CohhCarnage Explains What A 'CRPG' Is

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[FranticPress]

The revival of this genre has been such a pleasant surprise in recent years - such incredible games

[shadowlibrarian]

I didn’t know I wanted to know this, but now I know.

[umphreak]

Ngl, that thumbnail has big Gary the Prophet energy. He looks like he's trying to explain astrophysics to a toddler

[ChurroDude]

Been watching High Score on Netflix. It’s a documentary on the history of video games. S1E3 goes specifically into CRPGs and the origin. Must watch for gamers and RPG fans alike. For an old gen-Xer like myself it’s a blast from the past.

[MaydaTiger]

DOS and 2 as in Divinity Original Sin 1, 2 if anybody is wondering

[celies]

I'm an old fart, so I always knew it as computer rpg, but didn't know it had evolved into classic rpg. TIL!

[cyberexile]

ive never seen crpgs referred to as classic rpgs. but that prolly makes more sense than computer rpg.

[Paragleiber]

That's a very useful video! I was wondering about this term a few times already and even after looking it up I was still confused because the first Google results just mention computer and not classic. Now it makes a lot more sense.

[Fathoms]

Isn’t Pillars of Eternity music just the best? So great.

[rondroske]

Whoa, hold on. No, no, sorry. Homie, by the time Arcanum and Fallout were around, the term RPG had already came to refer to computer games just as much as tabletops. The isometric RPGs were a new evolution of the original cRPGs. Most of which were first person. My point: Pools of Radiance is a cRPG while Planscape: Torment is an RPG. I remember playing Baldur's Gate thinking "Holy sh*it, the future is now! These graphics are amazing, look at the detail!". This perspective coming from growing up playing cRPGs like Eye of the Beholder.

[valkyrie]

I discovered this kind of games trough Cohh and now they are my favorites. Thanks Cohh for showing this awesome genre to so many people.

[Ultimatestrife]

Perfect thumbnail, he looks like a crazy person warning us about the dangers of space aliens.

[maphazar]

Jeez he only does this when chat keeps asking him something every ten seconds, must've been bad lol

[Calinks]

Was looking around my room like "Where the hell is that music coming from?"

[WDMurphy]

Also, I believe the CRPG nomenclature stuck around because When Rpg meant "role-playing game" there was also the term JRPG on the rise, and using CRPG (western-style/classic) helped distinguish it from the (for the time) a *very* different type of RPG gameplay.

[ijustsawthat]

RPG = Role Playing Game
ARPG = Action (real time, no pauses)
CRPG = Classic (close to pen & paper)
JRPG = Japanese (they have a particular style)

[ohryuken]

This is so cool and the music was the cherry on the pie, thanks for it.

[folkengames]

Cohh is a pillar of the video game community. An Elder of our church.

[southernknight]

Nothing will ever be as good and dynamic as TTRPGs.

[jclosed]

Well - I was around when the original CRPG indeed meant Computer RPG, because there where more TTRPG (Table Top RPG) around at that time. Originally I loved the isometric classic RPG very much, but got more drawn to the ARPG (Action RPG) like Dragon Age, and The Witcher. Lately I noticed I lean more and more to the JRPG genre. This is probably because I bumped upon the games from Nihom Falcom.
Their massive Trails series have drawn me in like a powerful magnet. It started when I tried out the first Trails of Cold Steel game, and realized there where games before that. I put that game on hold to play those first games at ehhh.. first. It took only a few hours into Trails in The Sky, to make me hooked into these games for life. Needless to say I have played almost every game in that saga (I am waiting for the last game Trails of Cold Steel IV to be released for the PC).
I have looked into other games from this publisher, and found some real shiny gems that are really underrrated. I absolutely loved Tokyo Xanadu eX+, and the Ys series (Especially Ys VIII - Lacrimosa of Dana).
So - It's a strange journey. From TTRPG to CRPG, from CRPG to ARPG, and finally from ARPG to JRPG. But it's a journey I enjoyed every part from. And now I have dived into the rich world of JRPG's and feel like a kid in a candy store...