Another NewFace
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Posted - 2008.05.09 17:31:00 -
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 Originally by: Jason Argile
Originally by: Liranan
Edited by: Liranan on 03/05/2008 23:19:32
Originally by: Kharadran Sullath
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You are a tribute to the public education system. Eve online has continually attempted to integrate its gamers into a more immersive style of game play. That is what Role play isą any Kind of Role Play is an attempt to at feeling more deeply a part of the game you are playing. Every thing from the Constant npc news articles to this thing with voting a new leader to the player run news papers is an attempt to help players immerse themselves in there role as a Capsuleer in Eve. At no time in the universe of eve will you find a bit of dialog with an npc that forcefully reminds you that you are really sitting at a computer terminal in your home Pretending to fly a space ship pretending to shoot down pirates pretending to mine rocks or pretending to be any one of the billions of things Eve lets you Pretend to do.
Pretend.
1.to act as if something were true.
Roll play
1.acting out of a part
2.a Game session involving pretending a role or roles. As in a computer or other game, a session during which players take on the roles of characters
Eve can easily be called MORE than just an RPG but is most definitely at the Least an RPG.
I'm not sure if EvE can be considered an RPG. Sure, it has role play elements, such as a backstory, and an attempt at differentiating between races, but there isn't much more to it, imo. I've always considered EvE to be a MMO space sim with guns. Or, at least, a game with role playing in it, rather than a role playing game. It may seem like a minor semantic point (in all honesty, it is), but if your criteria for a RPG is applied to other genres of games, then most game genres would be RPGs, and we, as gamers, would hardly consider a FPS (you play the role of the gun wielding hero, right? The game has a backstory, right? The game has features that make it immersive to some degree, explosions, weather effects, etc?) the same thing as a RPG. Sure, the world doesn't change because of your actions, and the story is linear, but it fits your definition of "roll play (sic)".
The problem with the classification is that EvE is a sandboxed game, and there aren't any limitations to what characters can do or become, so there aren't any "roles" in the traditional sense of a RPG, other than the generic "capsuleer". Calling EvE a RPG doesn't do justice to RPGs, but the game is certainly more than just another MMO.
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