Is life an RPG or a Roguelike?

[Marco Fucko]

From your point of view, is life more like an RPG where everyone starts at birth and you can grind up skills to become more powerful over time, or more like a roguelike where you are dropped in a completely random environment and made to survive? Or, if you think life is not like these two genres, which genre is it?

In my opinion life is more like an RPG than a roguelike. You learn and grow overtime and learn what skills you need to invest points in to get ahead. That being said, I can understand why some people feel like life is much more random and focused on survival than succeeding, sometimes you have no choice but to adapt to your surroundings.

Discuss.

 

[The Fool]

I didn't know boardgames had genres, I just thought "boardgame" was the genre.

 

[Postal_Rat]

Given the massive resource gulfs between spawn points, the crippling random events and the lack of back up saves I'm pretty sure its a rogue-like

 

[break these cuffs]

Life is a Boostav. not some pussy ass rpg.

 

[Stasi]

If you're asking about life as a game you might enjoy flicking through this.

A subreddit where they discuss life as if it was an MMO. Can be pretty funny read. Or weird, remember seeing a post a while ago about some guy wanting to an hero, pretty bizarre people discussing it in game terms.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

it's a shitty mmo like second life

 

[A Welsh Cake]

At first I thought my life was a Games subforum, but now I realise it belonged in Deep Thoughts.

 

[Book Thief]

I find that Real Life doesn't give me all the time to think out my next turn, forcing me to improvise solutions on the spot with little reaction time, so I'd hardly call it a Roguelike. If anything, it's more like a TTRPG with honest rolls on your character sheet. Rolled a 1 on INT? Too bad, retard, there's no rerolls in Real Life.

 

[Eryngium]

Rapelike IMHO

 

[Crabbo]

No respawn mechanics, so I would say RPG.

Only it also includes the ability to gain levels in negative skills.

Sat on your ass being unproductive?
+1 Level in procrastination.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

Neither. It's a side scrolling beat em up.

 

[BingBong]

Neither. It's a shoot 'em up.

edit:

Neither. It's a side scrolling beat em up.

Fuck. you beat me to it

 

[Raging Capybara]

Survival Horror

 

[Pissmaster]

RPGs are games designed to let you live the life of a different person in a different world, making choices and seeing what happens while your real self is in a safe environment and your decisions can't ultimately come back to harm you.

Life is an RPG with enormous stakes and many inescapable consequences that can possibly happen, with absolutely no option to reroll, and the distinct possibility that even if you luck into being born healthy, in the first world, to a family with some money, all it takes is a little bit of misfortune to devastate your run.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

Roguelike but We are all playing the role that gets no magic.

 

[Coffee Shits]

It's a bullet hell.

 

[Red Hood]

Life is a cinematic platformer

 

[kūhaku]

The story is pretty lacking and you don’t really get to choose your role, so I would lean Roguelike because the environment is pretty nice for procedural generation.

 

[Berrakh]

Roguelike. An rpg would imply humans are easily capable of lasting improvement when really we forget things we've learned, we fall out of practice, and so on. Maybe when you're a kid it's more like an RPG because things you pick up as a kid might stick with you better, but that's just like selecting a starting class.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Real life is gay

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