Gail Shaw <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:
> I'd say the same about the hack-and-slash style of RPG. You just have a
> variety of (mostly) melee weapons instead of a variety of guns and (often,
> not always) the hack-and-slash is 3rd person, not 1st.

> Believe me, if you try just hacking your way through Diable without
> thinking, you have a very dead character very quickly.

  The third-person game types which I have liked most are:

1) The Tomb Raider series: Puzzles, wall-climbing, acrobatics, some
   shooting (but not too much).

2) The Desperados series: Tactical puzzle-solving, but without fully going
   to the RTS category (which I find a bit boring). Gunfights are more of
   a puzzle-solving element than a real fighting element.

3) jRPGs: Tales of Eternia and Final Fantasy 8 are prominent examples.

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