14th November 2003, 3:51 PM
Here's ABF's way of "debating":
No, that's no true. I know for a fact that you are wrong, and if you believe that then you are insane. I'm right.
You have a very bad habit of not paying attention to what people write, and it's extremely annoying. You also love putting words into other people's mouths and then arguing with those very words! I don't even have the words to describe this insanity. I know that trying to convince you of this will be as fruitful as trying to convince the geese in our town to stop crapping all over the place, but for some reason I'm compelled to keep trying. Here, let's try this one more time, and before you start forming a crazy retort, actually read what I write and think about it for a second!
The Wars games, while sharing some similarities with a few PC games, are very much unique enough to belong to a seperate sub-genre. Like Phantasy Star which created the console-style RPG (the menu-based combat is not the only thing that seperates console RPGs with PC RPGs, despite what you claim), it is a part of a larger genre but has enough key differences that puts it in a seperate sub-category. Every genre has seperate sub-genres. Everything from racing games (futuristic racers, sim racers, kart racers, etc.) to FPS's (Doom-style mindless shooters, Rainbow Six-style tactical shooters, etc.) have seperate sub-genres. Just like you are doing with Wars and some PC strategy games, you can compare Mario Kart and Gran Turismo and call them near-identical games. However, once you actually play these two games the difference seems like night and day.
No, that's no true. I know for a fact that you are wrong, and if you believe that then you are insane. I'm right.
You have a very bad habit of not paying attention to what people write, and it's extremely annoying. You also love putting words into other people's mouths and then arguing with those very words! I don't even have the words to describe this insanity. I know that trying to convince you of this will be as fruitful as trying to convince the geese in our town to stop crapping all over the place, but for some reason I'm compelled to keep trying. Here, let's try this one more time, and before you start forming a crazy retort, actually read what I write and think about it for a second!
The Wars games, while sharing some similarities with a few PC games, are very much unique enough to belong to a seperate sub-genre. Like Phantasy Star which created the console-style RPG (the menu-based combat is not the only thing that seperates console RPGs with PC RPGs, despite what you claim), it is a part of a larger genre but has enough key differences that puts it in a seperate sub-category. Every genre has seperate sub-genres. Everything from racing games (futuristic racers, sim racers, kart racers, etc.) to FPS's (Doom-style mindless shooters, Rainbow Six-style tactical shooters, etc.) have seperate sub-genres. Just like you are doing with Wars and some PC strategy games, you can compare Mario Kart and Gran Turismo and call them near-identical games. However, once you actually play these two games the difference seems like night and day.