It's a game versus forum.....it says nothing about characters, so its perfectly alright to have to games face each other.
And no, these games are simliar in nature. They're both open-ended, character driven games. The only difference is that one has character upgrades, but overall, they're very similiar.
But this is an games vs forum, not an character vs forum.
It just happens that everybody uses characters, but I think its a great idea to have actual games going at it.
id say on all 1,2,3 and 4 that Elder scrolls is much better, i played Oblivion for days without stopping once until my character was like lvl 20-30 but on GTA i couldnt be arsed and so i just shot people and stole cars which lasted for about two hours before i got bored, i wasnt interested in the missions at all, not enough reward when you can get a huge sum of money just for beating people.
Also when i first read the second part, Characters VS Characters then its difficult to say, do u mean the players character VS tommy vercetti and all the thugs and gansters in which case Elder scrolls easily wins because you can make super spells in Obvlion to while everything out and should yourself or do u mean Gansters and thugs of liberty city VS simple swordsmen and magicions in which case its pretty hard to say since machine guns are more or less enough to shoot em all down, then again Magic is unpreditcable
"1. This forum is Video Game Versus. Therefore, all characters in the match must originate in a video game - simply appearing in one is not good enough! If you are unsure if a character originates in a game, do a little research first"
It does mention the word characters, but the key phrase is Video game versus. So, yes, I think this thread is a very valid thread.
Also, if Lana had rules that said everything had to do with characters and not the actual videogame, wouldnt Lana be breaking her own rule by allowing an next-gen vs thread? That has nothign to do with characters AND...she even stickied it so its the first thread people see.
and also
3. Please, try and keep them to no more than 3 vs. 3. If they are in teams, each team can have up to 5. Otherwise it just gets too hard to discuss. Matches that are 1v1v1 etc are not allowed and will be closed.
I neither made nor stickied that thread, it's been there since before I was mod.
This forum is for VG Character VS only, as has been said. It is not explicity stated as such in the rules because just like CBVS and SWVS it is implied and common knowledge that that is what it's for.