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Larian founder Swen Vincke wants more studios to make CRPGs after Baldur's Gate 3's success (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm assuming the C in CRPGs is Character? I thought I'd open the article and learn the acronym, but it never states it!

Pretty bad writing ettiquette to just drop an acronym without first laying out the component parts. Especially so when the article is literally about the acronym and uses it pretty much every sentence.

[–] Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's "classic".

Originally (several decades ago) it was used for "Computer Role Playing Games" to describe video games that closely followed tabletop rpg (rules, universe, or just in spirit). But then video games became more well known than tabletop games, and the "c" dropped out of the acronym because all games where "computer" games. However, a lot of more recent "RPG" video games didn't had this tabletop RPGs feeling (think skyrim and the likes).

So now the term cRPG is back, to describe the same kind of games as before but most people use the C to means Classic instead of Computer.

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

Now that's a breakdown that should be in the article!

[–] Kylarean@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Computer (CRPG) vs Tabletop (TTRPG).

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

....yea, I'm not adding "C"RPG to my vocabulary, literally any one would be able to deduce what I mean just by the topic.

[–] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 1 year ago

CRPG has been around for decades. That’s like saying you’re not adding FPS or RTS to your vocabulary