Edward Franks schrieb: > > > The problem is that you can easily swap in role-playing games as a > basic building block in place of Adventure. The same justifications > work for either. The two are so close together (more than any of the > other categories) that it is hard sometimes to see the unique > differences.
That is true. Most likely that was also the reason why Infocom ventured into RPGs later on. But I don't agree with Jim on making RPGs a subgenre. There are two strong indications for having a RPG at hand: character development and a party. Moby categorizes Bard's Tale as "Adventure, 1st-Person Perspective, Medieval Fantasy, Role-Playing (RPG)," and Ultima IV as "Adventure, Top-Down, Medieval Fantasy, Role-Playing (RPG)" but IMHO both are just RPGs. Maybe steering a party should be a subgenre and 1st person perspective should be dropped as one. Many games from very different genres nowadays are first person perspective, so this does not serve for much of a distinction. Marco ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
