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tater · 08-24-08, 02:59 PM

This a reaction to my "RTS games are neither RT, nor Strategy" post?

You can certainly say that a game is not a FPS game definitively. If the player sees his avatar from a god's-eye view, it's NOT an FPS, period. "First person" means you see what a person sees. Any additional tools that do not simulate the information that person has, also changes the FP part of the equation. Doesn't mean it's bad, but it is categorically not "FP."

Same thing with "Real Time." I can look at the second had of the clock here, and real time means real time. 2X time is not real time. If some game has a facility being built while a "real time" battle takes place, and it goes from nothing to a gun emplacement in time to participate in a 10 minute long battle, not real time, sorry (unless real gun emplacements are built and ready to fire inside 10 minutes). Again, doesn't meant he game sucks, it's just not "real time."

I don't require games I like to be either, BTW, I just find the labels of them funny since they are in many cases flat out wrong.

08-24-08, 02:59 PM	#3
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	This a reaction to my "RTS games are neither RT, nor Strategy" post? You can certainly say that a game is not a FPS game definitively. If the player sees his avatar from a god's-eye view, it's NOT an FPS, period. "First person" means you see what a person sees. Any additional tools that do not simulate the information that person has, also changes the FP part of the equation. Doesn't mean it's bad, but it is categorically not "FP." Same thing with "Real Time." I can look at the second had of the clock here, and real time means real time. 2X time is not real time. If some game has a facility being built while a "real time" battle takes place, and it goes from nothing to a gun emplacement in time to participate in a 10 minute long battle, not real time, sorry (unless real gun emplacements are built and ready to fire inside 10 minutes). Again, doesn't meant he game sucks, it's just not "real time." I don't require games I like to be either, BTW, I just find the labels of them funny since they are in many cases flat out wrong.