lordofduct
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Now unless I am confused, i believe this is an MMORPG. Its an online rpg that allows multiple players. This prick keeps trying to tell me that it is not an MMORPG and that I am a moron for thinking it is.
Originally posted by lordofduct@Sun, 2004-10-31 @ 03:00 AM
hmmmm... well this is the way i kinda put it for PSO that makes me call it an MMORPG.
MMORPG - Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game; PSO Online is:
Online:it accesses the f-ing internet!
Multi-Player: You can enter the space station and meet with hundreds of people and chat. Then select a team and go down to Ragol and fight togeter. Sounds Multi-player to me!
Massive: Well this word choice for the style of game is a little opinionated. Is the game itself actually massive? Well when you figure in the hours it takes to level all the way upto level 200; YES! Or the massiveness of its network? Ummm, supporting thousands of users on SEGA's networks; it sounds pretty massive to me!
RPG: Do I really have to go over this one; Phantasy Star is SEGA's longest running RPG in its' history.
So, it sound like an MMORPG to me. Unless there is something else that defines MMORPG?
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Originally posted by lordofduct @ Mon+ 2004-11-01 @ 04:15 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lordofduct @ Mon @ 2004-11-01 @ 04:15 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Originally posted by lCrazyGoon@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 03:36 AM
Originally posted by lordofduct @ Mon@ 2004-11-01 @ 12:50 AM
[post=122195]Quoted post[/post]horror is a theme... but "survival horror" is a genre. The genre is named after the themes that the game has.
If you agree horror is a theme, then you should understand that "survival horror" is a theme coupled with an aspect of the game (surviving). And when we talk about genre we are talking about the gameplay - nothing else. Not the way the game looks, sounds, it's aspects, or theme. Only it's gameplay. And most of these (so-called) "survival horror" games' gameplay has strong foundations of the gameplay that it found in most "adventure" games. There is no reason to invent a new genre for a game when it's roots (gameplay) is alreaded founded upon another genre! The only reason I can think of why Capcom has called it a "survival horror" is for the sake of being innovative - after they started calling it a "survival horror" game, people started to "fall for it" - believing that they had never experienced a "survival horror" game before, and thus Capcom gets undeserved credit for being innovative. Load of bollocks..
Who the hell says that a genre in videogame on describes the GAMEPLAY? This makes no sense at all. Genre by definition is a style of art described by its content and similarities. May it be paintings with there themes (i.e. gothic) there look (i.e. surrealism, cubism) there topic (i.e. fiction, non fiction, political, biographical). Video Games, like music or movies or paintings, is creative ART.
Art - Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. (dictionary.com)
Videogames are art for the fact that it is humans trying to immitate real life through; drawings, 3d, story, interaction with the player, music, immitation of physics(i.e. half life 2), need i continue!
In such it should also be categorized like art would be. Thus keeping in mind its look, feel, and gameplay. Survival Horrors are usually third person perspective shorters with puzzles and a horrific atmosphere usually portrayed through cinematic angles. Seen in the still shots in games like RE or AitD and SH... This draws emotion out of the viewer of the art.
genre - A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content. [dictionary.com] for further proof... thats conitinue with composition
composition - Arrangement of artistic parts so as to form a unified whole.
So to continue... a genre of video game would be - A categorized arrangement of natural immitating or alerteration created by humans to create a videogame.
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Originally posted by lordofduct@Mon, 2004-11-01 @ 09:06 PM
Also where I am coming to is that it is an attack on me when you attack something as trivial as what I said in the first place.
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If you didnt want to fight, then why spend literally hours posting the posts you have posted.
But anyways... yes i would like to now stop this bs of fighting with your close minded ass. I have no problem with being PROVED wrong, i hate being TOLD im wrong...
Which also was admittedly an opinion thing, filled with words like I think and I believe... key words hinting to opinion!
Oh, and if you want a reason why i bothered posting such a stupid proof about the breakdown of the words in mmorpg... it seems IM not the ONLY one who thinks PSO is an mmorpg, check out the poll!... oh and I started the poll, because i didnt KNOW!