> > In most of the CRPGs, you can't create a character. Your character in POAT is "Kenneth Connell". You're male. You're a technician. You can't play "Kenda Connell", a female ace reporter for the Daily Sun. In games that you can build a character, you're awarded for min-maxing. It certainly would be interesting if you could play a barbarian fighter guy who was of average strength and didn't like wearing armor.

Somehow, when I first read this paragraph, I skipped straight over the sixth sentence and read the "it certainly would be interesting if you could play a barbarian fighter guy" as relating to POAT.

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