Cyran said:
I personally always enjoyed steampunk fantasy but when it come to western RPGs you probably right. With JRPG I feel the mix of tech and magic is more commonly accepted just look at a number of final fantasy games. It too bad Troika Games did not have more success. Arcanum, Temple of elemental evil and especially Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines (possibly my 2004 game of the year. Not looked at list of options yet to know for sure) was all great games. On a side note Timothy Cain (creator of fallout and cofounder of Troika Games) youtube channel have some great insights on game design and his experiences creating fallout and other games he created/worked on. https://www.youtube.com/@CainOnGames/videos |
Yeah, VtM: Bloodlines was and still is in one of my favourite RPGs. Troika was quite unique, real pity they didn't find at least modest commercial success to keep them afloat - I guess they were too early for that, Kickstarter and Early Access came much later, as opposed to Larian that had luck (or just enough business acumen) to not go under on so many occasions and managed to swim eventually to that shore.
