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Re:Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019) by steve_avery on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:44PM (#30066824)
What is a CRPG?
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Re:Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019) by lalaland1125 on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:38PM (#30068074)
Video games that try to implement a D&D like experience.

Baldur's Gate 2 is the defining example.

Top down party based story focused games.

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Re:Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019) by danaris on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:02AM (#30071846)
That's a subset of CRPGs, which simply stands (as the sibling notes) for "computer role-playing game". It's not the entirety of the genre by any means.
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Re:Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019) by steveklabnik on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:01PM (#30066952)
"computer role-playing game"
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Re:Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019) by vmception on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:37AM (#30069220)
(archaic)
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