Does anyone else agree RPGs should move into the modern era?
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I think so. I am getting tired of elves and knights.
Bioware makes some pretty good future RPGs, but they also have dragon age, and while it's still fun, it's like Tolkien's wet dream.
Bioware makes some pretty good future RPGs, but they also have dragon age, and while it's still fun, it's like Tolkien's wet dream.
You know what I would really really really love? An RPG or a GTA-style exploring/adventure game set in Vienna in the year 1900. It's really a chunk of history that high school classes usually overlook and nobody ever remembers, but I think it would be really cool. It was the center of a multi-cultural empire constantly on the brink of implosion. The potential for awesome factional intrigues is all there already, and I'm sure someone could come up with a suitably sinister main plot. An attempt to start off WW1 a decade and a half early? Instead of being a member of a persecuted Elven minority, you could be Serbian, lol.joebthegreat said:
Bioshock is somewhat modern?
As for myself, I love the medieval setting while I care very little for sci-fi. I wish they'd make more RPGs that take place during the dark ages!
As for myself, I love the medieval setting while I care very little for sci-fi. I wish they'd make more RPGs that take place during the dark ages!
Retro-futurism. We'll probably be seeing a lot more of it given the success of Bioshock and Fallout. The hat era has a great iconic look (be it Indiana Jones or Mad Men) and all you need to do is figure out a "scientific" reason for monsters and magic.DanielBrown said:
Dude, get your FPS loving dumb ass out of here. I happen to love Fantasy, it happens to be one of my favorite genres of fiction. And you want all of them just to disappear for what? This stupid, boring modern world? I'm sorry, but if I wanted to play a game about real life, I'd just go out and do something. You know. In the real world. You think the final fantasy games are good? I think they've gotten less interesting as they've incorporated more technology, as the characters become less and less memorable. And there are modern RPGs, there's this thing called Mass Effect. It's pretty damn good.
Ugh, sorry for the wall of text, it's just, how can you be so ignorant and naive? Fantasy is what makes the RPG genre the RPG genre. Stop whining. Get over it. Go reserve Dragon Age 2.
Ugh, sorry for the wall of text, it's just, how can you be so ignorant and naive? Fantasy is what makes the RPG genre the RPG genre. Stop whining. Get over it. Go reserve Dragon Age 2.
Actually, if you want a scientific reason behind the existance of magic, we might benefit from a plotline similar to what they are doing for the upcoming Thor movie...where they basically treat magic and technology as if they are one and the same. Or, instead of magic, how about psionics...but NOT in the goofy sense of Earthbound? When I was working with my fanfiction, I basically treated psionics as if they were a way to use the bioelectric energy already in the human body in a new way using the brain as a transmitter of sorts.
Whatever the case, even if we do venture into a more modern era RPG, it does have to feel like an RPG...as if we are actually playing a role not our own. Also...it will have to have more emphasis on the story rather than grinding. Even in D&D, we do NOT focus on faffing about fighting random monsters for experience and loot...that would have bored the phrack out of us. If an RPG can stand on it's own focusing on the story with the occasional fight peppering it WITHOUT the need to grind in order to succeed in said fights, it will succeed tremendously.
Whatever the case, even if we do venture into a more modern era RPG, it does have to feel like an RPG...as if we are actually playing a role not our own. Also...it will have to have more emphasis on the story rather than grinding. Even in D&D, we do NOT focus on faffing about fighting random monsters for experience and loot...that would have bored the phrack out of us. If an RPG can stand on it's own focusing on the story with the occasional fight peppering it WITHOUT the need to grind in order to succeed in said fights, it will succeed tremendously.
I don't see why classes have to be hard-wired. Fallout: New Vegas has a mix of skills and factions, allowing for different playing styles and an alligence system. But there's different classes that can come into play. A sci-fi RPG would have alien races that could be stand-ins for fantasy races. Jedis are Mage/melée. Troopers are armor/blaster. Recon classes could be thrown in there. Thieves, assassins, bounty hunters, etc.fare777 said:
A "realistic" modern RPG would have a lot less variety but you can easily introduce science as magic to create different classes. Like the hero of Infamous can't use weapons or drive in cars because guns and cars tend to explode when he uses them. Essentially he's a Mage. But even if everyone is in human norms, skills and factions can add the necessary RPG elements.
The main problem with going contemporary with RGPs is that magic works to explain complex gameplay mechanics and without it the best you can do is throw grenades and use firearms. Stil it can be done.
I suppose you could as a concept take JA2 and add some more RPG elements, to make a good, non-fantasy tacticalRPG though.
The RPShooter set in this world should be even easier.
I suppose you could as a concept take JA2 and add some more RPG elements, to make a good, non-fantasy tacticalRPG though.
The RPShooter set in this world should be even easier.
It occurs to me that Marvel Comics demonstrates how you can attach a fantasy element onto a modern setting. Iron Man can battle the Taliban or a giant pants-wear dragon. It's the world outside our window, but with all sorts of cool stuff thrown in. It's not like fantasy RPGs are a documentary of medieval times. It's just a historical setting that had a whole bunch of cool shit added to it.
What I'd like to see is an RPG like the Anime Bleach. Set in the modern world but with a fantastic edge to it.
see post above. Modern setting doesn't mean realistic. Just as medieval setting doesn't mean realistic. If we approached those classic fantasy settings the way you're approaching modern, then the skills would be sword fighting, farming, and applying leaches. A quasimodo-realistic RPG could probably work but I think almost everyone would sneak in monsters and magic but give it a scientic explanations.veloper said:
Don't think this is so much a problem with RPGs as it is a problem with the Fantasy Genre in general as far to many novels still take place in bland Medieval Agraria like they have for ages. Hell Oblivion takes place in one of most egregious examples of Bland Medieval Agraria that has ever been put on the screen, which is sad as Morrowind's setting was all kinds of interesting.
I'm kinda with you though, I want to see much more setting varieties in my RPG's. We need more Alpha Protocol's (in terms of setting) and the world could do with some cool Urban Fantasy RPG's (the two Vampire games are the only Urban Fantasy RPG's I can think of) and Assassin's Creed constantly reaffirms my love of the renaissance as a setting and I'd love to see an RPG set in a fantasy analogue of Venice.
I'm kinda with you though, I want to see much more setting varieties in my RPG's. We need more Alpha Protocol's (in terms of setting) and the world could do with some cool Urban Fantasy RPG's (the two Vampire games are the only Urban Fantasy RPG's I can think of) and Assassin's Creed constantly reaffirms my love of the renaissance as a setting and I'd love to see an RPG set in a fantasy analogue of Venice.
VTM:B for me, too.
As amazing as that game is though, I prefer my modern games to be less rpg and more GTA.
As amazing as that game is though, I prefer my modern games to be less rpg and more GTA.