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blizzid on 19 December 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Sure, he made an exception to one game that fit his examples, but still he was generalizing. And its quite easy to do the same about WRPGs. Which I don't think he'd like people do be lumping Bioware games in with 'general WRPGs'.

Bioware and Black Isle basically created the "general WRPG" genre.  It's only in recent years thanks to games like Fable and Elder Scrolls has the focus shifted away from their creations and to something else.

Try Origin Systems with Ultima and Sir-Tech with Wizardry back in the 1980s.  These influenced both WRPGs and JRPGs such as Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

I played both and still have my Wizardry NES game.  Neither really took off IMO.  There was no explosion of RPGs thanks to those as there was around the time the Infinity Engine came into being.  Around that time you had Baldur's Gate, PST, Icewind Dale, Arcanum, Fallout 1&2, and a few more I'm sure I'm forgetting coming out.  More or less the golden age of PC RPGs.

You just didn't pay attention before the Infinity Engine. Seriously, you need to read an article on the history of CRPGs - the late 80s and early 90s were packed full of successful CRPGs. There was a lull in the mid-90s before the Infinity Engine brought about a renaissance, though.