Has XBOX killed P&P RPG's?

[Mickazoid]

RPG's won't go away, because...

You can play RPG's by candlelight.

When I was growing up, those 3 LBBs, some pencils and paper and a few dice are all my cousin needed to keep us all entertained during summer months of camping without electricity.

I think the more flashy and overt the online and computer stuff gets, the more starved one's own imagination becomes.

 

[sfchbryan]

the problem that xbox & such is that everything is linear. In P&P RPGs, the players can go in any direction they want.

This changes a bit with MMORGs but the limits are more that just a GMs imagination.

I have both a xbox 360 & a PS2 & they bore me to tears. Yeah, the eye-candy is great, but the story lines are too linear to keep my interest.

 

[aramis]

Some of the better games on various platforms have been only semi-linear.

For example, Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. Many of the quests are easiest when done in a specific sequence, but I did manage to do one of them out of order... and most of the side quests are.

Likewise, the old Fantasoft game, Realmz, was noted for non-linear adventures. Too bad it was for 68k Mac.

Yipe! III was likewise only semi-linear. Get past dungeon two, and you can get to all the game world. (Survive it is another matter...)

 

[Ran Targas]

I've always found that the CRPG and FPS I've played have only added to MTU. I've mined all kinds of worlds, quests, equipment, and even NPCs from these games. I treasure a lot of them for the inspiration they provided.

But nothing beats face-to-face dice rolling!