Our playgroup got together today to discuss our upcoming presentation on Diablo, and we came up with some really, really great stuff (so get excited!). The paratextual elements that go along with Diablo are just fabulous. I'm especially looking forward to approaching 'The Bard's Tale,' which appears to be a (snarky) action RPG about action PRGs. It brings to mind a discussion we had in Crime, Deviance and Despair in Early Modern Drama, about the question of paradigm versus parody. A game like Diablo has certainly had its share of emulators, but just how (self-) conscious do these games appear to be of the conventions and stereotypes of the action RPG? And how do they approach them? I think that this question will help a lot in reading these games and classifying them, as well as in constructing a critical literary analysis of the action RPG genre.
Monday, April 2, 2007
Action RPGs - Dedicated to Jeff and Kevin
Our playgroup got together today to discuss our upcoming presentation on Diablo, and we came up with some really, really great stuff (so get excited!). The paratextual elements that go along with Diablo are just fabulous. I'm especially looking forward to approaching 'The Bard's Tale,' which appears to be a (snarky) action RPG about action PRGs. It brings to mind a discussion we had in Crime, Deviance and Despair in Early Modern Drama, about the question of paradigm versus parody. A game like Diablo has certainly had its share of emulators, but just how (self-) conscious do these games appear to be of the conventions and stereotypes of the action RPG? And how do they approach them? I think that this question will help a lot in reading these games and classifying them, as well as in constructing a critical literary analysis of the action RPG genre.
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