Prosper POLL: What type of fag are you?

[Prime Junta]

I'm a bit faggy about all of that, but story and systems über alles. If they're any good, I can live with weaknesses in any of the others; if either of these two is bad, I'm unlikely to like the game much.

(I was going to say "unless it's Planescape: Torment" but actually a big chunk of my fagginess for that game comes from my man-crush on MCA the way it turned the D&D systems inside out and upside down, and even though the result is fairly horrid from a systemsfag POV exploring those horrors was an adventure in its own right. Plus it has some wack systems of its own, like in the companion interactions for example.)

 

[Cynicus]

i'm a kingcomradefag but can't see the option.

Here it is.

 

[Jimmious]

Combat, System and Moment to moment for me. One of my favorite games of all time(if not the favorite) is Jagged Alliance 2 so I guess these fit.

 

[likaq]

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Add settingfag to the poll.

 

[Ismaul]

Basically, I do want a great story out of my RPGs but I think a game has to wield the particular advantages of its medium to achieve that. (And these are not NPCs waxing philosophical or infodumping all over me, for instance.)

For a storyfag you're pretty cool.

A storyfag that likes Bioware-style infodumps (or godforbid TES-style book dumps) is really a shit storyfag. That shit isn't even good in a book. It's the equivalent of a wall of text with no paragraphs. Really, that's more like fanfictionvomitfag.

Story doesn't have to be text. Like MCA says (fuck I'm going there), showing the story through the environment when appropriate is often much better than being told about it.

For ex, NPC saying "I believe in some shit God lalala." vs showing the NPC doing something in accordance to his beliefs.

 

[resilient sphere]

I really wanna pick puzzlefriend here - even if it's to the detriment of the setting and the sanity of a dungeon, sometimes I'm happiest pressing unmarked buttons or leaving crucial inventory items lying on pressure plates which may or may not be working against me. Is all that type of blob stuff tucked into exploration now? Guess I'm picking exploration, combat and system, then.

The moment-to-moment thing is a fad - all games require downtime.

 

[Ellef]

As long as the faggotry is done well, i'll be any kind of fag you want me to be.

 

[Trip]

Story doesn't have to be text. Like MCA says (fuck I'm going there), showing the story through the environment when appropriate is often much better than being told about it.

Conversely, text doesn't have to be a "Lemme tell you about X, Y and Z in order." Sometimes stuff could literally be scrawled on the wall and contribute well to "story". Or maybe a handful of apparently neutral physical descriptions echoing one another in an interesting way. Really, it's writing 201. Brains crave patterns, give them the inklings of one and they'll immediately come up with something pretty evocative (to them at least), even if you never meant/mentioned it. Smart writers nudge people into imagining stuff, they don't explain the joke after they've told it.

 

[Jools]

But, story+exploration fag, of course!

 

[A_Leftist_Pig?]

As long as the faggotry is done well, i'll be any kind of fag you want me to be.

It's a trap...

 

[kain30]

i´m a mix of explorationfag, storyfag and cncfag

 

[Trodat]

I can easily identify myself as an exploration fag. Morrowind, Gothic's, Risen 1 - I'd even say that Demon/Dark Souls are exploration fag games to a certain degree. I definitely don't like HUGE worlds with a nasty stench of copy-paste, like that kills it for me pretty much completely. I even liked Gothic 3 because I think that game works very well in the exploration fag department, which is a big thing for me.

 

[hivemind]

I'm a huge fucking faggot and want all of those things

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Other - atmosphere fag, I can forgive many flaws if the game tickles my imagination, see Another World for one of the best examples (the game evokes the feeling of being in an alien world amazingly well without any of the bells and whistles of modern blockbuster games).

 

[Metro]

Setting/atmosphere is more important than story, anyway. How good was Gothic 1/2's stories? Pretty terrible, actually. But the settings were great. Still you can't go full esoteric bullshit like Dark Souls.

 

[Avellion]

Now this is a difficult choice. I throughly enjoy all the first 6. Honestly, as long as the game excels in anything, I will probably enjoy it.

But if I had to associate myself with 3 it would be.

Combatfag: In most RPGs, combat is what you will be doing for most of the time.
Systemsfag: Good indepth systems will make roleplaying my character a lot more enjoyable. But this will also depend on quest design and scenario design.
Explorationfag: Not only do they encourage me to come back again and again, but also sate curiousity.

 

[Cthulhu_is_love]

What I'd vote for: Worlddesignfag.

This.

Also I don't mind bad combat and bad story. I am a explorationfag, and systemfag. Good CNC is like the cherry on the top but not necessary.
I also like cliches like amnesia and evil mages as antagonist.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

This poll is AIDS-infested.
Anyway, as Ismaul said, this poll lacks Setting-fag. For example, Morrowind hadn't got great dialogues, its story was good, I suppose, but not something extraordinary. So storyfaggotry-wise it wasn't great. But it had really interesting setting, in both visuals and design, and so playing in that world felt unique and somewhat special. It's not explorefaggotry either, 'cause Gothic series, for example, felt great if the player had explored the world, but the setting itself was meh, as was the story.

Oh well, voted Storyfag, C&C-fag, Explorationfag. Wanted to wote systemfag, as PoE showed me, that game with bad systems and decent writing still can be really unsatisfactory, but, well, exploration for me is more important.

 

[rohand]

inclinefag

 

[Scroo]

Combat, Exploration and System. What use does Story have when the game doesn't have TB-Combat and a ton of stats

 

[CryptRat]

I am a number-fag.

Combat , Systems , Exploration would also pick CnC if i could get 4 votes but no way its more important that first three.

Combat, Exploration and System. What use does Story have when the game doesn't have TB-Combat and a ton of stats

Same here. Weird world/dungeons, skill checks, TB-combats ; and it's much better when these 3 aspects mean many deaths and loading.

 

[granit]

What sort of idiot hooman typed this drivel and not including LARP? LARP IS SUPERIOR TO YOUR PATHETIC FORMS OF GAME PLAY.

 

[Leitz]

I'm new. What's CnC?

Edit: OK took me 8 minutes to find out. Now I gotta change my vote.

 

[Grape_You_In_the_Mouth]

F.ilm A.ctors G.uild fag

 

[cvv]

Thought of meself as a staunch storyfag but then I played Witcher 3.

The lesson is, the most ahsum, best written story evah can't ever be enough in a tru RPG.

(That said the systems of TW3 are not beyond saving, unlike the story of D:OS, soo yeah...)