Are rpg's dead?

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Mnementh said:

sth88 said:
Western RPGs are doing fine; JRPGs, on the other hand, have become very much a niche product (outside of their home country of Japan, of course).

what? The golden time for the western produced RPGs were the 80s, they are in a two-decades-long decline. The situation is so bad, that they started to produce the games for console too, to make up for the lost sales on PC. That worked for Skyrim at least. But you don't have the immense number of games that were produced in the 80s.

Japanese produced RPGs are doing not too bad on handhelds. There is a lot of them. Not all comes to the west though.

I'd say, we're in 3rd Renaissance of WRPGs (2nd being late 90s/early 00s with Might&Magic and Elder Scrolls open world games on one side and Black Isle/Bioware story driven on the other). I think we'll see lot of games in the future coming from both directions, plus hopefully, more Japanese devs like From with Souls and Capcom with DD will move toward WRPG alike games...plus, of course, old school inXile/Obsidian Kickstarted games...think cRPG fans have lot to look forward to.