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Larian founder Swen Vincke wants more studios to make CRPGs after Baldur's Gate 3's success (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They said CRPG 8 times before saying what it meant, "Cinematic Role-Playing Game" for anyone else confused. I don't know why they had to give flashy games their own sub-genre but whatever.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Except that's never been the meaning of CRPG. For 30 years it's meant "Computer Role Playing Game" and occasionally "Classic Role Playing Game" it has never ever meant Cinematic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard the term CRPG in any context until this thread lol

Only rpg, arpg, jrpg, and jpeg...wait

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Me neither lol. It probably made a lot more sense 30 years ago when they were more novel and TTRPGs were still king.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Regardless, Bioware beat them to whatever they mean by it.

Obviously, it was murdered and reanimated as a foul abomination, but they still actually defined the genre dammit, Dragon Age perfected this shit fifteen years ago and I'll fight anyone who disagrees and is preferably smaller than me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

CRPG is at least as rock solid standard of a term, with decades of history, as JRPG or ARPG. They're all very clearly different genres, with common ideas on progression.

Computer RPG was established to differentiate from table top RPGs many years ago. It doesn't mean "cinematic", and it shouldn't need to be defined in an article on gaming any more than FPS does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s bad writing not to define the acronym. Refer to the 10k comic from xkcd.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I promise you less than 1% of writers define FPS. Probably in either context.

Defining acronyms in a 4 sentence article is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's dumb to use acronyms in a title at least, use the full term in the title and then acronyms afterwards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You never use the full term in the headline.

That one actually is standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Then it'd be a five sentence article

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Been gaming 35 years and never heard the term and to top it off, at least according to you, they used it wrong.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Your lack of understanding of a basic term isn't anyone else's issue.

And no, they didn't. You failed to read a sentence correctly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I don't think that's what they wrote.

the developer put its all in making not just a great CRPG but also a large-scale cinematic role-playing game

They're saying they made a CRPG AND a cinematic RPG. Poorly worded, but they are not defining CRPG as cinematic. They are saying "this CRPG is also cinematic."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Advanced clickbait, so you keep reading and spend more time on their page. Thanks for saving me a click though