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What do you FEAR the most? The occidental reductionist philosophist? Or the mysterious Eastern ontologist?

THat's what I sort of thought. I didn't see him come back. He sent me a few angry PMs about how he wasn't coming back and deleting all of his messages though.

Ice?

I did notice a bit of melancholy betweeen your words. Err, at the risk of being a bit too invasive....who's Harvey?

Metadigital and Darque = Yin and Yang? You have the eloquent, if perhaps convoluted impressions of one that seems to almost be coming from a metaphysical perspective on one hand. In the other hand, the stealthy ninja rabbit that comes in, shines a luminous perspective on things, flashes an emoticon, and disappears into the shadows. Between the two of you, all mysteries should be solved!

Call me shallow and narrowminded, but I can't say I've given much thought to the economic state of Khazikhstan.

OMG Eye of the Beholder is the defining RPG!!! :D

Darque puts it a bit more succinctly

Also a possibility. In fact, I'm sure it's already happening!

Meta put it pretty much not so succinctly.

Diablo would be the lesser of the two, but I don't think it's too significant of a minority that feels JRPG games are not RPG games.

Hehehehe. DOn't forget the Tachyons, the imperceptible RPG elements.

I have my money on Cab the Commie being a friend of Guildmaster to test out the software. Or some l33t h4x0r.

I hate cut content. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I really bet that that is not the case. You, like most people, probably love the ginormous amounts of utter crap that get cut out of games.

I know you do.. Let's put it this way: Pirates! has more RPG elements than Diablo or most JRPGs that are marketed as RPGs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wait a minute. Maybe it's your definition of RPG elements that don't match up with the rest of the world, if two game types marketed (and branded by customers) as RPG games supposedly have less "RPG elements." I mean, if RPGs don't have much RPG elements, are the RPG elements actually RPG elements?

Actually, I think the 7th is when they opened to the public. Guildmaster created himself on the 20th of January, and developers registered on the 6th. A gajillion people on the 7th.

Hmmm, must have been a huge influx of people on the 6th then from a different forum. A ton of people have registration dates around there, as well as the 7th.

Is today the second anniversary of Obisidan forums?

I've always considered it an action/adventure game :D

I made an edit to my post.

Decent Dialogue? Getting married significantly affected the game? And Lancer, if you don't think of Pirates! as a sim, then why did you just say it could be called one? Besides, since we're playing the semantics game, I doubt many people would consider Civilization to be a SIM game either. Most people call it turn-based strategy. EDIT: Fair enough points all around BTW. I guess I never really considered it an RPG because, at the time, there was really no other game like it. I always thought of it as an open-ended adventure game, but that was over a decade ago.

Since we've opened up the semantics can of worms, what are the heavy RPG elements? Not saying they're not there, but the term "RPG elements" does get tossed around quite a bit.

Then it was the first sim on a console. Just because a genre isn't predominant on a particular platform, doesn't mean it's suddenly in a different genre. How could you "technically" have sims or whatever anyways? IMO a genre defies the platform.

Awww, I was hoping for more backlash from the Kreia = Bastila comment. I did get a rise out of a few people though

I guess. KOTOR 2 though, is definitely playable to the end.