Player Abstraction - just who are you?

**Sjakihata** · 11-02-2004, 19:17

Im a guy playing a 'simulation' not a roleplaying game

**Bob the Insane** · 11-02-2004, 21:30

Originally Posted by Sjakihata

Im a guy playing a 'simulation' not a roleplaying game

You sound almost judgemental...

**BlackFireStorm** · 11-02-2004, 22:42

Originally Posted by Sjakihata

Im a guy playing a 'simulation' not a roleplaying game

Interesting point - a simulation of...Rome? The Roman Empire? I agree, it is not a roleplaying game. But it's not a simulation either, at least not a simulation like a flight sim. It may be a simulation along the line of The Sims or Sim City, although slightly different in that there is a definitive 'win' condition.

Is there a genre title for games such as these?

**HopAlongBunny** · 11-02-2004, 22:53

Who am I?

I am the realization of spirit for my faction ala Hegel...I suppose

Genre?
The very same genre as Monty Python's -Complete Waste of Time

**jimmyM** · 11-02-2004, 23:06

haha, just call me zeitgeist...

**Ktonos** · 11-03-2004, 08:25

In CivIII manual I read "you are your civilizations leader, or morelikely, your country itself". I suppose that happens in RTW.,,

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 11-05-2004, 04:33

This is a STARTEGY game not a poleplaying game or a simulation. RTS: Real Time Strategy Game and Turn Based Strategy Game (I do not think people say TBS)

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 11-05-2004, 04:39

Can you believe it, I checked all the spellings of strategy but that one

**Siris** · 11-05-2004, 04:43

I consider myself the Spartan Empires Emperor. I command my men that I created from my cities on the battlefields. I build my armies, I move my armies, I run the diplomacy, I run the fleet; so basically the Faction heir in there is just a puppet that sit's as an icon under my rule.