So glad you already wrote that /facepalm in advance.

Don't like it? Ignore it.

Are you high?

I like musicals.
Your profile says that you're from the US. Look around Broadway in New York some day, then tell me if they still feel culturally irrelevant.

And every good TV show has at least one musical episode. In Buffy it was caused by magic, in Star Trek - the last one I saw - it was some subspace probability field or whatever, the Klingons did a boyband performance and were very embarassed about it.

For anyone interested, Austin Wintory has published the Pantheon Edition sountrack in his youtube channel.

This move makes me closer to buy the game, just to support the team behind.

Technically this is a visual novel, but hey let's call absolutely everything an RPG now.

Yeah, we had that discussion in the coming soon. The game card is also mislabeled. Someone at GOG seems to have a broken brain and thinks that VNs are RPGs.

I think that it's the developer setting the genres considering that they put "The Roleplay Musical" in the title. I'm aware of the discussion being in the coming soon thread as I had pointed out in that thread that the pollution of the RPG genre really has reached the level of calling absolutely everything with guns a shooter. I did mean on the level of absurdity where we're saying that Jagged Alliance, Shadowrun, Save Room, Civilization, Master of Orion and Warcraft 3 are all shooters because there's guns in those game somewhere. That's were the RPG genre is at.

Ask adventure game players how they feel ... :s
Try to filter the GOG game list by category and select "adventure".

I think this game along with many other decision making games should be called something like an interactive comic book or movie.

But "roleplaying musical" has a certain ring to it.

People love arguing about what is an RPG and what isn't. I think the reason for it is that the term got kinda hijacked. It lost its literal meaning.

In this game, you play a character and you are making choices on her behalf. You are thus playing a role. The term fits in a literal sense.

If we go by the hijacked definition of a mandatory loot, upgrades and maths problems, then many racing games could also be considered RPGs lol.

The hijacked definition that I've seen doesn't require loot or upgrades, just that you're playing out the role of a single hero character. This means that pretty much all racing games are RPGs.

At the same time, games like Eye of the Beholder are not RPGs because you have a group of four characters and do not assume the role of anyone. They are just dungeon simulators that use the mechanics and setting of Dungeons & Dragons. This is why I have an issue with the whole "playing a role" definition.

Nowhere near high enough to think people randomly burst into song and flawlessly choreographed dance routines. I doubt they make enough to make such abominations valid.

Perfect example. We go nearly 30 years without good trek and JUST when it starts getting watchable again the bust out the horrific "GLEETREK". Seriously, Someone should have been taken out into a field and horsewhipped for trying to push that idea and not only was it a terrible and pointless "filler" episode, It also stoked the embers of the same controversies surrounding trek since its return.

NO tv show has EVER made a good musical because musicals by their very nature are terrible. There is simply not a single good example. Not Buffy, Not Doctor Horrible, Not even friggen Rocky Horror for as antique as that is. They only exist as a carryover from vaudeville days when "theater" was one of the few entertainments available. Thanks to the modern era of the last half century and advents like Games, streaming, On demand video and hell even airways broadcast television rendered the concept of a musical 100% obsolete and pointless.

And as for the US you do understand that the US is over 3.5 MILLION square miles worth of area (over 9 million square KM If my conversions are correct which prolly are not) right? Musical "theater" might be popular in a 1 mile district of New York City and possibly Chicago or possibly LA but it is virtually non existent in the heart of the US or outside of those areas. You are talking out of a 330 million population MAYBE a market of 10 million MAX. Just because something is made here does not mean the overwhelming majority of residents want anything to do with it and if anything are outright repulsed by it. As that IS the natural reaction to it in this era. Rightly so.

10m out of 330 m is about the furthest thing away from being culturally relevant. 38% of US citizens have a netflix subscription but less than 5% have ever seen live PROFESSIONAL level musical theater in their entire lives.

Anyone is free to like what they like but their approval of it does not make it culturally relevant and does not make it a legitimate modern art form.

30 years of Star Trek being unwatchable ... could be for the lack of musical numbers, ever thought of that?
I actually found it quite cool that they pulled this off in a science fiction environment.

It beats two women fighting to the death to get the favor of a tribe leader anytime (TNG, one of the first episodes).

You know what's great about having a choice? You don't have to watch what you don't want to see without the need to rant against it. But of course that won't stop you.

oh it's one of those guys :D