Thirteener said:
You might want to prove otherwise.
Thirteener is a Fallout reference (note the power armor-clad avatar) and adapted from JFK's, "I am a Berliner" (or perhaps, "I am a doughnut"?) speech. Now:
You might want to switch to bottled water. Something makes me think you've had far too much mercury cocktail with a side of leaden paint chips. Yes, I see your avatar. We all can see your avatar.
Or maybe not.
I don't think the eloquently named "multiple viewpoint" claim is bullshit. Obviously I'm not the only person who thinks this as Llama God's pie analogy is essentially the same thing. How can you say that multiple viewpoint doesn't fit when you complain that a game like Dungeon Siege is called an RPG on the box.
Let me try a bit and bring myself to think down on your level.
Hey, look! I carved "RPG" into a dog turd.
/me throws the RPG at Thirteener.
Wow, playing RPGs surely is fun!
You also might want to put more effort into reading what was written before you piss someone off for misrepresenting them. Read the pie analogy again, then read the follow-up posts that explains how those came about and why those are HYBRIDS, not the CRPG genre as publishers and the media are too stupid or market them that way purposefully to...
You know, I'm not even going to finish that as I'm not fond of repeating parts of the thread for the behalf of the terminally stupid.
I suppose you could call Dungeon Siege a media-whore game or something, but I don't know...
I think I already pointed out your lack of understanding of the genres. I did so for your behalf, because everyone else knows you're an idiot by now.
It seems if you still haven't come up with a clear-cut definition for it after all this time, it doesn't have one. You seem to say that there is one, but you have yet to provide it.
Liar. I already have, three times over. You are too busy backpedalling and pulling shit out from your ass as some kind of...damn, I don't know where you were hoping to go with your post, but at the mention of Dungeon Siege and CRPG together, you lost all credibility of being serious or sentient. It's been pointed out already (and you conveniently forget/ignore such) that we tend to look at things a little more technically than you and your AOL buddies.
Congratulations on having found out how to abuse the Submit function for posting messages. Now find the X in the upper-right and click it, then remove all knowledge of using a browser from your mind. We would sincerely thank you.
You also say that "real developers" understand the genre because they understand the "key points of design". If your so omniscient, please, bequeath us with these keys so that we mere mortals may understand the world at least a fraction as well as you!
I've already pointed them out, at at length, twice over and in this very thread as well. It's not my fault if you lack the ability to understand it.
My apologies if you're also too inbred to understand how to use a simple search function.