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Slimebeast on 15 September 2012
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Khuutra said:
Slimebeast said:
Khuutra said:

Skyrim was outsold by something like five different Pokemon games, possibly more.

And yes, those are RPGs.

I don't count Pokemon as RPGs. They're totally different demographics than RPGs. For me Pokemons are children's games, it's as simple as that.

But a clarification on Skyrim sales. It might still not be the best selling RPG of all time. I would think at least one Diablo game and definitely WoW has sold more copies than Skyrim.

All RPGs are children's games.

THere. THat doesn't make any damn sense, now does it?

Neither does the idea of children's games necessarily not being RPGs. This exclusionary tactic doesn't hold up under even the mildest scrutiny; you have a party of characters where you control the composition of their species, class, movesets, stat distributions, on and on, and use them in highly strategic battles. You develop your characters over time according to your playstyle, and can end up with tremendous imbalances if you are not careful.

It's an RPG by too many video game standards to ignore, and trying to brush them aside as "children's games" is preposterous. Dragon Quest can be classified the same way, but if you try to say Dragon Quest games aren't RPGs then you are necessarily undermining your own position.

Pokemon Red, Blue, and Green are still the highest-selling RPGs of all time according to current tracking standards, thoguh WoW may have passed them up. Skyrim doesn't even come close.

Look, Skyrim has a great chance to become the best selling RPG of all time (at least 12 million on consoles and 6 million on PC). Can you believe it? An Elder Scrolls game being the best selling freaking RPG ever!! I'm not going to let Pokemon ruin that.

How many copies did the biggest Pokemon sell, like 30 million copies? To a largely child demographics. That's just unfair.

I choose to see Pokemon as a children's game with RPG elements but not sort it under the RPG genre.