Kenryoku_Maxis on 03 May 2009
In Japan, RPGs are going strong.
In America and for some people in Europe, all RPGs have to be compared to Final Fantasy. As if it created console based RPGs. This is the real problem with RPGs. The fact that everything has to be 'how good is it after Final Fantasy which is the best'.
Its the same as any other genre. Everyone is looking for the 'Halo Killer'. Yet reviewers and a large amount of fans just default back to it as being 'the best' without actually weighting the pros and cons of other series.
So the problem is really 2 fold. 'Western gamers' focus too much on trying to compare everything. And when they do, they have to say something is bad for something else to be good.
Six upcoming games you should look into:
