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Max Schaefer Developer Diary
6th May 2008 03:58 PM GMT | Leord | 0 comments
Similar to Gamasutra, IGN just started a sort of column for game developers to put their thoughts on paper, and give us lowly gamers an insight in their experiences or lines of thought. Max Schaefer was invited, and he has written an interesting article that isn't about either Hellgate or Mythos specifically. It's about our favourite: Action RPGs, the unlikely successful hybrid.What is an RPG? Taken literally, it simply refers to a game in which you play the role of one or more characters. But in practice, I think the term means different things to different people, and from my experience in making them, it's a topic of considerable passion for many gamers. At times, it can resemble a religious war. I was fortunate enough to work on all the games in the Diablo series, a title that is today most commonly considered an action RPG. The arguments about how to classify it were strangely heated, with some people insisting that it was a full-fledged RPG, and others who refused to accept that it was an action RPG... or even that such a category was valid.
A recommended read! Check it out here.
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