It’s one of those things that snuck up on me slowly over the last few years, but this year, particularly after E3, I had to stop, take a long hard look, and realize just how much one of my favorite genres has changed.
I’m an RPG junkie. I love leveling up, exploring dungeons, finding new weapons, learning new spells, or putting mods on my gun to beef it up from lethal to Epic Overkill. I like it when characters stop to talk to each other, plots ride up and down a revelations rollercoaster and the world—or worlds—are in stupendous jeopardy. This year is no different, there are still many RPGs on the horizon that I’m chomping at the bit to get my hands on and play.
A new Skyrim Switch 2 update delivers major visual upgrades, surpassing some console settings, but locks the game to 30fps and introduces noticeable input lag.
That's ridiculous, lol. I'm waiting for the guy that says its too cpu-intensive for the Switch 2. This game is old af and has been released like 17 times.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith explains that the game's bucket stealth was an unintended feature of the game.
Lordbound is finally here.
A good read. I couldn't agree more.
Theres more jrpgs developed than wrpgs, with better scores on average, and more differentiation.
It should be rpgs are going east
"Tales series that attempt to emulate Western RPGs by putting an emphasis on semi-real time combat"
WHAT??????????????TALES HAS BEEN DOING THIS 20 YEARS AND THEY ARE COPYING?
"Fast forward a few years and it is the Western RPG developers offering the new experiences and the Japanese RPG developers that are doling out the tired clichés."
WHAT?????? YOU MEAN LIKE THE SINGLE PLAYER ACTION IN A FANTASY SETTING CLICHE? OR THE TAKE A GUN AND SHOOT EVERYTHING AND PRETEND ITS AN RPG CLICHE?
OH you mean new experiences like how in japan they actually created a new rpg sub genre this gen like the sports rpg? how valkyria chronicles turned srpgs on its ear?
If you know anything about bethesda oblivion and skyrim are more or less exactly the same as morrowind in terms of gameplay. Bioware takes baldurs gate and reskins it.
"Skyrim is preparing players for a massive world with choice in every direction, Final Fantasy XIII-2’s big selling point seems to be “It’s not quite as linear as the last game.”"
Oh you mean if skyrim is like oblivion and that massive world is filled with NOTHING to do......... The selling point of 13-2 is lets do better than the 84 averaged game 13 was.
Guess what, games can not be open world, focus on the story and gameplay, and be just as good SHOCK
Come on cant this article have at least 1 fact?
I am sick and fucking tired of these generalizations, cliches, and lies........PS I did plenty of the same to make a point
oh and way to take game informers article, read it, copy it, and then right the same point
I've always liked western RPG's more anyways. I mean, I'm not a huge RPG fan, but I loved Oblivion, and I'm really looking forward to Skyrim. But I was never into the Eastern ones, like Final Fantasy. Honestly, I think the Japanese/anime culture is just a bit weird to me.
Its called Business.... I do love a good RPG. Some of my favorites include Valkyria Chronicles and Resonance of Fate. But simply put... its just business
There actually aren't that many wrpgs than the guy thinks and the guy is only looking for mainstream/popular jrpgs and has not looked further into the genre.
That's basically it...