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| | Computer role-playing game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that uses traditional gameplay elements found in pen-and-paper role-playing games. | | | While not a pure CRPG, the game Diablo 2 has the Warrior be the one who defeated Diablo in the first game, although the player has to fight all three "former heros" during the course of the game.) | | | These CRPGs are often based directly on the rules and settings of pen and paper game systems (Dungeons and Dragons being the most common), sometimes even displaying die rolls and other game mechanics normally hidden from players' eyes. |
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| | QuarterToThree Message Boards |
| | I didn't think it was great CRPG, but it was a decent action/adventure game. | | | Slaying orcs is the engine of most CRPGs' economies (if you stop slaying orcs, you will starve) and combat is the only time you are really *playing* a game in the sense that one *plays* Quake or *plays* Age of Empires (i.e. | | | All CRPGs are geared toward combat to “move” through the game. |
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http://www.quartertothree.com/boards/messages/17/860.shtml
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| | The CRPG Genre Part 1 |
| | Some CRPGs have attempted to create such a world in which the player can form his own adventures but this is a very tall order to do in a computer game compared to making a directed adventure with some RPG elements or a dungeon crawl for treasure and character level advancement. | | | However, Darklands broke new ground from the point of view of CRPG design and many of its features were used in many later games. | | | There are problems with the game balance and mechanics, players can exploit the character system so that after 10th level the game loses any challenge. |
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http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/8461/crpg1.html
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| | GameSpy Forums |
| | With a good CRPG, all the elements have to come together...the graphics should be reasonable enough for players to recognize objects within the game world. | | | The last CRPG I actually played long enough to beat was Dungeon Siege, and that was only because I found the Yoda/Lightsaber mods. | | | Developers are so busy competing to be unique and have their game stand out in a crowded market they forget to put more than a few elements into it to make it complete. |
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http://www.forumplanet.com/gamespy/topic.asp?fid=2370&tid=1520470
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| | RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming |
| | But still CRPG's are less diverse, there are only so many CRPG game engines out there, as compared to the hundreds of RPG systems. | | | Because of this, from a technical perspective, CRPG's will not be as complex as a pen and paper game. | | | I think if the CRPG publishers had the ability (or time, or money, or technology, etc.) to mimic a pen and paper game completely they would. |
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http://www.rpg.net/forums/phorum/rf07/read.php?f=288&i=45&t=33
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| | Interview with Feargus Urquhart, Designer of Fallout 2 |
| | As for the difference in gameplay, I think a lot of it has to do with the evolution of players - the game needs to be easy to play. | | | The first CRPG that I played was Temple of Apshai by Epyx, I think. | | | While most CRPG's offer a fantasy setting, both Fallout games offered something different: a post-apocalyptic setting that had brilliant flashes of dark humor throughout. |
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http://eboredom.20m.com/features/interviews/urquhart.html
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| | Neverwinter Nights: WHAT DEFINES A GOOD CRPG ? - TUTORIAL PART I (non-trollish post) |
| | Again, the CRPG player tends to like his battles a bit more slow-paced, tactiful and strategic than the likes of Diablo, which are more prone to the casual or younger player. | | | The CRPG player tends to be a bit more mature and to like his/her reading better than the average console action game teenager. | | | And a crpg HAS to have the single palyer party, because not everyone can or wants to multiplay, AND playing solo leads to a diablo game, with NO tactics, and NO challenge, again like diablo where you can easily kill 3000 enemies if you're powerful enough. |
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http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?forum=58&topic=140696
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| | Lora's CRPG Reviews: Fun Computer Role-Playing Games for Busy People |
| | My own CRPG walkthroughs are written so as to let you know whether you've missed any cool quests or side plots or other things to do in any of the game areas without giving away what happens when you do them. | | | This classic CRPG trilogy shows its age in its turn-based combat and chunky isometric graphics, but somehow it's still fun a decade later-- and unlike many older games, it plays straight out of the box (no SloMo or painstaking computer reconfigurations necessary). | | | This is the closest a CRPG has ever come to matching my criteria: fantastic quests that encourage lateral thinking, a rich gaming environment, memorable NPCs, and strong character development, including deeply interactive subplots with NPCs who remember reactions you had to them five conversations ago. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/hero/tjekanefir/crpg.htm
