29th November 2004, 2:25 PM
Quote:But if I was telling you about a platformer the two terms would make a difference in how you thought of the game. Example: If I said "2D sidescroller" you'd think of a sprite-based platformer, but if I said "2.5D sidescroller" you'd probably say "Oh, so it has polygons?". Of course, I could tell you that along with saying that it's a 2D sidescroller, but by using descriptions I could get you to tell the difference between a car and a truck only using the term "motor vehicle".
No, "2.5" makes me think of some aspect of depth -- given that 3d means a world that expands in 3 dimensions, then 2.5d should be something in between... like one with some 2d and some 3d aspects, or limited 3d (isometric?) that you could pass off as "2.5d", etc... it doesn't really make me think of something that happens soley on a 2d plane... "2.5d sidescroller" does, but then again I'd say that that is an at least somewhat contradictory defintion. :)
Now, as I said in some cases 2d sidescroller isn't the whole picture -- GGA and its isometric/3d towns is a good example of that -- but in a lot of cases they are.
Quote:RPG, by the very words that comprise, could be just about every game that's ever been made since in each of them you play a certain "role".
That is true. It just relies on people agreeing that "RPGs" are only one specific kind of game really,