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Do you enjoy destroying everything and everyone around you? Have you ever wanted to wreak havoc upon an entire civilization? Perhaps you enjoy rescuing the damsel in distress over all of the death and destruction? Some games incorporate one or two of these themes; First Person Shooters, or FPS games cover the complete destruction, Real-Time Strategy, or RTS games cover the civilization annihilation, and adventure games cover the maiden rescuing. There is only one type of video game genre however, which fuses all of these together to form an immersive and addicting video game. RPG’s, or Role Playing Games, are the best genre of video game you can play.
RPG’s are great games for a lot of reasons. One such reason is the shear length of which many RPG’s are famous for. Many shooters are around fifty to sixty hours with a few being as long as ninety hours. RTS games are shorter yet, at around forty hours. If its length your looking for then a good RPG is the way to go since most are well over 150 hours long and will even go up to over 200 hours. To many gamers, the length of a game has a lot of influence on whether they like it or not. Generally the longer a game is, the longer the story is and the more there is to do within the game’s world.
Using the extended length of most RPG’s allows the makers to also develop another important element of a good video game, the storyline. When someone plays a game, in most cases, the story can either make it or break it. Everyone likes a good storyline with plot twists and a surprising death of a loved character. Other game genres just don’t have the same in-depth story lines as RPG’s do. Shooters are too focused on a single, end-boss or destination and RTS games are usually about two races fighting to either defend against or completely destroy one another.
As with books, video games have characters which the player often gets attached to. Unlike many books however, game genres such as shooters and RTS games have little or no character development. The character development in a video game is important because it allows the player to feel for the character and usually choose which direction that character will take throughout the game. This is just another reason why RPG’s are the superior game genre. The player gets the chance to choose, for example, whether his character will specialize in melee combat or ranged combat and choose if his character will choose the path of goodness or walk down the path of evil and darkness. Within an FPS game though, the player is mostly limited to what weapons he will use or choosing between a left and right path. RTS games are too wide scale to involve much character development since the player is usually controlling entire armies.
Games are expensive to make, this is a fact. RPG’s