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| | Only a Game: Where Next With CRPGs |
| | The flaw in most Japanese CRPGs is that they are more concerned in telling their story than in giving the player freedom of expression. | | | We were working under heavy restrictions, such as the fact the game had to remain in a linear structure (there wasn't time for a more open structure), and the fact that the underlying game was always going to be a hack and slash. | | | The flaw in most Western Japanese CRPGS is that they are more concerned in giving the player freedom of expression than avoiding being total rubbish. |
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http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2005/07/where_next_with.html
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| | Armchair Arcade: Article / Dungeons & Desktops |
| | While there are a few characters in the game that players can fight, most of the game (as most adventure games in general) involves picking up various items in order to solve puzzles. | | | Certainly one of the most important CRPGs from a gameplay perspective is Richard Garriot's Akalabeth: World of Doom (Apple II, 1980) a prequel to the first Ultima game. | | | Video games and computer games, much like film, have a rich history and it is through playing old and new games that one gains a greater appreciation of the medium as a whole. |
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http://www.armchairarcade.com/aamain/content.php?article.60
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| | Obsidian Forum Community -> What makes a cRPG? |
| | Top-down or isometric games are closer to the original map-drawing and figurine viualization of pandp, while first person games try to depict what the imagination of the pandp players saw. | | | Another branching in the CRPG world is that between party based and single player. | | | When computer role playing games came up they naturally were attempts to take this style of gaming to the computer. |
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http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?s=f5aefe2d2a195db6801601f3a661d445&showtopic=2241&hl=
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| | The Adrenaline Vault News |
| | Among all this, I continue to view Wizardry as a foundation where all the elements and gameplay of the CRPG genre are in focus. | | | Other CRPGs come and go, but Wizardry is the series you can really sink your teeth into. | | | Characters have personality, those that you meet in the game have agendas, puzzles and challenges are not just randomly generated events or canned formulas. |
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http://www.avault.com/news/displaynews.asp?story=7301999-1272
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| | Unfettered Blather / Unchanged Genres Part 1 - Computer Role Playing Games |
| | A well done CRPG practically lets the player tell the story, or at least lets the story unfold at the prompting of the player if nothing else. | | | But there have been a lot of "loser" CRPGs that were not elves and magic, too, and I think the problem is that studios and maybe publishers feel that other genres are more risky. | | | The focus may rest more of ranged combat than most CRPG designers are comfortable with, but the setting also comes with many known factors. |
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http://www.unfetteredblather.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=5
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| | The Codex Forums :: View topic - Party control in CRPG's: Good or Bad? |
| | In conclusion, I think, out of the many ways of doing party based CRPG's, have a party of Player Characters seems to be the best, as it can provide more depth, and has some degree of logical justification (the player is the party itself). | | | In CRPG's, party based, with characters created by the player, can be a good option, probably the best, considering the alternatives for party control. | | | Player created party is a step toward strategic squad-based games where you have combat units with specific skills useful in certain situations lacking any personality or connection to a player. |
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http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1926
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| | MadMonkey.net - Independent game network - Free games : games: crpg |
| | The game is professionaly designed by a group of developers from Slovenia. | | | We are working on what will be a rather revolutionary CRPG that will concentrate on replayability and diverse players' choices foremost. | | | Over 35 hrs of game play, 40 spells, and party of upto 10 characters. |
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http://www.madmonkey.net/page.cgi/crpg
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| | No Mutants Allowed :: View topic - Nirvana - a new post-apoc CRPG project |
