PullusPardus said:
Wizardry isn't dead. I don't people don't play it, but it isn't dead. |
Not literally, I know, but Wizardry: LotS on PS3 is just one of the many Japanese Wizardrys (the DS had two Wiz games in Japan), the last original, i.e. western Wizardry was made 12 years ago. M&M isn't literally dead either, people who want it can get Might & Magic X this very month, http://might-and-magic.ubi.com/mightandmagicx-legacy/en-US/home/ .
Plus: Richard Garriott currently tries to revive Ultima with his ugly Kickstarter project which looks like he wants us
to buy a 3dfx Voodoo card.
What I meant with "forced to die": The IPs were left behind by their owners which means today's efforts with these IPs are for a niche market (Wiz Japan) or just test balloons which still look like they were made in the 90s and can probably gradually evolve in the future. Bethesda, on the other hand, was the only company (besides Blizzard, EDIT: and Bioware) which continued to believe in the enormous potential of western RPG franchises and - if we like it or not - today they can laugh in Garriott's face (who was the first one to see the mainstream potential - see the failed graphics behemoth Ultima IX and Ultima Online - but stopped caring at some point).
