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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Getting To Know Computer Role Playing Games

By Owen Jones


Computer role playing games are video games where the player picks a character to become from a list and is sometimes permitted to personalize that entity\'s character and clothing before entering the game to interrelate with other people who have also selected to become computer fictional characters.

Depending on the game and the character, the entity may be good or evil and might collaborate with or against other players. Often it is just| like walking down the road, you do not always know who the person coming towards you really is and what he or she is like. Could be friendly, could be a terrorist, could be a mugger, could be saintly.

There will be quests and you need to complete these quests to progress through the game. In order to complete some quests, you will have to pick up experience and certain things or powers or find someone to help you, depending on the game and the situation.

The first widely-played online role playing game was \'Dungeons and Dragons\' and most contemporary games follow the game play laid down there. The modern games, or the majority of of them, are more difficult than D&D, but then they have had something to copy and improve on.

The character that you assume and develop is known as an \'avatar\' and usually, when you have adopted an avatar, you may not swap it without restarting the game. Do not forget that your avatar will change subtly as the game progresses by learning and getting experience and tools or weapons.

Therefore, do not get tempted to swap your avatar if it seems a bit wimpy at the start. Children are not the adults that they will be, even if the kernel is already there. Your abilities will be displayed on screen somehow, so you will be able to see your strength, experience, magical prowess and what-not progress or diminish.

The setting for the role playing game (RPG) could be anywhere, but the most popular are fantasy, space and historical, so you could be in \'Middle Earth\', on Mars or in \'Merrie Olde England\' for example, depending on the game.

Most games involve magic, but not all and some RPG\'s permit you to re-enact real battles with your own strategy to see whether you would hove won or lost - the Battle of the Little Big Horn, for example.

During the game, you will be required to complete quests or missions. Completing these quests usually takes some abilities or tools or even other people, so you will have to think about how to complete it. This is like a chess game where check or checkmate can be obtained with merely one piece, but more frequently it involves several pieces of certain ranks.

Not all the avatars that you meet will be controlled by other players, Some, the non-role players (NRP\'s) will be computer-controlled and might be there to help you, normally with information or a present, or to hinder you by blocking your route or fighting you. Some of these can become beaten and some cannot, so you could expend a lot of time and energy on them, but you will not know without experience.




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