I loved Icewind Dale I . Great athmosphere, great setting, imagination and landscape.
What's the difference between IWD1's athmosphere, setting imagination, landscape and BG's? Snow?
It was spoilt by far too many fights.
It was supposed to be Hack and Slash, mate. No one said it will be an open ended RPG.
I never finished it, - although I liked it *very much* because at one point the game seemed to consist merely of fights. So it seemed to me.
It didn't *seem*, it *was* ;0).
It would have been a great gime without the "must" to combat.
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It seems to me as if some companies have mistaken RPG for "combat" (like RPG = combat).
Well, most players like games like diablo: 100% non-stop dull, one-click, combat and no interaction whatsoever.
They are so limited in their view that they seemingly aren't able to devedlop anything other.
It's very difficult to develop a true RPG so you're partially right, some companies cannot develop a true role playing game.
And - what's more, I fear that combat, fighting, violence is in some countries - those which produce the most RPG games - a well-accepted way of (re)solving problems - kill, and your problem is no more.
Well... I am even afraid to argue. We live in different countries so even if I say something I doubt it will help anyone :0\
I will be cautious and say:
You mean that most of the violent games are made in USA. One of the reasons is simple: many people either want to play something light to relax or simply they lack brainpower to play anything different <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
[I do not intend to offend anyone in this post]
I have posted this view in a short article and became more or less thrown out of their Forum.
They didn't want to discuss (about) that.
I never seen your article but this is childish and only prouves their limited view. Often people do not want to hear the truth even if they subconsciously know it.
