Good Year for RPG Fans?

[Innegativeion]

Sorry to burst your bubble but what your saying is just incorrect. I know that the term has been raped over a long time, it used to be that the marketing would call what you refer to as an action-RPG. Since RPG is something good but ultimately very hard to produce and as such instead of doing so they just started calling them action-RPGs, but now it seems they don't bother with that anymore and just call them RPGs. but seriously be real, I mean according to you Battlefield 3 is also an RPG since it has a level up system. And for you to fall for this marketing ploy is just proof that the genre is finally dead and there probably won't be released anymore RPGs except from obsidian and CD Project the last bastion of hope. However I don't blame you, I see how you could easily make such mistakes. Truly I urge you go play Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 and see what is real then you will understand, then you will see, release yourself of today's tormentingly bad games influence and cleanse you mind of their corruption.

Not only is SmarterThanYou correct about the vernacular use of the term "RPG", but you've made 2 other grievous errors.

By your definition of "role-playing game"(game where you play a role), any game where there is a definite protagonist could be considered an RPG, as you play that character's role. Legend of Zelda, Mario, or God of War for example.

Also you completey misunderstand what an "action RPG" is. AFAIK, the only action RPG he mentioned was Kingdom Hearts (though I could be wrong, haven't seen some of the games mentioned). I know most of them were at least turn-based. An "action RPG" is an rpg based upon fee-form combat, with no timing limitations such as turns, round actions, or autoattacks like in xenoblade.

Just looking at their names is so telling. "SmarterThanYou" and "MrHateful". It's like a cartoon.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

Ehhh not so much for western RPGs. I love Mass Effect, but the RPG elements haven't ever really been a big reason why that is. Shadowrun Returns and Wasteland 2 are the two great developments for western RPGs this year, but those won't be coming out this year.

You know what is coming out this year, though? The Banner Saga [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banner_Saga].

 

[Launcelot111]

Later this year and next year feels better to me. Devil Survivor: Soul Hackers, Fire Emblem: Awakening, South Park: The Stick of Truth, etc.

Also: http://games.gamepressure.com/game_info.asp?ID=17256

....!?? I'm calling fake.

That "title" is just an embarrassingly awful fan-made video someone made quite awhile back:




OT: There's actually been a decent about of JRPGs this year, which I'm happy about. WRPGs felt kinda lacking though, I mean we got Mass Effect 3 so far but to me everything else has been completely lackluster and... Well, generic fantasy.

Seriously, would it kill WRPG developers to try, oh I don't know, urban fantasy maybe?

Someone also made this little fake trailer for Persona 5, which is just professional enough to get your hopes up. For what little there is, the tone they establish would make for a badass Persona.

On the same channel, they also made a hypothetical soundtrack of 60 or so songs for the Persona 5 that exists in their mind. Some of it's pretty solid

 

[DustyDrB]

Ehhh not so much for western RPGs. I love Mass Effect, but the RPG elements haven't ever really been a big reason why that is. Shadowrun Returns and Wasteland 2 are the two great developments for western RPGs this year, but those won't be coming out this year.

You know what is coming out this year, though? The Banner Saga [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banner_Saga].

Oh yeah. I was thinking of it as more of a strategy game, but I guess it is a strategy RPG.
But yeah, I actually contributed to The Banner Saga as well. Looking forward to that one.

 

[Cheesepower5]

Ehhh not so much for western RPGs. I love Mass Effect, but the RPG elements haven't ever really been a big reason why that is. Shadowrun Returns and Wasteland 2 are the two great developments for western RPGs this year, but those won't be coming out this year.

You know what is coming out this year, though? The Banner Saga [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banner_Saga].

Oh Charles Darwin yes.

The animation and concept of this are just great, been excited for months.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

A good year for JRPGs.. which I have no way to get, and don't own any systems they're available on. Fuck.