| | The game wants to give the player total freedom and is compared to Diablo, in the sense that Diablo doesn't end when the game is over and you can keep going back to discover new things, progress further with your character and so on and so forth. | | | However, these are only the first looks at a game that is at the beginning of its development, we'll see how it goes. | | | You know, with all those post-apoc games and mods that are or were in development, you'd expect the market to be literally flooded by them, yet somehow the last memorable CRPG with post-apoc theme was Fallout II. |
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http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7594
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| | Which is the best PC CRPG? - GameBanshee Forums |
| | PC CRPG = PC computer role playing game... | | | I now go by "best of the janre" and by janre I don't mean strategy vs rpg vs whatever (since those dont apply anymore), I mean, the way the game behaves etc. I mean there are SOOOO many games, and SOOO many that I played, it just gets silly to name one the best. | | | The developers admitted eventually that they'd never made a game before and hadn't really played any CRPGs. |
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http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52003
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| | Binary Narrativism (relates to CRPG's) |
| | Honestly, the thing that concerned me about trying to design a Nar CRPG was the whole player authorship thing. | | | That is to say, the feeling that the player is in control of the story. | | | I think the form they would have to take is what I'm going to call "Binary" Nar. |
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http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?t=13447
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| | Lora's CRPG Reviews: Wizardry 8 (PC) |
| | This game feels like a well-loved pair of slippers. | | | The earliest Wizardry games are so primitive that even an abandonware groupie like me can't work up any enthusiasm for them--most of us could program stuff better than this ourselves these days--but Wizardry 7/Wizardry Gold makes a good play-through for any fan of classic CRPG's, and Wiz5 and Wiz6 are still fun for us die-harders. | | | The actions are broken down into truly convenient components, and you can customize your keyboard and mouse commands to suit your play style. |
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| | Greatest RPG Fans Forum - "Of HP and 3D: My treatise on CRPG realism" |
| | If you are interested in the combat system based on concept different than hit points take a look at EON RPG http://www.neogames.se/. | | | As the consequence developers should put much more thoughts into alternative routs and dialogs in game. | | | Somewhere we must have lost the "F" that should be out there in front, for Fantasy. |
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http://www.softwarespecialties.com/dcforum/DCForumID13/28.html
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| | CRPG - IFWiki |
| | CRPG is an acronym for "Computer Role-Playing Game." | | | Two notable exceptions to this rule are "Beyond Zork" and Eamon. | | | Generally used to describe any adventure game with a frequently used combat system that uses statistics and randomness. |
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| | C R P G G e e k |
| | Both games, with their limited or non-existent AI, set the precedent for CRPG's that followed. | | | I guess you could say Oblivion's "radiant AI" has caught up to where CRPG's were in 1988. | | | So, I still have stuff in the dungeon that I dropped earlier. |
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| | RPG Vault - Poll Archive |
| | When a CRPG has a multiplayer option, how often do you actually play with other people? | | | When playing CRPGs, how often do you use strategy guides, hints or other help? | | | How long is your average CRPG or online world play session? |
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http://rpgvaultarchive.ign.com/features/polls
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| | A Model for a CRPG? |
| | Sorry, but I think the limitation with CRPGs is the limited nature of interacting with the gameworld. | | | However, it shouldn't feel arbitrary to the player - in either tabletop or CRPGs. | | | Yes, it's limited in its interaction options - but it's still forcing the player to address premise, and giving you 10-30 seconds at each stage in the tree - long enough to ensure you're not being driven into split-second decisions. |
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http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=16435.0
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| | RPG's aren't RPG's without Virtual Hero Doll Dress Up? - BioWare's Official Jade Empire Site |
| | Virtual Hero Doll Dress Up as you call it is an RPG element, but that doesn't mean a game has to include it to be an RPG. | | | So many of you out there feel that Jade isn't an RPG because you can't change your clothes etc. Some CRPG's feature this kind of dress up gaming and some don't (for the record I enjoy VHD-DUG as much as the next nerd but it isn't a requirement for my definition of CRPG). | | | The point of contention: An RPG really isn't an RPG if it doesn't feature 'Virtual Hero Doll Dress Up Gameplay'(VHD-DUG). |
