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As many other genres, RPGs divided world-gamers: most western players despised eastern manners, and viceversa. But, since five years or so, most critics and general audience noticed that japanese titles were becoming stale and absurdly repetitive. Gameplay and art direction suffered from lack of ideas and most respected franchises became relative failures. The brief international-comercial success of japanese RPG ended.
On the other hand, western RPGs gained much more attention, with media and public focused on them. They gained some respect that was not present before. Probably because "modern" western RPGs made a good use of clever production and art direction (and, of course, progressive simplification). At this point, we got Origins, wich, I must confess, I consider the perfect balance between classic and new gameplay values. There are other examples, as The Witcher, Mass Effect or Bethesda titles. The comercial and specialized press success announced some kind of golden era for the genre... but then, three years or so forward, the situation has changed drastically.
Now, we have DA2, a fun action-RPG game with mixed reception, that openly denies western RPG roots. The production and art direction becames lazy, and the idea of simplification and wider audiences impregnates every inch of it. More or less, with their own particularities, happens to other respected franchises.
For me, it's clear that western RPGs are suffering from his own decline, similar (yet different) from the one that killed the international success of japanese ones.
What do you think? Im talking nosense? Or do you think this is the prologue to CRPG death? Since all points to the over-massification of videogames, Im certain that CRPGS will be "erased" from the front-line commercial titles.
Modifié par Salaya, 23 juin 2011 - 08:49 .
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