Just like long dialogues don't turn a game into an interactive novel. PST has all the features of a cRPG: stat-based character development and corresponding stat-based checks, NPC interactions, exploration and side quests, equipment and loot, and - as bad as it is - a combat system that utilizes NPC abiltis and spells. It even has a functioning alignment system (as opposed to the "morality police and bribery" system implemented in BG).
Yup. Really, PST was more like a heavy roleplay based D&D campaign, whereas BG1 & 2 were like more combat-based D&D campaigns.
Yeah... I mean, if we're being technical. But there's such a thing as being "too technical".
Visual novels are books presented as a game, despite the fact that they're not really games except by the loosest definition. You could just easily take the story and basic art direction of most visual novels and present them as graphic novels and sell them as physical books. Weird, right?!
Sidenote: Are e-books not "books" then? Because if you say, "No, a pdf version of a book (aka an 'e-book') isn't an actual book", then you're just being silly and pedantic at that point. What about "audio books"? Point is, do you see how silly it is in a world like ours, where technology is to the point it is now, to say a book is only a physical book with pages?
Book: a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
So, Ace Attorney, definitely not a book.
This surprised me, so I looked at several dictionary definitions. I did see the one you quoted (in the Oxford Dictionary), but others have moved on. Given I live in Cambridge I'm pleased that the Cambridge Dictionary is a bit more up to date and takes the following as its number 1 meaning: "a written text that can be published in printed or electronic form".
Just like long dialogues don't turn a game into an interactive novel. PST has all the features of a cRPG: stat-based character development and corresponding stat-based checks, NPC interactions, exploration and side quests, equipment and loot, and - as bad as it is - a combat system that utilizes NPC abiltis and spells. It even has a functioning alignment system (as opposed to the "morality police and bribery" system implemented in BG).
Yup. Really, PST was more like a heavy roleplay based D&D campaign, whereas BG1 & 2 were like more combat-based D&D campaigns.
Yeah... I mean, if we're being technical. But there's such a thing as being "too technical".
Visual novels are books presented as a game, despite the fact that they're not really games except by the loosest definition. You could just easily take the story and basic art direction of most visual novels and present them as graphic novels and sell them as physical books. Weird, right?!
Sidenote: Are e-books not "books" then? Because if you say, "No, a pdf version of a book (aka an 'e-book') isn't an actual book", then you're just being silly and pedantic at that point. What about "audio books"? Point is, do you see how silly it is in a world like ours, where technology is to the point it is now, to say a book is only a physical book with pages?
You are confusing the idea of a book, which is a physical object made of paper, with the idea of a novel. And no, an ebook is not a book, that's why it has an e in front, so there is a different word for a different thing.
You are confusing the idea of a book, which is a physical object made of paper, with the idea of a novel. And no, an ebook is not a book, that's why it has an e in front, so there is a different word for a different thing.
No, no, I'm not confusing anything. Definitions update with the times. A book doesn't have to be physical anymore. Shocking!
You are confusing the idea of a book, which is a physical object made of paper, with the idea of a novel. And no, an ebook is not a book, that's why it has an e in front, so there is a different word for a different thing.
No, no, I'm not confusing anything. Definitions update with the times. A book doesn't have to be physical anymore. Shocking!
Don't be silly and pedantic.
I'm not being pedantic, I am being precise. If you want to buy your dad a novel for Christmas, you need to know if he would prefer it printed on paper (a book), in a digital format (an ebook) or in a format he can listen too (an audio-book). Different names for different types of media.
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Even if you look at dictionary definitions of a "game" it doesn't help much: -This would rule out Baldur's Gate and any single player "game", since they are not competitive. -This definition includes absolutely everything that isn't work, including reading and watching TV.
No, but really, adventure elements doesn't fail to change that they're still books, not games.
danganronpa; can fully explore the area map has investigation scenes like ace attorney.
zero escape; more in common with other vns but has escape the room puzzles.
Visual novels are books presented as a game, despite the fact that they're not really games except by the loosest definition. You could just easily take the story and basic art direction of most visual novels and present them as graphic novels and sell them as physical books. Weird, right?!
Sidenote: Are e-books not "books" then? Because if you say, "No, a pdf version of a book (aka an 'e-book') isn't an actual book", then you're just being silly and pedantic at that point. What about "audio books"? Point is, do you see how silly it is in a world like ours, where technology is to the point it is now, to say a book is only a physical book with pages?
Please, pretty please.
Don't be silly and pedantic.