Soonerman on 15 November 2009
| Mummelmann said: OP: So you want SE to start a Final Fantasy series that isn't Final Fantasy? What possible reason is there that this would even sell and how are Japanese developers supposed to master WRPG as a genre? Western games are equally full of stereotypes, space marines, the inability to try to make anything "scary" without resorting to stealing and heavily overusing (ironically) eastern horror elements (F.E.A.R). Not to mention the fact that we can't seem to come up with better antagonists than Russians or aliens, its always one of them who is to blame (sometimes Koreans or folks from the Middle East though, which is equally original). |
I believe a fair answer to this is Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect. Both are sci-fi style games with depth in their storylines. Also if you look at the real WRPGs a good amount of them are based on fantasy worlds (Oblivion, Ultima, etc) so I'm not sure where you got the whole comparison.
