Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Nice. Didn’t know thag PRPGs are a thing. I take it that Gothic would qualify although it is German?
What about dungeon crawlers, like Ultima, Lands of Lore or Might & Magic? To me they seem to be very distinct from isometric CRPGs.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a lot of subgenres I wanted to include, but I felt this document was already too long. Here’s more of them:
I don’t know why I overlooked GRPGs since Germany has some pretty important ones. You mentioned Gothic, but there’s also the Sacred series and ELEX series.
I’d say that while both GRPGs and PRPGs are releated to each other, there’s some big differences that go beyond nationality. I’d say GRPGs are more like a muddy Renaissance faire going on while PRPGs have more of a storybook style.