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« on: September 15, 2004, 02:46:52 pm »
I think lore is vital, especially to the RPG genre.
RPGs have become to reliant on things that people already know: elves, dwarves, gnomes, blah blah blah.
These are okay, but where are they from? Are they good or evil? Why?
You have to have quests in these games, but why are you killing NPC_001 to give his head to NPC_002? You have to have a reason for these things.
A backup storyline isn\'t enforcing any rules - look at old-style D&D. Your DM set up the scenario and the story played itself from there. Without that scenario you don\'t know what you\'re doing there in the first place.
So yes, I think it\'s very impotant myself. But then I love reading lore and discovering exactly why I should be doing things, rather than just mindlessly following orders
RPGs have become to reliant on things that people already know: elves, dwarves, gnomes, blah blah blah.
These are okay, but where are they from? Are they good or evil? Why?
You have to have quests in these games, but why are you killing NPC_001 to give his head to NPC_002? You have to have a reason for these things.
A backup storyline isn\'t enforcing any rules - look at old-style D&D. Your DM set up the scenario and the story played itself from there. Without that scenario you don\'t know what you\'re doing there in the first place.
So yes, I think it\'s very impotant myself. But then I love reading lore and discovering exactly why I should be doing things, rather than just mindlessly following orders