NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/games/17835

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From: [e-mail] (Nai Ying Kwok)
Subject: Re: What IS the best RPG available now?
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Stewart Mckinnon ([e-mail]) wrote:
: >Dungeom Master and Chaos Strikes Back are not real RPG's. They are for the
: >Amiga as you said. If I should sugest a RPG it would be Gurps.
: >Thomas Markuslund
: >---

: What? Of course they are! I played those games with my heart pounding, and my
: palms sweating. When monsters popped out of nowhere, I jumped out of my skin.
: Now, if *that's* not true RPG, I sure as hell don't know what is.

the thing is that they are not.  This kinda adventure ia basically just
what the Role-player would refer to as gross munchkinism.  Ie, total
hack and slash, and no roleplaying and character development etc etc.
In fact I wouldventure to say that I haven't seen a 1st person view
game on the Amiga or the IBM that has very much role-playing in it at
all.

Sure there are some elements of roleplaying in some dungeon games, but
to this day, interaction is mostly minimal.  The closest to a true RPG I
think in the genre of computer games is not D&D and it's dungeon clones,
but the Ultima games from Ultima 4 onwards.  Ultima I to III are
basically hack 'n slash too.

NY