Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
What's the convention?
Nan Desu Kan in Colorado I still haven't been approved to go ahead with my panel but if it does, I may record it and post it online.

Quote Originally Posted by VeloZer0 View Post
An interesting topic, and I don't know exactly how to answer. There are some things which I think are general associated with RPGs that I think should be discarded entirely. So it would be hard for me to list something as 'essential' when I don't in fact like it and think it should be gone.

IMO the focus on what RPGs (or JRPGs) are kind of misses the point. I want fun games I enjoy. Games I enjoy tend to follow a form that is generally considered to be an RPG. So it isn't that I like RPGs, it's that I tend to like games that people consider RPGs. I think the concept of having to make sure that every game can fit exactly into a specific 'type' of game really retards good development rather than enhances it.

(For the record I did try your exercise, but could not complete it)
This is kind of the point of the exercise, to show people you can't completely formulate a game concept because people have different and often conflicting wants in a game. Not to mention to show how game design changes over time so that what was super popular a few year ago is now considered dated by modern standards as well as to show how much the different sub-genres are different and similar. So it would be helpful (and fun) if you could finish the form.

I understand the form is far from perfect but it's kind of a preliminary for bigger things so it can be improved later. You can simply make the list but it would also be helpful to rationalize your answers if you feel the need to cause even making the damn quiz made me have to be very specific cause things like dungeon and combat design tend to blend into each other.