Disco having "roots" in PST
If only this were actually true...PCGamer said:It's been a great year for RPGs, if you hate and fear the new
Re-releases and retro RPGs made the futuristic-sounding year 2021 feel indebted to the past.
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What's surprising is that most of the new RPGs that squeezed out between 2021's herd of re-releases didn't feel like the future, either. They skewed toward celebrations of the past, the kind of games that will inevitably be described as "love letters."
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It's amazing how much the author misses the mark. It's true that remakes are a plague. It's true that the genre should try to take a new direction. And then the author starts praising some Skyrim mod in which :
Stats and skills are irrelevant to the kind of story The Forgotten City tells, so it does away with them. Distinctions between character classes are so minimal they barely exist—archaeologists get insights into objects they examine, outlaws get increased sprint speed—and there's no leveling or XP.
The author clearly wants to make RPGs into adventure games. Author hates the genre and want it to go extinct.
It's amazing how much the author misses the mark. It's true that remakes are a plague. It's true that the genre should try to take a new direction. And then the author starts praising some Skyrim mod in which :
Stats and skills are irrelevant to the kind of story The Forgotten City tells, so it does away with them. Distinctions between character classes are so minimal they barely exist—archaeologists get insights into objects they examine, outlaws get increased sprint speed—and there's no leveling or XP.
The author clearly wants to make RPGs into adventure games. Author hates the genre and want it to go extinct.
There's a lot of people like that. Developers and publishers and journos often seem united in resenting the fact that RPGs that aren't just smoothed out stews of every genre (ala Far Cry or AC) continue to be popular and have a market. Even Obsidian seemed increasingly irritated that they were "forced" into making old fashioned RPGs for the money, and then even gave up on that.
It's amazing how much the author misses the mark. It's true that remakes are a plague. It's true that the genre should try to take a new direction. And then the author starts praising some Skyrim mod in which :
Stats and skills are irrelevant to the kind of story The Forgotten City tells, so it does away with them. Distinctions between character classes are so minimal they barely exist—archaeologists get insights into objects they examine, outlaws get increased sprint speed—and there's no leveling or XP.
The author clearly wants to make RPGs into adventure games. Author hates the genre and want it to go extinct.
There's a lot of people like that. Developers and publishers and journos often seem united in resenting the fact that RPGs that aren't just smoothed out stews of every genre (ala Far Cry or AC) continue to be popular and have a market. Even Obsidian seemed increasingly irritated that they were "forced" into making old fashioned RPGs for the money, and then even gave up on that.
But they have adventure games, visual novels and walking simulators. Why they bother hating us?
Of course they're good, Baldur's Gate 3 is on the way.The real bait in this post is getting Codexers to admit that these are good times for RPGs.
It's been a great year for RPGs, if you hate and fear the new
It's been a great year for RPGs, if you hate and fear the new
As well as Disco Elysium's own Final Cut, there was Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Diablo 2: Resurrected, Final Fantasy's pixel remasters, Nier Replicant, Legend of Mana HD, Geneforge 1 - Mutagen, more Kingdom Hearts games on PC than any human could ever actually play, and the incremental update of Skyrim Anniversary Edition. Further ahead, we can look forward to The Witcher 3's next-gen edition and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake.
What's a grognard?
They like DE for ideological reasons. Hope that clears things up.Don't really understand why this guy demands Disco clones and then dismisses Gamedec as a "throwback."
It's amazing how much the author misses the mark. It's true that remakes are a plague. It's true that the genre should try to take a new direction. And then the author starts praising some Skyrim mod in which :
Stats and skills are irrelevant to the kind of story The Forgotten City tells, so it does away with them. Distinctions between character classes are so minimal they barely exist—archaeologists get insights into objects they examine, outlaws get increased sprint speed—and there's no leveling or XP.
The author clearly wants to make RPGs into adventure games. Author hates the genre and want it to go extinct.
There's a lot of people like that. Developers and publishers and journos often seem united in resenting the fact that RPGs that aren't just smoothed out stews of every genre (ala Far Cry or AC) continue to be popular and have a market. Even Obsidian seemed increasingly irritated that they were "forced" into making old fashioned RPGs for the money, and then even gave up on that.
But they have adventure games, visual novels and walking simulators. Why they bother hating us?
Everything must be "progressed". If it is not progressing, then it is evil.
The utter arrogance of the article irks me to hell and back. "If you enjoy the classics it must be because you HATE AND FEAR THE NEW!".
They like DE for ideological reasons. Hope that clears things up.Don't really understand why this guy demands Disco clones and then dismisses Gamedec as a "throwback."
VietnamThis is like those American POWs in Korea who communicated they were being tortured through morse code. The author here clearly dislikes RPGs but cannot directly say it so he leaves extremely blatant context clues such as praising story focused games with minor RPG elements while in turn trashing proper RPGs such as Pathfinder and Solasta. Someone help this poor man so we do not in the future have to bear witness this cry for help.