Are you a Storyfag or a Gameplayfag?

[Lhynn]

Get both right for fucks sake.

 

[Eyestabber]

OP is not Thor Kaufman, so fuck him.

 

[Thor Kaufman]

I'm curious about the Storyfag to Gameplayfag ratio on the Codex.

Storyfag: Your focus and criticism tends to be directed at the story, setting, characters, art, soundtrack, etc - the creative side. You'll be more likely to complain about the story or the setting over combat mechanics or the loot system.

Gameplayfag: Your focus and criticism tends to be directed at the rules and/or methods designed for interaction with the game - the mechanical side. You'll be more likely to complain about balance or combat mechanics over the story or the setting.

Even if you prefer a balance between the two please pick the one you're leaning towards the most.

Hey man. Please use another avatar.

 

[M. AQVILA]

Hey man. Please use another avatar.

Is this one taken too? This is starting to become troublesome.

 

[funkadelik]

But first we must define what is a fag.

 

[M. AQVILA]

But first we must define what is a fag.

Who knows? I was just trying to communicate with the natives by using their language. I don't care as long as my curiosity is sated.

 

[Jaesun]

Joined... Oh fuck it.

 

[Thor Kaufman]

Hey man. Please use another avatar.

Is this one taken too? This is starting to become troublesome.

I think so. The Rance avatars were very popular, yes.

 

[Zombra]

Is this one taken too? This is starting to become troublesome.

Not that I'm aware of. At least nobody I care about like I care about Thor. Actually if you use that one I think it'll be hilarious. Good show.

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God damn, BBMorti comes through again.

 

[Xathrodox86]

Storyfag to the core. I always take a good background over gameplay, no matter what I play.

Also OP is not a fag... or is he?

 

[Bliblablubb]

Depends on the game of course. If the story doesn't deliver, you better hope the gameplay makes up for it. Or vice versa. If I were to say "I played FO4 for the story", I would need some serious treatment with a baseball bat. On the other hand the gameplay didn't really deliver either, so why exactly was I playing it?

Poll needs an "I often wonder why I even played the game" option.

Voted for OPfag, because I am feeling edgy today.

 

[Leitz]

Setting is the most important element in CRPGs since it ends up dictating gameplay, content, presentation and narrative. If it doesn't it's likely a shit game.

If 95% of all RPGs are in a fantasy setting with knights, mages, dungeons and dragons and even the few others use similar elements...then setting means ultimately -shit-.

 

[Excidium II]

Setting is the most important element in CRPGs since it ends up dictating gameplay, content, presentation and narrative. If it doesn't it's likely a shit game.

If 95% of all RPGs are in a fantasy setting with knights, mages, dungeons and dragons and even the few others use similar elements...then setting means ultimately -shit-.

Now you begin to understand why CRPGs are mostly shit.

 

[Sigourn]

If 95% of all RPGs are in a fantasy setting with knights, mages, dungeons and dragons and even the few others use similar elements...then setting means ultimately -shit-.

Now you begin to understand why CRPGs are mostly shit.

This is why the D&D series of games (except PS:T) are shit.

 

[makiavelli747]

Setting is the most important element in CRPGs since it ends up dictating gameplay, content, presentation and narrative. If it doesn't it's likely a shit game.

If 95% of all RPGs are in a fantasy setting with knights, mages, dungeons and dragons and even the few others use similar elements...then setting means ultimately -shit-.

Now you begin to understand why CRPGs are mostly shit.

RPGs are not shit, RPGs are just games for kids(that's why genre has been dumped down so much)
the problem is that some of the kids are 40+ years old

 

[Doktor Best]

I am a hermaphrodite. I can enjoy both types of games if the strengths make up for the weaknesses, provided that those weaknesses dont get in the way of my enjoyment all the time.

I also believe that especially the interactive parts of a games narrative is a form of gameplay. Gameplay is taking influence on the outcome of a ingame situation, and in games like Age of Decadence for example, one particular answer in a dialogue scene can have far more effect to the games direction than deciding which weapons you choose to fight with etc.

 

[janior]

I am art direction/atmosphere/story fag.

 

[belowmecoldhands]

I'm curious about the Storyfag to Gameplayfag ratio on the Codex.

Storyfag: Your focus and criticism tends to be directed at the story, setting, characters, art, soundtrack, etc - the creative side. You'll be more likely to complain about the story or the setting over combat mechanics or the loot system.

Gameplayfag: Your focus and criticism tends to be directed at the rules and/or methods designed for interaction with the game - the mechanical side. You'll be more likely to complain about balance or combat mechanics over the story or the setting.

Even if you prefer a balance between the two please pick the one you're leaning towards the most.

I've always recognized the story-based games and disliked them as far back as I can remember.

The first PC games I started playing were in HS. They were mostly military simulation games. I went on to play Myst and Privateer and Master of Orion 1/2 and Daggerfall and some strategy games like Conquest of the New World and Sim City 2000. Story-based games, by and large, are linear in how you play. Teh gameplay is only there to drive the narrative forward, so it makes sense it's straightforward and otherwise lightweight, don't it? Not trying to be offensive.

Sometimes I wonder why I like what I like. The earliest games I played were all console games on Sega, Nintendo, TurboGraphics and Atari 2600. They were all action and twitch oriented, except Gunboat for TurboGraphics. That's where I started to get interested in military simulations. Gunboat was very simulation-ish, but I poorly understood it. From there I experiment with things like JetFighter II, M1 Tank Platoon, Wolfpack, Red Baron and a few others all through HS. In later years I tried Battlecruiser 3000 and BCM and Terminus and X: Beyond The Frontier and X2: The Threat. All sim-like. I still have a boyish giddiness for sims.

I seemed to move from simulations to strategy and back/forth, or to hybrids. I like 4x (Trade, Fight, Build, Think--or Explore, Exterminate, Exploit, Expand) and open world RPGs. Why? Hmm.

When I was younger I didn't read a lot of fiction. I did read some, but there were many kids who read more than me. Maybe hthat has something to do with it. I read more fiction when I was an adult. Prefered science-fiction.

I guess it'll just remain a mystery to me. I feel like I"m systems-oriented in my thinking. Does that mean anything? Maybe I'm partially autistic or something. I don't connect with people well. People are kind of boring. It's not htat I can't hold a conversation, I just tend to think about things, not people or emotions. Normal conversations turn boring too frequently. I think it's hard for me to make and keep friends because unless they like what I like I can't make a connection.

 

[Zombra]

By the way, I didn't vote or discuss the real topic because the use of hate speech is beneath some of us

 

[Lhynn]

This thread is going places, shitty places.

 

[kwanzabot]

need both for a game to be good tbh, i guess i would consider myself both?

good gameplay shit story= zzz
good story shit gameplay=zzz

 

[kwanzabot]

This thread is going places, shitty places.

sort of like the banana plantation you work at?

 

[Lhynn]

sort of like the banana plantation you work at?

Nope, worse. sort of like your posting history.

 

[kwanzabot]

sort of like the banana plantation you work at?

Nope, worse. sort of like your posting history.

least im not 31 years old posting on an online forum living in a third world country


get more mad pablo, i'm drinking your tears right now



e- just noticed the same amount of people are ignoring you that are ignoring me, considering 85% of my posts are trolling and you actually try your hardest to communicate with the white man i'm really not sure how much of a retard that makes you but it must be off the charts

keep drinking that contaminated water, it's clearly not doing you and favours

 

[Lhynn]