| rpgmaniac said: Look at some time many years ago I did play WRPGs but mostly party-based D&D games with Isometric worldview like Icewind Dale & Baldur's Gate, & I enjoy them very much, but there is no comparison for me between those games & the one WRPG fans play today, I don't like at all the new games I find them borring & unintresting, the WRPGs of today fload the players with questions & leave them wonder endlessly in huge open worlds w/o purpose, there is no party based WRPGs anymore & most of them take place in modern/future or post-apocalyptic times & have 1 thing in common, a lot of shooting, coincidence? those companies who make those games name them RPGs when in reality r shooters with a few rpg elements here & there they try to take advantage of the millions of CoD & BF players who don't play games if "guns" & "shooting" is not involved. Although I am JRPG fan-atic I still consider my self fan of Isometric D&D party-based games, that's why one of my most anticipated games is "Project Eternity" the upcoming game who succeed to amass almost 4 million $ in just 1 month & become the most founded game on KICKSTARTER (later TORMENT surpass it) judging by that there is still a lot of people out there who love & miss those games I hope & wish for this game to be something special because I'm definetly going to play it when it come out. |
Well, true, 2 of those franchises have shooting in them. Original Fallout also had shooting (Shadowrun as well), though it was party, turned-based isometric RPG with incredible story and characters. Though I much more prefer old Fallouts, I can't really say new ones are bad just because they have completely different mechanics - Elder Scrolls is very old franchise, and Bethesda's take on Fallout is just their way of making TES alike RPG in different setting, but core gameplay was actually never really new as it might seem (as an exercise, try switching guns for bows and/or 3D graphics for 2.5D and you might be surprised with how many old RPGs they have in common).
Also, from that list, Bethesda games are only one that are really open-world...this again is nothing new, it's quite old sub-genre, and actually I find Might&Magic games to be quite superior to TES (though 1st person, they are party based with turn based combat).
I'll agree with you though, for me personally, probably most exciting games that are coming in this genre are the ones you mentioned - Project: Eternity, Torment, but also Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun Returns, all building on the legacy of one of the golden ages in cRPG history.
