There is nothing that I hate more than RPGs. Why do I hate RPGs?
The better question is: Why do people like RPGs? I am here, sat on my sofa, hhinking about playing Super Street Fighter IV and I see a bunch of 10 years olds screaming "FF6 is better than FF7" just because the main villain killed bazillion of babies, the fanboys must think that Kefkais the biggest game ever. Not that I like FF7. But these kids fighting for futile things. Gets me angry.
GameFAQs, a place where the majority of RPG fanboys are. They create topics everyday to try to pwn the poor FF7 fanboys just because FF7 became more popular than that 12-bit RPG. I don't like FF7, far from it, it's just an awkward pile of shit. The kids on GameFAQs make it seem that it is essential to prove that Kefka is better than Sephiroth, or vice versa. That FF7 has horrible graphics, and it has, but I'm not going to spend my days with those nerds who play a 12-bit rpg and 24-bit RPG.
RPG fans are a bunch of fanaticals, and they are fed by a major gaming database on the internet, GameFAQs, which considers Fighting a sub-genre of Action (like wikipedia does) and treats like RPG "oMG THE SUPREME UNTOUCHABLE-GENRE". I'm tired, RPGs games are nothing more than technically enhanced adventure games, see, if Final Fantasy VII were a film, it would be a Sci-Fi Adventure film, if FFVIII, a romantic fantasy adventure film, FFVI an epic adventure film, like LOTR.
Just because two asshole game sources consider PRG a full-fleded genre, doesn't make it superior to fighting games, which they make it look inferior by simply putting them into the Action category. What creases me up mostly is that nobody sees that RPGs are just adventure games that feel like adventure movies as opposed to the normally considered adventure genre, like Grim Fandango. A traditional adventure gamem could be in a house,not going to quests, journeys or exotic places, but it would still be an adventure games. Now, RPGs are more traditional to the ADVENTURE GENRE on films and novels. Terra and Locke embark on a quest in exotic places in order to defeat Kefka. like a typical adventure epic film if it were one. So how are RPGs not Adventure games? in anycase RPGs are more adventure than the traditional adventure games.
If War movies are not action films, like saving private ryan who has huge shootouts and guns can't be an action film, why do fighting games have to be action games??? They are not action games. GameFAQs lists Fighting as a sub-genre of action and RPGs like if RPGs didn't have adventures in them? Why not list RPGs under then Adventure genre??? Gamefaqs bigotry. Somehow, the owner of Gamefaqs underestimates fighting games and think fighting doesn't deserve to be a genre. It's like SBAllen walks with a thong written "look at me, RPG is a genre and Fighting is a subgenre"
From what I think, the video game genres are considered as follow
Action (fighting, fps, platfomers)
Adventure
Driving
Role-Playing
Simulation
Sports
Strategy
However, I think it should be like this
Action (fps, platformers)
Adventure (sub-genres: rpg)
Driving
Fighting
Simulation
Sports
Strategy
Why should RPGs be considered a genre and fighting game just a sub-genre just because a GameFAQs bigot thinks so? I would go farther into the progress and say that Platformers should also be a stand-alone genre, since in the 8-16 bits 7 or 8 out of 10 games were platformers.
Why should fighting be considered a sub-genre of action if rpg is not a sub-genre of adventure?
I don't give a f*** if rpg games have roots in D&D board games, they are just adventure games with a more technically "advanced" inteface.
What's the point of RPGs??? Spend 1000 hours leveling up a character for in the end you defeat enemies with a single hit, spend hours fighting the same enemies, gaining numbers... rpg players are a bunch of nerds and virgins. Actually, video game rpgs are not even rpgs in essence, because the original RPGs are multiplayer games and video game rpgs are single-player
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I'd rather play my beloved SSF4 of the "sub"genre of fighting games, because unlike rpgs, they require skill. what skill does RPG require??? it's just lucky, equip the rights things and do the right commands, press A/X-button and win the match.
Fuck off Gamefaqs and Wikipedia.
