A list without gothic 1 or 2 is not a serious one.
What do you mean? They are both on there...number 51 and number 51.
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A list without gothic 1 or 2 is not a serious one.
Stopped reading the list at 1. Dark Souls.
What do you mean? They are both on there…number 51 and number 51.
Those are rhetorical questions of course. The list was obvious made by someone with disabilities, but I commend RPS for hiring him/her. Everyone deserves a chance.
I suspect you are the one with disabilities given your lack of ability to understand the criteria used for their list.
However if you were actually able to read and understand their criteria (you can read can't you?) you might begin to understand how they formulated their list.
This is not to say I agree with their list or disagree with those who have suggested games have that should be on the list but rather that just because their methodology differs does not mean that they are the one who are deficient. Rather I would suggest that your rather lack of cognitive flexibility and use of insults to cover your lack of imagination that makes you more than marginally deficient.
I would agree with only one game on that list in the top 10, Divinity: Original Sin 2 (new entry), but only if it was the DOS 1, a much better game.
Outside of that, just no. Dark Souls as 1? Really, I don't even think of that as an RPG, it's more of an action game.
Why wouldn’t you consider DS an RPG?
It’s got stats, classes, character progression ,loot, exploration, npc’s, quests and a story even if vaguely told.
What’s it missing?
I personally would consider it more of an action game than rpg since you don't make very many choices. Lots of shooters have stats, loot and exploration and such. To be honest it is more of an opinion than fact and a grey area (imho) forms between the obvious non-rpg and the obvious-rpg (of course one person obvious rpg might be another person obvious non-rpg so this isn't horribly helpful )
Why wouldn’t you consider DS an RPG?
It’s got stats, classes, character progression ,loot, exploration, npc’s, quests and a story even if vaguely told.
What’s it missing?
The choice are mostly actions though not dialogue choices.
Dark Souls scores very heavily on everything you mentioned.
Eh? While I agree it has those things, not all of them score heavily. I wouldn't rate the exploration, NPC's, or story very high.
There's exploration within limits, but it doesn't compare well to a lot of other open-world games. The NPC's have very little dialogue and barely animate outside of combat. And the story…well, even most fans will agree there's not much of one.