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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Reorganisation plans for games grimoire
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:12:45 +0100

> I'm not entirely sure what the difference between your "adventure" and
> your "role-playing" sections would be. It would seem to me that rogue,
> crossfire, and the genre would fall under the "adventure" group.

And I could argue a lot more about certain stuff but since games are a bit
tricky to classify and
since roleplaying is ussualy much more different than adventure like games it
should be split...
though I don't know any gpled adventure games...

But the basic division betwen rpg and adventure should be:

in a rpg you play a single character and you "evolve" that character through
quests, riddle solving, hack&slash and such...

in an adventure your only goal is to complete the game with solving puzzles
and in 99% of the cases almost no fighting is done and you don't
"evolve" your character in any way...

imho that's as good a definition of a split as I can come up atm...

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