King of RPGs...360 or PS3?

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forevercloud3000 said:

Gotcha said:

I think the 360 has the best line up currently and I think this will continue till the end of the generation. Btw, The Agency is not a RPG, is a MMO shooter and Age of Conan hasn't been announced for PS3.

 

The Agency is an MMORPG. It is one of those genre confusing games. If you look at the videos of what you do in the game, u can obviously tell it is an RPG. More too a Alpha Protocal/Mass Effect liking.

and you are right about AoC, my bad. Actually it needs to be taken off both of them. Odds are the 360 one being canceled to to lackluster of appeal on PC. I hear the game bombed BAD. Also all MMOs for 360 tend to be cancelled (True Fantasy ONline?)

Age of Conan did not bomb. It sold 1 million soon after it was released, and Funcom couldn't even keep up with the demand and had shortages everywhere. AoC did far better than Funcom expected.

The problem was Age of Conan couldn't keep the players hooked in the game, but I bet there's still a few hundreds of thousands still playing, and many waiting to see if the game will be updated and become what it should've been in the first place.

twesterm said:

forevercloud3000 said:

twesterm said:
Why did you put MMO's on that list? Things like FFXI and Age of Conan are completely different beasts.

 

I pretty much put in anything with an RPG tag line in it. Action RPGs, Strategy RPGs, Stealth RPGs, JRPGs, MMORPGs, etc.

They all hold the name so they deserve to be listed.

Although I was a bit split on putting in games that already existed in last gen that are just ports (FFXI, Phantasy Star Universe). It seems a bit unfair to have those kind of games in there.

 

I think it's alright to make it fairly broad and say things like Oblivion and FFXIII can be on the same list but MMO's just appeal to a completely different crowd.  If I was looking to buy a console based on its RPG's I wouldn't give two craps about DC Universe Online.

As for counting things like Phantasy Star and FFXI (assuming we want to count that :P) I think it's alright since it appears on that system.  They're older games but the 360 is the older system.

MMORPGs are rightfully from the RPG genre. It's interesting how you approve Oblivion is an RPG, after that game being coined as a single-player MMORPG by some, due to several designs that are similar to MMORPGs.