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http://jade.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=431101&forum=79
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| | VN Boards - Wraith CRPG? |
| | I hope they FINISH a Wraith component of the WoD Mod for Bloodlines. | | | I don't see Wraith: The Oblivion happening for a number of reasons. | | | We can hope, but yes it does seem unlikely indeed. |
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http://vnboards.ign.com/Message.aspx?topic=52316157
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| | Role-playing game - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The popular term for the current, Internet driven, CRPG is MMORPG, or Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. | | | However, with the proliferation of home computers, the ability to play games online over BBSes or networks paved the way for MUDs, MMORPGs, and PBeM gaming. | | | See Role-playing game (video games) for more information. |
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| | golem's CRPG page |
| | The Gaming Nexus has a nice and long interview with with Ray Muzyka (Bioware) and Chris Parker (Interplay) concerning the new Forgotten Realms CRPG Baldur's Gate. | | | We hope to expand soon and make it the best resource for Computer Role Playing Games on the 'net. | | | The Age of the Mystics game site (which is a great resource for Shareware CRPG fans) has moved to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/7480 |
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| | Duck and Cover :: View topic - Gareth Davies on CRPG combat |
| | Gareth Davies of Micro Forte, we lub him, has written a long article on CRPG combat for RPG Codex covering the big four types of combat we've seen in CRPGs. | | | Well you should still be able to read the article and you should because it goes beyond just TB vs RT. | | | The first thought that springs to mind is to greatly simplify the interface and in turn, the combat system itself. |
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| | CRPG.RU :: English Articles :: Two Worlds - Interview |
| | I suppose that all russian gamers (and fans of CRPGs all over the world, of course) are really intrigued with the "Two Worlds" project. | | | Is there anything you would like to add or, may be, say smth. |
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| | VN Boards - Classic CRPG Series Comments |
| | On the Commodore, Ultima IV and then V really defined the genre for me. They were the first that, for me, blended story and gameplay into a single memorable eperience. | | | [RPG Vault] VN Boards » RPG Vault Boards » General RPG Board » Classic CRPG Series Comments Join Insider | | | IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA. |
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| | Nazghul CRPG |
| | This is for an AI class, Haxima players should ignore it. | | | Nazghul is a computer role-playing game (CRPG) engine. | | | If you like roguelikes or the top-down, 2d, turn-based CRPG's that disappeared in the early 90's then this is for you. |
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| | Chicago Research & Planning Group - TradeBanc |
| | To open an account, contact CRPG Trade at info@crpg.org, fax to 312 609-6511, call 312 609-6500 x 251 or use this feedback form. | | | To contact CRPG Trade, email info@crpg.org, fax to 312 609-6511, call 312 609-6500 x 251 or use this feedback form. | | | CRPG symbolizes the voice of corporate America and its many uses of technology. |
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http://www.crpg.org/tradebanc/tradebanc.htm
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| | The Temple of Elemental Evil CRPG Review -- September 25, 2003 :: d20 Magazine Rack :: Are You Game Enough? |
| | So imagine my surprise and anticipation when I learned that Troika Games, whose credits include the computer roleplaying game (CRPG) Arcanum, had gained the rights to product a CRPG set in the world of Greyhawk, and chosen Temple of Elemental Evil as the adventure they would reproduce. | | | Planescape: Torment :) One of the best two games I've ever played. | | | After months of anticipation, the game finally arrived on my doorstep. |
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http://www.d20zines.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=636&thold=1&mode=thread&order=1
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| | All the time greatest CRPG |
| | Another important matter is that we have reviewed a multiplayer free CRPG game. | | | There you may found some old RPG you have palyed, forgot the name and traced for years to play again. | | | This means the following, there is gathered old (about 15 - 5 years old) CRPGs for reviewing and in some cases for download. |
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| | BioWare - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Is this a diablo like shooter, or a CRPG? |
| | At first I wondered if they would use the D20 Star Wars game as a guide for rules, but now I'm more curious if this is really an adventure game with a couple of stats or an actual RPG. | | | Every crpg bioware makes is crpg-lite, that your grandmother can enjoy roleplaying in. | | | Archives: PC/Mac Version (Spoilers Will Be Moved) - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic |
