| Kenryoku_Maxis said:
...not really. The 'Golden Age' of PC RPGs WAS back in the 1980s and early 90s. Sales were smaller back then because there were less gamers. But PC was still dominant over consoles. In comparison, games like Ultima and Wizardry did very well for their time. And I don't know how you can say they 'didn't take off' considering they are considered the originators of video game RPGs (and did spawn a number of successful successors such as Dungeon Master. But the late 90s, Consoles were overtaking PC. And WRPGs were being overtaken by Console RPGs. Its only been recently that WRPGs have made a comeback, and only with the help of joint releases on consoles. |
The problem with this is that I was around and a PC gamer during those years. I played a lot of the early PC games ranging from King's Quest series to games that no one has ever heard of like Tangle. PC gaming as a whole really was subpar until around the time Commander Keen came out. It was about then that a lot of good and memorable PC titles started being released (vga Trek, Tank Wars, etc). Before then there wasn't really a golden age of anything except maybe MUDs.
In the late 90s, consoles weren't gaining ground against PCs. Half-life and Starcraft had just been released, it was years until the PS2 would appear, and the most widely known of console RPGs, Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8, were on the PC as well as the Playstation. During that time Bioware was releasing Baldur's Gate and Black Isle was releasing Fallout. It was one hell of a good time to be a PC gamer.
Look, if you're going to paraphrase wikipedia and think you understand what it was like to be a PC gamer during those years then go away because debating with you isn't worth my time.
