What defines an RPG? Does the Genre even exist anymore...

What defines an RPG? Does the Genre even exist anymore, or has it just kinda been absorbed by everything else incorporating RPG elements these days? If nothing else, what would you consider a pure RPG?

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left because she can actually be useful in helping me find fish to eat

the right one is useless except for quick shags

A
You can still have her do mouth, hand, and tit stuff plus you only get the normal amount of fish smell instead of double

I'd choose a double mermaid over both

isn't that just a fish

Left because most fish dont even blink and that terrifies me.

It's so much more

RPG is usually any game with skills and stats. Choice is not the defining factor of an RPG

Look at this Amish raid.

RPGs, in my eyes, are defined by the conventions set by table top RPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons. These would include things like player statistics that can be changed, experience and levels, class-based structuring of abilities, loot and inventories, and a focus on dungeon crawling/monster fighting and/or NPC interaction

If a game has at least 4 of these 5 characteristics, you can call it an RPG. Otherwise, it merely has RPG elements

So is the top half of a human and the bottom half of a human a half mermaid?

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RPG is a game where you get experience, and level up. And you find or buy better gear.

Oh man, I haven't seen Will Laren in a long time. Is he still making this weird shit?

RPGs are generally described as being similar to a table top game like D&D, although it is possible that a game with elements of one can be considered depending on how in depth those systems are.

Half mermaid, half reverse centaur.

I like it

Like a Kelpie?

RPGs are shit video games, go tabletop or play real games.

Why are RPGs shit

I disagree with your first claim. But I agree that table top games are where it's at

no

Because they have shit mechanics that only work in a real RPG. Also because they use the worst systems in real RPGs and retards eat it up.

>go tabletop
Yeah I can't wait to zone out while Fuckface tries to argue that he can kill this innkeeper morally for his +1 dragon dildo, while the 2 obligatory no-shows go suck each other's dicks, and the game gradually falls apart for the umpteenth time.

Forget combat, you basically need a nat 20 for a campaign to not eat shit.

What good systems should be used instead then? What should be done for RPGs to be not shit

Mermaids? I love mermaids!

Everyone loves mermaids

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>anything other then sex in the missionary position

You sickening Me

> double mermaid

I thought you're talking about the type with two tales

>I'll be a millionaire

I'm really surprised and relieved, that's where he was going with that.

Forgot pick

>tfw a mermaid will never impregnate your ass

Then play with people who actually enjoy them instead of a bunch of randos or friends?

A of courser etard

Yeah? And where do you find those people?

A, other then just being actually cute and sex she actually is probably smarter and I would want someone I can actually talk to.

Card shops, community colleges, hobby shops. They're all over in the right places.

Everyone knows normal mermaids are the best monster girl on the face of the earth even better if they are giant mermaids

Option C: the Squid-eating kind

>playing a d20 system

you have only yourself to blame

If the right is as smart as a human and can speak english then her.

Left cause tits and I can fuck her face and cum in her hair

A no win scenario. I don't like to lose.

Pretty sure A. would eat squids as well.

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But she cannot breath underwater ya dingus!

>missing out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to be a filthy normie

But user, you can only lose with your scenario

>Cheating
She will be!

An RPG is a game where you throw out the role playing part and just keep the stats part that was a necessary evil to make combat work in pencil and paper format.

So ironically it's just an autism simulator.

Who is this Ejaculate Draculette?

The RPG genre is composed of multiple, quite different, subgenres.

What it really needs is a proper classification of those.

Sadly, there is literally no proper academic analysis, since all people who professionally bother with video games are in 9/10 cases 'games=art' fags with pink hair, piercings and tattoos who don't actually know a whole lot about video games.

>almost flat
>looks old
Might as well fuck fish.

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I wanna fertilize A's eggs.

>I'm really surprised and relieved, that's where he was going with that.
If you want an user to tell you they'd fuck a fish, I'm sure someone here can accommodate you.

