-P talked about it during an interview.
@ilavain 11 ай бұрын
@@vdub6343 historically has been a real issue in gaming journalism but even recently the only way people would describe JRPGs is by calling them "anime" and "weird"
@jacobgoodrich6984 11 ай бұрын
jrpgs are not rpgs, not roleplaying occurs, no choices are made.
@ilavain 11 ай бұрын
@@jacobgoodrich6984 this is exactly why I was happy Adam mentioned them in his video
@nckv 11 ай бұрын
I think it's pretty ironic that DnD it's getting more video gaming as time goes on. The last virtual tabletop announcement is depressing, with people sitting together while each states into the shared simulation on their own screen
@CoffeePotato 11 ай бұрын
Holy crap Fell Seal actually got shown somewhere, you love to see it.
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