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Chances are that Obsidian can surprise you before Square does imo
where is The Stick of Truth btw?
2014: Year of the RPG?
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Chances are that Obsidian can surprise you before Square does imo
where is The Stick of Truth btw?
FateBreaker
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Oh, whatever. That game was all kinds of goodness.
Project Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera aren't sequels, specially PE.
PS: I don't give a crap about X
Gameplay in Planescape is fine, but it's just that story, characters, atmosphere, music are all so fucking good. Missing out on it because gameplay is a little underwhelming would be a huge loss. Like, I only went through it last summer, and I didn't think it was possible for a game to have a plot that good.
Stumpokapow
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2013: The Year of the RPG resurgence outside Japan?
2012's onslaught of RPGs! How can we survive?
2011 - the year of RPG
2010: The Year of the RPG
(a mod edited the thread title of this one because LOL but the original title was)How about: 2008, the year of the RPG
J-rpg year 2007 in review
yes, we get the point, many rpgs are being released every year (except apparently 2009)
2012's onslaught of RPGs! How can we survive?
2011 - the year of RPG
2010: The Year of the RPG
(a mod edited the thread title of this one because LOL but the original title was)How about: 2008, the year of the RPG
J-rpg year 2007 in review
yes, we get the point, many rpgs are being released every year (except apparently 2009)
At least for fans of isometric, party-based RPGs it's really different this time around. I think there are more of those being released in the 2013-2014 period than in the past 6 years combined.
The Return of
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You should still give it a shot tbh. I recommend the game all the time, but I can't stand the terrible gameplay, but there are others who think it is just fine.I personally can't play RPGs just for story
2013, the year of the ps3.
You never really need to do much with the combat and such though. I looked up a build before playing and just followed through with that. There are very few mandatory fights, and you can get through them fairly quickly even if you rely on luck. Yet the story is not even exaggerated, some of the things you discover both as part of the main quest and on side quests blows your fucking mind. If combat was necessary and always got in your way, that might be a problem, but you can play most of it like an adventure game..
This sounds exactly like a game I wouldn't like. I'll keep ignoring Torment for the time being
How about traditional JRPGs? I guess those are dead on consoles now. I wonder if it's because not enough people would buy them or because publishers just think that there isn't enough interest in the market.
Thanks god, at least the 3DS has proven to be an awesome platform for JRPGs.
I've basically given up on console JRPGs, good ones are so few and far between. Perhaps the next Final Fantasy will come out in 2014, if they had started work on it before now. They already had the next-gen engine for a while too, and it worked on PC, and transitioned to the PS4 just fine. Though they seem to stray farther and farther away from traditional.
This sounds exactly like a game I wouldn't like. I'll keep ignoring Torment for the time being
Well the Torment 'sequel' will have more modernized gameplay anyways. It isn't based off the same systems, yet keeps the tone and direction of the original. I'd recommend keeping an eye on it at least.
The 2012 one looks bad now. That was one of the weakest RPG years in memory.
I remember most people giving RPG of the year awards to ME3 because they were like "well....fuck it. What else is there?"
The year a shooter won best RPG.
The prettiest hallways to ever grace an RPG.
Mister0079
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I wish we'd get a Deus Ex/Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines style of RPG. Indie/KS projects are mostly limited to 2D and on "AAA" developers don't make those types of games anymore.
I don't even remember when ME3 came out.
Barely over a year ago now. March 6th-9th depending on territory.
Kickstarter games and CDPR mean actual RPGs though.
I wonder if Iorveth is in 3...
Sentenza
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I'm not really sure what's so terrible about Torment's gameplay.
First things first: dialogues in Torment are an active and substantial part of the "gameplay", like they are in Age of Decadence, not just "colorful background story".
Second point: when it comes to battles it's a tactical party-based RPG in real time with pause, in the same fashion of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 (which I loved, especially the latter), just with a slightly clumsier interface (which ironically enough was originally intended as an "improvement" of BG's interface; it just didn't work very well).
But that was the year with Demon's Souls, Dragon Age: Origin, Borderlands, and... uhh, Devil Survivor?
Huh, I think 2009 really may have been a leaner year.
Sentenza
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It was the year of Risen for me.
These are the RPG years of our lives!
And I saw Mario & Luigi came out that year, and it was the first official release of Dragon Quest V outside of Japan.
I think it was OK for JRPGs, there were worse years recently, but on average unless you count Xenoblade only ME3 came close to being that big RPG of the year, and even it seems a solid enough chunk of people who did count Xenoblade were disappointed, and if NoA hadn't been so lukewarm on bringing it out it would've been a solid 2011 candidate (no way could I have picked it over Dark Souls though, and the majority ran with Skyrim anyway.)
