1. What is your favorite RPG and why?
Fallout 3. Many fans of the first two disagree, but this game was just perfect to me. The immersion, the gameplay, the characters, the "dungeons"...I just love everything about it. If the Metal Gear series didn't exist, this would be my favorite game period.
2. What subgenre is your favorite and why?
WRPG, I suppose. Again, I loved Fallout 3, New Vegas to a lesser but still great extent, Morrowind and Oblivion are both excellent games, the Mass Effect series is awesome...just a lot of great games to choose from in the genre. That isn't to say I don't like other kinds (The Pokemon games and Paper Mario series are also favorites of mine), but WRPG seems to be my choice here.
3. Does "RPG" do enough to describe a game in the genre?
Well, considering RPG stands for "Role Playing Game", and whenever you play a game you assume the role of the character you're playing, I suppose not. Though in other genres the character is made for you, while in RPG's you get to make it, thus making you feel more involved. Like, whenever I play a Mario game and screw up, I feel like telling Mario himself "Hey man, we f***** up there", while when playing an RPG, the character IS me. Still, the title RPG alone probably doesn't tell enough about the genre, at least in comparison to "Platformer" or "First Person Shooter", so again, I'll have to say no.
4. If you had to chance, would you change the name to something else?
Nah.
5. Would creating more defined subgenres help or hurt the appeal?
Well, subsections to a point is OK, but we already have those. Getting too specific would I think cut the fanbases into too many pieces.
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