https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jcUTTm6RA
That's pretty cool, never heard of it. Of course that's still more akin to active time battles (similar to what you find in most Final Fantasy games), not action (like Diablo).
That's absolutely incorrect but color me surprised you'd be wrong about something again. RPGs were turn based to mimic the behavior of table top pen and paper RPGs and early strategy games from the likes of Avalon Hill. It's idiotekque as hell to say the tech didn't allow real time combat when plenty of other games in the same era were. There's no such thing as an ARPG.
I never said
all RPGs of the time would have had action combat systems. I'm aware how turn based combat is similar to a pen and paper game. As always, you read my posts wrong just so that you can claim that I'm "wrong".
But I stand by the fact that if the technology of the time allowed for a game like Diablo or Borderlands, it would have been made in addition to the turn based games. "There's no such thing as an ARPG"? No idea what you're even going on about there. Are you so needlessly difficult to consider Diablo not an RPG? Because if that's the case, there's not much I can say to that.
All I was saying in the first place is that if technology at the time allowed for action combat systems, ARPGs with various combat styles (including first person, like in Borderlands or other first person RPGs like Arx Fatalis) would have been commonplace alongside some of the first RPGs like Rogue, and then
maybe you nitpickers wouldn't be so sure about your little "OMG Borderlands is not an RPG because you shoot stuff" argument. Who knows, you probably still would, so it was likely pointless to say since it just gave you another thing to nitpick.
Anyone remember Little Ninja Brothers for the NES? It was a role playing game complete with world map and villages and what not but when you ran into an enemy the actual combat wasn't turn based, it took you to a screen where you go and punch enemies Double Dragon style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9okMZOsXF0
It wasn't riveting action combat or anything but it was doable if they wanted to do it.
Ha, I actually still own Kung Fu Heroes, the one that came before that game. Fun little games, and those are legitimate ARPGs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J25UZpk2Yns
I actually looked it up, and the first "true" ARPG was a game called Dragon Slayer (heard of it before, but never played it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra4T_0wWM24
This came out in 82, of course, so yeah, 70s technology couldn't build something akin to Diablo or Borderlands. Even this little Dragon Slayer game is hard to compare to those games, which is easy to see from looking at the gameplay here.
ing with us honestly. He knows it's like nails on a chalkboard to some of us.