Actually, after '12 being kind of disappointing and already getting some great JRPGs with amazing Kickstarters it's easy to see why someone would be more optimistic for '13 and even '14. Come to think of it maybe 2014 should be called the year of the Kickstarter, especially if we are to assume games like Wasteland 2 get delayed.
The Return of
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I know enough about it and played enough of the game to dismiss it. The amount of adventure games I have enjoyed I can count on one hand....and I played over 30 so sorry that doesn't appeal to me at all.
What types of overlap between the 2 do you see? I'm asking because I love Japanese RPGs but it's the rare western RPG that captures my imagination.
Why is it so narrow if he isn't into western RPGs? Do I attack people for being narrow and closed minded if they aren't into FPS games?
SatelliteOfLove
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Looking back at those, I do think it is extremely early to be revving up the hype train considering how many of those blew ass, came out years later, or not outside their home regions at all.
Well if I were to look at Hiroyuki Ito's(creator of every good final fantasy subsystem, director of FF6,9,12) quote that best defines what makes a JRPG for him:
If you look at this as a quote from the perspective JRPG developer or WRPG developer, it is relevant to both. If you like one but not the other, you just may be more into ridiculous and over the top Japanese sort of plots, but core mechanics and focuses on character customization, character development and story exist in many games of both subgenres.
I don't 100% agree with the last part, since sometimes I can get by with a decent combat system as long as story is really interesting. (i.e Planescape)
I guess a lot of JRPGs are also more streamlined and have less customization options, but at their core the base ideas are the same.
Still the most underrated RPG known to man.
Perhaps the best exploration-RPG ever made.
And then they fucked everything up with Risen 2. I am still crying.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Our sci-fi/fantasy/spy RPG, CSH, will be coming out in 2014 so there's that. 
Sentenza
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I do.
I can't say I'm too fond of anyone being blatantly closed against any genre.
Personally, I always try to keep an open mind even about genres I have very moderate interest in.
Which doesn't mean I have to like everything. It simply means I will consider every genre as an option if the game is outstandingly good.
And to be honest, it's not surprising to me you are so ready to jump in his defense, as you are the very flagship of the closed-minded attitude on this forum.
Or you could prove me wrong and, you know, state for the thousandth time how you like just japanese games and nothing else.
I just think there is a weird double standard going on a lot of the times between western/eastern game fans, or PC/console game fans.. it's like its OK to vastly western and PC gaming but god forbid its the other way around. Hence why I am taking that guy's defense.
I'll admit I exaggerate my love for Japanese games and hatred for western games on this board. It's mainly due to the frustration at the industry-wide backlash towards Japanese games that's been going on for the last few years. There have been western games (yes, even western RPGs) that I've played and liked. Truthfully, I've been more open-minded towards the kind of games I played in the past (due to having more time and less options), but I won't immediately shut out a game based on its locale or genre.
Nor do I attack people for their preferences, unless my preferences are the ones getting attacked. I don't really care about what other people choose to play/do in their free time, as long as its not hurting anyone.
I don't like some of the negativity towards it, mostly ignorant comments about what Japanese games entail, but truthfully, for me great JRPGs have been very sparse this generation. I think over half the games I played last-gen were JRPGs, the PS2 had more high quality exclusive JRPGs than other 2 systems had all genres combined in my library. This generation, Tales is about the only series that continued from last gen that I cared about, and Graces wasn't that good anyways, Vesperia was cool though. Xenoblade was pretty sweet as well. Didn't find any of the Mistwalker ones to be great. Ni No Kuni is awesome, but just came out.
This gen it's mostly handheld ones, and even highly praised ones like Radiant Historia, I just can't get into, yet I can still play SNES,PS1 or PS2 JRPGs I missed for the first time and enjoy them, so I know it isn't my taste changing too much over time. I am mostly talking about traditional JRPGs specifically, not including stuff like Fire Emblem. Trails in the Sky was the only one I felt was console-tier, and that was originally a PC game...
WRPGs helped fill in that whole for me this generation, and I caught up on a lot of classics I missed.
Hours Left
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I think this year has much more going for it right now in terms of RPGs. Two big surprise hits already (Ni no Kuni & Fire Emblem Awakening), and lots more RPGs in the pipeline.
The list you posted for 2014 doesn't interest me at all besides Versus, but hopefully the momentum building up this year will continue.
The list you posted for 2014 doesn't interest me at all besides Versus, but hopefully the momentum building up this year will continue.