>>3741039
>The interactivity of games begs for a certain degree of freedom in exploration and sculpting of one's own personal story and experiences.
Yeah I feel the same op. And the system and set rules of an RPG need to be there to create the tension and stakes, and to make it a game and not just playing pretend, and it can also help shape your own story.

When I started playing Wizard's Crown for example, on a whim I named two of my characters names that rhymed and so decided they were brothers, just in my head. And then later when I wandered too far into the ruins, one of the brothers, who was a fighter got injured badly and his brother, who was the main cleric didn't have enough karma to heal him. So after that, every time that cleric improved his karma skill, in my mind it was to make up for the brother who died in his arms and whom he couldn't save because he wasn't skilled enough. To me that was more meaningful story than any RPG following more of a script.

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I've gradually begun to realize that the kind of RPG experiences I enjoy are not the story-driven save-the-world long contiguous narratives, but…