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sc94597 on 27 October 2009
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psychoBrew said:
sc94597 said:

@PsychoBrew some points i would like to make.

Wii has more RPGs than Action-Adventures.

Crystal Bearers is an RPG because of it's story values. Gameplay wise Adventure Role Playing games and Action-Adventures are indistinguishable. Even if it wasn't an RPG, it doesn't matter. Games are Games and as long as it is quality I'm up for it.

The Crystal Chronicles series already has an existing fanbase that will buy this game.

This is looking to be my Wii third party game of the year 2009. It is of quality.


The Wii has more good action adventures than good RPGs.  The RPGs on the Wii, to put it nicely, leave much to be desired.

There's much more to an RPG than a story.  Good RPGs don't even need much of a story -- the story should be there, but you should be able to ignore it if you chose to do so (see games like Morrowind and Daggerfall).  You had to make up the stories in the original RPGs anyway, so I'm not sure how you determine a game is an RPG because of its story.

Crystal Bearers is a spin off of their main series.  It might very well be decent, but it's definitely no Final Fantasy XIII.

I already have a thread stating my opinion of RPGs as a genre.

@Bolded If you knew anything about the game you are talking about you would know it isn't a spinoff of any main series game. A spin-off in essense is a side story, and Crystal Chronicles doesn't share any story features nor gameplay features to classify it as a spin-off of the main series. It is in the same situation that Saga and Mana were. They started off in the West as Final Fantasy games that weren't really Final Fantasy games then eventually ditched the name.