RPG

[YoCard]

What exactly is an rpg i never really got when peopel say it.

[Guest]

Rocket propelled grenade


Favorite of the Russian Army and Middle Eastern insurgents in movies everywhere.

[Nystul]

What exactly is an rpg i never really got when peopel say it.
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Rocket propelled grenades: Handy for blowing up your neighbor's car from a safe distance.

Or maybe you mean role-playing games? The idea of an RPG is that you pretend to be the character, not making the decisions and taking the actions that *you* would do, but rather the ones that *your character* would do if he/she/it were real. Ideally an RPG is not about your ability to click a mouse with lightning reactions or get lucky rolling dice, but rather your ability to understand your character and the world that character lives in.

In other words, it's a game where you kill thousands of really wimpy monsters with high fantasy weapons and spells in order to build up your characters "experience" and "attributes" and get better "equipment" before moving on to kill thousands of less wimpy monsters, and so forth, until you ultimately save the world. :rolleyes:

[Rhydderch Hael]

Rocket propelled grenade
Favorite of the Russian Army and Middle Eastern insurgents in movies everywhere.
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The Soviet RPG actually stood for Rocket Antitank Grenade, in Russian (Reaktny Prototankovich Gramotet, or something fo the like. My Russian sucks).

Western forces contrived "Rocket Propelled Grenade" from the acronym, which wasn't all that hard since two of the three letters in the acronym matched the conveyed terms.

[YoCard]

counter strike an rpg?

[LemmingofGlory]

counter strike an rpg?

That's not a sentence.

RPG_(disambiguation).

-Lemmy

[jahcs]

counter strike an rpg?
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Counterstrike is an FPS, or, First Person Shooter, type of video game. Comparable to Quake, Black Hawk Down, Doom, and other similar games.

[Guest]

Yes, but my Russian is even worse than yours - and we all know there was no way I was going to look that up. So instead I went with movies.

[TriggerHappy]

The Soviet RPG actually stood for Rocket Antitank Grenade, in Russian (Reaktny Prototankovich Gramotet, or something fo the like. My Russian sucks).
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Roketnaya Protivotankovaya Granata.

Granata (Grenade) in Russian is a "she" not an "it".

By the way, 'Reaktny' means 'Reactive'.

Just your friendly neighbourhood Russian dropping in ;) .

[LochnarITB]

Granata (Grenade) in Russian is a "she" not an "it".
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My immediate thought was "of course it is". :whistling: :lol:

[Rhydderch Hael]

By the way, 'Reaktny' means 'Reactive'.
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Sort of fits. A rocket is a reaction motor, after all.

And 'granata' is easy to understand. The Spanish word for pomegranates, 'granada' was used to describe small hollow bombs filled with lead shot. When the English butted heads with Spain in the Americas, the term for the weapon carried over as the 'granado shell', which evolved into 'grenade'. The Russian term easily traces it origins to that same Spanish moniker.

[kandrathe]

That's not a sentence.

RPG_(disambiguation).

-Lemmy
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But, at least he used a question mark this time, instead of just a run on sentence lacking in grammar.