LitRPG

I was pondering this question recently: In LITRPG one of the most common stories is earth introduction to a gamified system. Ex: Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, etc. Are there any actual RPGs that attempt this?

It'd be interesting to play a generative game survival/crafting/building game like Dune Awakening where everyone starts from wilderness ala Minecraft and builds a civilization. All NPCs would be from Earth with varying stories, and there would be some plotline associated with it.

Tuco said:

I was pondering this question recently: In LITRPG one of the most common stories is earth introduction to a gamified system. Ex: Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, etc. Are there any actual RPGs that attempt this?

It'd be interesting to play a generative game survival/crafting/building game like Dune Awakening where everyone starts from wilderness ala Minecraft and builds a civilization. All NPCs would be from Earth with varying stories, and there would be some plotline associated with it.

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I'd like this idea as well. However, given the current state of game design, it seems they have a hard enough time just getting wooden hut crafting done right. Imagine having actual meaningful gameplay that advanced through the technology age and beyond. The amount of assets and mechanisms and interconnectivity would be immense. You'd also have to have some way of keeping the powergamers from blasting through content, but also make it fast enough that casuals feel like they are getting somewhere. Minecraft gets around a lot of that by having a lot of the tech shit happen "in a box" so to speak, although mods like Create and the like attempt to remedy that by making it "realistic" (and I hate stuff like Create for exactly that reason).

It could potentially provide hundreds of hours of content for people if they ever made one properly, but between the difficulty and the desire to make money NOW instead of design a complete game for 10 years (during which most of it becomes obsolete), I don't see it happening until AI can make most of it for us. I'd play the shit out of one though, that's for sure. Well, unless my only player choices are various shades of brown and lumpy non-binary bodies.