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http://swforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?forum=91&topic=16231
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| | TOWARD COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY PLANNING GROUP: Principles and Strategies |
| | TOWARD COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY PLANNING GROUP: Principles and Strategies | | | CRPG does point out, however, that there may be significant activities in the community that do not fall under the purview of existing units. | | | CRPG is now recommending a different model that calls for units involved in community activities to create and maintain their own information. |
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| | Comdex and CRPG Join Forces to Spotlight Best-Of-Breed E-Business Solutions and Strategies |
| | Comdex and CRPG Join Forces to Spotlight Best-Of-Breed E-Business Solutions and Strategies | | | To be eligible for consideration, entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. | | | Members of the CRPG, an association of chief information officers (CIOs) from Fortune 1000 companies representing $60 billion in annual technology spending power, launched the award this year because many are actively seeking optimal web-based business strategies. |
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| | RASalvatore Forums @ www.ezboard.com |
| | This forum has been created to allow messageboard role playing games. | | | This Forum has been created for the fans to discuss CRPG's, music, movie releases, and other forms of entertainment! | | | Get info here from other fans as to who they enjoy to read, as well as discuss other series here! |
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| | Ironworks Gaming - Wizards & Warriors Preview II |
| | You can have dozens of different professions, and there are even 10 different clans, the Races will be very radical, with characters that can be Elephants, Tigers, Rats and even stranger denizens! | | | Wizards and Warriors will place in an original high-fantasy world called Gael Serran, where a long-dead pharaoh has suddenly returned to life - and he is preparing to twist the land into his own, corrupt design. | | | The Land you will cover is unlike any seen in a CRPG, the hills, the forests, and dragons that actually FLY and attack you, not just sitting in front of you.. |
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http://www.tgeweb.com/ironworks/previews/wizardswarriors2/wizardwarrior-preview-08052000.shtml
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| | The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches |
| | And yet, as I play the latest masterpiece to come out of Japan I sometimes can't help the feeling that, somehow, I've seen it all before... | | | There are spoilers in here for many popular CRPGs. | | | New and updated clichés, by the way, are in |
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| | JC Millot's CRPG Page |
| | I enjoy CRPGs a lot but I also like RTS and economic simulation games | | | I am now working for a waste management company called | | | : one of my favourite CRPG (what about Ultima Online? |
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| | BioWare Forums: Another low level cRPG |
| | PST lacked some of the 'roleplayability' that the BG series had(probably because of the limited char options and setting) and icewind dale was nearly impossible to get some decent roleplaying out of. | | | Yeah, low lvl cRPG's are the best as you are involved with the character from the start. | | | They might actually what a low level cRPG so that they can create and control the develop of their own character. |
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http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=3174&forum=19
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| | Big cRPG Project - Mechanics - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums |
| | Home » Community » Forums » Game Design » Big cRPG Project - Mechanics | | | Posted - 7/7/2004 4:53:53 AM I am making some big cRPG project (www.burzuazja-rpg.prv.pl)and we have finish some mechanics (write to text) an i dont know if we have done it well. | | | Can you guys show me some finish document with mechanics (some links or something) that will be great :] |
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| | Chat With Shrapnel's CRPG Stars. PC Gameworld news story. |
| | RPGCodex will be hosting an IRC event on Tuesday, October 21st, featuring Shrapnel Games' CRPG developers Aaron Hall (Malfador Machinations) and Adam West (Crosscut Games). | | | The IRC event features CRPG developers Aaron Hall and Adam West. | | | The chat will begin at 8 PM EST (5 PM PST) and can be found at irc.gamesnet.net:6667 #RPGCodex. |
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http://www.pcgameworld.com/news/story.php/id/2486
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| | CRPG-ARCHIVES |
| | Exclusive for the crpg-archives: information about the crpg GOTHIC by Piranha-Bytes -01-03-28- | | | And here you will find the other german crpg called ISLES OF ZYCLON (german language) | | | History of the CRPGs -03.01.- (sorry, only german language) |
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