17th February 2007, 2:51 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:except for where you call it a "strategy/RPG". It's a strategy game, not "strategy-RPG". No, I won't give up on my position that that genre doesn't exist! :) They're just strategy games with RPG features, not a whole separate genre...)
If there is a bunch of one kind of game, one that incorporates RPG features into a strategy game, then I think that can qualify as it's own genre, simply for the fact that it does not fit neatly into the category of ANOTHER genre. It fits in strategy, it fits in RPG. Why not call it thus? I mean...
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