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JGarret on 22 December 2012
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BlkPaladin said:
JGarret said:
dahuman said:
I really see Monolith doing great things, Xenoblade could have been better on some fronts, if they build up from that and can constantly create really good JRPGs, I'd be a really happy person. Mist Walker also has good design docs in general since we all know who runs the show there, it's just too bad that Lost Odyssey had some missing links still and The Last Story had to be toned down due to the Wii hardware level.

I see high potential in those 2 companies because their games actually get better, whereas other companies tend to play more one the safe side these days.


If only they can release more quality games in a shorter period of time...granted it´s no easy task, but it´s definitely possible, Squaresoft did it (look at that very small list on my previous post), RARE did it.

To do that Squaresoft had multiple teams. I wrote in the tread about Monolith Soft wanting to be like Betheda, that Nintendo does have quit a few quality and storied RPG developers that if they wanted to they could probally do better then Squaresoft ever did.

They have:

1st Party

Monolith Soft

Genius Sonority(spelling)

Brownie Brown

Intellegent Systems

2nd Party

Alpha Dream (Mario RPGs on NIntendo's handhelds)

Pokemon Company/Creatures Inc

Camelot Software Planing (Shining Series/Golden Sun)

 

The only problem is RPG development takes time and money and are a high risk/low reward investment at times.

Now that you mention the part about Bethesda...I guess Skyrim is now the 'Call of Duty' of RPGs, it´s sold over 10 million copies and watch as a lot of devs will want to emulate Skyrim for their RPGs.