The central pillar of TTRPG's is the playing of a role. That's literally the entire purpose of them. You role play a character within a narratively driven campaign.
My bad, I worded that sentence badly. I should've said: "Where RPGs have a history with TTRPGs, the design elements that game designers have seemingly used to define the RPG genre, would be character development/building and combat."
Originally Posted by Taril
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Right, with examples I can see what you mean. Odd that Monster Hunter is considered a RPG. I was thinking that while most "Looter Shooter"/"Dungeon Crawler" ARPGs are abit weak on their story (assuming it has one), they still counted as something, even if their role playing element is very limited.
Although, like Disgaea, I guess most J/ARPGs tend to focus on providing post-game content over providing a story. However, there are a bunch of RPGs that are completely focused on their story until they switch to post-game and its' narrative is still relevant for that post-game content. Two I can think of are FF14 and Dragons Dogma. Warframe as well as the Diablo and the Borderlands games might count too even with their non-existant role playing.
And there are those ARPGs that do completely focus on their story from beginning to end such as Nier Automata or any CDPR games. (Dunno much about JRPG's tho)
Originally Posted by Taril
The fact that they're doing a survey to try and gauge interest in IP's rather than making a decision based on what THEY want to make is indicative of being a cash grab. Since even if a "Niche" IP ends up being more popular and they make that, their decision is still being made based around what will be the most profitable rather than what they had a vision to create.
Eh, idk; Them including more niche IPs wouldn't make much sense given that even if it's popular within their community, chances is that it wouldn't be that popular outside (assuming something like that was even chosen). They did change how they did DLC after a community survey and the two that have been released so far wouldn't be considered Cash grabs.
In saying that however, it's pretty much speculation until after their next game as to whatever that survey was for.
