They said CRPG 8 times before saying what it meant, “Cinematic Role-Playing Game” for anyone else confused. I don’t know why they had to give flashy games their own sub-genre but whatever.
Except that’s never been the meaning of CRPG. For 30 years it’s meant “Computer Role Playing Game” and occasionally “Classic Role Playing Game” it has never ever meant Cinematic.
I’ve never heard the term CRPG in any context until this thread lol
Only rpg, arpg, jrpg, and jpeg…wait
Regardless, Bioware beat them to whatever they mean by it.
Obviously, it was murdered and reanimated as a foul abomination, but they still actually defined the genre dammit, Dragon Age perfected this shit fifteen years ago and I’ll fight anyone who disagrees and is preferably smaller than me.
CRPG is at least as rock solid standard of a term, with decades of history, as JRPG or ARPG. They’re all very clearly different genres, with common ideas on progression.
Computer RPG was established to differentiate from table top RPGs many years ago. It doesn’t mean “cinematic”, and it shouldn’t need to be defined in an article on gaming any more than FPS does.
It’s bad writing not to define the acronym. Refer to the 10k comic from xkcd.
I promise you less than 1% of writers define FPS. Probably in either context.
Defining acronyms in a 4 sentence article is dumb.
Been gaming 35 years and never heard the term and to top it off, at least according to you, they used it wrong.
I don’t think that’s what they wrote.
the developer put its all in making not just a great CRPG but also a large-scale cinematic role-playing game
They’re saying they made a CRPG AND a cinematic RPG. Poorly worded, but they are not defining CRPG as cinematic. They are saying “this CRPG is also cinematic.”
