There are good ideas on this forum, but not that many. So many ideas are shot/taken down simply because people don't constructively criticize and instead use the argument, "It's too RPG-like!" Although, few people have the correct meaning of the term 'RPG.'
RPG is an acronym that stands for Role-Playing Game. That term is used for gaming, in which you take on the role of something and that is the protagonist of your game. This means one thing. Minecraft is not entirely a role-playing game. Why is that? Well, survival mode gives you the role of a survivor. You're simply (by default) a human being that is trying to thrive and advance. You are trying to discover and create. Now survivor is a broad term for all of these roles:
Miner
Hunter/Warrior
Digger
Lumberjack
Farmer
Adventurer/Explorer
Alchemist
and the list goes on..
You can do so many things in this, while playing survival. Those are all roles the general survivor or Steve does in this game. They could own a village, become a redstone-punk (note: the term redstone-punk is simply a pun on steampunk and is not meant to be taken offensively), make vast buildings, explore the world, work for some sort of authority, make a path to follow, create your own adventures... seriously. It does not end. You have SO many roles to take on, and survivor is the role to show all of them.
Role-playing games are not about fantasy and dragons, although the general type of role-playing games have these elements in them. In real life, even YOU have a role. Whatever you choose to do for a living is your role. So don't generalize the term 'role-playing game' as 'dragons, fantasy and magic', unless your career in life involves any of those.
This argument is used a lot when one idea is complex. Although, it's more of 'only RPG has complex -whatever- in it! it's too complex for the simplicity of minecraft!' Yes, Minecraft is a simple game. It is not meant to have anything complex or advanced thinking in it. But as the role of a survivor, it will. Just redstone automatically made it a complex game. Different tools, different tiers, ways of mining, PvP and all of that makes this complex. Just because 'RPGs' have different weapons or ways to gather resources, this doesn't mean RPG is the only game with these ways. In an RPG, maybe you don't even craft your weapons. Maybe you go through a ton of dungeons to get the ingredients and have some other person/thing make it for you. Maybe you don't mine and farm to get resources. Maybe you do jobs and get money to buy your resources from people. Just because an RPG has this, doesn't mean only RPGs can have it like this. Some RPGs don't even have a complex system of doing things. Accept that almost anything, including what one does in Minecraft, can get complex, not only RPGs.
So that's my opinion on RPG as an argument, how Minecraft is becoming too RPG-like and anything related. Dragons, enchanting, alchemy and dungeon (not the mossy, 5x5 rooms with spawners and chests) exploration does make Minecraft RPG-like, but so does mining, ores, smelting and crafting with the smelted products make it RPG-like. The difference is that one way makes you a general wizard and the other makes you a miner. Now, feel free to discuss this opinion, without flaming and/or negativity. If my opinion is biased and you hate it, don't post negatively. Instead post with your opinion on this and calmly discuss it.
If you're going to use the term 'RPG' then the next time you think of using it, remember this and change the word to 'fantasy.'
Although with fantasy-like as the argument, tell me that walking, green explosives, undead, decayed undead, giant spiders, tall black men creatures, giant insects, boxhead jellyfish ghosts that shoot exploding fireballs, zombified pig-men, slimey cubes/magma cubes, fiery aliens with spinning rods and giant dragons are not fantasy-like. TELL ME NOW. Edit: Because of what's above, ever since survival test this was CLEARLY a fantasy game in some way. The current fantasy is low-level, which means dragons, potions, enchanting, mobs that don't exist in real life... the Nether... The only suggestions that should be shot down are the ones that have a ton of high-level fantasy.
RPG is an acronym that stands for Role-Playing Game. That term is used for gaming, in which you take on the role of something and that is the protagonist of your game. This means one thing. Minecraft is not entirely a role-playing game. Why is that? Well, survival mode gives you the role of a survivor. You're simply (by default) a human being that is trying to thrive and advance. You are trying to discover and create. Now survivor is a broad term for all of these roles:
- Miner
- Hunter/Warrior
- Digger
- Lumberjack
- Farmer
- Adventurer/Explorer
- Alchemist
- and the list goes on..
You can do so many things in this, while playing survival. Those are all roles the general survivor or Steve does in this game. They could own a village, become a redstone-punk (note: the term redstone-punk is simply a pun on steampunk and is not meant to be taken offensively), make vast buildings, explore the world, work for some sort of authority, make a path to follow, create your own adventures... seriously. It does not end. You have SO many roles to take on, and survivor is the role to show all of them.Role-playing games are not about fantasy and dragons, although the general type of role-playing games have these elements in them. In real life, even YOU have a role. Whatever you choose to do for a living is your role. So don't generalize the term 'role-playing game' as 'dragons, fantasy and magic', unless your career in life involves any of those.
This argument is used a lot when one idea is complex. Although, it's more of 'only RPG has complex -whatever- in it! it's too complex for the simplicity of minecraft!' Yes, Minecraft is a simple game. It is not meant to have anything complex or advanced thinking in it. But as the role of a survivor, it will. Just redstone automatically made it a complex game. Different tools, different tiers, ways of mining, PvP and all of that makes this complex. Just because 'RPGs' have different weapons or ways to gather resources, this doesn't mean RPG is the only game with these ways. In an RPG, maybe you don't even craft your weapons. Maybe you go through a ton of dungeons to get the ingredients and have some other person/thing make it for you. Maybe you don't mine and farm to get resources. Maybe you do jobs and get money to buy your resources from people. Just because an RPG has this, doesn't mean only RPGs can have it like this. Some RPGs don't even have a complex system of doing things. Accept that almost anything, including what one does in Minecraft, can get complex, not only RPGs.
So that's my opinion on RPG as an argument, how Minecraft is becoming too RPG-like and anything related. Dragons, enchanting, alchemy and dungeon (not the mossy, 5x5 rooms with spawners and chests) exploration does make Minecraft RPG-like, but so does mining, ores, smelting and crafting with the smelted products make it RPG-like. The difference is that one way makes you a general wizard and the other makes you a miner. Now, feel free to discuss this opinion, without flaming and/or negativity. If my opinion is biased and you hate it, don't post negatively. Instead post with your opinion on this and calmly discuss it.
- SD1AN
Click for penguins in minecraft!
Although with fantasy-like as the argument, tell me that walking, green explosives, undead, decayed undead, giant spiders, tall black
mencreatures, giant insects, boxhead jellyfish ghosts that shoot exploding fireballs, zombified pig-men, slimey cubes/magma cubes, fiery aliens with spinning rods and giant dragons are not fantasy-like. TELL ME NOW.Edit: Because of what's above, ever since survival test this was CLEARLY a fantasy game in some way. The current fantasy is low-level, which means dragons, potions, enchanting, mobs that don't exist in real life... the Nether... The only suggestions that should be shot down are the ones that have a ton of high-level fantasy.