thread: 2006-02-27 : Unpopular Ideas for 2006 #1
On 2006-02-28, Tris wrote:
Hmm...
Pick up any RPG that sells more than X, and it will have stats.
So I don't hold that they are going out of fashion. Fashion is still stats, hit points, and so on.
I dig what you say about combining stats to make them interesting though.
This makes PK go "Struck me this way too"
Probably better than calling it "unfashionable" or "unpopular" is to look at it as "throwing the baby out with the bathwater."
This makes VB go "it looks unfashionable to me."
I think I'm being dangerously, edgily retro here.
This makes NinJ go "Yeah? How many new game systems in the last year or so have had stats, hit points, and stuff?"
Cuz I see a lot of retreads. Just because something's still around doesn't mean it's actually in fashion.
This makes PK go "And by way of comparison..."
...you could say that the history of art is just the history of artists striving to be fashionable within their little cliques, but I choose not to see it that way.
