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...is RPGs, role playing games, because ever since I was a kid playing Fighting Fantasy books by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson or programming text-based adventures on the ZX81, RPGs have always been able to fuel my imagination.
Elves, goblins, witches, trolls, warriors, mages, magic, weapons, armour, hit points, defence classes, spell powers, statistics by the hundred, all these combine in a game to take me away from reality and immerse me inside my own mind with the gameplay, so that I'm literally in a world of my own when I play these types of games.
You effectively 'become' the lead character of the RPG game you are playing, you empathise with them when they get hurt, you wince at the cost of upgrading their armour, you search for hours for that one elusive weapon or item that will aid you in your quest, all the while completely blocking out the external world around you.
The RPG genre is pure escapism, but you'll also find that it has a huge following for each of its games. There are communities built up around Final Fantasy, and not just gamers, you have the die-hard role players who actually believe that they are characters from the games (and you can indulge in conversations with them to your heart's content).
Opting into a community based around a game is pure choice, you can take it or leave it, you can get as deeply involved in RPG games as you wish to become. Even with other genres there are communities building up now, like strategy games, where alliances are forming (Planetarion/Unreal Tournament as examples), or most of the games with internet access for that matter.
One of the most famous of these would have to be the Half Life community, where that itself is divided into factions depending on which version of Half Life you are playing.
So for me, any game that has a lead character that you can manipulate, that you can develop, that you can empathise with and adventure with, that has a driven plot and exciting gameplay, which can totally take you away from it all into a fantastic mythical or futuristic world, that's my kind of game, and that's why I like Role Playing Games so much over any other type.
Elves, goblins, witches, trolls, warriors, mages, magic, weapons, armour, hit points, defence classes, spell powers, statistics by the hundred, all these combine in a game to take me away from reality and immerse me inside my own mind with the gameplay, so that I'm literally in a world of my own when I play these types of games.
You effectively 'become' the lead character of the RPG game you are playing, you empathise with them when they get hurt, you wince at the cost of upgrading their armour, you search for hours for that one elusive weapon or item that will aid you in your quest, all the while completely blocking out the external world around you.
The RPG genre is pure escapism, but you'll also find that it has a huge following for each of its games. There are communities built up around Final Fantasy, and not just gamers, you have the die-hard role players who actually believe that they are characters from the games (and you can indulge in conversations with them to your heart's content).
Opting into a community based around a game is pure choice, you can take it or leave it, you can get as deeply involved in RPG games as you wish to become. Even with other genres there are communities building up now, like strategy games, where alliances are forming (Planetarion/Unreal Tournament as examples), or most of the games with internet access for that matter.
One of the most famous of these would have to be the Half Life community, where that itself is divided into factions depending on which version of Half Life you are playing.
So for me, any game that has a lead character that you can manipulate, that you can develop, that you can empathise with and adventure with, that has a driven plot and exciting gameplay, which can totally take you away from it all into a fantastic mythical or futuristic world, that's my kind of game, and that's why I like Role Playing Games so much over any other type.
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you are so right
RPGs rule
RPGs rule
...is RPGs, role playing games, because ever since I was a kid playing Fighting Fantasy books by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson or programming text-based adventures on the ZX81, RPGs have always been able to fuel my imagination.
Elves, goblins, witches, trolls, warriors, mages, magic, weapons, armour, hit points, defence classes, spell powers, statistics by the hundred, all these combine in a game to take me away from reality and immerse me inside my own mind with the gameplay, so that I'm literally in a world of my own when I play these types of games.
You effectively 'become' the lead character of the RPG game you are playing, you empathise with them when they get hurt, you wince at the cost of upgrading their armour, you search for hours for that one elusive weapon or item that will aid you in your quest, all the while completely blocking out the external world around you.
The RPG genre is pure escapism, but you'll also find that it has a huge following for each of its games. There are communities built up around Final Fantasy, and not just gamers, you have the die-hard role players who actually believe that they are characters from the games (and you can indulge in conversations with them to your heart's content).
Opting into a community based around a game is pure choice, you can take it or leave it, you can get as deeply involved in RPG games as you wish to become. Even with other genres there are communities building up now, like strategy games, where alliances are forming (Planetarion/Unreal Tournament as examples), or most of the games with internet access for that matter.
One of the most famous of these would have to be the Half Life community, where that itself is divided into factions depending on which version of Half Life you are playing.
So for me, any game that has a lead character that you can manipulate, that you can develop, that you can empathise with and adventure with, that has a driven plot and exciting gameplay, which can totally take you away from it all into a fantastic mythical or futuristic world, that's my kind of game, and that's why I like Role Playing Games so much over any other type.
Elves, goblins, witches, trolls, warriors, mages, magic, weapons, armour, hit points, defence classes, spell powers, statistics by the hundred, all these combine in a game to take me away from reality and immerse me inside my own mind with the gameplay, so that I'm literally in a world of my own when I play these types of games.
You effectively 'become' the lead character of the RPG game you are playing, you empathise with them when they get hurt, you wince at the cost of upgrading their armour, you search for hours for that one elusive weapon or item that will aid you in your quest, all the while completely blocking out the external world around you.
The RPG genre is pure escapism, but you'll also find that it has a huge following for each of its games. There are communities built up around Final Fantasy, and not just gamers, you have the die-hard role players who actually believe that they are characters from the games (and you can indulge in conversations with them to your heart's content).
Opting into a community based around a game is pure choice, you can take it or leave it, you can get as deeply involved in RPG games as you wish to become. Even with other genres there are communities building up now, like strategy games, where alliances are forming (Planetarion/Unreal Tournament as examples), or most of the games with internet access for that matter.
One of the most famous of these would have to be the Half Life community, where that itself is divided into factions depending on which version of Half Life you are playing.
So for me, any game that has a lead character that you can manipulate, that you can develop, that you can empathise with and adventure with, that has a driven plot and exciting gameplay, which can totally take you away from it all into a fantastic mythical or futuristic world, that's my kind of game, and that's why I like Role Playing Games so much over any other type.
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