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Ekim from our forums recently sent me an e-mail and told me he would be interested in writing editorials for RPGDot. A few e-mails later, Ekim's first editorial dropped in and we're very happy to be able to announce that he will have a regular appearance on RPGDot from now on. We actually hope to have a weekly column from Ekim for you every Friday starting today. It's titled "A Gamer's View" but Ekim said he will try to think about a better name until we post his 2nd editorial next week.
Anyway, here is his first one. Feed Me an RPG!! deals with today's misconception about RPGs:The problem comes from today’s misconception about RPGs. In this day and age, it seems like everything must have an RPG element to be complete. There are a lot of games that get thrown into the RPG pool because they have evolving character stats, or because there are some dialogues thrown in here and there. Here’s a guy who adheres to the notion that a quest should be completed by just walking in the general area where the quest NPC is located. Here’s a guy that values the story of a game as much as the toilet paper he has to buy every few weeks. While on the RPGDot boards we debate about whether stories should be deeper and more involving in RPGs he comes in and says that there should be no story at all. |
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A Gamer's View: Feed Me an RPG!!
