RPG genre (game). What is an RPG?

RPG-game - what is it? This is not about manual anti-tank grenade launcher, but about the genre of computer games, which occupies one of the leading places in the industry.

Distinctive features

The abbreviation stands for Role Play Game or Role Playing Game. The creations of this genre are characterized by the presence of ornate dialogues, freedom of action and a rich game world.

But usually a visiting card is the skill points that you need to distribute between the available characteristics for a balanced pumping of the character.

As a rule, a set of such indicators are like strength, dexterity, armor, magic and intelligence.

But this is not a complete description. RPG-games on the PC are characterized by some exciting story. The player must lead the character through all the intricate twists and turns of the game, live in his skin a small life - play a role and feel all that the protagonist must feel. Such are the modern games of this genre.

Gameplay and RPGs

What is RPG and how else can you identify the accessory? The answer is simple: usually a player controls one or more characters. If this is a detachment, then, as a rule, in modern games each member of the team has his own task for the main character.

The gameplay itself is a vast chain of quests: this is the main storyline and side quests. The first affects the main plot of the game, the second one helps to reveal the personalities that help the protagonist, describes a little the history of the world where the events unfold, plunging the player deeper into the process.

Research and interaction

RPG games on PCs are also characterized by the possibility of traveling around the world for the purpose of research, finding the necessary items that contribute to the further development of events.

The main character successfully interacts with the environment: he uses improvised objects, activates levers to open secret doors. It's not about the usual "shooter", where the player just runs and crushes enemies to the right and left.

The world of the game in the RPG genre also has an impact on the character in the form of traps, natural phenomena, respawn enemies, as well as the presence of places that were closed from the character initially. It is understood that you can get there only after performing certain actions, quests or not at all.

Plot

An important feature is the nonlinearity of the plot: the further development of events depends on the choice of one's own path. If we consider the old conditionally free RPG games on a computer where payment was made only for the purchase of the CD itself, then we can say that the plot was not distinguished by some intricate turns.

The offspring of the NOX type were a classic PRG with a third-person view, where it was necessary to go through and punish the main villain, then watch the final clip and forget it.

With the development of technology, the genre of computer role-playing games has also undergone changes. Suffice it to recall such masterpieces as Mass Effect and Dragon Age from the company BioWare, to give an example of how even a small trifle reveals a whole chain of events. There is also an additional paid content, which is purchased separately.

What is the modern RPG game? What is a masterpiece in general? It is these games and can serve as an answer. In them, the player has to go on a deal with the conscience, make tough decisions, carefully select the answer in ornate provocative dialogues. Each step leads to irreparable consequences, decisions can affect the attitude of team members to the protagonist, and endings depend on all the actions in the game in total.

Sleep is for wimps!

Remembering about RPG-games online, we immediately introduce World of Warcraft from the company Blizzard. The project with an amazing huge world, populated by mysterious creatures, crowded with a lot of game locations, for a long time attracts attention. Many people play for years, "losing" in this amazing place.

The essence of the game is uncomplicated: team up to overcome difficult bosses, participate in the battle with players from other cities or countries of the world, and explore the locations in search of interesting items that contribute to the development of the character.

Classes

As a rule, RPG games online and offline are characterized by the presence of the following game classes: warrior, magician and archer. The presence of such game types is a classic of the genre. More advanced projects (for example, already mentioned Dragon Age) imply the presence of mixed classes: it is, for example, a combat magician, capable of both fighting in close combat, and using elementary spells.

Multiple paths

The nature of the behavior on the battlefield is different. A character with stronger armor usually causes fire on himself to protect "thinner" teammates. This player is called a "tank" on gaming slang.

Another type is "damager" (from the word damage), which has high damage rates. Usually has a weak armor, because it is behind the "tank" and is engaged in the destruction of opponents.

либо усиление атаки на «дамагера», либо повышение брони на «танка». Next to all is some magician who either treats the two above, imposes either augmentation of the attack on the "damager", or an increase in armor on the "tank." Such a player is called a "buffer".

There are also "debuffers" - a player in a team whose goal is to shoot the reinforcements imposed by the enemy magician.

These are the general principles of any modern game in the RPG genre.

Classification of the genre

In the piggy bank of almost any game developer is an released RPG-game. What is special can give birth to this genre, that it is so drawn to leading gaming companies? The answer is simple: freedom of creativity.

Experiments in the field of the game industry have led to the fact that the very genre of RPG can be safely classified:

• RPG-narrative - roughly speaking, the protagonist is simply placed in certain conditions, and the player "floats down the river", performing unexpected quests pouring onto him. And in the end - an interesting ending. Examples include the Dragon Age and Mass Effect trilogy.
• RPG sandbox - the protagonist can do anything that pleases the soul in a giant completely open world. Typically, the game has a lot of quest chains that are not related to each other. Such offspring are considered almost "endless" in terms of passage. Example: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
• RPG-sweep - in other words, the player runs around the masses of locations, killing endless crowds of monsters, performing any tasks, picking up items and moving from one location to another. Examples: a series of Diablo, Dungeon Siege.

Action-RPG

Separately it is worth noting this unusual product of experimenting developers. Features are that the battle in the game is in active mode. That is, the outcome of the battle depends not only on the characters of the character, weapons, armor, but also on the reaction speed of the player sitting at the monitor. For example, in battles you need to dodge bullets, change location (a missile strike can strike a position), constantly move and shoot, and hide in order to replenish health.

Do not confuse the genre with the "slasher", because in the action-RPG emphasis is also made on the dialogues and the development of the storyline. The most vivid examples are the series "The Witcher" and Gothic. To the same genre can be attributed the aforementioned trilogy Mass Effect and the brainchild of the series The Elder Scrolls from the company Bethesda.

Conclusion

Progress does not stand still. With every year there are new games that densely settle in the minds of gamers, preventing them from sleeping for weeks or even months. But only, it would seem, passed an interesting game, as a new one that outshines the previous one.

If before the company and tried to steal ideas from each other, trying to make a game that is a copy of the other (just adding something of its own), now the world's leading developers have fully established themselves in the market of the gaming industry and have proven themselves well.

The first to come to mind are monsters such as Bioware, Bethesda and the private Polish company CD Projekt RED, known to players in the series of games "The Witcher".

Once Dragon Age: Origins was named one of the best games by the magazine "Igromania", but then came out such "titans" as Skyrim, and later - and Fallout, and pressed the "Age of the Dragon." But BioWare quickly returned the initiative, releasing Dragon Age: Inquisition.

So this flow of ideas of different developers is carried, pushing, like passengers in a crowded train at rush hour, trying to break through to the exit, until the doors are slammed shut. One game "pushes" the other both in popularity and in terms of system requirements. New technologies require both payback and high system characteristics of the gaming platform.

Because it grows both the price of the game that has come out, and the need for gamers to save money for a new gaming hardware that will fully meet the system requirements.

And usually on official websites and in game prints indicate two types of system requirements: minimum and recommended. It is clear that the "minimum" graphics will be worse, the game will slow down a little, but in general the process will pass quite tolerably. The owners of powerful computers are special lucky ones - they will be able to enjoy their favorite game at the maximum settings.

As a result, there is only one way: to save money on a new computer, so as not to spoil the impression of the novelty.