| | Idle Thumbs: “RPG fans love a good story” |
 | | We have been describing it as a story-oriented computer RPG; you are put in the role of a young female inquisitor, charged with the task of wiping out religion. |
 | | In a story-oriented RPG, you have a framework which is defined by the narrative — for example, if (hypothetically) your father has been killed, you wouldn’t then go off and solve a workers dispute as the next step because it doesn’t make any narrative sense to do so. |
 | | That’s not to say that you don’t have the freedom to explore and to root around in the world, it’s just that there is a narrative thread carrying you forward in the game, just as there would be in a book or a film. |
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