Square win US patent for one-button RPG battle system because complex menus are intimidating to novices - invented by FFXV co-director

[Mummelmann]

Pemalite said:

Mummelmann said:
Yup, and here it is in writing what I've been saying throughout the entire 7th gen; developers are butchering the RPG genre and watering it down to appeal to broader audiences.
If someone is too dense to understand a menu system, perhaps RPG isn't their genre.

You would have thought that games like Skyrim and Diablo would have proven that menu's are easily accessible to 10's of millions, Fable 3 essentially removed all Menu's and a GUI's and it wasn't a better game without them.

Yeah, the mechanics themselves were fairly simplified in D3 and Skyrim but they did have traditional menu systems. Heck; Skyrim has the perk system to wrestle with, that would turn away most morons.