You just got this idea from the E3 Shantae didn't you.

There's tons of mermaid giantess stuff out there.

And also vore, which is even better

Where's the scylla option?

Left so I can have a friend and emotional companion too, plus we can hug and hold hands and snuggle

I pick whichever one doesn't have lips that smell fishy.

You fucking degenerate, some things are just too far

mermaids are cute!

They're okay

Nah, I've wanted a giant mermaid since I saw this image.
>Boss that spooked me the most is my favorite when girlified

OP may the classic mistake of posting a picture more interesting than the subject.

Yes I do wonder exactly what the definition is, especially between an RPG and a game with RPG elements.

What you say so is true of JRPGs.

Aside from basic number crunching there's no real game. Don't test your reflexes like an action game or test your brain like a puzzle game. They merely test your patience.

they're shit because the hardcore rpg fans are retards who think being a good game isn't a requirement for being a good rpg. their sacred cow mechanics like dialogue trees and quest hubs are objectively shit from a gameplay perspective, but you can't get rid of them without neckbeards crying that the game isn't a "real rpg."

get this filth out of here

how about this one?

Is she the type that tries to eat your face? I see the spooky skulls.

Left because even as a Mermaid, she'd have a rockin' pussy desu. Just a bit more fishy than usual. Ain't you guys ever seen dolphin porn? Damn newfags.

but dolphins aren't fish. Sharks are though.

left one, fish still has pussies.

Just to hold the eggs until they're fertilized.

She doesn't look that big.

It can work either way.

It's anthro of the 7th Colossus

There is another image with wander starting a campfire on her ass thinking its an island. But pretty sure there are nips involved.

So a regular mermaid?

left is better.

A. Shes still got a mouth.

Left because can still gets blowjobs and at least have someone to talk to. Also, can get her to swim me to mainland

Holy shit Anko-san art? Mah niggah.

yeah shame there is so little of it.

A fish is fine too.

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Mermaid with dolphin bottom half

At least they aren't dolphins.

It's a genre that's only real appeal is it's story telling, The same as walking simulators, and adventure games. Only with a Skinner box progress meter to give you a false sense of game play.

You can completely gut the 'zany satire' from GTA and it still be a fun sand box game. Hell huniepop without the porn scenes is still a playable match three game.

But an JRPG is basically no more than a cookie clicker. It can be a well disguised cookie clicker with memorable plots and characters. But a cookie clicker non the less.

For you.

People complain rpgs only focus on story but when a game like saga frontier comes around no one buys

>that ntr doujin where the guy falls in love with a mermaid and asks his wizard uncle to turn him into a merman, only to find out that he now has no dick and his sexually frustrated mermaid girlfriend fucks his uncle instead
>then it happens again with his half mermaid daughter

But what is there to focus on?

Action RPGs at least let button mash, tactical RPG have an element of strategy with movement, unit placement and positioning.

Your classic turn based JRPG however just feels like a visual novel with grinding to me.

Which I guess some people like that, I don't see the point myself.

sauce

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a game where you play a role

NTR mermaid

I think you misinterpreted me i saga frontier is not your tipcal rpg
>It has mechanics unique to the saga series like the lp system and sparking.
>7 different protagonists with unique stories and bosses in each
>has a anti grinding mechanic with the battle rank
>each battle need to be strategic so you don't cuck yourself
And a lot that i can't think right now because i'm tired and need sleep

A.

>stick half fish into an aquarium sealing the rest of the body to let the ass be ouside and the fish part be inside
>have an aquarium with a fucking big fish and a good ass to bump every time you want.
>throw some fish food and clean the water from time to time

B, there is no better answer.

>Let the ass on the outside

Enjoy having to clean the floor.

>sealing the rest of the body
Can you read?

You are letting the ass outside, there is a anus and vagine attached, since it has a fish torso, its safe to assume it has a animal intelligence, when it needs to shit and piss, it will do it.

This is what i meant.