Square Enix's Wada On The 'First Tide' Of The Gaming Revolution

[Chardrizard]

I'm glad I grew up during the RPG golden age. It's going straight to the crapper in the future.

Lol i love this kind of saying, because this is exactly what our parents says during their time. "Our time was the best, it will be crap in the future", stuff evolves overtimes, people need to accepts that or the new generation is going to label us as primitive human being.

[Betelgeuzah]

Lol i love this kind of saying, because this is exactly what our parents says during their time. "Our time was the best, it will be crap in the future", stuff evolves overtimes, people need to accepts that or the new generation is going to label us as primitive human being.

Get off my lawn!

The only reason "RPG's" saw any kind of success in the S/NES/PS1 era was due to other genres being so godawfully BAD. Mainly action games. In essence "RPG's" are merely action games with simple gameplay mechanics, so of course they worked rather well for what the hardware could accomplish back then.

Alas, in PS2 and PS3 era action games have come back with a force of thousand suns (with games like DMC, MGS4 and Bayonetta). and as soon as that happened, RPG's became instantly inferior (not all, but most). SE is doing exactly what it should- turning the "RPG's" into what they really are- long cutscene-driven action games. The gameplay is not yet on a sufficient level, but it sure as hell is closer.

It's sad they didn't realize it by the time X was being made.

ib4 denial.

[Scherwiz]

Get off my lawn!

The only reason "RPG's" saw any kind of success in the S/NES/PS1 era was due to other genres being so godawfully BAD. Mainly action games. In essence "RPG's" are merely action games with simple gameplay mechanics, so of course they worked rather well for what the hardware could accomplish back then.

Alas, in PS2 and PS3 era action games have come back with a force of thousand suns (with games like DMC, MGS4 and Bayonetta). and as soon as that happened, RPG's became instantly inferior (not all, but most). SE is doing exactly what it should- turning the "RPG's" into what they really are- long cutscene-driven action games. The gameplay is not yet on a sufficient level, but it sure as hell is closer.

It's sad they didn't realize it by the time X was being made.

ib4 denial.

Still prattling I see.

[Seikninkuru]

Get off my lawn!

The only reason "RPG's" saw any kind of success in the S/NES/PS1 era was due to other genres being so godawfully BAD. Mainly action games. In essence "RPG's" are merely action games with simple gameplay mechanics, so of course they worked rather well for what the hardware could accomplish back then.

Alas, in PS2 and PS3 era action games have come back with a force of thousand suns (with games like DMC, MGS4 and Bayonetta). and as soon as that happened, RPG's became instantly inferior (not all, but most). SE is doing exactly what it should- turning the "RPG's" into what they really are- long cutscene-driven action games. The gameplay is not yet on a sufficient level, but it sure as hell is closer.

It's sad they didn't realize it by the time X was being made.

ib4 denial.

Exactly! Which probably contributes to my enjoyment of XIII so much.

[Fated]

Yes, the reason I loved RPGs back during the NES/SNES/PSX era was because everything else was so bad. Where do you people come up with this crap? There are actually people out there who like something because they think it's good not because everything else is inferior.

I've never liked action/shooter games and that didn't change with the times.