gabrielarantest
Stubborn Dwarf
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Also disagree that RTwP is a relic of the past - if anything is a relic it is TB. Nothing was proven by the TB mods in PK or POE. I wouldn't have sunk 400 hours into PK or 200 into POE if they had only been TB.
Just because TB is table top style, because its the simplest to implement, doesn't mean a computer game has to follow that same style. That sounds like a Tabletop purist talking.
I used to play TB growing up but its a time sink these days.
RTwP is considered "a relic" by some because some people considered a limitation of the infinity engine at the time. But the infinity engine games were so beloved that some people start liking the combat system.
The problem with the computer version not following the same style of the PnP is that when you advertise a video game based on a PnP RPG game, the fans of the tabletop game are going to expect that the game stick close to the rules. Furthermore, it is not about purism, the rules were made to work in TB so the system will work better in TB.
I honestly enjoyed lots of RTwP games, including the most recent one, PF:K. I don't think that RTwP is terrible. But I think the TB in PF:K was an improvement. In my first playthrough of PF:K I noticed that I wasn't able to enjoy the tanks of my party very much, because I spent most of the time in combat controlling the spellcasters. In my second run tho I could enjoy all members of my party equally. Another thing that really annoys me in RTwP is that I have to keep running away from the enemies with my spellcasters all the time, otherwise they get killed. This is really annoying, doesn't feel natural and it doesn't happen in TB video games.
Tbh, the more experience I have with cRPGs the more limited I think RTwP is. I don't know if it is the fact that I am getting older and I don't have the same reflex/attention capacity that I once had to monitor so many things at once, or if I just started to realize that TB feels better for me. But I get I so many people prefer RTwP, it is more fast-paced, for better or for worse. The only thing I don't get is why so many complain that the games take longer? Even if your time is limited, you have more gameplay time to fill your limited free time for a longer, why the rush to beat the game?
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