Review Hilarious KOTOR 2 review at Tom's Hardware

[ElastiZombie]

No. Star Wars games sell. The combat is irrelevant. I'm fairly certain Bioware could make an RPG without combat at all or with entirely automated combat, slap Star Wars on the front and the thing would sell.

Entirely automated combat? I can see it now: a Star Wars/Dungeon Siege combo.. Star Siege! Except for the occasional click it's just like watching a Star Wars movie. I think we've got a new hit on our hands. :D

 

[dojoteef]

Why make the genre something it's not to lure in customers with different likes and dislikes and risk alienating the ones who already like most of the stuff the dipshit at Tom's didn't like or wasn't smart enough to figure out?

Why don't you take a look at what I said again. I didn't say get rid of RPGs like Arcanum and Fallout, I said add more games like Diablo to the market. I just don't see how that's alienating any existing customers or changing the genre. Hack n'slash action RPGs are part of the genre.

The reason to do it, is if the genre is big enough publishers will be less afraid to try something different. As it is with so few RPGs that come out, publishers aren't willing to take any risks. When a genre makes lots of money, publishers are willing to experiment in order to find the next big hit. If the genre is small, they have no incentive to. They are going to want to stick with the exact same tired formula that always seems to sell.