The above post was mine, in case noone realised

Another reason RPG''s are popular to discuss, especialy in the design section of this forum, might be because other games are truer simulations. In a simulation, it''s pretty straight forward what you have to program. In a racing game, you have to make the car move and turn and control other cars. It''s all stuff that happens in real life, so you don''t need to ask someone ''how would that work''.


In RPG''s, or a racing game where the cars have weapons and can fly into outer space and the racers interact with there sponsers and other racers, there is untraveled territory. Suddenly a system becomes more complex when magic is involved and player-character interaction enters game play.


This is just an idea. I think that the immersion of RPG''s makes people, especialy thinking people, like the kind of people that make games, like RPG''s better. And we make games we like. The immersion factor is probably more important than the actual dynamics of the games types... or not.


-Jason