Quoting: BeamboomIf that was the ONLY criteria, yes. But I do think that a Role Playing Game at least should be about playing a role, in addition to the technical features expected (many of which you do list). Yes, skill trees, exploration, stats, buffs, XP, all that mechanical stuff that makes a good RPG.

As I said, it would have to be an intelligent ship to make it capable of behaving like a person. Playing just a chunk of steel indeed wouldn't be possible.

Quoting: BeamboomCould a rally game be called a RPG? well, it has customisation, stats and items that affect performance, there can be both "quests" and a storyline in them too. So, RPG? Nah.

A rally game cannot be a pure RPG because the player skill is the all-deciding factor (at least in all rally games I played).
Would you not drive yourself, but rather the driving would be mostly done for you, and the quality of it influenced by character statistics, then yes, a rally game COULD be an RPG. Interesting idea, actually. A rally RPG for people who hate driving ;)

Customization is irrelevant if it does not affect actual gameplay other than by visuals. The fact that you can put wigs on does not define or change a genre.
Neither do quests and a storyline. Pretty much every game gives you a story and objectives to follow, so that can't be it.
There are even (rare) RPGs completely without a story, yet they are RPGs and nobody would doubt it.

Quoting: BeamboomA genre is more than the technical feature list, imo.

What else would it be?
There's a list of "conditions" that make an RPG, the more of these are fulfilled, the more the scale points to it being an RPG.
What exactly that list is, is probably debatable, but it would certainly include the ratio of player skill vs character stats and the fact that you need to play a role (or even multiple ones).

If you can or can not immerse yourself in the role, just because you have trouble identifying as a ship (you wouldn't be the only one, me too ;) ) is irrelevant to the definition as it is purely subjective.

Definitions must function without subjectivity or they are useless as definitions. That includes genres.
Everything else leads to bollocks like people claiming only fantasy games can be RPGs (yes, I witnessed such a "notion" ).

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Quoting: BeamboomBut how can this be called a RPG? We don't even have a friggin' character to play, only a boat? What is it about this game that qualifies as "RPG"? Because it contains exploration? I mean... Come on?

Sure, the developer can market it however they like, but do you think this is a RPG, Liam?

If it is anything like Sunless Sea (which is probably safe to assume), you have:

• One or more characters with stats (your main character likely being the captain)


• A ship with stats and equipment


• Lots of choices to make and consequences to bear


• Outcomes of actions are primarily dependent on stats (in the text passages) and very much influenced by stats and equipment in combat

I'd call that a prime example of RPG, even if not a pure one (the combat is still primarily player-skill based).

RPG does NOT mean you play a person, which would be a terribly narrow-minded and misleading definition.
If that was the criteria, Doom would be an RPG.
If you WOULD play the ship (again, I'm certain you actually play the captain), it would still be an RPG - and the ship would have some kind of intelligence of its own.

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Great news, can't wait.
Although too grindy, I really loved Sunless Sea.

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Quoting: KeyrockI wish them luck, but I think the SMACH Z is going to be dead on arrival. The price is just WAY too high for a handheld.

Yeah, I don't get it, either.
At that price, why not buy a DS and quite some games that were actually made to be played on a tiny screen?

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That looks pretty awesome.

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A cash grab, just as most Warhammer games.
For every pearl in the franchise, like the Total War games or Vermintide, there seems to be at least a handful of... stuff like this.

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Quoting: buenaventuraThe difficulty called "Surviaval" might need some attention :P

I like that the Russian devs implemented this Russian accent even in their UI! ;)

Also:
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.
Please don't be another The Fall: Last Days of Gaia.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemI read the whole article as "Iron Maiden"... Doh!

This comment made me realize it is NOT actually Iron Maiden :D
I was wondering the whole time how they got the license to use the name...

Do you think the band could enforce a game using that name, when the game makers could say it was just named after the torture device and not the band? I mean, that's where the band got their name, and I'm sure they didn't pay anything..

It all depends on how bored the lawyer is ;)

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Quoting: Luke_NukemI read the whole article as "Iron Maiden"... Doh!

This comment made me realize it is NOT actually Iron Maiden :D
I was wondering the whole time how they got the license to use the name...

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Quoting: ErzfeindHave you created a bug report? Not sure if I encountered that issue. In the meantime I'd switch to windowed, which works fine for a card game.

I did. And then refunded.
And then added it back to my wishlist. I'll just wait for the game to really be released, many people (on all platforms) seem to be having problems with the windowing. They probably thought they could be clever, doing the windowing themselves instead of going with standard libraries for that like SDL.

And I never play games windowed. Completely takes me out of the game experience.

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